DSDE: In the Industry

Accenture was selected by Aker BP to develop a data factory in collaboration with Cognite. The cloud-based project has the goal of digitalizing the full lifecycle of the company’s operations to cut costs, improve productivity, and lower its carbon footprint.

Tested within a full ballast water tank on a North Sea FPSO, the ROV collected visual inspection data, validating system performance including wireless navigation and wireless communication.

The oil and gas firm has decided to use Curate, Ikon’s scalable cloud-enabled subsurface-data-management software.

Software company FutureOn and consulting firm Wood are working together on an enhanced digital service for asset operators.

A delegation from the Moscow-headquartered oil company recently visited Dubai with a slew of advanced technologies to see if anyone was interested in making a deal.

Schlumberger and Russia’s Gazprom Neft have agreed to jointly develop software and promote other upstream services to be commercialized across Russia and internationally.

In August 2021, the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University launched a new certificate program training undergraduate students to excel in data science skills and practical interdisciplinary understanding so they can solve global challenges faced by the petroleum industry.

Augury’s machine health technology will further build out Baker Hughes’ integrated asset performance capability, expanding coverage from critical assets to balance of plant machines in the energy and industrial markets. Machine health uses advanced sensors and artificial-intelligence-based software to predict and prevent machine failures.

The deal represents what will become the second deployment of an all-electric fracturing fleet built by Halliburton and with power supplied by VoltaGrid's microgrid technology.

In an increasingly data-dependent sector, oil and gas companies need to scale up their use of technology across the enterprise rapidly. Success will involve reframing the CIO’s role in driving not only digital transformation but also business outcomes.