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The 2020 SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability will be held in conjunction with the SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference. Early registration is open until 19 February.

The new standardized ERA Acute method provides quantitative assessment of environmental impact and risk of acute oil spills covering four environmental compartments: sea surface, shoreline, water column, and seafloor.

Between 2000 and 2017, the suicide rate in the US increased by 40%, with blue-collar workers in industries such as mining, oil and gas extraction, construction, agriculture, transportation, and warehousing most at risk, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Oil and gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.

The group’s mission is to end human trafficking by preventing exploitation, educating the community, and empowering survivors.

The US Chemical Safety Board will investigate the blowout that killed three workers at a Chesapeake Energy well in central Texas.

Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies such as virtual personal assistants and chatbots are rapidly making headway into the workplace. Research and advisory company Gartner predicts that, by 2024, these technologies will replace almost 69% of the manager’s workload.

Recently, the hype around artificial intelligence and machine learning caused several people to ask me how much of a project is actual machine learning. Based on man-hours spent on the project, I estimate that only about 5% of the effort is spent directly on data-science-related activities.

The application continuously uses machine-learning algorithms to aggregate historical and real-time data across production operations. Additionally, the application uses a hybrid approach that draws on physics-based and data-driven AI models to generate predictions and prescribed actions.

Alta Mesa Resources is not the biggest shale startup to go bankrupt, but was its early death rooted in petroleum engineering or financial engineering?

The report on unmanned aerial vehicles in industry presents overarching themes and concerns, including navigating regulations, finding the right technology, and finding ways to educate the public about drone operations.

Hess is testing whether it can drive drilling improvement by combining drilling rigs equipped with automated functions and humans determined to find a way to beat the programmed drilling.