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It’s no secret that oil majors are among the biggest corporate emitters of pollution. What may be surprising is that they’re reducing their greenhouse-gas footprints every year, actively participating in a trend that’s swept up most corporate behemoths.

Tiny soil samples may contain as many as 300,000 species of microbial life, but a Netherlands-based startup has figured out that between 50 and 200 of them can tell an operator if a drilling location will hold oil and gas reserves.

Trelleborg's skirt pile gripper is designed to create a temporary connection between an offshore platform's pile and the jacket during the grouting process. Welded onto the upper section of the jacket skirt pile, the gripper reduces risk during platform installation. Until the grout between the pile and the jacket has set and the installation is complete, the gripper …

Sparrows Group named Matt Corbin as its regional operations director for the UK and Europe. Corbin has more than 20 years of industry experience, having held several leadership positions including UK managing director for the subsea division at Aker and UK regional manager at GE Oil & Gas. Most recently he was the supply chain consultant for the Oil and Gas Authority,…

The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland developed a drone that becomes the package that wraps around the cargo (weighing up to 500 grams) before flight, just like a mail package. The foldable carbon-fiber cage protects the drone and the cargo in case of a collision or fall. The recipient can catch the drone mid-flight without being injured b…

Supervisory control and data acquisition systems no longer simply monitor operations and produce large volumes of data in static displays, but now collect production data from all operation data sources and contextualize and present them to workers in real time as meaningful, actionable information.

As E&P companies develop their talent management strategies and lay out the new talent pipeline, they need to be cognizant of the major changes in the industry landscape.

SPE’s annual meeting will feature leading executives from Baker Hughes and Devon as well as other industry leaders.

Getting rid of wastewater from onshore wells has become an increasingly costly problem for oil producers as US crude output surged in recent years, especially in the new shale fields from Texas to North Dakota.

InterMoor, an Acteon company responsible for mooring, foundations, and subsea services, has completed its 10th straight year of operation without any lost-time incidents.