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 a flexible, highly cost- and energy-efficient method of gas separation and CO₂ capture from many different gas mixtures with a large range of CO₂ concentrations.
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There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there has been for 800,000 years—since before our species evolved. -
Despite the challenges of working in the offshore environment, Sulzer Wood has recently recorded 9 years without a lost-time incident, which equates to approximately 1.5 million man-hours.
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement says its final well-control rule removes unnecessary regulatory burdens to responsible offshore development while maintaining safety and environmental protection.
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The 2020 SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, the Environment, and Sustainability, which is set for 17–19 March in Bogotá, Colombia, is seeking papers. The theme of the conference is “Generating Pride and Enabling Engagement,” and the deadline for submissions is 18 June.
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Advances in robotics can revolutionize the way maintenance, inspection, and testing is performed, making operations safer by reducing exposure of personnel to hazards. This paper analyzes the causes of slow industry adoption of robotic technologies and presents a roadmap for accelerated adoption.
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This paper explains how an ultradeepwater drilling contractor is applying real-time analytics and machine learning to leverage its real-time operations center to improve process safety and performance.
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This paper demonstrates a new way to create gas-tight seals during well abandonment, overcoming the limitations of traditional methods and reducing the operator’s liability and potential environmental impact after decommissioning has been completed.
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The developed world must no longer tolerate the buildup of mountains of waste while other places in the world, especially in underdeveloped countries, lack access to energy, food, clean water, and clean air.
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Wärtsilä’s integrated infrastructure combines the bridge systems, cloud data management, data services, decision support tools, and access to real-time information for the fleet of tankers managed by Sovcomflot, Russia’s largest shipping company.
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The 2019 Global Award of the International Association for Impact Assessment was awarded to the Arctic Council, honoring the council’s promotion of sustainable development and environmental protection.
