CONCAWE has been working on health issues virtually since its inception. In the early years the focus was on occupational health in relation to oil industry workers. Over the years, and particularly in the past decade, broader human health issues have become...
In an industry that deals with inflammable and potentially explosive products, safety considerations have to be paramount. Since the mid 1990s CONCAWE, with the input of its member companies, has been compiling personal incident statistics of downstream oil industry...
At the start of CONCAWE’s life in 1963, air quality was seen mainly as a ‘local air’ issue and the bulk of legislation in force was based on the prevention of nuisance. How things have changed! Now we have legislation on air-related issues that are regional,...
Water is an essential resource that has, over the years, come progressively higher on the international agenda because of its intimate relationship with both human health and ecosystem development. In the 40 years of CONCAWE’s existence water quality over the world in...
Volume 12 • Number 1: With Europe at the forefront of the ratification of the Kyoto protocol, CO2 and, more generally, greenhouse gases (GHG) are now definitely in the limelight and will be a central element in all future environmental studies. When any environmental...
