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Israel is launching a new offshore bid round for gas-bearing blocks in the Eastern Mediterranean.

An online seminar set for 14 November will introduce IPIECA's new Community Liaison Officers Team Building and Management Guidance.

Elevated concentrations of strontium, an element associated with oil and gas waste waters, have accumulated in the shells of freshwater mussels downstream from wastewater disposal sites, according to researchers from Penn State and Union College.

The tool, called the Field Analysis of Silica Tool, works with commercially available Fourier-transform infrared analyzers to determine a worker’s exposure to respirable crystalline silica  dust, providing detailed results immediately following a worker’s shift.

DNV estimates that gas will be the world’s primary energy source by the mid-2020s. Growth in LNG capacity is expected as the midstream sector invests in connecting shifting sources of gas with changing demand centers. Other factors also will drive the globalization of gas trading markets.

Small quantities of gas and water are flowing to the surface from the UK’s first horizontal shale well—just days after operator Cuadrilla paused injection work for a second time amid earthquakes.

Data-driven methods offer significant advantages in the industry, under certain conditions, over conventional methods. But reservations still exist about their use. The paper serves to bridge the gap between unclear understanding of these methods and their successful acceptance and implementation.

The use of data-intensive decision making and smart risk-management solutions has resulted in the improvement of the ethical foundations underlying the industry. These digital tools and machine-based cognitive processes for risk-avoidance have also helped restore the public’s trust in the industry.

Remote condition monitoring of offshore platform equipment tracks performance data, watching for deviations from baseline benchmarks. Unexpected variances can be investigated and serviced by technicians dispatched to target the root causes—an approach called condition-based maintenance.

Digitalization in operating, maintaining, and upgrading subsea plants to reduce cost includes making information available to the control-room operator, reducing alarms, tuning the control system for optimal performance, condition monitoring, and condition-based maintenance.

Digitalization in the oil and gas industry has been the focus of much discussion, but little has been written on the slow rate of adoption. This paper outlines some of the barriers the industry faces as it assimilates into Industry 4.0—automation and data integration in manufacturing.

FieldCare from Endress + Hauser is a universal software program for configuring field devices in a facility that provides a range of functionality from device parameterization to engineered condition monitoring. It operates third-party gateways, actuators, remote I/O systems, and sensors supporting the FDT standard. It is also supplied with a complete library of certi…