DSDE: In the Industry

The UK’s Oil and Gas Authority has released 50 years of data from the North Sea in an effort to boost exploration and production and locate potential sites for carbon storage.

Fiber-optic technology company Silixa announced the installation, validation, and borehole seismic acquisition from a permanently installed fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing system on BP’s Atlantis Phase 3 subsea field development.

ExpressFiber is a single-use system that uses disposable-fiber technology.

Halliburton supplies the sensing and analytics technology, and TechnipFMC provides the necessary connections. The combination, which won a Spotlight on New Technology Award, will be used by ExxonMobil in Guyana.

The first unmanned marine systems certificate has been awarded to SEA-KIT International by Lloyd’s Register, representing an important milestone for the maritime industry.

In reviewing the long list of papers this year, it has become apparent to me that the hot topic in reservoir simulation these days is the application of data analytics or machine learning to numerical simulation and with it quite often the promise of data-driven work flows—code for needing to think about the physics less.

The new data-management platform is designed to increase access to energy data.

The US represents the largest regional market, while China is expected to emerge as the fastest-growing market.

The digital project is designed to deliver data management and insight across Aramco’s entire drilling fleet, making it the largest deployment in Baker Hughes’ history.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) announced today that the two organizations are exploring the possibility of becoming one.