ENERGY COMPANIES TAKE SPECIAL CARE TO REDUCE SPREAD OF COVID-19 WITHIN THEIR FACILITIES
June 2nd, 2020
AS governments worldwide loosen lockdowns imposed to impede the spread of Covid-19, energy companies are assessing their health and safety policies to ensure workplaces are not new infection hotspots, protecting workers and hence production.
These changes come as energy industries downscale workloads to reflect a collapse in demand for their output. The latest analysis of International Energy Agency (IAE) data, (up to mid-April), showed that countries in full lockdown were experiencing an average 25% decline in energy demand and countries in partial lockdown an ...
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