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In recent years, the oil and gas industry has faced increased regulatory pressure as governments around the world seek to reduce a variety of emissions. In addition to added regulatory pressure, oil and gas companies must also consider the effect emissions have on their field personnel.

In a perspective piece that appears in the journal Science, Elaine Hill, an economist in the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Public Health Sciences, calls for tighter regulation and monitoring of unconventional oil and gas development as more evidence points to the negative health consequences of the practice.

The contractor will provide engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning for pipelines and umbilicals at the Shell-led deepwater field.

Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline is now complete, although gas will not be flowing until regulators issue various approvals, expected by the end of the year.

Researchers form South Dakota Mines are studying microbial acceleration of carbon mineralization with extremophiles found at the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

Shell moves nonessential personnel off its Perdido deepwater platform as a result of Tropical Storm Nicholas.

This paper provides an overview on low-carbon-intensity technologies that are instrumental to the decarbonization of the energy industry. While hydrogen is the most promising low-carbon-intensity energy vector, substitute natural gas is the most promising and immediate solution among the hydrocarbon-based fuels.

Amid investor pressure, ExxonMobil taps its Poker Lake facility in New Mexico as the company’s first for natural-gas certification.

In 2020, SPE’s Business, Management, and Leadership Committee conducted a survey on diversity and inclusion in the oil and gas industry. In 2017, consulting firm Deloitte conducted a similar survey. Combined, these surveys provide a close look at diversity in the workplace and how to foster it.

Strong storms can trigger steep, breaking waves that slam into platform and wind turbines with tremendous force. Scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and SINTEF are studying the behavior of offshore structures subjected to these kinds of waves. Their goal is to increase safety at sea.

Damage reports and spill issues surface as operators work to bring production from the GOM back on line.

A group of oil and gas executives and bitcoin miners mingled in a warehouse in Houston recently. One big topic of discussion: using stranded natural gas to power bitcoin mining rigs, which both reduces greenhouse-gas emissions and makes money for the gas providers, as well as the miners.