HSE & Sustainability
SPE Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue on sustainable enhanced oil recovery (EOR), highlighting innovations that boost oil recovery while reducing CO2 emissions and environmental impact. The Call for Papers opens on 15 October 2026.
This paper identifies opportunities and risks associated with repurposing an offshore oil and gas platform for green hydrogen production. Various technical scenarios were investigated for the case study platform, and their profitability was determined using economic calculations. In addition, all the submodels were compared with standard decommissioning costs for reco…
This paper presents an approach for safe, efficient, and cost-effective legacy well reabandonment.
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Video shows a substantial share of oil and gas flares are unlit or faulty, revealing a previously overlooked methane source that could turn out to be one of the region’s biggest. -
The French oil and gas major announced that it plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 for its global business across production and including energy products used by its customers.
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Sourcing water, flowback water services threatened as D&Cs decline.
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How do we gear up for the next stage as countries start opening for business again? Do we try to go back to the way things were, or do we decide to evolve our strategies? Perhaps we can reimagine what sustainability in our industry looks like.
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Dutch companies are among the latest to explore the transformation of seawater into sustainable energy.
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The human-factors approach in oil and gas remains an emerging science compared with other industries; most human-factors publications in the oil and gas industry focus their application on the design stage. Human-factors methods, however, can be applied at any stage.
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Proposal requests were sent to companies to solicit partnerships for the project with ADNOC and ADPower.
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The report from the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers is in relation to a person who used alcohol-based hand gel sanitizer and, after application but before the liquid had fully evaporated, touched a metal surface, where a build-up of static ignited the alcohol.
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Malaysia’s push to explore energy blocks off its coast has turned into a five-nation face off involving US and Chinese warships, raising the risk of a direct confrontation as broader tensions grow between the world’s biggest economies.
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While sustainability is approached through various means within the industry, at its core is the welfare of human beings. Recent SPE papers demonstrate the importance of human rights in the industry’s drive toward sustainability.
