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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Effective Prevention of Tuberculosis Transmission in Oil and Gas Workplaces: A Programmatic ApproachIntegrating a tuberculosis (TB) control program into existing operation systems has provided a sustained approach for effective and efficient prevention of TB transmission in the workplace. -
As operators seek lower water management costs, a pair of studies examines methods and technologies that could have a major impact on treatment and reuse for hydraulic fracturing operations and beyond.
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This paper presents a scientific method for reducing fatigue risks in oil and gas organizations that operate a slowly rotating shift schedule.
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Getting to Zero and Beyond: The Path Forward, sets the stage for continuing the discussion across the industry of the essential steps the industry must take to sustain zero harm.
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Relationships and engagement with communities in direct areas of influence is of paramount importance for successful exploration and production (E&P) operations.
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This paper presents an analysis of the environmental aspects of the exploitation of unconventional reservoirs in order to evaluate the risk of the activity.
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This paper examines the use of injury rates as a key performance indicator (KPI). It argues that, as a KPI, injury-frequency rate is no longer a valid measure.</p>
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Researchers at Texas Tech University have released a study into wastewater production and disposal in the Marcellus Shale, proposing disposal hubs across the state of Pennsylvania that could reduce trucking distances.
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Last year, according to reports filed by 45 IOGP member companies, the fatal accident rate associated with global upstream operations fell by 36% from the previous year. While the number of fatalities was down, the number of fatal incidents increased from 29 in 2016 to 30 in 2017.
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Just as Libya resumes oil exports from recently shuttered ports, an attack on its largest field is setting back progress yet again.
