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 energy transition and digitalization transition are not to be feared. While the rate of change will accelerate, very little of true value will be lost and the transitions instead offer a variety of incremental opportunities, especially for members of the production and facilities community. -
Skyrocketing demand for the commodity has created a lithium deficit that could slow the pace of the energy transition. Industry is scrambling to find new sources by opening new mines or devising new technologies to extract lithium from brines, including brines found in produced water from oil and gas operations.
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Pandemic gridlock, rerouting risk, and net-zero expectations are squeezing oilfield service companies into change.
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Not so long ago, defining green energy was straightforward: renewables. It may not have been quite that simple, but developing agreed-upon definitions based on science has become much more complex and contentious.
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The second-largest oil and gas producer in the US says the deal will help meet its goal to produce 100,000 B/D of renewable fuel products by decade's end.
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Chevron adds to a growing list of big US oil and gas producers that are seeking to bring to market responsibly sourced gas.
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SponsoredTAQA aspires to be a leader in managing integrated projects in the Middle East-North Africa by providing technical services across the life cycle of oilfields as well as offering unique technologies for Geothermal and Carbon Underground storage projects
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ESG accounting is a mess. Competing initiatives mean there’s no uniform set of standards for measuring a company’s progress on sustainability. The good news is that a new initiative, the International Sustainability Standards Board, promises to do for sustainability reporting what the International Accounting Standards Board does for financial reporting—develop standa…
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For the foreseeable future, going beyond the barrel will really mean maximizing returns from the barrel, including the identification and harnessing of potential gains from capital planning, asset management, and operations.
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Executives have become more concerned about climate over the past few months, according to a recent survey, but are in many cases picking the low-hanging fruit when it comes to demonstrating a real commitment to moving the needle. Their reasons may be valid.
