DSDE: Features

Wintershall Dea set out to demystify digital for engineers with an informal network of staff experts who help fill the gaps in this new way of doing things and have a focus on maximizing the return on problems previously solved.

Digital data startups face many hazards, from potential customers unwilling to share data to buyers who just do not see the payoff in what they are selling.

The oil industry’s rush to capitalize on digital change has scrambled relations with service providers big and small, giving the oil companies a greater say in the process.

Shell, C3 AI, Baker Hughes, and Microsoft have teamed up to launch the Open AI Energy Initiative platform that is designed to present AI-based reliability applications to improve operational efficiency.

Innovators at the Norwegian oil company have developed a machine-learning model that analyzes mud-gas data to predict the gas/oil ratio of wells as they are drilled—something that the industry has worked for decades to accomplish.

Murphy Oil has created a work flow to normalize the tags it uses when collecting data on its hydraulic fracturing stages. The work flow described here empowers decision makers, who no longer wait for hours to collect data or waste hours cleaning and preparing data for analysis.

Russia flares more associated gas from oil production than any other country on the planet. But Russian major Gazprom Neft may have found an ecofriendly alternative: turning flare gas in West Siberia into electricity to fuel the mining of cryptocurrency.

Over the years, I’ve noticed interesting cultural differences between industrial sectors in their approach to dealing with staff software training. Here, I’ll try to synthesize them into a major insight and expound on the implications.

The partnership between the software company and Texas A&M’s Department of Petroleum Engineering provides students with access to software that can enhance reservoir research with machine learning.

Geoscience data companies CGG, PGS, and TGS announced a strategic partnership to offer a shared ecosystem providing direct access to their subsurface multiclient data libraries.