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Public acceptance is a major challenge for the siting of facilities. The offering of compensation to communities potentially helps to create the perception of a fairer distribution of local risks and nonlocal benefits. This may help to prevent or solve siting controversies.

During high-stress situations, people tend to focus on the potential hazards or outcomes to such a degree that it minimizes their ability to process facts. On 25 July, SPE will hold a webinar entitled “Risk Communication—It’s Not Just About the Facts.”

In this case study, through a waste-minimization concept, a reduce/reuse/recycle approach is used to manage produced drilling waste.

Personal risk factors such as heat acclimation as well as environmental factors and high metabolic rate during work are the major determinants of heat-related illnesses.

Orville D. Gaither, 1990 SPE President and an SPE Foundation trustee, died 29 June. Gaither’s presidency was marked by the opening of several international SPE sections and his extensive traveling to visit members around the world. When recollecting his presidency, Gaither often used “Enroute” to sum up the year, in which he journeyed 25,000 miles in commercial airlin…

A major offshore discovery led by Talos Energy is the first successful wildcat well drilled by a private company in Mexico in almost 80 years and a milestone for the country’s recently enacted energy reform.

The 2017 winners of the SPE regional awards for the technical and professional categories are announced.

Untapped offshore gas reservoirs could easily meet all of the country's domestic needs, while the rest could supply regional neighbors.

BP has confirmed it will not reintroduce Super Puma Helicopters until the completion of an investigation into last year’s fatal crash.

The SPS TE rectifier from GE is a single-phase, hot-pluggable, fan-cooled rectifier that provides DC power to space-critical applications in indoor and outdoor environments, such as a telecommunications network for an offshore facility. The rectifier has an extended temperature range and universal AC input voltage range. It also comes with redundant fan cooling, front…