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The Vatican was host to executives of the world’s top oil companies for a conference on climate change and the transition away from fossil fuels on 9 June.

Malaria prevention is critical for multinational companies that operate in areas with a high risk of the disease. A global company has an established workplace malaria-control program that uses awareness, bite prevention, chemoprophylaxis, and early diagnosis to protect the health of workers.

SPE Board of Directors member Johana Dunlop speaks on the importance of SPE in advancing the area of health, safety, environment, and, increasingly, sustainability. Watch the interview here.

The company-centric stakeholder model belongs to the time when an oil company had to communicate its good intentions and demonstrate it was also executing them. But the world continues to change. Society nowadays expects business to take on more responsibility than that.

A new report on shale gas from UNCTAD addresses the balance between providing affordable energy to developing countries and the agency’s climate change goals.

Offshore Technical Compliance (OTC) has promoted Nicole Hartzheim to director of business development for OTC and OTC Solutions. Hartzheim currently serves as senior quality manager and technical sales engineer at OTC Solutions and has been with the company since 2015. During this time, she was responsible for managing projects for compliance services and developing t…

The 18 ¾-in. Xtreme Release Connector from STL is a high-angle design that allows a vessel’s crew to respond to challenging repair and inspection scenarios without the risk of getting stuck to a wellhead. It ensures riser release without the risk of locking, and its fully repeatable release at a high bending load without internal damage ensures reliable release in an …

The V-IR Network Integrity Monitoring System from Viper Innovations helps minimize maintenance and repair costs of subsea electrical networks. The system improves the visibility of electrical insulation resistance (IR) by dividing the subsea network into monitor sections. It uses V-SLIM (subsea line integrity monitoring) nodes at strategic points in the network, and t…

The safety and predictability of offshore operations could be greatly improved by a new project that seeks to address the risks posed by human behaviors in the oil and gas industry.

On average, the American workplace is more dangerous than the Latvian, Czech, Slovakian, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, or Estonian workplace. Considering that the United States has a much higher GDP per capita than all of these countries, this seems unlikely. Yet, it’s true.

An improved occupational health and safety system comes into effect on 1 June to better protect Alberta workers and ensure they have the same rights as other Canadians.

Wearable computers are turning heads in the oil and gas industry and appear to be on a trajectory for widespread adoption.