Very often operations carried out by man and companies are only perceived in terms of their interference with the natural environment. Each form of technological operation has an impact on the environment in which we live. Oil exploration and production is a form of using the non-renewable natural resources of our planet and, as such, it must be carried out in a responsible and professional way.
One must, however, realise that the technologies available on the market provide for carrying out oil exploration and production operations, also in the marine environment, in a manner that is safe for the environment and humans. In exchange, clean energy sources are obtained, free from hydrogen sulphide and other sulphur compounds, i.e. natural gas and oil produced from the seabed of the Baltic Sea.
The geological, drilling, and marine services of LOTOS Petrobaltic have been prepared and trained in dealing with the sea and earth elements. They have hastened to help people and vessels that have found themselves in difficult and dangerous situations many times. They are prepared to liquidate oil spills, fight fires, carry out evacuations or search and extract from the water those who have been shipwrecked.
Geochemical examinations are performed before and in the course of marine oil projects, aimed at analysing hydrocarbon anomalies and the pollution assessment of sediments with geogenic hydrogen of a natural origin that migrates to the surface from deep layers of the sediment cover of the orogen. In order to exclude the possibility of marine environment contamination, seawater, if possible, is used as a drilling fluid. In the course of drilling and after its completion, samples of water, sediments, and formation fluids are collected for testing. Treatment facilities located on the production rigs undergo regular checks, and waste that cannot be treated in marine conditions is collected and transported to land by specialist tugboats.