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 healthcare provider has developed and launched a new service to safely manage suspected cases of coronavirus following workers’ disembarkation from offshore locations. -
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway is closely monitoring industry action over the current pandemic. So far, it has found that, while the pandemic is attracting great attention, there are no signs of safety being weakened.
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As industry imposes work from home, health checks, and other severe measures, could digitalization provide relief?
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The methodology has proven to be a powerful and effective tool for major-risk management. This paper describes how this technique has been used for the management of major risks associated with production at Total’s Akpo floating production, storage, and offloading facility.
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A system proposed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, uses hyperspectral imaging and machine learning to detect the specific wavelength of methane emissions.
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The ruling comes after a 4-year legal battle between Winona County commissioners and Minnesota Sands, a local company that claimed the 2016 ban was an unconstitutional limitation on interstate commerce and amounted to the government taking its property without compensation.
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Equinor announced that one person at the Martin Linge field in the North Sea offshore Norway has tested positive for the coronavirus. The company says the person is not seriously ill.
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Flaring has roughly tripled in 2 years in the Permian. As flaring has skyrocketed, so have the calls to curb it. But there is little agreement on how that should be done.
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The partnership will fund research projects that aim to improve the understanding of the environmental impacts of decommissioning and provide guidance on best options from an environmental perspective.
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Equinor and partners Shell and Total have completed the drilling of a confirmation well south of the Troll field in the North Sea. The purpose of the well is to determine the suitability of the reservoir for carbon dioxide storage.
