Data & Analytics
Shell has demonstrated drone-in-a-box operations from its Mars floating production unit, becoming the first operator in the region to secure FAA approval for self-approved offshore beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights. JPT Senior Technology Editor Jennifer Pallanich visited Shell Technology Center Houston to see the system in action.
Panelists at the SPE Subsea Well Intervention Symposium discussed where AI is delivering value today, where risks remain, and how engineers can best determine its usefulness.
As digital technologies become commonplace, industry leaders say core engineering knowledge remains essential for making informed decisions and avoiding costly mistakes.
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The initiative is designed to support national data repositories, regulators, and national oil companies looking for ways to leverage, maintain, and improve their data. -
Dozens of startups continue to get tens of millions in venture funding to make chips for AI in mobile and other embedded computing uses. The race shows no sign of slowing down.
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With oil prices on the rise and calls for an energy transition growing louder, it's easy to get mixed signals about the future of the oil and gas business. SPE's TD for Production & Facilities Bob Pearson outlines the way forward for the discipline.
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SPE’s 2021 Open Subsurface workshop tackled the ins and outs of open source, open data, and open access.
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For the foreseeable future, going beyond the barrel will really mean maximizing returns from the barrel, including the identification and harnessing of potential gains from capital planning, asset management, and operations.
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The goal of this paper is to aid oilfield security planning and design processes through improved recognition of the cyber-physical security effects arising from the implementation of the industrial Internet of Things.
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Thousands of satellite images were scrutinized by monitoring company Kayrros to identify ultra-emitters of methane, greenhouse-gas sources that cannot be detected by terrestrial monitors. Up to 150 methane plumes a month were seen, some spreading for hundreds of kilometers.
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TAQ Energy, an oilfield abandonment service company, and Engage Mobilize announced a partnership to develop a cloud-based operational and financial platform.
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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.
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The authors describe an integrated multiscale data methodology involving machine-leaning tools applied to the Late Jurassic Upper Jubaila formation outcrop data.
