DSDE: Features

SPE is accepting applications for its annual Energy Startup Competition. The deadline for applications is 2 July.

A growing volume of free data and reports from US shale fracturing test sites is available, with more on the way.

Fuel is being delivered to the US East Coast again after hackers infiltrated the company’s operation. Colonial reportedly paid a $5-million ransom.

The two companies have agreed to team up so their most-valued drilling-automation programs can be used together easily. The relationship has shined a bright light on drilling automation.

Colonial Pipeline shuttered its East Coast fuel pipeline system as data were hacked and held for ransom.

A lot has been learned about shale, but those working to eke out oil from that ultratight rock still extract more value from data than physics.

Physics-based simulations plus machine-learning exercises are yielding a more comprehensive look at production volumes from unconventional assets.

Smaller and independent upstream companies often have limited resources for data management. Nonetheless, their data are valuable and must be managed for that value to be realized. Geologists may just be in the perfect position to do the job, if they can get the training.

New contracts, a joint venture, and a merger are pushing the company's robotic vessel fleet further into the mainstream of both hydrocarbons and renewable energy inspection services.

A look behind-the-scenes reveals what it takes to protect innovative ideas in the fast-moving US shale sector—key lessons learned, pitfalls to avoid, and how to do it the right way, as told by two of the operator's intellectual property (IP) protection leaders.