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According to Investopedia, in 2015, the oil and gas industry accounted for between 4.6 and 6.5% of the global economy. In a recent discussion I had with a friend, we spoke about the effect this industry has on the lives of so many people.

This paper introduces dynamic risk modeling and reports on a 2016 proof-of-concept demonstration of the emergent capability. 

With Hurricane Harvey closing in, operators have evacuated a significant number of platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, shutting in substantial production.

Total is increasing its stake in the US Gulf of Mexico after buying shares of promising prospects from Chevron.

As interest in unconventional resources has grown in Europe, so have concerns about the potential environmental impacts of their development.

The normalization of deviance is a major organizational cultural issue that is modeled and enabled by poor leadership and filters down through the organization with disastrous consequences for safety and operations.

In August, Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission delayed the date of its next deepwater auction by a month to January 2018 to give companies more time to study the acreage on offer.

Mario Chiaramonte is Chief Technology Officer at Milan-based GEOLOG Surface Logging. JPT asked him about his company’s recent data-integration-technology platform and how it can affect reservoir characterization.

Workers who were likely exposed to dispersants while cleaning up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill experienced a range of health symptoms including cough and wheeze and skin and eye irritation, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Getting rid of wastewater from onshore wells has become an increasingly costly problem for oil producers as US crude output surged in recent years, especially in the new shale fields from Texas to North Dakota.