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A professor who the EPA charged with reviewing its 2016 study on hydraulic fracturing’s possible drinking water impacts shared her observations on the flawed process that led to the agency’s final conclusion.

Long-term studies of oil spill responders are urgently needed as oil spills continue to occur. To this end, the prospective Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Oil Spill Coast Guard Cohort study was established . DWH oil spill responders and nonresponders who were members of the US Coast guard were included.

A professor, whom the EPA charged with reviewing its 2016 study on hydraulic fracturing’s possible effects on drinking water, shared her observations on the process that led to the agency’s final conclusion.

Schlumberger has decided to quit the seismic acquisition business due to poor financial returns.

A team of researchers from the University of Houston is working with the oil industry to develop new ways to predict when an offshore drilling rig is at risk for a potentially catastrophic accident.

This paper outlines a 2-year project undertaken in a major UK continental shelf field to ensure that the safety-critical systems of five 35-year-old installations were all compliant with the relevant industry regulatory standards.

Total just strengthened its presence in United States deepwater plays through an acquisition from Samson that gives the French company a 12.5% interest in blocks covering the Anchor discovery, one of the most significant recent finds in the Gulf of Mexico.

ABS granted Approval in Principle to new designs for a floating production storage and offloading hull, a self-elevating unit for a mobile offshore drilling unit, and a tension-leg platform.

Good reservoir detective work costs money, but two studies show how it can help identify even more expensive problems.

Shale operators are working harder to get as much out of new wells as they did from older ones nearby.

Stress Engineering Services appointed Brent Vyvial as principal and lead of its midstream practice. Vyvial joined Stress in 2006 as an analyst and currently serves as a principal in the company. His research includes studies associated with the design of subsea flowlines and steel catenary risers using the strain-based rules of API RP 1111; investigations of composite…

OmniMetrix's Hero Rectifier Monitor is a cathodic protection monitor that offers remote monitoring and control for pipelines. It features cellular and/or satellite connectivity for data transmission, eliminating manual data collection costs. The monitor comes with a GPS-synchronized rectifier interruption system and the "StormSense" feature that monitors the atmospher…