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World Oil white papers include literature on the latest trends, development and advances in the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry, including technology and technologies relating to operations, shale, technology, subsea, deepwater, rig activity, drilling, innovations in the oil and gas industry and more.

Guide to Managing Cyber Risk in Oil & Gas

October 01, 2021
Sponsored by: Siemens Energy
Recent attacks like the one at Colonial Pipeline are highlighting the increasing cyber risks across the oil and gas value chain. This paper will walk through the cyber challenges for upstream, midstream, and downstream, with a focus on how companies can counter these emerging threats and build cyber resiliency.

Leave No One Behind: How Connected Safety Technology Streamlines Evacuation Management

October 01, 2021
Sponsored by: Blackline Safety
Evacuation management is necessary to ensure safe and efficient oil and gas operations. However, manual headcounts, during both drills and real emergencies, are extremely time consuming and impact productivity. Traditional methods lack the precise, real-time location tracking required to ensure workers make it to a muster point or find and rescue missing persons if they don’t. Blackline Safety demonstrates how a digital worksite and connected safety technology streamlines evacuations and enables emergency responses that leave no worker behind.

Step 1 in Digital Transformation: Requirements Management

September 15, 2021
Sponsored by: Siemens
Energy businesses are seeking to reduce document-driven processes and replace them with high-performance digital workflows, but often don’t know where to begin. An Integrated Requirements Management approach is an excellent place to start as the time to value is swift. It’s also a significant first step towards applying a Digital Lifecycle Excellence mindset across the enterprise.

AI-powered rig scheduling for improved production

September 08, 2021
Sponsored by:
When your manager wants to know the cost of your drilled inventory, does it take more than a few seconds to give an accurate answer? When your well delivery budget is altered does it take you more than 10 minutes to reschedule your project? If you answered “Yes” to either of these questions you’re not alone. 8 out of 10 oil and gas operators use scheduling software that doesn’t effectively support well delivery projects. Our White Paper explains the limitations of simplistic scheduling software and describes the benefits of modern scheduling tools.

Open Secure Remote Operations: A Vision Fulfilled

September 01, 2021
Sponsored by: Bedrock
Remote asset control, monitoring and maintenance can have immediate pay-back. Download this white paper to learn how a secure remote operations infrastructure can boost productivity by more than 50 percent by integrating SCADA, the cloud and control at the edge.
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