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Environmental Management Best Practice in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries + ISO 14001 – International Environment Management Standards Overview

Who should attend: 

Staff in the oil, gas and petrochemicals industries including:

  • Environmental practitioners
  • Health & Safety and Quality Management practitioners
  • Staff involved in procurement and managing hazardous substances
  • Senior Managers, Managers, Team Leaders, Supervisors, Operations, Project and Non-Environmental staff who are involved in developing or implementing environmental management and procedures in their respective positions.
  • Consultants, Legal Professionals, Advisers, Contractors and Subcontractors
  • Government and Regulatory Bodies Officials and policy makers
4 days
Course aims: 

The programme is comprehensive, providing an overview of the environmental issues and the technical and management approaches to achieving high environmental performance in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries.

The programme is carefully structured to provide participants with a good understanding of recent thinking, developments and best practices that prevent and minimize environmental impact. 

The programme also provides participants with practical awareness of the international environment management system standard - ISO 14001, as well as how to develop and implement the standard.

Course outline: 
  • Introduction to environmental management
  • Environmental management systems overview
  • Oil, Gas and Petrochemical industries operations and the environmental impacts
  • Environmental regulatory frameworks, institutional factors and infrastructure
  • Sustainable development: definitions, issues, challenges and internal & external drivers
  • Benefits of environmental management
  • Key environmental management system (EMS) elements
  • Concepts of the environmental standard ISO 14001:2004
  • Environmental risk assessment & management
  • Social and stakeholders assessment
  • Environmental protection measures
  • Pollution prevention and cleaner production
  • Waste treatment and disposal techniques
  • Oil spill contingency planning
  • Decommissioning and rehabilitation
  • Environmentally-sensitive areas
  • Technology considerations: air, water and waste
  • Environmental management: management systems/ leadership and commitment/ policy, strategic and objectives/ organization, resources and documentation/ planning/ implementation and monitoring/ audit and review/ continuous improvement cycle
  • Action Plan to progress organisational EMS project to its successful fulfilment.