Latest News

Some of these technologies can be deployed now, but additional ones are needed to meet climate goals.

Engineers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have demonstrated a new use for the institute's long-range autonomous underwater vehicles—detecting and tracking oil spills.

Remotely measuring the activity of extractive industries in conflict-affected areas that do not have reliable administrative data can support a broad range of public policy and decisions and military operations.

Wood has established a new brownfield modifications group in its Asset Solutions Americas business and appointed Gilberto Ordonez senior vice president of brownfield solutions. With over 20 years in the energy industry, Ordonez has experience in engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) project delivery, business development, project management, and other oil- …

The world’s largest oil company says it has doubled the number of women working for it in the last decade and is spearheading a number of initiatives to grow the trend.

The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers has updated its set of Life-Saving Rules to simplify and improve them. The organization’s Report 459 now lists nine rules designed to protect workers in the oil and gas industry from fatalities.

Cuadrilla has encountered its first bumps in the road while fracturing its Preston New Road shale gas well, with two quakes already temporarily halting injection operations.

Biological-based emissions control has promising advantages such as the potential for a low carbon footprint, low secondary pollutants such as NOx and SOx, lower energy demands, and lower cost.

Japan’s SODECO and India’s ONGC Videsh are joining the consortium on the LNG plant, which will be carried out within the framework of the Sakhalin-1 hydrocarbon project in the Okhotsk Sea.

Noble Energy appointed Brent Smolik president and CEO, effective 16 November. He has more than 35 years of oil and gas experience, including a stint as chairman, president, and CEO of EP Energy. Smolik has also served as president of El Paso Corporation’s exploration and production company; president of Conoco Phillips, Canada; and president of Burlington Resources, C…

KBC, a Yokogawa company, announced the launch of a new Energy and Sustainability Co-Pilot hub in Singapore to address the Singapore government’s environmental sustainability initiatives.

An oil spill that has been quietly leaking millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in US history.