New York TimesAzerbaijan Searches for 30 Workers as Caspian Oil-Rig Fire PersistsWall Street JournalHeavy storm conditions prevented some workers from escaping in lifeboats, according to a joint statement from the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republ …

Financial TimesOil majors rush cuts to hit $60 break-evenFinancial TimesFor evidence of just how savage the oil industry downturn has become, consider Royal Dutch Shell's decision to axe a Canadian oil sands project this week. Unusually — and in contra …

Huffington PostRemembering Superstorm Sandy, Keeping Our Oil Export BanHuffington PostOil companies are lobbying hard right now to get Washington politicians to lift the country's decades-old ban on oil exports. This week, as we reflect on Superstorm S …

PropertyCasualty360Hurricane Sandy engineering reports explainedPropertyCasualty360The process is similar in the engineering field, where peer reviewing another professional's work is a common practice. “Every report is reviewed by a licensed professio …

Mirror.co.ukEngineering industry promises to take on more women and close gender gapMirror.co.ukQuotas must be brought in to attract more women engineers, an industry body's first female president said. Naomi Climer said the time was right to force an …

OU engineering professor leads NSF grant on infrastructure resilienceEurekAlert (press release)University of Oklahoma School of Industrial and Systems Engineering researcher Kash Barker is leading a team to evaluate how analytics from multiple sources can …

MarketWatchOil finishes lower as traders demand prospects weighMarketWatchOil futures finished lower on Thursday, under $45 a barrel with global manufacturing data and a Category 4 hurricane among the factors weighing on prices. A gauge of Chinese manufact …

Oil Erases Gains as Hurricane, Weak Manufacturing Take TollWall Street JournalOil prices spiked but ended lower as weaker U.S. manufacturing data and a less threatening hurricane deflated a rally. Light, sweet crude for November delivery settled down 35 ce …

Knoe.comTech cyber engineering, computer science students prepare for 'Cyber Storm'Knoe.comTech) – A “Cyber Storm” warning has been issued for Louisiana Tech University for Friday, May 15th. Beginning at 9:00 a.m. in the Louisiana Tech Student Cent …

Loro Piana: engineering fabricTelegraph.co.ukAlthough the Loro Piana family originally started as merchants of wool fabrics at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Italian clothing company Loro Piana has been specialising in luxury cashmere and woo …