DSDE: Emerging Technology

Accuracy, complexity, costs, and skills availability may make it difficult to get the most out of digital twins and even potentially misrepresent or miss actual changes in the status of systems or facilities.

The traditional method of inspecting tanks puts workers in danger. Using robots instead can keep workers out of harm’s way.

This paper presents an automated underwater robot and a nondestructive testing eddy-current probe for alternating-current field measurement analysis of jacket main welds.

The Space Act Agreement will allow BP and NASA to share technologies and technical expertise with the goal of benefiting human space exploration and energy production.

This study compares seven imputation techniques for predicting missing core-measured horizontal and vertical permeability and porosity data in two wells drilled in the North Rumaila oil field in southern Iraq.

It’s hard to create corporate or master data strategies when every user group you talk to has a different idea of what “good” should look like from their perspective.

Intelligent Wellhead Systems and ProFrac Services say the new method simplifies and streamlines data transfer during hydraulic fracturing.

A seismic prediction model is developed and presented in a case study to simulate the magnitude and timing of triggered seismic events with the intent to manage and mitigate environmental impacts resulting from induced seismicity during subsurface development activities.

A universal, automated approach to condition-based maintenance of drilling rig mud pumps is developed using acoustic emission sensors and deep learning models for early detection of pump failures to help mitigate and reduce costs and nonproductive time generally associated with catastrophic pump failures.

Using autonomous systems creates efficiencies, but, even more critically, it also allows engineers to be engineers.