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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Work from home is the new normal. Digital tools have come to the rescue. The questions that is going around the industry is: Will the increased reliance on digital technologies in the workplace generate increased adoption of the digital transformation? -
An integrated advanced-analytics program is necessary to improve the performance and reliability of pumping systems.
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Cyberhawk will provide drone inspection, surveying, data visualization services, and inspection reports.
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Shell has selected Bentley Systems, a provider of software and digital twin cloud services, to help streamline its capital projects and decrease time to first oil.
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To drive progress in the field of data science, the authors propose 10 challenge areas for the research community to pursue. Because data science is broad, with methods drawing from computer science, statistics, and other disciplines, these challenge areas speak to the breadth of issues.
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DNV GL and floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel specialist Bluewater are undertaking a pilot project to use hybrid digital twin technology to predict and analyze fatigue in the hull of an FPSO in the North Sea.
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Using a European Space Agency satellite, data analytics firm Kayrros pinpointed global locations of methane emissions and recorded a 32% increase in the overall volume of methane emitted from large leaks compared with the first 8 months of 2019.
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Deloitte discusses the “great compression” of the oil and gas industry in which companies’ room to maneuver is restricted. How can the industry avoid a talent gap and stop an organizational challenge from becoming a precarious business problem?
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As data management (DM) moves from priority to imperative status in the beleaguered upstream industry, growing gaps between DM-mature and DM-immature organizations will determine future leaders.
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Imagine the time when we are no longer concerned about the digital-transformation issues we face today, such as data availability, security, and many others. This would be the time when companies make the best out of digital infrastructure. This era might be here sooner than expected.
