Digital oilfield news
Siemens Energy and Bentley Systems create asset performance management solution
The new service aims to help operators enhance asset performance, eliminate downtime, and reduce maintenance costs.
Shell to use Bentley digital twin platform for deepwater projects
Shell’s Deepwater business has selected Bentley’s digital twin approach to streamline its capital projects process and accelerate time to first oil.
Emerson to provide automation technologies for new Caspian Sea platform
Emerson has been awarded a contract to provide automation technologies for the new Azeri Central East offshore platform.
Neptune Energy adopts Halliburton well construction digital suite
Neptune Energy has announced it will adopt Halliburton’s DecisionSpace 365 well construction suite of cloud applications.
Khurais oilfield recognised for adoption of 4th Industrial Revolution technology
Khurais is Saudi Aramco's second facility, after the Uthmaniyah Gas Plant, to be included in the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network.
Schlumberger, IBM and Red Hat announce hybrid cloud collaboration
The joint initiative will provide global access to Schlumberger’s exploration and production (E&P) cloud-based environment and cognitive applications by leveraging IBM’s hybrid cloud technology, built on the Red Hat OpenShift container platform.
Industry ingenuity and care in a crisis
Joanna Mainguy, Energy Industry Solution Manager for EMEA at Microsoft, and Sak Nayagam, Global Marketing Director, BakerHughesC3.ai, look at the benefits of a more collaborative approach to the digital transformation business by bringing energy technology expertise together with solutions that optimise productivity and accelerate the industry transition.
Akselos deploys digital twin of Shell’s Bonga FPSO
The Bonga Main FPSO, which became operational in 2004, has a capacity of 225 000 bpd and weighs over 300 000 t, making it the largest asset in the world to be protected by a structural Digital Twin.
Cuttings Alliance launches analysis software to improve reservoir characterisation
RockProp is a software product that delivers analysis for cuttings, logs and drilling data, developed by the Cuttings Alliance - a consortium of Stratagraph, CoreSpec Alliance and PetroScale Reservoir Solutions.
Halliburton awarded digital transformation project by PTTEP
Halliburton will design and implement digital transformation projects to improve efficiency and production in four of PTTEP's offshore fields.