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A resilience-based approach to safety was the focus of a panel of experts at the 2025 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Houston.
This paper focuses on developing a model that can be used in an automated, end-to-end flare-smoke detection, alert, and distribution-control solution that leverages existing flare closed-circuit television cameras at manufacturing facilities.
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Southwest Research Institute has developed a leak detection system to autonomously monitor pipelines for hazardous chemical spills. R&D Magazine recently recognized the system as one of the 100 most significant innovations of 2017. -
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which recently released a report on 2014 oil and gas fatalities, 18% of the 101 deaths for the year were the result of roadway vehicle accidents.
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Exception-based monitoring of real-time data by remote operators can increase operational awareness of drilling crews, which can significantly minimize well-control risks by taking proactive and precise actions.
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Safety barriers need to be implemented in an integrated and consistent manner in order to minimize risk, and technical, organizational, and operational aspects of the barriers need to be considered.
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Some companies transporting certain petroleum-based products in British Columbia will have to comply with new spill preparedness and response requirements, after amendments made to the Environmental Management Act (EMA) came into force on 30 October.
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A new study from Harvard identifies human capital metrics measured by global companies but determined many companies don’t disclose them on public reports.
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Babies in Nigeria are at double the risk of dying before they reach a month old if mothers lived near the scene of an oil spill before conceiving, study shows.
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President Donald Trump's administration is considering revising parts of offshore drilling safety regulations intended to prevent the type of blowout that led to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which had ceased most programmed enforcement actions following Hurricane Harvey, resumed normal enforcement throughout Texas and Louisiana.
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What is the reality of risk in the hydrocarbon sector? In this roundtable discussion, senior industry executives discuss what happens when process safety intent meets the reality of operations.
