Importance of Environmental Management Systems in Ensuring Continual Environmental Protection in Offshore Upstream Oil and Gas Industry

Abstract

The present work highlights the importance and benefits of establishing and implementing Environmental Management Systems (EMS) in offshore upstream oil and gas industry. It focuses on the priorities in pollution prevention and summarizes the pollution prevention model together with its associated selection process. It also delineates the environmental management system main elements and steps in view of ISO 14001 and how they can be used to achieve continual environmental protection in offshore upstream oil and gas industry.