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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Sustainability and environmental issues played a key part in the content at two of SPE’s recent major conferences. -
Service firms are diversifying their portfolios, in part driven by large-scale budget cuts among operators since the industrywide downturn.
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Equinor and the Snorre and Gullfaks partners have made a final investment decision for the Hywind Tampen offshore wind farm development. By reducing the use of gas turbines, the project helps cut CO2 emissions by more than 200,000 tonnes/year.
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Italian oil major Eni formally committed not to perform oil and gas exploration and development activities within the boundaries of natural sites included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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New Mexico released data on excess greenhouse emissions from oil and gas operations to keep the public informed of the problem, as the state continues to develop stricter policies to regulate air pollution from the industry and other sources.
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This year’s Texas Department of Transportation “Be Safe. Drive Smart” campaign will focus on safety especially in high-traffic oil and gas production areas.
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The venture arm of the oil giant has put $5 million toward the parent company of Finite Carbon, a US-based company working on sustainable forest management to offset carbon emissions.
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Colorado has released a long-awaited 380-page report on the health effects of oil and gas operations in the state. The science is complicated, though, as are the unfolding responses from state regulators and oil and gas companies.
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Colorado officials declared they will toughen their oversight of oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing sites following the release of a multiyear scientific study that found industry operations may expose residents to unhealthy levels of benzene and other chemicals.
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Despite a natural gas boom and health concerns over drilling from environmentalists, the state Department of Health has received just 160 complaints related to drilling over the last decade.
