Digital oilfield

BiSN has signed an investment agreement with corporate venture capital groups for the development of a commercial portfolio of technology.

The recent financial pressures as a result of the oil downturn have left cyber security functions for many firms within the oil and gas sector considerably underfunded and out of date.

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.