Digital oilfield news

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downturn have left cyber security functions for many firms within the oil and gas sector considerably underfunded and out of date.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’.

Carnarvon Petroleum is joining with Northern Oil & Gas Australia on a collaborative data sharing project, offshore Australia.

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.

CGG’s has launched Multi-Physics Imaging group, consolidating its recognised expertise in multi-physics data processing and interpretation, trusted technical consulting services and specialised commercial software development into a single global team.

Emerson’s Tempest™ ENABLE software is designed to help oil and gas producers gain better insight into reservoir production scenarios.

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’.