MANAGEMENT OF NORM IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY Akpojevwa Tega Naomi, october 2016 | Page 59
Enhance capabilities for Well Suspension/Abandonments and provide up-
to-date guidelines for the industry.
Create opportunities to make well abandonments more efficient and
effective, and improve the health, safety and environmental aspects, by
facilitation of technology development, trials, and promotion of commercial
initiatives.
Achieve sustainability and effectiveness of a regulatory system.
4.2 International Level
4.2.1 The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP)
The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers has access to a wealth of
technical knowledge and experience with its members operating around the
world in many different terrains. Its overall aim is to ensure a consistent
approach to training, management and best practice throughout the world.
The oil and gas exploration and production industry recognises the need to
develop consistent databases and records in certain fields.
NORM also can be the by-product or waste product of oil, gas and geothermal
energy production. Sludge, drilling mud, and pipe scales are examples of
materials that can contain elevated levels of NORM, and the radioactive
materials may be moved from site to site as equipment and materials are reused.
Uncontrolled activities associated with enhanced levels of NORM can
contaminate the environment and pose a risk to human health. These risks can
be alleviated by the adoption of controls to identify where NORM is present;
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