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December 05, 2017
Drillinginfo, the energy industry's leading SaaS and data analytics company, announced today it has acquired Dallas-based Pattern Recognition Technologies (PRT), a global leader in energy forecasting.
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December 04, 2017
Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU) has today (Monday, Dec. 4) launched a state-of-the-art decommissioning simulator to service the growing sector.
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November 17, 2017
Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazpromneft-Khantos has launched an Upstream Control Centre as part of its “Digital Field” program.
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November 16, 2017
Deloitte has announced an exclusive go-to-market collaboration with FOROIL to help upstream clients dramatically increase production and reserves from brownfields – conventional oilfields with more than seven years’ operating history – using historic production data, breakthrough mathematical modeling and high-performance computing.
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November 16, 2017
Quantico Energy Solutions announced today the release of QOpt, a drilling optimization solution that maximizes rate of penetration (ROP) and reduces the overall cost to drill a well.
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November 16, 2017
Global energy services and software company AGR has been awarded a Frame Agreement with the Hungarian Operator MOL.
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November 16, 2017
Norwegian technology group Norbit has acquired field monitoring specialist Aptomar.
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November 14, 2017
The Saudi- and Russia-led supply limits that have lifted crude to a 2 1/2-year high must be prolonged for an extended period or prices will collapse, said Ed Morse, global head of commodities research at Citigroup Inc.
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November 13, 2017
DNV GL has introduced remote witnessing in independent verification surveys, providing operators with more flexibility and efficiency without compromising safety.
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November 13, 2017
Sperry Drilling, a Halliburton business, has announced the release of JetPulse high-speed telemetry service, which provides consistent, high-data rate transmission of drilling and formation evaluation measurements.
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November 09, 2017
Sembcorp Marine, DNV GL, A*STAR’s Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) and National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop disruptive applications in additive manufacturing, drone and digital twin technologies that could revolutionize solutions for Singapore’s offshore and marine (O&M) sector and boost its global competitiveness.
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November 09, 2017
The opening of the Valemon control room was celebrated today at Sandsli in Bergen. Valemon will be the first platform in Statoil’s portfolio to be remote-controlled from land.
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November 08, 2017
Bsquare, a provider of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions, today released the findings from its first annual IIoT Maturity Study, which explores the current IoT adoption progress of business buyers in manufacturing, transportation, and oil and gas (O&G).
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November 08, 2017
A digital transformation of oil and gas safety-critical emergency response training is set to save the industry more than a million hours of training time per year, driving time and cost efficiencies across the sector, a gathering of world-wide industry leaders heard today.
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November 07, 2017
Tenable, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, and Siemens, a global engineering and technology leader, announced a strategic partnership to help energy, utilities and oil and gas companies close the industry readiness gap with a new solution for industrial asset discovery and vulnerability management.
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November 03, 2017
FairfieldNodal’s Red Tank acquisition project in the Delaware basin continues to progress on schedule. There are 380 sq mi of fast-track data now available, completing this portion of the project. Final PSTM data will be available mid-December 2017, and a PSDM product is expected in early first-quarter 2018.
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November 02, 2017
The oil and gas industry is still catching up with the consumer tech industry, when it comes to advancements in digital technologies. However, as digitalization becomes more ubiquitous in the average person’s everyday life—through devices like smartphones, self-driving cars and homes with digitally-connected appliances—the potential for innovation continues to grow in the E&P industry. “Data is moving to the cloud—that is a given, so the responsibility is on all of us to learn, and to attract the right talent,” said Ashok Belani, executive V.P. of technology at Schlumberger, while speaking at the Women’s Global Leadership Conference (WGLC) in Energy, on Nov. 2 in downtown Houston.
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October 31, 2017
Rockwell Automation Inc., a major supplier of robotics software, rejected a $27.6-billion offer from Emerson Electric Inc., which is trying to rebuild following a restructuring.
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October 31, 2017
Chevron Corporation has announced a seven-year partnership with Microsoft Corp. establishing the company as Chevron’s primary cloud provider, accelerating the application of advanced technologies including analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive performance and improve efficiencies.
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October 31, 2017
Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE) has announced the introduction of its FASTrak Prism fluid analysis and sampling-while-drilling service.
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October 27, 2017
Avitas Systems, a GE Venture, announced a strategic partnership with Kraken Robotics to integrate autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), acoustic and laser sensor technology, and artificial intelligence-based navigation software into unique subsea inspection solutions for the oil and gas, offshore renewable energy, and shipping industries.
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