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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.

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.

Why is designing with human error in mind so critical? Consider that nearly 80% of all offshore facility accidents are caused by human errors, and 64% of these accidents happen during operations.

The expanded research and testing capabilities offer the only vertical test rig for subsea safety valves and one of the largest high-pressure natural gas test facilities in the world.

The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on 7 July to allow it to delay enforcement of an Obama administration rule to limit methane pollution from oil and natural gas drilling.

GC Rieber Shipping named Christian Berg as its CEO. In addition to joining GC Rieber in this position, Berg’s newly established venture, Bech Offshore, will also become part of the company. He has more than 20 years’ experience in various management positions within the oil service industry. Before establishing Bech he spent 5 years in executive positions at Viking Su…

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…