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A recent report by a group of scientists at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland found that children born within 10 km of an oil spill were twice as likely to die in their first month.

KBR announced it has been awarded the Concept and front-end-engineering-and-design contract by Statoil for its ground-breaking Northern Lights project to develop an onshore carbon dioxide storage terminal in Norway.

One of the big stumbling blocks when it comes to properly handling North Dakota’s substantial tonnage of radioactive wastes has been the time it takes for an accurate test of how much Radium 226 and 228 are present in a given load of the material.

Schlumberger and Weatherford are teaming up to provide a range of hydraulic fracturing services to the US and Canada land market.

Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit organization, issued a report on 14 September titled "Lead From the Top: Building Sustainability Competence on Corporate Boards." The report posits that company boards must be sustainability-competent in order to achieve long-term financial performance goals.

The Nigerian Petroleum Industry Bill possibly ranks as No. 1 by a wide margin among the bills that have spent the most time with the legislature. It is also one of the most controversial and most discussed in the legislative history of bills within the Nigerian National Assembly.

Hans Leo Hals, managing director for Trelleborg’s offshore operation based in Norway, met with leading oil and gas representatives in Mexico over a number of months to support improving the safety of Mexico’s offshore assets in the Gulf of Mexico.

An advisor at Newfield Exploration takes a closer look at the company’s water management operations in the Oklahoma STACK, as well as the lessons learned in its development.

For 300 million years faults showed no activity, and then wastewater injections from oil and gas wells came along.

Unit Corporation named Les Austin as its senior vice president and CFO. Austin holds more than 23 years of energy finance and leadership experience, most recently serving as senior vice president and CFO of Cypress Energy Partners. From 2008 to 2011, he was the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Ram Energy Resources, eventually being promoted to COO …

Stork has appointed Donald Brown as asset integrity director for the UK, Middle East, and Africa. Brown will oversee a number of the company's product lines and services; quality services including third-party inspection, heat treatment, monitoring solutions, and cathodic protection and integrity engineering. He has held senior leadership roles over the course of thre…

Obstacles remain to keeping offshore development competitive with its onshore counterpart. Can the industry advance technology at a pace where the subsea segment will see a resurgence?