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Chevron, Schlumberger sign software agreement

Mar 27, 2015

Schlumberger signed a long-term software contract with Chevron Energy Technology Company. The new contract provides universal access to the Petrel E&P software platform across Chevron’s entire earth sciences organization. 'We have…

Total goes virtual with AVEVA

Mar 25, 2015

Total E&P Norge has chosen AVEVA’s Activity Visualisation Platform (AVEVA AVP) to support training activities on its Martin Linge topside platform in the North Sea. Image from AVEVA.   Seeking…

LR Senergy, EnergyOne form partnership

Mar 25, 2015

LR Senergy and EnergyOne formed a strategic alliance to support business development in Norway and internationally. LR Senergy’s Norway business, Senergy, has been acquired through a management buy-out and will now trade under the company name of EnergyOne AS…

Dolphin Geo’s Sanco Sword deployed off Myanmar

Mar 25, 2015

Dolphin Geophysical mobilized the one of largest floating objects by deploying a seismic spread of 12 streamers, 7050m in length with 150m streamer separation, off the coast of Myanmar for Ophir Energy. The Sanco Sword…

4Subsea wins Statoil contract

Mar 25, 2015

Statoil awarded 4Subsea a contract for further development of the cloud solution WellSpot. 4Subsea and Statoil have developed WellSpot since 2011, in order to make data collection and analyses related to wellheads more efficient…

ABB introduces Azipod D

Mar 24, 2015

ABB unveiled its new addition to its line of Azipod electric propulsion offering, the Azipod D. Azipod D. From ABB.   Azipod D will allow a wider range of vessel types to benefit from…

CGG GeoSoftware acquires VelPro

Mar 18, 2015

CGG GeoSoftware acquired the rights to the VelPro velocity modeling and depth conversion product from In-Depth Solutions LLC. VelPro offers a faster and more complete velocity model building workflow to achieve more accurate seismic reservoir characterization…

Cloud-based business management, ERP software is key for digital oilfield

Mar 18, 2015

Cooper Software says that mid-sized exploration and production companies could see immediate benefits by embracing cloud-based business management and reporting software for the digital oilfield.  Frank Cooper…

eInfochips accelerates image processing with NVIDIA GPUs

Mar 18, 2015

eInfochips’ seismic imaging solution software achieved a 25x performance gain on a GPU-accelerated system, compared to a standard CPU-based system. The company says that this solution for Kirchoff seismic imaging algorithms will provide…

J2 releases wireless controller for iVP

Mar 18, 2015

J2 Subsea launched an Xbox 360 wireless controller for a field-proven intelligent valve pack (iVP). The software and controller were developed by J2 with Fathom Systems, which provides engineering solutions and products to the underwater engineering industry…

AGSL gets Golden Eagle contract

Mar 13, 2015

Aberdeen-based Nexen Petroleum awarded Asset Guardian Solutions Ltd. (AGSL) a contract to provide solutions software for the Golden Eagle project offshore the UK North Sea. AGSL will provide the software management tool, Asset Guardian…

Wärtsila chosen to power new barges

Mar 13, 2015

Two new jackup barges ordered by the National Petroleum Construction Co. (NPCC), based in the United Arab Emirates, will feature fully integrated Wärtsilä power generation and electrical and automation (E&A) solutions. The SEP 650 and…

Honeywell gets third HLJOC Vietnam contract

Mar 05, 2015

Hoang Long Joint Operating Co. (HLJOC) has selected Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) to handle critical project management and engineering for the TGT-H5 wellhead platform that will tap energy reserves off the coast of Vietnam. Image from HLJOC…

Advancing recovery

Mar 01, 2015

Greg Hale takes a look at subsea electronic modules. “Doom and gloom,” and “scaling back” are phrases not heard in the industry in the last five years. But, now there is an opportunity to wring more productivity and profitability out of existing assets…

When automation, not if

Mar 01, 2015

Automation on the drillfloor has been slow to take off – but it is coming as advances in enabling technologies are made. Elaine Maslin looks at work ongoing in the field. Automation on the drillfloor has been slow to take off – but it’s coming and there will be no going back…

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