VEOLIA ENVIRONNEMENT 28 july 2016
With rising global demand, highly volatile prices and increasingly stringent environmental regulations, the oil and gas industry faces three major challenges : reduce costs, optimize the performance of its industrial base assets and improve its environmental footprint.
Three major challenges for the oil & gas industry
> Reducing costs: an imperative linked to market competitiveness
Producing crude oil and refined products at a lower cost to stay competitive on the market is one of the industry's major challenges. Optimizing production systems and environmental utilities on current operating sites is therefore a priority for the oil & gas industry. This maximizes production efficiency, increases the performance of production, reduces the costs of extraction or and refining and thereby to offsets the exploration costs. to search for new sourcing.
> Improving performance: ensuring the valorization of assets
To sustain their supply of crude oil or gas, oil and gas companies are looking to extend the life of mature sites but are also obliged forced to seek new sources of oil or gas for which extraction, transport and refining are much more complex and more expensivecostly. Another challenge is for petroleum refiners to maximize their production in times of low crude oil prices . prices. For that, they seek a 100% reliability of their plants : no unplanned shutdowns , increased throughput , secure industrial assets.
> Environmental footprint: a key issue for the oil & gas industry
The oil and gas industry is a major consumer of water and energy resources, and a large hazardous waste producer, and is therefore subject to increasingly stringent environmental standards. It is forcing This constrains them to rethink extraction, production and distribution methods in order to obtain or maintain their licence to operate. with a view to obtaining or retaining their licences.
They also have to provide guarantees and ensure transparency in relation to the environmental management of their activities.
In the Beijing area in China for example, where water shortages are becoming more frequent and where tackling air pollution is a major central government commitment, environmental standards are particularly strict. The standards governing wastewater discharges in particular are currently the most demanding in the world. This is a major compliance challenge for the industrial groups in the region, in particular for Sinopec. It is the largest refining company in Asia and operates on the Beijing Yanshan petrochemical complex, one of the largest refined petroleum products production sites in the country.
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THE NEW CHALLENGES OF THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY
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Three major challenges for the oil and gas industry
The range of offerings focuses on the needs of both upstream market customers (exploration and production) and downstream market customers (refining and petrochemicals) in the oil and gas industry.
Upstream, Veolia builds and operates treatment systems for injection water and water producedproduced water, offers mobile water treatment solutions, manages waste (including hazardous waste), decommissions oil platforms, and offers a range of services tailored to the specific needs of the sector.
Downstream, the Group treats process water, wastewater, and cooling water, provides surface treatment and robotic tankautomated cleaning services, treats hazardous waste, produces, produces steam and electricity, optimizes energy efficiency in installations and recovers by-products and hazardous waste such as solvents, oily sludge, etc.
Cycle management of oil companies resources: an essential expertise to the sustainability of activities
Water is central to all activities of the oil and gas industry. Reference expert in water management, Veolia controls all the stages of the water cycle and can address all industrial issues, thanks to a portfolio of more than 350 proprietary technologies.
Resource management, production and delivery of process water, collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of waste water, effluent and products of their processing (organic matter, salts, metals, complex molecules and energy), desalination of seawater, design and construction of processing and network structures: the skills that enable Veolia to support the oil industry in the development of an integrated and sustainable management of water resources.
Veolia also offers solutions for the management of hazardous waste, recycling by-products, industrial services, decommissioning and soil remediation.
This expertise in water, energy and waste allow Veolia to be the world leader in environmental services for the oil and gas industry.
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