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This systematic review aimed to evaluate the association between shift work and eating habits and suggests that shift work can affect the quality of workers’ diets. Shift workers show changes in meal patterns, skipping more meals and consuming more food at unconventional times.

Production from older wells in the Permian Basin is declining faster than widely assumed, according to a new study. If this trend holds, it could lead to problems for companies that are depending on those wells to pay for future development or to justify a big acquisition.

Trelleborg’s Vikodeck fireproofing tiles are designed to offer surface protection against blast, jet, and pool fire in harsh environments, while also providing corrosion protection and anti-fatigue dampening support. The tiles can withstand movement as well as impacts that could possibly damage or crack a rigid system. They are impact resistant and capable of withstan…

​How can corporate trainers prepare employees for dangerous or extraordinary workplace scenarios? Virtual-reality technology offers immersive learning opportunities for an increasingly broad range of experiences.

The biggest problem is not in the everyday operation or use of tools or machinery, no matter how dangerous they may be. It’s when plans veer away from the day-to-day routine that’s the biggest problem.

The Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church is developing a system for analyzing company ethics, and top mining and oil companies will be graded by the end of 2018.

Academic scientists and advocacy groups are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw and rewrite proposed guidelines for determining which scientific findings to use when evaluating the safety of toxic chemicals.

The National Oceanography Centre is set to start a 5-year project that will use marine robots to investigate how meltwater from Greenland and Arctic ice is changing deepwater formation in the North Atlantic.

InterMoor named Martin Kobiela as president. He replaces Tom Fulton, who takes over the new global role of chief technology officer for InterMoor. These two appointments follow upon the nomination of new global CEO Mark Jones at the end of last year. Kobiela, previously regional president for InterMoor Asia Pacific, had the overall responsibility for developing and ma…

Shale explorers run very few logs into horizontal wells, making it difficult to understand the effects of reservoir depletion in tightly spaced wells. This new technology is trying to change that.

C&J Energy Services appointed Jan Kees van Gaalen CFO. He is expected to join C&J on 17 September. Mike Galvan, who has served as C&J's interim CFO since March when Mark Cashiola resigned, will continue in his position as senior VP-chief accounting officer, reporting to van Gaalen. Van Gaalen has more than 35 years of global experience in business analytics, treasury,…

W&T Offshore appointed Janet Yang as acting interim CFO effective immediately following the retirement of J. Daniel ("Danny") Gibbons, senior VP and CFO. Yang joined W&T in 2008 as finance manager and in 2012 became director, strategic planning and analysis, a position she held until being appointed VP, corporate & business development in 2017. She has over 15 years o…