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Proposed changes would modify EPA's August 2016 final rule, "Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources." The proposal has been submitted for publication to the Federal Register. Following that publication, the EPA will accept comments for 60 days.

Fifteen members of the UN’s International Maritime Organization have voted to approve amendments to existing codes on diver safety intended to harmonize the codes “with current industry practice.”

With concern growing that the underlying geology in the Permian Basin is reaching capacity for disposal wells, the Trump administration is examining whether to adjust decades-old federal clean-water regulations to allow drillers to discharge waste water directly into rivers and streams.

Colorado communities and pro-oil and gas industry groups are clashing in a Supreme Court case that could change the way the state handles decisions on allowing increased fossil fuels production near people.

A years-long fight in Colorado over how close oil and gas drilling can safely be to places where people live and work is coming to a head with an unprecedented November ballot measure that would ban such operations within at least half a mile of homes, schools, businesses, and waterways.

The 5-year-old software startup is getting noticed by the oil and gas industry for its ability to accelerate analytics projects by taking care of all the tedious work involved with data wrangling. 

When it came to decide where to collect a critical sample of fractured rock, a new method for turning microseismic data into a heat map designed to display the most intense fracturing activity was considered.

PlantSight from Siemens and Bentley Systems mirrors the physical plant through continuous surveys and reality modeling cloud services. Overlapping photographs and supplemental laser scans from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground-level imagery are processed to generate spatially classified and engineering-ready reality meshes, otherwise known as the plant’s digi…

Oil prices appear to have stabilized during the past year, and speakers at the annual Energy and the Economy Conference at the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank say they expect prices to remain level, at least for a little while.

Climate change involves a combination of factors that make it hard for people to get motivated.

Brian Burkhart has rejoined Kleinfelder as a senior civil/water resources engineer based in North Carolina. Burkhart will focus on delivering water resources solutions for surface mining and oil and gas operations in the southeastern US. He holds more than 20 years of experience in civil engineering, specializing in—among other things—storm water control measure desig…

The new venture will operate several deepwater assets—including the Cascade, Chinook, Medusa, and Thunder Hawk fields.