DSDE: In the Industry

This August, energy professionals around the world will have the opportunity to connect with key decision-makers buying, selling, and trading prospects and world-renowned innovators advancing scientific and technological expertise in offshore resources.

The digital repository will use a hybrid cloud architecture to provide subsurface data for the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

An autonomous robot will be deployed on an offshore platform for the first time by Equinor. The operator plans to use it as its eyes and sensors on future platforms where humans will visit only intermittently.

Medhat (Med) Kamal is the nominee for 2023 SPE President. He and six others make up the new slate of nominees recommended for positions open on the SPE Board of Directors.

The honorees will be recognized later this year at the OTC Distinguished Achievement Awards Luncheon.

The market may be different from what we have previously experienced, but the path to a successful digital transformation is durable and the core principles of success have not changed.

For oil and gas companies to remain in existence in the second half of the 21st century, they must find ways to dramatically reduce, if not eliminate, their output of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Artificial intelligence technology could provide one tool to help the energy industry accomplish that staggeringly difficult goal.

The infrastructure engineering software firm is expected to pay more than $1 billion to acquire geological and geophysical modeling software developer Seequent.

According to a World Economic Forum report, digital transformation in the oil and gas industry could unlock approximately $1.6 trillion of value for the industry, its customers, and wider society while creating around $1 trillion of value for oil and gas firms.