Wärtsilä has acquired privately-owned Guidance Marine, a company with offices in the UK, Singapore and the US that provides sensor solutions relating to dynamic positioning and other vessel control systems, such as collision avoidance and remote control operations…
Tendeka has launched PulseEight, its latest advance in wireless intelligent completion technology for the digital oilfield. Tendeka’s PulseEight system uses unique pressure pulse telemetry to channel wireless communication between a well’s…
Maana’s Jeff Dalgliesh discusses a recent project with Chevron aimed at training a machine to understand how drillers describe problems encountered during operations. Image from iStock. Typically…
Inflow control valves and in-well fiber-optics have given Nexen far greater visibility of what’s going in and out of their reservoirs on the Golden Eagle field. Elaine Maslin reports. Golden Eagle with the Safe Caledonia alongside…
The drill floor robot is no longer a vision, it’s a reality and it’s going to start operations offshore Norway next year. Elaine Maslin reports. The world’s first drill floor robot installed at the Ullrigg Drilling and Well Centre…
Intelligent energy still means quite a lot of different things to different people, including the extent of its role in the oil and gas business. Elaine Maslin reports. In the spotlight at SPE Intelligent Energy: Judson Jacobs…
Talk of an IT and OT convergence has been increasing, including in the oil and gas business. Elaine Maslin reports. 'The first thing people need to realize is there’s an ugly job to do and [they need to] roll up sleeves,” says Duncan Irving…
Following its launch during last month’s Intelligent Energy event, entries have now opened for the 2017 Offshore Achievement Awards. Hosted by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section, with the support of principal sponsor TAQA and media partner OE…
How offshore assets are visualized has taken a leap forward with photographic technology that helps to create point clouds. Elaine Maslin reports. Turning photos into point clouds. Images from Return to Scene…
The 2017 Offshore Achievement Awards have been launched at this year’s Intelligent Energy Conference. Following a record 30th anniversary year (in terms of both entrants and attendees) for the awards in 2016, event organizers the Society…
Could we on the verge of embracing the industry 2.0 era? Intelligent energy, or the digital oilfield, is set to be discussed in Aberdeen next month. We take a dip into the debate. Image from iStock…
The opportunities around implementing intelligent energy (IE) technologies are quite vast and the potential just as significant for the oil and gas industry. But, commercial and business models are not necessarily aligned to adopting IE…
Delegates at SPE Intelligent Energy 2016 will hear about a collaborative venture between academic institutions and industry partners which aims to help oil and gas operators collect and interpret surges of real-time big data generated by oilfields and plants more efficiently…
Aberdeen firm EC-OG (East Coast Oil and Gas Engineering) has secured more than £1 million of external investment from Castle View Ventures and the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise. The investment follows the announcement of a £1…
Allseas, the operator of the Solitaire pipelay vessel, recently decided to repair parts of the 550sq m tank top in hold #6 which had corroded. After a detailed assessment was carried out, Allseas opted for Intelligent Engineering’s (IE’s)…