Data & Analytics
The emerging vision is an industry where engineers focus on judgment, risk assessments, and accountability.
This paper presents the large-scale deployment and operational integration of an advanced, automated rheometer in the Ghawar gas field, one of the world’s most prolific and technically complex hydrocarbon developments.
Case studies from Devon Energy, ConocoPhillips, and others show how clever engineering and technology are being used to improve recovery and asset value.
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The seismic sensors will be dropped by six autonomous aerial drones and later be retrieved by an unmanned ground vehicle instead of conventional manual deployment and recovery by ground-based teams. -
The scientific literature is riddled with bad charts and graphs, leading to misunderstanding and worse. Avoiding design missteps can improve understanding of research.
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The company is relying on DevOps and agile to hit a bold growth goal by 2025: doubling profits without changing prices.
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Harnessing the industrial Internet of things has arguably become the biggest strategic priority for industrial companies in the race to gain competitive advantage through digital transformation.
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Equating data to oil might make sense at first glance, given the data-driven success of tech companies, but the analogy breaks down as soon as you dig a little deeper.
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The use of technology has helped ensure the profitability of the oil and gas industry despite a 50% fall in prices in 5 years. The key question, however, is whether the digital revolution can answer the sector’s biggest challenge: how to secure future production.
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The November issues of SPE’s peer-reviewed journals SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering and SPE Production & Operations include papers addressing data analytics and machine learning.
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Microsoft announced that it will open an AI Center of Excellence for Energy in the United Arab Emirates—a global first for the company—to empower organizations in the industry in accelerating digital transformation and equipping their workforce with AI skills.
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The ransomware attack that began over the weekend is reportedly still affecting the national oil company’s payment systems, which may have wider impacts on its supply chain. For now, the company says its upstream and downstream operations are running normally.
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The funding from Chevron Technology Ventures and Energy Innovation Capital will help scale Ingu’s data collection platform and analysis for its Pipers technology, a pipeline screening tool launched last year.
