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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For safety training, quality appears to be more important than quantity, according to a study conducted by Environmental Resources Management. The 2018 Global Safety Survey examined responses from 144 safety leaders from 120 corporations, approximately 20% of which were oil and gas companies. -
This paper argues for a new workplace safety and health 4.0 strategy that requires an adaptive and highly responsive approach to promote total worker health in the face of rapid technological advancements.
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Kentucky lawmakers have introduced House Bill 199 to plug orphaned oil and gas wells and abandoned storage tanks that threaten health, safety, and the environment.
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To celebrate Engineers Week, 2019 SPE President Sami Al-Nuaim shares why he became an engineer and how engineers affect the world.
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The Oil and Gas Institute at Robert Gordon University is working with Drilling Systems and its drilling, well-control, and lifting simulator technology to help oil and gas companies identify ways to improve efficiencies and raise safety standards.
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In 2015, the United Nations ratified the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Technology will be critical in the pursuit of these ambitious targets, but the pace and scale of change creates risks that humanity must take very seriously.
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A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced legislation that would ban oil and natural gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Management of produced water is driving subtle yet potentially consequential changes in certain regions. Contributing factors for seismicity and well pressurization, while different, share some elements. By assessing these common elements, partial risk profiles for both conditions can be assessed.
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Is the adoption of sustainability practices a form of strategic differentiation that can lead to superior financial performance? Or, is it a strategic necessity that can ensure corporate survival but not necessarily outperformance?
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Three papers selected from 2018 SPE ATCE look at the challenges and approaches to the treatment of increasing volumes of produced water.
