HSE & Sustainability
Winners of Alberta's Drilling Technology Challenge cover a range of technologies from robotics to enhance drilling rig safety to AI-enabled energy management, downhole sensing, well navigation, hybrid power systems, and geothermal energy.
Located along the North Sea, the Humber is expected to play a central role in the UK’s effort to achieve a net-zero emissions status by 2050.
This article addresses the challenges of managing water-soluble organics (WSOs) in offshore produced water. It provides a brief discussion of the chemistry, along with strategies and technologies that can be used to manage WSO levels in produced water, thus facilitating compliance with regulatory overboard water-quality guidelines.
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Inpex’s investments in wind, solar, and battery storage through 2030 will also support decarbonization at the Ichthys natural gas and LNG project in northern Australia. -
With shaky state funding and the EPA hamstrung by the Supreme Court, New Mexico could face a future with reduced protections.
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The North Sea Transition Authority says that top-quality environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure is crucial to attracting further investment into the UK’s oil and gas industry.
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The 12-well campaign is expected to accelerate global adoption of electric subsea technology and reduce emissions from subsea operations.
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A series of temblors in the region has been linked to oil and gas extraction processes.
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The HSE executive is urging offshore companies to take a closer look at human factors after inspectors formed the opinion that Apache failed to fully consider human factors as part of its plans to prevent a fire and explosion on one of its North Sea platforms.
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The company behind a 42-mile sand conveyor system is now leaning into autonomous vehicles for proppant logistics.
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This paper presents how one operator has developed a culture of circular decommissioning with the main goal of setting up a structured process to improve environmental performance by implementing the principles of a circular economy during decommissioning.
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The process developed by Moscow’s Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology shows promising results in the laboratory, suggesting a novel method to produce hydrogen from natural gas reservoirs while trapping carbon in permanent storage.
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Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions with geologic carbon storage will require a new way to model rock physics.
