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Industry Bodies Look at Texas Upstream Employment in May

Rigzone

TXOGA noted in its statement that the upstream sector involves oil and natural gas extraction and excludes other industry sectors such as refining, petrochemicals, fuels wholesaling, oilfield equipment manufacturing, pipelines, and gas utilities.

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Overcoming the IT/OT disconnect

SmartBrief

When it comes to OT, most folks will talk about how OT manages critical infrastructure elements such as our water systems, fuel pipelines and the electrical grids. The time required to stop an escalator, conveyor belt, or pipeline, for example, is measured in seconds. In every case, education is the answer.

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MADE IN AMERICA: U.S.-Built Offshore Wind Substation and Support Vessels Start to Set Sail for Federal Waters

The Energy Law

The substation’s maiden voyage marks a major milestone in the development of Jones Act compliant offshore wind vessels necessary to bring the large amount of federal utility-scale projects in the pipeline to fruition. 1331 et seq. back in 2021. To date, the U.S.

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Frontline of the future: Are you building your future workforce now?

McKinsey

The initiative boosted technician competency and cut the maintenance backlog by 11 percent. Nestlé Brazil, aiming to support deaf and hard-of-hearing employees, retrofitted visual machine alerts while implementing education and integration efforts.

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U.S. Fifth Circuit Clarifies “Substantial Nexus” Test for LHWCA

The Energy Law

On September 14, 2014, James Mays, a valve technician and an employee of Furmanite American (“Furmanite”) died while servicing valves on a platform that was part of Chevron’s gas gathering system and located in Louisiana’s territorial waters. Chevron Pipe Line Co.