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On 31 July, the US Department of Homeland Security held a National Cybersecurity Summit, featuring the nation's top homeland, national-security, and law-enforcement officials.

What do 60,000 sensors on 1,200 pieces of equipment add up to? Hopefully, hundreds of millions of dollars in savings.

Increasing evidence suggests that welding-fume exposure is associated with systemic inflammation.

A survey of more than 100 leaders in hazardous industries suggests that oil price has had a moderate or significant effect on process safety risk, characterized by major job cuts, loss of corporate memory, cost-cutting, and overall belt-tightening brought on by the downturn.

The US Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a study that will take a holistic look at how the agency, states, tribes, and stakeholders regulate and manage wastewater from the oil and gas industry.

With the use of many advanced technologies, the Keshen gas field in western China was developed efficiently with no injuries and no pollution to the environment. It also significantly boosted local community development.

Advances in space sensing allow direct measuring of gas flaring, opening a window into production trends.

The objective of this paper is to illustrate a methodology for identifying the value of information (VOI) in reservoir management—in particular, for deriving the conditional probabilities of success when new and imperfect data are acquired.

ExxonMobil’s ninth discovery offshore Guyana solidifies the area as a premium offshore basin.

The Spanish E&P company plans to invest more than $11 million by the end of 2018 on startups working in established priority areas, which include resource reuse and sustainability measures.

The technology will provide Equinor a continual feed of updated reservoir information from its Johan Castberg and Johan Sverdrup fields with the aim of improving well placement, production, injection, and—ultimately—recovery.

Oil-producing countries are adopting a variety of strategies to shield their industries from climate action, seeking not just to survive but to recast their businesses in ways that provide competitive advantages, according to a paper by an expert at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University.