I. Executive Summary Over the past 20 years the way in which the Exploration and Production (E&P) industry manages environmental affairs has changed dramatically. In the beginning, environmental was thought of something that would be taken care of concurrently as safety moved from program management to a management system approach. Currently, while a variety of methodologies exist for controlling the environmental impacts of E&P companies and support companies. Implementation of HSE Management Systems is ranked as greatest area of progress over the past five years by the oil and gas industry according to the SPE 2006 HSE committee.">[1] Many of the majors and larger European Union (EU) E&P based corporations have Environmental Management Systems EMS combined with Health, Safety & Sustainability. There is a distinct difference in these disciplines where as safety is impact of safety hazard tend to be immediate and acute; where as Environmental impacts are sometime acute, if the event is large (a major oil spill), but usually develop over time; Health and Sustainability issues are more gradual to discover but very significant once they occur. Training and measuring environmental, health and sustainability programs and management systems is harder to do. Disparities in consistencies also exist between how integrated environmental programs are between upstream and downstream operations for of many Oil and Gas Producers. Background Safety Management In the E&P industry safety management systems, tools and programs are very well developed. Most safety analyses are hazard- and risk-based. This is in part due to the vary nature of the industry being hazardous because Petroleum and its by-products - H2S are flammable, volatile and toxic. This is compounded by the fact that E&P workers and contractors work at extreme heights and depths (ocean floor), with heavy equipment often on slippery surfaces, exposed to wind and extreme temperature conditions. Tragic incidents with platforms tipping over and exploding have resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives resulted in extensive safety regulation of the industry.[1]Thoem, T., The Eight SPE International Conference on Health Safety and Environment - Pre-Conference Committee Survey Raw Results. March 2006
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