Lightning Protection Standards Inadequate and Hazardous
Electromagnetic (EM) waves/fields from lightning strikes constitute indisputable scientific fact. They are a major cause of electric power outages and are the basis of national...
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Preventing Fires in the Oil Industry: Essential Measures for Worker Protection
The oil industry is profitable, but it often comes with losses. Oil workers handle flammable chemicals and gasses while dealing with operations that pose a...
Mitra Kashanchi: “Work hard at work and love harder at home. Care hardest about people the most at both.”
It’s the age-old question that women deal with: How do you manage work/life balance, or work/life integration, while trying to be great at both? How...
Powering Up with the DE&I in Energy Podcast: Using Inclusion to Foster Innovation in the Energy Industry
In a sphere known more for its drilling rigs, pipelines, and technology advancements, the energy sector is now breaking new ground in a different arena:...
APEX Multi-Well Controller Harnesses AI to Solve Well Optimization Struggles
While the oil and gas industry continues to evolve, the path forward has undergone its own course of development. In today’s economy, fiscal responsibility is...
API’s Sommers Bridges the Gap Between D.C. Politics and Oil and Gas
Surveying the existing workforce might bring interesting inferences to light, and most candidates would likely share where they nailed down roots, although happy and content,...
Pipeline Asset Management: New Solutions to an Old Problem
As the landscape of pipeline regulations continues to evolve, operators of upstream and midstream pipeline networks are challenged with managing aging assets while using limited...
Implications of ChatGPT on Energy Workforce and Training
If you haven’t heard of ChatGPT by now you might be living under a rock, or at least that’s how I felt at the end...
Improve Business by Employing the ESSA Approach
Eliminate, simplify, standardize and automate processes for greater outcomes. Long before 2020, the oil and gas industry worked to transform its operations through technological innovation....
The Power of “No”
‘Tis the season for burnout. Ah, yes, September is upon us. The summer holidays are behind us and schools are back in session, including sports...