Digital oilfield news

New award-winning service harnesses data to predict downtime and the performance of oil and gas production systems.

BP has announced that it has more than doubled the total computing power of its Center for High-Performance Computing (CHPC) in Houston, making it the most powerful supercomputer in the world for commercial research.

Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU) has launched a state-of-the-art decommissioning simulator to service the growing sector.

Hunting has reported that operators using its Titan Division’s H-1® perforating system have performed more than 38 400 runs since introduction last year without any safety-related incidents.

Ensco plc has announced the completion of its acquisition of Atwood Oceanics, Inc.

Weatherford International plc has joined Intel Corp. at the IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona to demonstrate the benefits of bringing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to the oilfield.

Leveraging GE’s Predix, the platform for the industrial internet, to deliver one unified view, this partnership extends KBC’s Petro-SIM process simulation modeling further into the fullstream oil and gas value chain.

The AutoTong system is the world’s first technology to automate pipe makeup and to provide autonomous connection evaluation.

Step change in well construction combining domain expertise and advanced digital technologies delivers a new approach to drilling engineering and planning.

New collaboration environment combines domain expertise and advanced digital technologies to enable a new approach to planning and operating E&P assets.