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Fernando L. Benalcazar, a senior adviser with APD Proyectos in Ecuador, launched the first Distinguished Lecturer tour in the US presented by a Sustainable Development Technical Section board member.

Dow's ROMAX series of water clarifiers are designed to separate oil from produced water and reverse emulsions. They help ensure that oil levels are low enough such that the water can be reused and integrated into a system, reducing residual oil-in-water from more than 1,000 ppm to below 20 ppm. The clarifiers do not require the inversion that conventional products oft…

Operators, vendors, academics, and government officials offered an abundance of views and recommendations on cyber-threats to the industry during the American Petroleum Institute’s recent Cybersecurity Conference.

Exception-based monitoring of real-time data by remote operators can increase operational awareness of drilling crews, which can significantly minimize well-control risks by taking proactive and precise actions.

Safety barriers need to be implemented in an integrated and consistent manner in order to minimize risk, and technical, organizational, and operational aspects of the barriers need to be considered.

Asset Guardian Solutions, which helps energy companies protect industrial and automated control system software, named Blaire McLeod as technical consultant. McLeod will be responsible for developing the company’s software, which requires designing code, writing code, and testing it. She has a background in database systems, networking, and user experience.

Shell reported it has not observed any signs of oil on the water associated with a fire on the Enchilada platform, located in the US Gulf of Mexico.

GATE Energy is the most recent contract awardee for Noble Energy’s Leviathan project offshore Israel. It will provide the commissioning of the production platform for the megaproject.

Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800,000 years, according to the World Meteorological Organization's Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The abrupt changes in the atmosphere witnessed in the past 70 years are without precedent.

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) announced on 27 October its first three investments, moving forward the organization’s commitments into concrete action to spur the growth of promising low-carbon technologies.

Total is making an LNG push by spending up to $2 billion for assets belonging to fellow French firm Engie.

After a drop in drilling activity in recent years, the Haynesville shale has become a hot area for natural gas production in the US, and companies are looking to bolster their positions in the area.