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Keeping employees on their feet takes more than a casual reminder to “watch your step” during daily toolbox talks.

A physician-led nonprofit based in Washington, DC, which examines potential health threats from climate change and environmental toxins, has raised concerns that emissions from oil and gas production could be causing more severe effects of COVID-19.

As the challenges of COVID-19 continue, the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers has determined that its mission for 2021 will include unprecedented focus on the wellbeing of everyone who works in the industry, as well as the wider communities in which they operate.

When humankind returns to the Moon to establish colonies it will be bringing with it technologies born in the oil and mining industries. The European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos will be central to that effort as they prepare to land a robotic drilling system to extract oxygen and water from frozen lunar soil.

Using renewable energy can help the oil and gas industry to reduce emissions while getting a stable, high-quality power supply. The renewable energy system can even be used to help the oil and gas facilities with enhanced oil recovery.

Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis asserts that sustainability and resilience will be at the heart of the oil and gas industry story in 2021.

The energy transition is accelerating faster than any market observers have anticipated. Here, we highlight six opportunities in the oil and gas sector for oil and gas engineers to work on a cleaner future.

Total’s acquisition of 20% of Adani Green Energy adds to the supermajor’s global solar portfolio and advances its objective of reaching 35 GW of gross production capacity from renewable sources by 2025.

ExxonMobil and Petronas discovered hydrocarbon-bearing zones in an exploration well on Block 52 offshore Suriname, adding to ExxonMobil’s finds in the Guyana-Suriname basin.

The proposed solution is a good candidate for real-time burner-efficiency monitoring and automatic alarm triggering and optimization.

The authors develop an innovative machine-learning method to determine salt structures directly from gravity data.

The oil and gas industry, which had begun showing signs of recovery from a generational downturn, was brought to its knees by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. SPE’s technical directors reflect on the pandemic’s impacts and share their outlooks going forward in this annual roundup.