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Chris Hawkes, safety and security director for the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, spoke with reporter Eithne Treanor at the 2018 SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility, which was held in Abu Dhabi.

Initiative 97 would require oil and gas wells to be at least 2,500 ft away from homes and schools.

With hacking attacks mounting against US energy companies, guarding the sector will be a top priority for a new cybersecurity effort, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has said.

Determining the best way to meet the needs of colleagues and employers, as well as enlisting them to help meet goals, takes effective listening.

Sulzer’s Houston Service Center has passed a major milestone in its safety record, operating for more than 3 years without a lost-time incident (LTI).

The Sea Grant oil spill outreach team has produced two new publications explaining what scientists know about what happens to oil in a marine environment after an accidental spill.

Cyberattacks on US energy systems have become unavoidable, and enough have been successful that the sector and its regulators are increasingly focused on mitigation, response, and recovery.

RigNet’s CyphreLink is a fully-managed service that provides data security protection for sensitive and proprietary information transiting any network. Operating as an over-the-top application, it provides encryption for data in-transit, network certificates, and encryption keys by establishing a secure connection between trusted end points. The system is easily incor…

Bourbon appointed Theirry Hochoa as its new CFO. Hochoa joined Bourbon in April as director of the financial structuring project for the three standalone companies created in the context of the #BOURBONINMOTION strategic action plan. He began his career in 1994 as an external auditor at Arthur Andersen, then Ernst & Young. He joined Technip in 2004, first as director …

If approved by the US Department of Transportation, the port facility would allow VLCCs and other tankers to directly load cargo, potentially removing a major hurdle for US crude oil exports.

While US onshore still holds an edge, international oil companies are finding attractive options for diversifying their portfolios, mixing onshore with offshore conventional fields, where finding and development costs are down , and the time it takes to bring them on line.

Well-interference issues can be hard to diagnose, but this startup may be figuring that out. The data-driven process it developed can also help operators come up with more effective ways to use diverters.