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Public acceptance is a major challenge for the siting of facilities. The offering of compensation to communities potentially helps to create the perception of a fairer distribution of local risks and nonlocal benefits. This may help to prevent or solve siting controversies.

During high-stress situations, people tend to focus on the potential hazards or outcomes to such a degree that it minimizes their ability to process facts. On 25 July, SPE will hold a webinar entitled “Risk Communication—It’s Not Just About the Facts.”

In this case study, through a waste-minimization concept, a reduce/reuse/recycle approach is used to manage produced drilling waste.

Wellbore-construction methods, especially casing-and-cementing practices for the protection of freshwater aquifers, have been reviewed in the Piceance, Raton, and San Juan Basins in Colorado.

Robots have the potential to move human operators away from uncomfortable, potentially risky environments and into comfortable, safe control rooms.

This paper describes the integrated approach taken by Petronas to reinforce effective management of fatigue.

Drilling activity in US shale plays is slowing as operators encounter higher prices for labor, equipment, and services, and lower prices for the oil and gas produced.

Widening the use of subsea separa­tion and produced-water reinjection or discharge systems to unlock oil resources depends on improving subsea water-quality mea­surement.

Many new developments in African exploration and production hold tremendous potential to bring more energy and prosperity to the continent—and shine a light of affordable, abundant energy.

Last month, OPEC received another warning that the battle for market share in the global oil market was not over.