Risk management
From credit markets to grid constraints, the forces shaping energy today go far beyond price. Inside the inaugural E3S symposium, industry leaders, policymakers, economists, and students explored how technology, financing, permitting, and supply chain resilience are redefining what it takes to power the energy future.
Enverus projects 2026 activity aimed at gaining access to gas along the Gulf coast and disaggregation of assets.
SPE President Jennifer Miskimins lent her expertise to Science Friday’s conversation about Venezuelan oil, explaining the reality of what it would take to extract and refine it.
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In an effort to better understand well issues, a global offshore drilling contractor created a program of fully integrated deepwater-DP-drilling simulation exercises to scrutinize all critical aspects of deepwater well-control operations.
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This paper describes the integrated approach taken by Petronas to reinforce effective management of fatigue.
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During high-stress situations, people tend to focus on the potential hazards or outcomes to such a degree that it minimizes their ability to process facts. On 25 July, SPE will hold a webinar entitled “Risk Communication—It’s Not Just About the Facts.”
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Mediocre leadership crushes employee gold and can be the unwitting source of unforeseen organizational outcomes.
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Application of hierarchy theory helps in understanding complexity and is a tool that you should have in your engineering and management toolboxes.
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The 2017 SPE Health, Safety, Security, and Social Responsibility Conference–North America started with a blast on 18 April and continued with a discussion of how the brain works and a brain-centric view of safety.
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The secret ingredient to good soup is good broth. In the same way, culture makes the difference between reliable high performance and mediocrity in an organization.
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In North America’s most active shale fields, the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of new wells is directly placing older adjacent wells at risk of suffering a premature decline in oil and gas production.
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Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is to speak at the opening plenary session at SPE Offshore Europe 2017, which is being held in Aberdeen from 5–8 September.
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If a boom in electric vehicle sales takes place, a group of auto experts suggest it would represent a larger immediate threat to electricity supply than it would to oil demand.