Technology
The multiplayer training platform developed by the Texas A&M Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center and EnerSys Corp. uses artificial intelligence and gaming technology to simulate pipeline emergencies.
Rock Flow Dynamics' donation of its tNavigator software will benefit WVU students studying petroleum engineering, geology, and earth and environmental sciences.
The report highlights the fast evolution of AI with better performance, bigger investment, and rising global optimism. But job concerns, education gaps, and environmental costs reveal a more complex picture.
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The growing desire of offshore operators to speed up subsea field development while reducing costs has fostered many compelling innovations. -
The new Olympus tension leg platform (TLP) is the largest in the US Gulf of Mexico, with more than twice the displacement of the neighboring Mars TLP. It marks a leap forward in safety, improved operation time, and increased production capacity.
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ValvTechnologies added bidirectional flow capabilities to its existing V1 valve product line. The company said it is the first backpressure-resistant, metal-seated ball valve on the market. In applications such as boiler feed recirculation valves, feedwater heater isolation bypass valves, and feedwater isolation bypass block valves, the V1 prevents the load spring fro…
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The demand for more and more oil and gas has prompted the industry to seek new areas of hydrocarbon deposits, and the development of subsea completions has kept pace.
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Photo by Osama Ikram Awan, Growww 2012 trainee engineer (Drilling Department), MOL, TAL Block, Province KP, Pakistan.
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Shell Canada’s Andrew Chen and Ronald Pagan discuss what a petrophysicist does and petrophysics as a career in the petroleum industry.
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This article highlights key knowledge that was shared at the SPE’s “Collision Avoidance and Well Interceptions Applied Technology Workshop” held in Inverness, United Kingdom, in September.
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The essence of most drilling operations in our industry is to open the maximum length of reservoir formation with the minimum damage to the rock surface.
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Exploiting deepwater resources in a cost-effective manner presents a number of challenges for the industry, In the deepwater Brazilian presalt, research and development may provide solutions.
