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Tidewater accelerates digitalisation strategy with Fleet Xpress

Tidewater accelerates digitalisation strategy with Fleet Xpress   Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has secured a fleet-wide agreement with offshore support vessel major Tidewater to advance its digitalisation strategy by upgrading the majority of its active fleet to Fleet Xpress. Inmarsat has developed a product roadmap of advanced vessel technology efficiencies solutions and enhanced and reliable communications for crews, which bring competitive...

Why digitalization is the future of energy as big oil and gas players decarbonize

Why digitalization is the future of energy as big oil and gas players decarbonize   In 2020, the BP announcement that it would ramp down oil and gas production over the next ten years previews a big shift in the way companies—and markets—think about what makes a healthy energy company. BP’s step is a bold one for a major oil and gas company, but it is not alone. Numerous rebrands around the globe drop the word “oil,” as boards navigate market pressures fr...

Inmarsat passes 10,000 vessel Fleet Xpress installation milestone as data demand accelerates maritime digitalisation

Inmarsat passes 10,000 vessel Fleet Xpress installation milestone as data demand accelerates maritime digitalisation   Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has completed its 10,000th Fleet Xpress ship installation. Simultaneously the company has launched a new ‘Fleet Data Academy’ with existing partners, shipowners and operators to support the full understanding and adoption of the rapidly growing range of digital applications that are ma...

DNV GL approves tech giant IBM’s Maximo software for maritime and offshore sectors with SRO Solutions, part of the Cohesive Companies

DNV GL approves tech giant IBM’s Maximo software for maritime and offshore sectors with SRO Solutions, part of the Cohesive Companies   The latest version of IBM’s Maximo Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software, an essential industry tool that helps ship owners maintain their vessels in accordance with international regulations, has been granted type approval by classification society DNV GL. The certification process for Maximo version 7.x was overseen by Manchester...

SAP and DNV GL partner to deliver an oil and gas industry cloud solution designed to combat corrosion

SAP and DNV GL partner to deliver an oil and gas industry cloud solution designed to combat corrosion   SAP SE and DNV GL, one of the largest independent management and quality assurance experts, said they have teamed up to deliver a new industry cloud solution, Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) Manager, designed to tackle a major problem facing the integrity of oil and gas plants. Corrosion Under Insulation Manager is one of the latest industry cloud solutions built and run on the...

Survivex awarded technology-led training contract for BP's Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project

Survivex awarded technology-led training contract for BP's Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project   Leading Aberdeen-based offshore training provider, Survivex, has started work on a contract with BP to develop and deliver a bespoke four-week training programme for the operational personnel on the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim development project. The contract will see Survivex, which is part of the 3T Energy Group, train BP personnel in safety-critical operating procedures and processes for...

Oilfield Service Giants Are Expanding Beyond Oil Tech

Oilfield Service Giants Are Expanding Beyond Oil Tech   The oilfield services sector is usually the one to suffer the most during an oil and gas industry downturn. This last crisis has been no exception in most respects. Drilling fell sharply this year in response to the demand slump in both oil and gas, budgets were cut and exploration plans shrunk. There was talk we might have already seen peak oil demand. The situation begged the question what happens to oilfield services beyond oi...

Russian Oil Drilling Giant Opens a Crypto Mining Farm Run on Gas Energy

Russian Oil Drilling Giant Opens a Crypto Mining Farm Run on Gas Energy   Gazpromneft, the oil subsidiary of Russia’s natural gas giant Gazprom, is getting into a different kind of exploration. The company opened a venue for cryptocurrency mining on one of its oil drilling sites in Siberia, unlocking the power of Russia’s oil and gas resources for the needs of bitcoin (BTC, +4.46%) mining. Gazprom, a company that counts the Russian government as a shareholder, is the...

Halliburton Teams with Accenture to Accelerate Digital Supply Chain Transformation

Halliburton Teams with Accenture to Accelerate Digital Supply Chain Transformation   Halliburton and Accenture today announced they have teamed to accelerate Halliburton’s digital supply chain transformation and support digitalization within the Company’s manufacturing function. Beginning in 2021, Halliburton will launch a new global hub-and-spoke supply chain and manufacturing service model supported by new technologies. This new delivery platform will apply advanced a...

Petrofac partners with Intoware to drive value through digital deployment

Petrofac partners with Intoware to drive value through digital deployment   Petrofac has signed a three-year partnership with Intoware, the leading provider of workflow automation software for mobile applications, to develop and deploy workflow automation software that is specifically tailored to the requirements of the oil and gas industry. The development of ‘as’ will further optimise the efficiencies that Petrofac has gained from digitalising maintenance and inspecti...

Oil and gas well decommissioning specialist Well-Safe Solutions installs cloud-based ERP system with tech giant IBM’s Maximo software and SRO Solutions

Oil and gas well decommissioning specialist Well-Safe Solutions installs cloud-based ERP system with tech giant IBM’s Maximo software and SRO Solutions   Oil and gas well decommissioning specialist Well-Safe Solutions has ramped up its digital infrastructure by installing a cloud-based ERP system, deploying tech giant IBM’s Maximo software in partnership with offshore tech specialist SRO solutions. Established in 2017, Aberdeen-headquartered Well-Safe aims to become a &...

Aker BP and Cognite Pioneer Robotics Deployment Offshore to Transform Oil and Gas Industry with Autonomous Mission

Aker BP and Cognite Pioneer Robotics Deployment Offshore to Transform Oil and Gas Industry with Autonomous Mission   Cognite a global industrial AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) company supporting the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries around the world, has partnered with fully-fledged exploration and production company Aker BP to deploy Spot, the quadruped robotic dog, to pioneer the remote controlled offshore mission on the Skarv installation, 210 kilometers...

KBR JV announces significant step in first digitally enabled offshore platform project

KBR JV announces significant step in first digitally enabled offshore platform project   KBR announced that its joint venture with SOCAR, who is undertaking the engineering design phase of the Azeri Central East (ACE) platform, is now nearing completion. The ACE platform is the first of its kind to be designed through all phases, from concept to FEED and detailed design, to fully utilize KBR’s Digital Twin technology. The benefits of the Digital Twin continue to be utilized a...

Pandemic increases urgency of oil and gas workforce's digital skills gap

Pandemic increases urgency of oil and gas workforce's digital skills gap   The US oil and gas sector is facing several huge transitions all at once: the immediate crisis brought on by the pandemic and a longer-term energy transition away from fossil fuels. Today we're looking at a third shift confronting the US upstream: digital transformation and the need for the oil and gas workforce to catch up in this area. A new survey by Ernst & Young found a major digital skil...

OMNI Launches Next Generation Asset Integrity Management Software

OMNI Launches Next Generation Asset Integrity Management Software   OMNI (an ICR company) has launched a new digital full lifecycle asset integrity management solution developed by industry experts, allowing companies to manage, predict, plan and optimise their asset integrity management programmes. OMNI is built on the combined knowledge of integrity engineers, software developers, and data scientists, and is headed up by Director, William McLean, who brings 16 years cross-industry e...

Intelligent Plant Announced An Honoree at 2020 Elastic Search Awards

Intelligent Plant Announced An Honoree at 2020 Elastic Search Awards   ABERDEEN, Scotland - 26 October 2020 –  Intelligent Plant, an award-winning UK based software engineering company, announced it was named an honoree winner of a 2020 Elastic Search Awards. The company, which helps accelerate the deployment and adoption of key operational data analytics across all industries worldwide, was recognized by Elastic for its You know, for Search! Award and received the prestigi...

Groundbreaking new app details every energy resource in the North Sea

Groundbreaking new app details every energy resource in the North Sea   A new interactive mapping application that reveals the location of every energy-related site in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is expected to bring real benefits for exploration and the search for carbon storage locations. The game-changing app shows the proximity of existing oil and gas infrastructure to wind farms, electrical cables and carbon capture and storage (CCS) sites, which will assist in gauging the...

40 years of OREDA data goes live on DNV GL data platform

40 years of OREDA data goes live on DNV GL data platform   Offshore and onshore reliability data (OREDA), gathered by several oil and gas operators for nearly four decades, is now available online through DNV GL’s data platform, Veracity. The OREDA handbook, established in 1981 in cooperation with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, has amassed data from almost 300 installations. This includes the collection and analysis of data from over 18,000 equipment units with 43,00...

Shell Deepwater selects Bentley’s digital twin platform

Shell Deepwater selects Bentley’s digital twin platform   Shell’s Deepwater business has selected Bentley Systems Inc.’s digital twin approach to streamline its capital projects process and accelerate time to first oil. The solution spans project conception in the early phase design through to handover. GT Ju, General Manager Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Projects, said: “Shell Deepwater Projects is developing an integrated workflow and data platform from syst...

Neptune Energy to use Halliburton cloud well construction suite

Neptune Energy to use Halliburton cloud well construction suite   Oil and gas exploration firm Neptune Energy has decided to adopt Halliburton’s DecisionSpace 365 well construction suite of cloud applications to consolidate all global drilling and wells activities. Neptune said on Monday that the system would improve efficiency and significantly reduce non-productive time, leading to potential annual savings of more than $20 million. The three-year agreement – part o...
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