Safety
The company said its frequency of serious incidents was down at the end of the year from its levels at the end of 2024.
This paper presents a novel application of artificial intelligence in computer vision for automating blowout-preventer pressure-chart-data extraction, demonstrating significant efficiency gains and a high return on investment.
This paper examines how real-time monitoring can improve both incident prevention and emergency response in the oil and gas industry. Drawing from real-world examples and case studies, it provides practical strategies for implementing this technology effectively.
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Wearable devices can notify workers of hazards, provide useful safety data to employers, and improve safety on the worksite. -
The tool, called the Field Analysis of Silica Tool, works with commercially available Fourier-transform infrared analyzers to determine a worker’s exposure to respirable crystalline silica dust, providing detailed results immediately following a worker’s shift.
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The UK’s offshore oil and gas industry continued to see improvement across a broad range of health and safety indicators last year, according to a key insight published by Oil & Gas UK.
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Colorado's Proposition 112 would increase the minimum distance required between new oil and gas wells and homes, schools, and other designated areas to 2,500 ft—more than twice the current required distance — in an effort to protect public health.
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The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers has updated its set of Life-Saving Rules to simplify and improve them. The organization’s Report 459 now lists nine rules designed to protect workers in the oil and gas industry from fatalities.
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The Advanced REACH Tool is a mechanistic higher-tier model to estimate inhalation exposure to chemicals using a Bayesian approach. This paper provides a discussion of the key modifying factors that should be considered to extend the model to include welding fume exposure.
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Fifteen members of the UN’s International Maritime Organization have voted to approve amendments to existing codes on diver safety intended to harmonize the codes “with current industry practice.”
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced updated Oil and Gas Production Safety Systems regulations. The revisions reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens while ensuring that operations remain safe and environmentally responsible.
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Montrose Port, a leading support and service hub for the energy industry, has broadened its services to the northeast energy industry by announcing its latest tenant, behavioral safety and culture change specialists Ethos Empowerment.
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Unstructured data, such as process logs, safety reports, and public records, make up the bulk of data produced from the oil field. Emerging NLP technology has been designed to help make sense of this data, enabling better insights into near-accidents.
