Inspection/maintenance
SPE's new Asset Integrity Technical Section brings together industry experts to advance best practices in reliability engineering, asset integrity, risk reduction, and infrastructure performance. The global community will focus on the safe, reliable, and sustainable operation of energy assets across both traditional and emerging energy sectors.
The latest edition of ISO 20815 extends the petroleum industry's production assurance and reliability management framework to carbon capture, hydrogen, ammonia, and wind assets.
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.
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Aramco investigates expanding the use of lasers in the upstream sector of the oil field. -
SponsoredWhy oil and gas companies can’t get the data they need for production optimization (and how to change that).
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The rolling ultrasound scanner was used to confirm the integrity of concrete-based structures.
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Group will inspect and audit drilling rigs for Petronas over the next 3 years.
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Peter Bernard, CEO of Datagration, discusses how oil and gas industry predictive maintenance doesn’t just provide an economic value, it also boosts safety by anticipating unpredicted failures among aging infrastructure.
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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.
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The authors describe a joint industry project focused on collaboration and knowledge-sharing to improve the competitiveness of Australia’s oil and gas industry by addressing critical challenges associated with subsea-equipment failure.
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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.
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SponsoredWell-monitoring technology gives oil companies the data and insights to boost production and derive maximum value from oil and gas wells.
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Researchers from the Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets Hub teamed with EDF Renewables to use a modified remotely operated vehicle to conduct what they say is the first autonomous underwater inspection of wind farm foundations.
