Sustainability
SPE's new Asset Integrity Technical Section brings together industry experts to advance best practices in reliability engineering, asset integrity, risk reduction, and infrastructure performance. The global community will focus on the safe, reliable, and sustainable operation of energy assets across both traditional and emerging energy sectors.
SPE Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue on sustainable enhanced oil recovery (EOR), highlighting innovations that boost oil recovery while reducing CO2 emissions and environmental impact. The Call for Papers opens on 15 October 2026.
This paper presents a flexible, highly cost- and energy-efficient method of gas separation and CO₂ capture from many different gas mixtures with a large range of CO₂ concentrations.
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The best wells in which to find lithium are in old conventional fields where rusty pump jacks are pulling out mostly water.
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The oil and gas industry’s sustainability and success depend on its ability to cultivate and nurture a skilled and knowledgeable workforce.
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A Harvard economist is considering ways to protect workers from the inevitable economic shocks of the so-called “energy transition.”
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Sustainability data management is a relatively new discipline that requires a unique set of tools, processes, and procedures to meet corporate demands.
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Oxy’s 1PointFive subsidiary and ADNOC plan to assess the feasibility of building the first megaton-scale DAC facility outside of the US.
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The 187-MW Peacock Solar project, expected to come online in the second half of 2024, is designed to help power a Gulf Coast Growth Ventures petrochemical complex.
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Fourteen companies scooped up the licenses to sequester carbon in depleted oil and gas reservoirs and saline aquifers offshore UK.
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Government and industry leaders support the oil and gas industry's role in the energy transition.
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While innovative solutions are being examined for decarbonization, there is one topic that is rarely emphasized as a key driver in the path toward a more-sustainable future—brownfield optimization.
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This paper is a summary of a study that covers through-life economics for producing green hydrogen from offshore fixed wind turbines.