Digital oilfield

A new immersive scenario game that puts oil and gas worker’s skills to the test has been launched by specialist energy e-learning company Norwell EDGE.

The virtual server was created for geology and field development specialists, who create 3D models of gas condensate fields in Petrel software package and work with over hundred gigabytes of data.

Rebecca Wallace, Saudi Aramco, explores the digital technologies the company are deploying in the pursuit of sustainability, efficiency and safety.

Eigen and Wintershall Dea have extended their partnership to deploy the principal integration, visualisation and management platform for production engineers at the oil and gas company’s Brage oilfield.

The solution will aim to minimise safety risks, enhance asset integrity and create potential savings of AUS$$2.8 billion per year for the Australian offshore energy industry.

In the second part of this two-part article, Lisa J. Graham, Seeq Corp., provides use cases of machine learning in action in the oil and gas industry.

Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it requires extensive domain expertise for successful deployment, as Lisa J. Graham, Seeq Corp., explains in the first part of a two-part article.

Al Rivero, Rajant Corporation, explains the operational benefits achieved from connecting isolated oilfields to a central operations centre through wireless broadband networks.

Well Control School has announced the launch of the SMART knowledge retention programme, a new online well control training aid.

Pre-Stack Pro enables users to fully leverage 100% of their seismic data using advanced tools for AVO processing and quantitative amplitude interpretation.

DNV GL has issued an international call to oil and gas operators and the supply chain to pilot a methodology that will prove whether the data generated by digital twins can be trusted, and if the technology is delivering value.

In the second part of an exclusive two-part article, Harald Holden, Ignacio Marré and Heidi Gryteland Holm, 4Subsea and Randi Næss, Lundin Norway consider methods of measuring and performing upfront analysis for exploration wells.

The company's VeroTM automated connection integrity has successfully completed 100 runs and 33 000 tubular connections in operations worldwide since its market debut.

In the first part of a two-part article, Harald Holden, Ignacio Marré and Heidi Gryteland Holm, 4Subsea and Randi Næss, Lundin Norway, discuss the design parameters that must be considered during the design phase of a subsea exploration well.

The sister event to SPE Offshore Europe is to move from a face-to-face conference and exhibition to a virtual conference format.