Oil Plus wins maintenance contract with North Sea operator
Oil Plus will develop and deliver a proactive topsides maintenance resilience and equipment reliability programme for the unnamed operator.
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Neptune Energy cuts CO2 emissions at German gas field
Operated with power from the grid, KCA Deutag’s rig at the Adorf carboniferous gas field will use electrical motors in place of diesel-driven generators, removing an estimated 1000 t of CO2 emissions from the drilling operation.
BP invests in UK unmanned aviation and methane tech firm
Flylogix will leverage the funding round to expand to new geographies, including the US, Norway and Trinidad & Tobago.
Apache Corp. and LongPath Technologies expand Permian Basin methane monitoring partnership
With the planned expansion, LongPath will provide real-time monitoring for approximately 60 Apache facilities across multiple areas of the Permian.
Chevron to seek Project Canary certification of Permian Basin and DJ Basin assets
Project Canary, a mission-driven B-Corp, will use its TrustWell Certification programme to review and analyse aspects of the environmental and social performance of individual wells and facilities in the Permian Basin of Texas and the DJ Basin of Colorado.
Innovating solids management to create a cleaner future for oil and gas
Anders Arefjord, Founder & Business Development, FourPhase, explains why opportunities presented by remote and automated operations mean that a real window for change in solids management has opened.
GlobalData: ExxonMobil’s scope 3 emissions set to rise despite net zero pledge
Will Scargill, Managing Energy Analyst at GlobalData, estimates that ExxonMobil's scope 3 emissions will increase by around 15% over the next five years.
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ERM acquires AI and data science solutions provider OPEX Group
OPEX’s flagship product, emissions.AI, helps companies to operate complex facilities with lower carbon emissions.
Samotics completes Series A funding round to lead fight against industrial energy waste
The round was led by 83North, a global venture capital firm with a proven track record in building category leaders across multiple domains including Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
Oil Plus to support green powered platform offshore Trinidad and Tobago
Oil Plus will develop the maintenance strategy and programme for DeNovo’s renewable energy-powered Zandolie platform, located offshore western Trinidad.
ExxonMobil and Scepter to deploy satellite technology for methane emissions detection
In the first phase of the project, the companies will design and optimise the plan for satellite placement and coverage, initially focused on capturing methane emissions data from ExxonMobil operations in the Permian Basin.
Light and smart: for a brighter future
Jesús Fernández, Zalux, looks at the benefits the latest lighting solutions have to offer and why the upgrade to LED lighting has become a ‘when’ not ‘if’ for the oil and gas industry.
Winners named for North Sea electrification competition
Orcadian Energy, Orsted and Katoni Engineering must now complete work on their studies by 31 March 2022, with project reports to be published in 2Q22.
ExxonMobil aiming for net zero emissions in Permian Basin operations by 2030
The plans are part of the corporate-wide effort to reduce upstream greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 40-50% by 2030, compared to 2016 levels.