COVID-19

The oilfield services firm is asking US employees to disclose their COVID-19 vaccine status and said more customers are mandating vaccinations as a condition for working on their job sites.

US energy companies are moving to require that employees receive COVID-19 vaccinations as infection rates rise across the United States and health surveys show that energy workers remain among those most reluctant to get inoculations.

Nearly 150 workers have been evacuated or are due for evacuation from Shell's Shearwater project in the North Sea since a COVID-19 outbreak emerged at the end of June, the company said.

As a global pandemic continues, the London-based company's annual lookback has found that last year's pain was not shared evenly across the energy spectrum.

The newly released document outlines the main types of tests available and examines approaches to isolation and quarantine for suspected and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in oil and gas industry workplaces.

A recent symposium focused on acquisitions and divestitures held by SPE’s Gulf Coast Section offered a face-to-face look at the state of oil and gas investing.

COVID-19 deaths at Mexico’s state-owned oil giant accelerated last month at the fastest pace since August amid a second wave of infections in the nation.

A physician-led nonprofit based in Washington, DC, which examines potential health threats from climate change and environmental toxins, has raised concerns that emissions from oil and gas production could be causing more severe effects of COVID-19.

The FERC requested that “a subset of the energy workforce … specifically, highly trained electrical field workers, power plant operators, transmission and distribution grid operators, and personnel who procure the energy needed to balance the grid” be moved up on the vaccine list.

A column by the SPE Production and Facilities discipline technical director—A look at the challenges of this year and some ways to go one step beyond.