Sustainability
The annual survey is designed to gauge companies’ reporting practices regarding sustainability and governance.
Geothermal development is gaining steam and entering a transformative era, driven by breakthroughs in adapting and improving on engineering, drilling, completion, and production technologies to the efficient extraction of heat from the Earth.
In the past year, publications on CO2, natural gas, and hydrogen storage have increasingly focused on the design, evaluation, and optimization of storage plans. These efforts encompass a broad spectrum of challenges and innovations, including the expansion of storage reservoirs from depleted gas fields and saline aquifers to stratified carbonate formations and heavy-o…
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Winners of the triennial awards will be announced at the 23rd World Petroleum Congress in Houston. -
With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) funds on a dramatic incline, an incline expected to continue going forward, it seems inevitable that regulatory reform is on the horizon. Europe has been leading the charge in the incorporation of ESG considerations into its regulatory framework. As we look to gauge what type of regulatory reform might be around the cor…
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While ESG is perceived by some to be—and can be—difficult to implement, and it may seem like a profit-killer, the irony is that, for most companies that implement ESG programs, including those within the oil and gas industry, it has the opposite effect.
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Electric-powered fracturing fleets looked impressively resilient in 2020 amid what was otherwise a significant collapse for the hydraulic fracturing sector. Today, the situation is more complicated.
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Two Houston-based blockchain technology companies—Data Gumbo and Topl—are collaborating to help corporations report timely and accurate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data, including performance and proof of progress on metrics, while protecting sensitive data.
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New case studies from this year's Offshore Europe were a reminder of how sustaining subsea reservoirs as they age often calls for determined and innovative engineers.
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Major US oil and gas producers have cut the volume of natural gas flared from oil and gas wells by 50% in a year as measured by energy intensity, according to a partnership organized by the industry's largest trade group.
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The company’s 2021 Energy Transition Outlook says the Earth likely will miss the 2°C goal of the Paris Agreement and the window to get back on track is closing rapidly.
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The president of Grupo Energía Bogotá, Juan Ricardo Ortega, talks about the challenges of energy transition and environmental protection.
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Water Research Australia says the project aims to “address the challenge of water scarcity in the process of hydrogen production.”
