sustainability

Petroleum industry engineering and geoscience professionals must evolve both to meet the challenges of the energy transition and to continue to provide the feedstock for hydrocarbon-based products needed for a stable and robust economy. Petroleum engineering schools and geoscience programs have the opportunity to expand education and equip people with the critical exp…

Any effective system of greenhouse-gas accounting needs to measure each company’s supply-chain carbon impacts accurately, providing visibility and incentives for it to make more climate-friendly product-specification and purchasing decisions.

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulting in lower supplies to oil markets ahead of peak demand season, the International Energy Agency has released a plan that it says can cut global oil demand by 2.7 million BOPD, easing strains and price pain.

ESG accounting is a mess. Competing initiatives mean there’s no uniform set of standards for measuring a company’s progress on sustainability. The good news is that a new initiative, the International Sustainability Standards Board, promises to do for sustainability reporting what the International Accounting Standards Board does for financial reporting—develop standa…

The web-based tool may be applied throughout an energy project's life cycle.

The plan includes the development and operation of a first-of-its-kind high-voltage, direct-current (HVDC-VSC) subsea transmission system in the Middle East and North Africa region.

The country’s Just Transition Summit, held in 2019, not only has set the groundwork for a stronger New Zealand on multiple fronts but also serves as an example for other countries and the international business community on how to create a shared roadmap for a sustainable society.

The degree to which the world depends on oil and gas is not well understood.

People and businesses alike are adapting processes and products to help ensure the activities we undertake and products we produce are sustainable for the future. Industrial lighting is no exception.

An overview of methane emissions and the changes anticipated with the energy transition highlight resources available to SPE members and plans for cross-discipline initiatives.