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The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which had ceased most programmed enforcement actions following Hurricane Harvey, resumed normal enforcement throughout Texas and Louisiana.

What is the reality of risk in the hydrocarbon sector? In this roundtable discussion, senior industry executives discuss what happens when process safety intent meets the reality of operations.

The probability value, commonly known as the p-value, has been used for decades to test the significance of researchers' findings. A small p-value (typically ≤ 0.05) indicates a statistically significant result. The American Statistical Association is recommending the value be lowered to 0.005, which would reduce the number of false positives. Why is this being revisi…

Add Energy has partnered with Transborders Energy and will work with TechnipFMC and MODEC to develop a 1.0-MTPA FLNG vessel for small-scale stranded fields.

Subsea 7 agreed to acquire the remaining shareholdings in its joint ventures, Normand Oceanic AS and Normand Oceanic Chartering AS, from Solstad Farstad ASA.

A recently published standard addresses the need for a comprehensive set of common requirements for operators and contracting companies at fabrication yards.

At the recent Leaders in Industry luncheon in Houston, Jonny Jones told the interesting story of how Jones Energy grew from a small private entity to a company whose shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Lieberman Rapid Enterprise Defense Suite is a series of software modules designed to help operators meet US federal cyber security regulations for critical infrastructure. It consistes of a series of modules that focus on different areas: identity management, systems management, services management, task management, and communications management. It creates a clos…

Jean-François Saint-Marcoux won the 2017 SPE Projects, Facilities, and Construction Award. Saint-Marcouxis an industry consultant. He spent 40 years working in engineering and engineering management, with a specialty in flow assurance and hydrodynamics, contributing to the design of deepwater riser systems. After 2 years with Cameron as a wellhead engineer, he joined …

Aqualis Offshore, a marine and offshore engineering consultancy, appointed Bjarte Røed as head of its Norwegian operations. Røed previously served as head of engineering and risk consulting with the firm, a position he had held since August 2015. Prior to joining Aqualis, he worked as technology manager and managing director of Future Subsea in Norway, and as senior p…

Not doing process safety tasks correctly the first time can result in grave consequences for you, your co-workers, the community and the environment.

Sustainability for the oil and gas industry depends as much on cultural, organizational,and human performance paradigms as it does on technology. To retain our social license to operate—and, perhaps, even to exist—we need to close gaps in health, safety, and environmental performance.