maintenance

Chevron looks into using remotely operated vehicles to scrub marine growth from subsea structures.

A universal, automated approach to condition-based maintenance of drilling rig mud pumps is developed using acoustic emission sensors and deep learning models for early detection of pump failures to help mitigate and reduce costs and nonproductive time generally associated with catastrophic pump failures.

The second phase of the project will analyze data gathered in Phase 1, with the goal of improving riser, wellhead, and conductor fatigue estimates.

Oil and gas maintenance managers rank reliability of equipment and an overload of new processes and procedures to follow as top concerns in a new survey.

Today, oil and gas are still important energy providers. They will remain with us throughout this century, but, like the coal industry, they will decline, not because we will run out, but mankind will learn to harvest cleaner energy more favorable to the wellbeing of us all. In the meantime, I do hope that we are not so quick to rid ourselves of the impressive industr…

The market for maintenance, modification, and operations in the renewable and low-carbon energy sector is expected to approach $250 billion by 2030, closing in on that for the oil and gas industry, according to research by Rystad Energy.

With their gee-whiz—albeit artificial—intelligence, robots may be the industry’s answer to jobs deemed dangerous, dirty, distant, or dull.

The two companies worked together in 2019 to improve execution techniques where Petrofac digitalized maintenance and inspection activity.

Offshore operators must grapple with ways to keep aging floating facilities on station beyond their original design life.