It鈥檚 long been a vision to have underwater vehicles able to support subsea operations without reliance on a surface vessel. We鈥檙e closer to this vision than ever before, but what鈥檚 new that wasn鈥檛 in place before to make this happen?Earlier鈥
Asset managers leveraging advanced sensor technologies, vast pools of stored and processed data, and real-time analytics are able to foresee鈥攁nd prevent鈥攃ostly component failures.A recent report from Lloyd鈥檚 Register points out that predictive鈥
Companies successful in reducing their capex and opex costs in the real world often do so by taking advantage of the digital world.There鈥檚 a reason terms like big data, digitalization, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and the digital鈥
Industry partners working to develop robots for use on offshore oil and gas platforms say they will advance the technology toward real world testing.The OGRIP (云顶赌场老虎机 Ground Robotics Industrial Pilot) robot, designed to be used primarily as a surveillance vehicle鈥
A consortium of five universities, including Heriot-Watt University, working with 35 industrial and innovation partners, has unveiled the latest results from its research collaboration.The largest academic center in the world for research into robotics technology for offshore energy infrastructure鈥
An Automated Well Control system has been field trialed on a land rig in Aberdeen, a world first, according to the technology's developer Safe Influx.With funding support from Oil and Gas Technology Center (OGTC), the 鈥渄rilling module鈥 was implemented鈥
Following a few years of low oil prices and a drop in rig utilization rates, drillers remain focused on ways to improve operational efficiency and safety.Many of the improvements to rigs are evolutionary, such as automation, remote control and sensing鈥
As the oil and gas industry increasingly automates functions, one service company has focused on changing the focus from dumb iron to the cloud.Weatherford鈥檚 vision is to take its range of production tools and technologies to the next level by bringing them together with the basics of Industry 4鈥
Services company Subsea 7 announced it has acquired 4Subsea, a provider of technology and services that delivers decision support to oil and gas and offshore wind operators.4Subsea will function autonomously within Subsea 7, maintaining an independent brand and management team鈥
Despite the age of big data, 71% of organizations still rely on a single data source to analyze asset performance and risk management 鈥 instead of drawing information from multiple sources for a more comprehensive view, reveals a report released by Lloyd鈥檚 Register鈥
PTTEP, a national petroleum exploration and production company in Thailand, selected Halliburton Landmark for joint development of new well design workflow to automate drilling and completion engineering processes across the well lifecycle, the US-based oilfield services company announced鈥
German software provider Hanseaticsoft said Copenhagen-based Maersk Supply Service has opted to implement its Cloud Fleet Manager ship management system for vessels and shore-bases to manage crews and handle all crew-related tasks.Kevin Bro Beier鈥
Oil and gas industry partners have set out to develop a methodology for qualifying the integrity of digital twin technology 鈥 said to be the industry鈥檚 first.The methodology, which is being developed by TechnipFMC and DNV GL, aims to bring a鈥
Through artificial intelligence and machine learning, oil companies can monitor production stream quality in real time to optimize the value per barrel.鈥淭he industry is now recognizing the importance of product quality,鈥 says Paul Oates, US business development director for Validere鈥
EcoStruxure is Schneider Electric鈥檚 IoT-enabled, plug-and-play, open, interoperable architecture and platform. Tony Brayford explains.
