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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Startup company LongPath Technologies has received conditional federal financing to install 1,000 methane detection towers spanning multiple US states. -
The project’s revised development plan now incorporates a carbon capture facility.
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Thailand’s national petroleum exploration and production company plans to team with Japanese oil and gas company INPEX to study the feasibility of a carbon storage hub in the northern Gulf of Thailand.
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Iran has deployed a warship after the US Navy destroyed three boats of Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Maersk said it will pause shipping through the Red Sea until further notice.
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A Safety Leadership Academy planned by SPE, IOGP, and CEDEP aims to strengthen leadership and safety culture with the goal of changing the safety paradigm and making zero harm a reality.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has signed a final rule granting the state’s request for primary responsibility for the permitting, compliance, and enforcement of carbon sequestration wells under the Underground Injection Control Program.
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Energy storage is essential to a clean electricity grid, but aggressive decarbonization goals require development of long-duration energy storage technologies.
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The year 2023 contained several important sustainability narratives and trends. Three key ones are the anti-ESG movement, China’s acceleration of a clean economy, and the rise of reporting regulations.
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This project aimed to identify and report occupational risks on an offshore drilling rig and save reporting and evaluation time by creating AI-generated dashboards.
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Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a method of refining "liquid gold" for valuable critical minerals using what many consider traditional waste products: produced water and carbon dioxide.
