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One of the more difficult hurdles to overcome when developing a safety leadership culture is getting front-line employees to understand the full weight of their role in stop-work authority.

This paper aims to evaluate the applicability of input/output analysis to local content management as a tool to assess the relationship between the Brazilian government’s local content policy and social and economic effects of investment projects in the oil and gas and shipbuilding industry.

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s SafeOCS program has released its 2017 annual report on Blowout Prevention System Safety, noting 18 of 25 operators associated with rig operations in the Gulf of Mexico reported 1,129 equipment component failure events.

Last year, according to reports filed by 45 IOGP member companies, the fatal accident rate associated with global upstream operations fell by 36% from the previous year. While the number of fatalities was down, the number of fatal incidents increased from 29 in 2016 to 30 in 2017.

Just as Libya resumes oil exports from recently shuttered ports, an attack on its largest field is setting back progress yet again.

The Mental Health Commission of Canada explains the effect of employees’ daily experience on mental health in new white paper.

The new ordinance affects oil and gas operations and is likely to be challenged in court.

The memorandum of understanding signed by Eni and the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development involves strategic areas of interest: the circular economy, renewable energy sources, decarbonization, and environmental protection.

Today’s world is full of potential threats as news of cyber-related hacks and crimes have become near nonstop occurrences. While most of the news has concentrated on business, banking, and consumer activities, domestic infrastructure may also be a tempting target.

In 2015 and 2016, the Health and Safety Working Group of the North Sea Offshore Authorities Forum discussed common challenges for the oil and gas industry. The challenges related to maintaining and operating aging installations in a low-oil-price environment was selected as a topic for further work.

Today’s advancements in unconventional technology are worth marveling over, but there is still plenty of room for growth.

A weekly quiz from JPT editors drawing from facts in JPT stories and other energy related news of the week.