Schlumberger earns Arctic Green Star award

Well services facility in Deadhorse honored for environmental stewardship

Petroleum News Alaska

The Schlumberger Well Services facility in Deadhorse has earned an Arctic Green Star award for environmental stewardship through a number of standardized initiatives.

To earn an Arctic Green Star award, a business must adopt a Green Star policy, create a Green Star team, assess waste reduction, develop employee participation incentives and implement at least six measurable programs and procedures to reduce waste, energy use and pollution.

Schlumberger Well Services successfully completed the required standards. A highlight of the company’s green star efforts is its use of a first electrically powered oil well logging unit on the North Slope. The electric unit will not only eliminate air emissions and significantly reduce the amount of fluids that could be spilled, but should also save $100 per day in fuel costs.

Use of this innovative equipment helped Schlumberger win a year 2000 Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner’s Annual Pollution Prevention Award for outstanding achievement in waste reduction (see news brief this page).

The Schlumberger green program also includes recycling and reuse of vehicle batteries, steel and metals, office paper, aluminum cans, cardboard, antifreeze and used oil; capturing and reusing natural gas generator exhaust for heating tanks and buildings; and recycling used motor oil by burning it for energy recovery.

Arctic Green Star is a voluntary program administered by The Alaska Support Industry Alliance which encourages North Slope operators and contractor businesses to incorporate techniques of waste reduction, energy conservation and pollution prevention into their daily operations. The program represents a collaborative effort on the part of the Prudhoe Bay Environmental Alliance (a committee of The Alliance), Green Star Inc., the Oil and Gas Pollution Prevention Committee, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the Alaska Center for the Environment.