A measure of ‘environmental happiness’: Infrastructuring environmental risk in oil and gas offshore operations
We know little about the marine environment, particularly in the inhospitable Arctic region. Whereas national authorities often rely on the construction of a solid knowledge base to allow human activity access to new areas, scientists point to the impossibility of building comprehensive knowledge of...
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ftntnutrondheimi:oai:ntnuopen.ntnu.no:11250/2393445 2023-05-15T14:54:02+02:00 A measure of ‘environmental happiness’: Infrastructuring environmental risk in oil and gas offshore operations Parmiggiani, Elena Monteiro, Eric 2016-02-15T20:45:14Z http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2393445 http://www.sciencetechnologystudies.org/ eng eng Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies Norges forskningsråd: 213115 Science & Technology Studies 2016, 29(1):30-51 urn:issn:2243-4690 http://www.sciencetechnologystudies.org/ http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2393445 cristin:1278979 29 Science & Technology Studies 1 Journal article Peer reviewed 2016 ftntnutrondheimi 2019-09-17T06:51:31Z We know little about the marine environment, particularly in the inhospitable Arctic region. Whereas national authorities often rely on the construction of a solid knowledge base to allow human activity access to new areas, scientists point to the impossibility of building comprehensive knowledge of subsea ecosystems. This paper presents an ethnographic study of a Norwegian oil and gas company’s development of a knowledge infrastructure for measuring the long-term trend of the behaviour of the marine environment, i.e. a baseline to be used as a reference to calculate potential risks in a commercially relevant Arctic area. The company’s infrastructuring mechanisms involve selecting and configuring environmental sensing technologies, and tying them into the fabric of the company’s operational analysis routines. We identify and discuss how these mechanisms address and articulate temporal, spatial, and social tensions and how, in so doing, they mould new representations of environmental risk. Copyright (c) 2016 Elena Parmiggiani, Eric Monteiro Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic NTNU Open Archive (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Arctic |
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We know little about the marine environment, particularly in the inhospitable Arctic region. Whereas national authorities often rely on the construction of a solid knowledge base to allow human activity access to new areas, scientists point to the impossibility of building comprehensive knowledge of subsea ecosystems. This paper presents an ethnographic study of a Norwegian oil and gas company’s development of a knowledge infrastructure for measuring the long-term trend of the behaviour of the marine environment, i.e. a baseline to be used as a reference to calculate potential risks in a commercially relevant Arctic area. The company’s infrastructuring mechanisms involve selecting and configuring environmental sensing technologies, and tying them into the fabric of the company’s operational analysis routines. We identify and discuss how these mechanisms address and articulate temporal, spatial, and social tensions and how, in so doing, they mould new representations of environmental risk. Copyright (c) 2016 Elena Parmiggiani, Eric Monteiro |
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A measure of ‘environmental happiness’: Infrastructuring environmental risk in oil and gas offshore operations |
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Norges forskningsråd: 213115 Science & Technology Studies 2016, 29(1):30-51 urn:issn:2243-4690 http://www.sciencetechnologystudies.org/ http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2393445 cristin:1278979 |
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