Houston, Texas, U.S., Nov. 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In its first International Offshore Environmental Licensing Seminar, the AmCham Rio Environmental Licensing Study Group and FGV Energia featured the new environmental database created by the International Association of Geophysical Contractors (IAGC) in partnership with the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) and the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA). On 7 November, Joao Correa of Spectrum, one of the IAGC’s Governing Members, presented the details about the recently launched database.
The International Offshore Environmental Licensing Seminar brought together the key oil and gas environmental leaders to discuss issues and solutions of great relevance to the sector, such as: integrated environmental assessments, development and licensing management in Brazil, new technologies for decommissioning and the importance of an integrated database (to include the IAGC-developed Environmental Database), as well as promotion of a rich exchange of knowledge with international experiences.
ANP launched the IAGC Environmental Database at the Rio Oil & Gas Conference on 25 September and officially announced the project at a meeting at the American Chamber of Commerce in Rio de Janeiro (AmCham Rio). The database is designed to support environmental data management solutions related to the oil and gas segment. It will also facilitate cooperation between regulatory bodies such as IBAMA, ANP and the industry to advance and streamline environmental permitting, meeting the goals of the government and the industry.
The database has been hailed by IBAMA and ANP as a special moment of cooperation which will consolidate all environmental licensing data of oil and gas exploration phases in one place and will allow universal access to this data, which may be used for both society and businesses.
Next steps on the Environmental Database include conducting a meeting with operators’ HSE and digital transformation staff and conducting a digital transformation workshop with IBAMA.
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