Digital oilfield

Elsevier’s information solution for exploration and development is set to strengthen oil and gas companies’ ability to analyse and prioritise opportunities.

The oil and gas industry urgently needs digital natives – but the right people may not be looking at the sector as a potential career choice. That is one of the key messages from Petroplan’s second ‘Talent Insight Index’.

FRAC-CHEM will showcase its new technology at event hosted by Amazon Web Services.

OvationData Ltd has announced an extension of the current trace management service agreement with PGS to 2023.

At the 2017 Global Petroleum show, Bedrock Automation demonstrated its newly upgraded control system firmware that extends its intrinsic cyber security protection to upstream and midstream control networks.

The contract covers the supply of digital well products to the OGA, the UK Government industry regulator, as part of a wider tender for comprehensive subsurface databases and information sources to encourage further exploration in underexplored areas of the UKCS.

2H Offshore has launched of the STREAM (STeel Riser Enhanced Analytics using Measurements) joint industry project.

Wärtsilä has signed an agreement to acquire Greensmith Energy Management Systems Inc.

Deirdre Michie, Chief Executive, Oil & Gas UK and SPE Offshore Europe 2017 executive committee member explains that while the cyber threat has been talked about for many years as an emerging security risk to the oil and gas industry, it is now very much ‘a new reality’.

The system uses pressure pulse telemetry to channel wireless communication between a well’s downhole monitoring and control system and the wellhead.

The company's new software offering leverages advanced analytics and the 'Internet of Things'

Bureau Veritas has launched of the Veristar AIM 3D asset integrity management system.

Tendeka’s PulseEight system uses unique pressure pulse telemetry to channel wireless communication between a well’s downhole monitoring and control system and the wellhead.

Lloyd’s Register (LR) put delegates attending OTC 2017 in Houston, Texas, through their paces with an innovative VR Safety Simulator and gaming experience.

Speedcast International Limited has announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Tampnet for 4G/LTE services in the Gulf of Mexico. Speedcast is the first service provider to partner with Tampnet for its high capacity offshore network in the region.