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The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s SafeOCS program has released its 2017 annual report on Blowout Prevention System Safety, noting 18 of 25 operators associated with rig operations in the Gulf of Mexico reported 1,129 equipment component failure events.

Last year, according to reports filed by 45 IOGP member companies, the fatal accident rate associated with global upstream operations fell by 36% from the previous year. While the number of fatalities was down, the number of fatal incidents increased from 29 in 2016 to 30 in 2017.

Just as Libya resumes oil exports from recently shuttered ports, an attack on its largest field is setting back progress yet again.

The Mental Health Commission of Canada explains the effect of employees’ daily experience on mental health in new white paper.

The head of US regulatory commission said that it has been working on "streamlining" the application process this year, and that details of a revised process should be available soon.

This paper presents a scientific method for reducing fatigue risks in oil and gas organizations that operate a slowly rotating shift schedule.

Getting to Zero and Beyond: The Path Forward, sets the stage for continuing the discussion across the industry of the essential steps the industry must take to sustain zero harm.

Earlier this year, SPE published the technical report “Getting to Zero and Beyond: The Path Forward,” representing the work of hundreds of oil and gas professionals and their thoughts on how we can achieve an injury- and incident-free workplace. The first paper summarizes the report’s findings.

Pipeline bottlenecks have created a wide gap in the price of gas at a key pipeline hub in the Permian compared to the US benchmark level.

Relationships and engagement with communities in direct areas of influence is of paramount importance for successful exploration and production (E&P) operations.