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About a third of claims for medical or sickness benefits are related to mental health issues, often resulting from stress. And with the oil sector downturn, mental health claims have increased, a director of an Aberdeen-based financial advisory firm said.

Early production from Area 1 is the first output from an international operator in Mexico since energy reforms were implemented earlier this decade.

As Permian production ramps up and saltwater disposal well capacity is pushed to its limit, companies see a need to develop collaborative, commercially viable methods of handling produced-water volumes. If reuse remains at its current rate of only 15%, operators could face a $30-billion tab.

Moving their directional drillers into their Houston real-time remote operations centers has improved drilling efficiency for two of the top shale producers.

The Israeli company has developed augmented-reality solutions that enable field technicians in energy and other industries to avert disasters such as BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

A new federal study estimates that, each day, about 380 to 4,500 gal of oil are flowing at the site where a company's oil platform was damaged after a hurricane. That's about a hundred to a thousand times worse than the company's initial estimate.

Quantum computers exploit the peculiar behavior of objects at the atomic scale and use the qubit as the basic unit of quantum computing. A quantum computer with only 100 qubits would, theoretically, be more powerful than all the supercomputers on the planet combined.

The well count and completion intensity of US tight oil and gas operations have grown in recent years, and rising pressure from environmental regulations means that produced water management has become a key focus for operators.

Norwegian authorities approved development plans for Duva and Gjøa P1, both of which are expected to produce first oil in late 2020. The fields will each tie back to the Gjøa platform on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

The deal consists of stakes in nine shallow-water producing fields covering 108,000 gross acres in 10–50 m of water.