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IPIECA has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Finance Corporation to develop a shared understanding of the implications of the UN SDGs for the oil and gas industry and how the industry can most effectively contribute.

Independent Project Analysis (IPA) partnered with the sustainability department of a major integrated oil company to study the effect of core sustainability practices on capital project outcomes.

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget detailed when and how agencies plan to repeal numerous Obama administration rules regarding air and water pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and more.

Seacroft Marine Consultants named Richard Pearce marine engineering and dynamic poisitioning (DP) manager. Pearce has 16 years of experience in engineering and technical disciplines of the marine and offshore industry. He most recently served as technical manager of the Fletcher Group and as service delivery manager at Bibby Offshore, where he was responsible for oper…

Gall Thomson's Petal17 marine breakaway coupling offers a light design that allows for greater buoyancy and handling in offshore product transfer. Its unit status indicators enable visual inspection without the need to remove the unit from the line, giving operators quantifiable data that can be logged and monitored. The coupling's locking petals improve sealing in ha…

Winners of Dronestagram's 2017 Annual International Drone Photography Contest are announced. Among the submissions from talented professional photographers and amateur drone photo enthusiasts, three in each of the four categories of nature, people, urban, and creative were announced winners.

Part 2 of this two-part series presents a new methodology for sizing and rating three-phase separators based on quantifying the actual mechanisms and physics that govern separation performance. An example illustrates the calculations needed to achieve the specified outlet fluid qualities.

As interest in unconventional resources has grown in Europe, so have concerns about the potential environmental impacts of their development.

Operators need to take steps to protect their facilities from drone security breaches by outsiders. The costs an attacker incurs in developing tools to break into and control infrastructure is low compared to the costs an operator incurs in defending against those tools.

ConocoPhillips elected Sharmila Mulligan to its board of directors. Mulligan is the founder of ClearStory Data, a software company, and has previously served in senior roles at Aster Data, Hewlett-Packard, Netscape, and Opsware. She has experience in cloud computing, scalable data analytics, and other data technologies. Mulligan holds bachelor's degrees in business an…

Avoiding debt problems and maintaining high-quality operations have kept Frank Lodzinski’s companies going through thick and thin.

Cost and delivery of long-distance natural gas pipelines to a distant liquefaction facility at a warm-water port has become excessive, and environmental restraints have been increasing. An alternative is an offshore ice-resistant LNG port accommodating a new class of LNG transport vessels.