HSE & Sustainability
The AI revolution isn't just digital. This article examines how geology underpins the convergence of AI, energy, carbon management, and the infrastructure powering frontier LLMs.
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.
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The plant is designed for a capture capacity of up to 36,000 tons of CO₂ per year once in full swing by filtering CO₂ from the air and storing it permanently underground. The company is also developing multiple megaton hubs in the US. -
The companies are combining their technologies in an effort to help upstream oil and gas operators monitor, report, and reduce emissions.
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A recent study by researchers from the University of Strathclyde and published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews found injury rates for workers in offshore wind up to four time that of offshore oil and gas workers.
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A spate of injuries caused by workers using hand tools improperly has prompted an alert from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
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This paper presents efforts and details of a pilot trial that was planned and executed to demonstrate the concept of repurposing existing wells into electricity generators instead of abandoning them.
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Companies are rushing to inject carbon into Louisiana’s ground, but will thousands of abandoned wells allow it to escape?
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At the 2024 Offshore Technology Conference, industry giants like ExxonMobil, Equinor, and Petrobras offered a look at the future of low-carbon floating production, storage, and offloading units.
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The inaugural SPE Workshop on CCUS Management in China was held in April in Qingdao. The workshop highlighted recent advances and technical challenges in CCUS management and attracted 104 attendees representing 19 organizations from eight countries.
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The revisions to the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program aim to bring greater transparency and accountability for methane emissions from oil and natural gas facilities.
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Offshore Energies UK and Xodus are launching an offshore nesting bird census to get a better understanding of how the animals use oil and gas structures in an effort to protect them.
