Environmental Protection Management in INA

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svea Svel-Cerovecki
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Management System ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Oil Refining ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Insight Into

INA-Industrija nafte d.d., is one of the largest companies in the Republic of Croatia. Its principal activities are oil and gas exploration and exploitation, oil refining and processing, oil and gas transportation and sale of fuels and associated products. Such a type and scope of activities requires a major responsibility and a systematic approach to planning, implementing and monitoring the environmental protection. In 1998 INA management adopted so called “green” documents for the purpose of improving the environmental protection activities: “Decision on establishing an integral environment management system” and “Environmental protection policy declaration”. The system implementation activities are under way and four organizational units of INA have obtained ISO 14001 certificate for the successfully implemented environment management system. This paper provides an insight into INA’s environment impacts as well as information about the performed environmental protection management activities and achievement of sustainable development. The attention is drawn to the way company’s units carry out their activities to comply with the current environmental legislation. The information is also provided on INA’s way to participate in national eco-projects and cooperation with international institutions in order to achieve eco-efficiency. Following the requirements according ISO 14001, as well as by major investments, INA contributes to the environmental improvement on local, regional and global levels.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF OIL REFINING AND PETROCHEMICAL SECTORS FOR EFFICIENT FUNCTIONING OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

Neft i gaz ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (119) ◽  
pp. 96-103
Author(s):  
O.I. EGOROV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Petrochemical Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Oil Refining ◽  
Domestic Economy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Further Development

Expediency of complex use of hydrocarbonic resources in the course of further development of a domestic oil and gas complex for increase of his competitiveness is proved. Ways of development of the petrochemical productions capable to provide release of the wide range of products with a high value added are offered. In article the provision that with development of the petrochemical industry the oil and gas complex of the republic will find necessary stability is reasoned and will be able to become not only the leading, but also knowledge-intensive branch of domestic economy

How does a community add value to the oil and gas industry?

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 571
Author(s):  
Stuart Trundle ◽  
Anne Probert
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies ◽  
Industry Community ◽  
Community Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

As pressure mounts for oil and gas companies to demonstrate tangible value to the communities in which they operate, there is a growing imperative for groups to actively engage with the industry and its operators. Regions who partner with the industry to identify and implement initiatives that leverage the investment can see very real economic and social gains from hosting oil and gas exploration and production. Venture Taranaki, the regional development agency for New Zealand’s only commercially producing oil and gas region, has been part of such a successful partnership in that area. They have worked extensively in the space between the industry and the community to maximise the benefits to the region. In doing so they have helped position Taranaki as a force in New Zealand’s economy, and it has developed initiatives that demystify and demonstrate the industry’s value to their community stakeholders, extending this momentum across the oil and gas supply chain. Its commercially neutral services have also advanced collaboration among the companies, fostered collective promotion of their capabilities, and assisted with management of demand-supply challenges in relation to project and shutdown planning. In this extended abstract the authors give an insight into their experiences, lessons for other regions, and proposals to further advance the industry-community relationship.

scholarly journals The improvement of environmental performances by applying ISO 14001 standard: A case study

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snezana Zivkovic ◽  
Ljiljana Takic ◽  
Nenad Zivkovic
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Management System ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Oil Refinery ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Ecological Indicator ◽  
Image Improvement ◽  
The Given ◽  
Iso 14001 Standard

This paper presents the analysis of the advantages of applying ISO 14001 system in an environmental protection management system. The environmental protection management system which is not licensed, i.e., compatible with the principles and standard pre-conditions considerably increases the plausibility for ecological risk. There are some issues that remain to be solved in the areas which are not expressed by financial values only but also have a non-financial character with the aim of expanding markets, company image improvement and improvement of the environmental performance indicators. By improving a company?s environmental management system efficiency we expect to achieve the minimization and elimination of damaging influences on the environment which are the consequence of company?s activities. A case study in the Oil Refinery Belgrade (RNB) analyses the implementation of the standard ISO 14001:2004 into its environment protection management system, particularly emphasizing the company?s own way of evaluating the environment aspects with the aim of establishing results of ecological performances indicators improvement. The average values of the first ecological indicator of the plant, the total amount of the waste waters in m3 per a ton of product, clearly show the downturn trend, which is confirmed by the proportional reduction of the second ecological plant indicator, that is by the flocculants consumption (Al2(SO4)3, Na2CO3) in kg per m3 of the waste water of the Oil Refinery of Belgrade for the given period 2008-2010. Case study RNB confirms the improvement of environmental performances using the ISO 14001 standard.

scholarly journals Requirements of the ISO 14001 environmental management standard and the expected effects of its implementation in transport undertakings

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
Natalia Jagodzińska
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Management System ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Transport Industry ◽  
The Impact

The environmental management system according to PN-EN ISO 14001: 2015 [1] is a system whose message is to protect the natural environment. The environmental management system focuses mainly on reducing waste, possibilities and methods of waste disposal, pre-venting pollution, reducing the use of natural resources, and in the context of the transport industry, reducing emissions. The idea of the system is continuous improvement of activities related to the protection of the natural environment - through identification of threats, risk assessment and mobilization of enterprises to comply with the requirements of law in the field of environmental protection. For many years, the transport industry has been governed by its laws. However, with the changing market, where apart from large transport concerns, there are also small and micro companies providing transport services that also have an impact on the environment in individual parts of the transport industry. There are more and more entrepreneurs, both Polish and foreign, specializing in the transport industry, hence legal regulations, EU regulations and industry standards or standards aimed at reducing the impact of transport on the natural environment appear. It seems that as of today, mobilizing enterprises of various sizes to implement unified rules, reduce emissions, oversee waste, implement unified management systems, including environmental management systems, is the most effective method of impacting the improvement of environmental protection in this area.

Implementing a Safety and Environmental Management System Within Canadian Regulatory Agency

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Postlewaite
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Regulatory Agency ◽  
Management System ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Business Planning ◽  
Planning Cycle

The National Energy Board (NEB) believes that effective management systems are an integral part of managing safety and protection of the environment. Management systems allow for flexibility while ensuring that a comprehensive approach to managing risk is taken. This paper focuses on taking the systems approach to safety and environmental management in a quasi-judicial regulatory environment, particularly the NEB. The NEB is developing and implementing a Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS) using the same “principle-based approach” as the internationally recognized ISO 14001 standard and OHSAS 18001 specification. It is the understanding of the NEB that it is the first regulatory agency in Canada to formally implement a safety and environmental management system to improve internal programs and processes. Under the goal-oriented Onshore Pipeline Regulations - 1999, the NEB requires pipeline companies to “develop and implement an environmental protection program to anticipate, prevent, mitigate and manage conditions that have a potential to adversely affect the environment”. While no regulations require the NEB to implement a management system, the NEB is proactively taking its own advice and meeting the same requirements of the companies it regulates. The development and implementation of the SEMS will help to consolidate and integrate internal NEB safety and environmental efforts as well as assist in clarifying their regulatory role, expectations, and responsibilities in regards to safety and environmental protection. The NEB has completed the first step of the development and implementation of the SEMS, including the development and communication of the NEB Environmental Policy and a draft of an integrated Safety & Environmental Policy; identification of objectives, targets and performance indicators; and improvements to existing programs and processes. The NEB Environmental Policy will be phased out once the integrated policy is approved and communicated. The second step includes conducting a detailed gap analysis to identify and prioritize areas for improvement as well as integrating the SEMS into the existing NEB business planning cycle. By fully incorporating the defined SEMS into the annual NEB business planning cycle, the management system approach will be used as the basis for setting internal safety and environmental priorities, work planning and continual improvement.

scholarly journals From Fragile to Collapsed Statehood: The Case of the Republic of Yemen (1990-2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Dostal Jörg Michael
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Winning Coalition ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
Foreign Intervention ◽  
Degree Of Stability ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Yemen Arab Republic

The unification of the two Yemeni states?the northern Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) and the southern People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), respectively?in 1990 has been a resounding failure. Merging the tribal-dominated northern and state-party dominated southern regimes meant increasing the number of factions competing for access to state resources to satisfy material and security needs of their respective networks of influence. In particular, efforts at growing the resource base of the unified state after 1990, by means of an expansion of oil and gas exploration and extraction, raised the revenue base of the state in an unsustainable manner. Such growth in national oil and gas rents increased rather than decreased competition over state authority to control the spoils. The major subsequent events, such as the 1994 civil war, the 2004-2010 “Saada wars” against the Houthi movement, the Yemeni version of the “Arab Spring” in 2011, the failure of the National Dialogue Conference (March 2013-January 2014), and the start of the Saudi and Emirati bombing campaign and subsequent ground war in Yemen since March 2015 all triggered major clashes between different factions of the Yemeni state bureaucracy, army, and civil society. On each of these occasions, efforts to freeze out some Yemeni actors produced escalating conflict between the remaining factions instead of a winning coalition that could have reestablished a degree of stability. The article explains how local, regional, and global factors have jointly overwhelmed the Yemeni actors, and how foreign intervention has led to the further deterioration of the pre-existing national crisis.

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