The Oil & Gas Awards wrapped up their second annual West Coast gala awards dinner in Bakersfield, California, celebrating advances made in the key areas of environmental stewardship, efficiency, innovation, corporate social responsibility and health & safety. […]
Excellence in Environmental Stewardship Award
The year is winding down but the Oil & Gas Awards team is in full-swing making final preparations for their seven regional Oil & Gas Awards gala dinners. Now in its third year, the Oil & Gas Awards champion best practice and recognize organizations operating in the upstream and midstream sectors of the oil and gas industry. The judging panel, 101 men and women that are the who’s who of the oil and gas industry, are reviewing entries for the 20+ categories that the Oil & Gas Awards recognizes. Keeping the theme of 101, the judging phase has whittled down […]
Safety Audits Aced By VZ Environmental
Protecting the safety and welfare of workers, customers and the ecosystem has always been paramount for VZ Environmental (VZE), and recently external sources recognized the company for its safety and compliance practices. VZE’s safety management systems and training as well as its business procedures were validated and highly commended following three exhaustive audits in the last six months. […]
Patent Awarded for VSoxz Silica Dust Filter
Exposure to high levels of crystalline silica dust poses serious health risk to hydraulic fracturing workers, and was the focus of U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed rule hearings in the spring. However, there is a solution to abate this safety hazard. VZ Environmental’s VSoxz Silica Dust Filter minimizes and contains airborne dust particles released from open hatches on sand proppant storage equipment such as Sand King, Sandflyers, Mountain Movers and Frac Sanders. These custom-designed filters allow high-positive pressure air to escape while trapping tiny dust particles that typically produce unhealthy silica dust clouds. […]