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Presently, environmental regulation limits the drilling operators in drilling wastes disposal. Because of this fast growing sensitivity about drilling waste management, many countries developed environmental guidelines for their drilling operations. This paper reviews several types of waste generated during upstream petroleum activities, especially while drilling, then addresses their hazards and impacts on the environment, as well as the principal treatment techniques. This paper tries to deliver a simple and conceptual view over the current environmental guidelines and waste management planning stream, implemented in an international scope. Then among those technologies, the ones which would be to some extent compatible with Lebanese drilling fields will be proposed. This may help company and individual attitudes toward future drilling with care of environment.