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Last year, according to reports filed by 45 IOGP member companies, the fatal accident rate associated with global upstream operations fell by 36% from the previous year. While the number of fatalities was down, the number of fatal incidents increased from 29 in 2016 to 30 in 2017.

The memorandum of understanding signed by Eni and the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development involves strategic areas of interest: the circular economy, renewable energy sources, decarbonization, and environmental protection.

Today’s world is full of potential threats as news of cyber-related hacks and crimes have become near nonstop occurrences. While most of the news has concentrated on business, banking, and consumer activities, domestic infrastructure may also be a tempting target.

In 2015 and 2016, the Health and Safety Working Group of the North Sea Offshore Authorities Forum discussed common challenges for the oil and gas industry. The challenges related to maintaining and operating aging installations in a low-oil-price environment was selected as a topic for further work.

Today’s advancements in unconventional technology are worth marveling over, but there is still plenty of room for growth.

A weekly quiz from JPT editors drawing from facts in JPT stories and other energy related news of the week.

The report card for unconventional oil and gas producers from a leading industry analyst is A+ for growth and F- for paying back investors.

The company behind the world’s most popular search engine is trying to click with the upstream business at the most distinguished technical event of the year.

The head of US regulatory commission said that it has been working on "streamlining" the application process this year, and that details of a revised process should be available soon.

As part of its IntelligentEngine project, researchers from Rolls-Royce have announced their plans to develop snake- and insect-swarm-inspired robots that will crawl inside engines to carry out inspections and perform maintenance. The snake-like robot could access an engine in the manner of an endoscope and then deliver a swarm of miniature robots (around 10mm in diame…

Pipeline bottlenecks have created a wide gap in the price of gas at a key pipeline hub in the Permian compared to the US benchmark level.

Kreuz Subsea named Thomas Liew as the company’s CFO. Liew has more than 20 years’ experience in senior financial positions, leading multi-entity organizations in the Asia Pacific region. He previously served as vice president of finance at Alstom Grid, where he was the CFO for Alstom’s EPC business in the Asia Pacific region. Before that, he held key finance and strat…