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A report from Norway’s Auditor General criticizes several aspects of the way health, safety, and the environment in the Norwegian oil and gas industry is followed up by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway.

A 3-year study that demonstrated how to capture a worker’s safety performance and translate the data into personal fatigue levels is the first step in creating a framework that can identify research-supported interventions that protect workers from injuries caused by being tired on the job.

Companies waste countless resources measuring the wrong things, not measuring at all, or failing to keep "the most important thing, the most important thing."

As part of the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas project, a systematic longitudinal effort was made to collect a broad range of morbidity and mortality data for those communities directly adjacent to the project. These data were used to inform workplace disease-monitoring efforts.

Many leaders of petroleum engineering schools from around the world have never met but SPE’s technical director for academia would like to change that.

To test your knowledge, answer these 10 questions from Jim Crompton, who teaches petroleum data analytics at the Colorado School of Mines.

Digital solutions that have made their mark in other industries may foster stronger collaborative environments in various sectors within energy, including equipment maintenance and data management.

Oil companies are talking big about using data and analytics, but the experts in the field are not sure what their role will be. Birol Dindoruk, SPE's technical director for management and information, talks about ensuring that they have a say.

A new geostatistics modeling methodology that connects geostatistics and machine-learning methodologies, uses nonlinear topological mapping to reduce the original high-dimensional data space, and uses unsupervised-learning algorithms to bypass problems with supervised-learning algorithms.

Artificial intelligence has come to the oil patch, accelerating a technical change that is transforming the conditions for the oil and gas industry’s 150,000 US workers.

Testing will be performed at DNV’s labs in Columbus, Ohio, and Norway and overseen by experts in fatigue of subsea equipment, bolting connections, cathodic protection, and instrumented tests.

A new report predicts that US output will rise to a new record high of 12.1 million B/D in 2020.