NEL’s Damian Krakowiak examines the potential of virtual flow metering technology and how better testing could enable its adoption. Validation needed. Photo from NEL. With the…
Emerson Automation Solutions has launched the latest version of its reservoir characterization and modeling software, Roxar RMS 10.1. RMS 10.1. Image from Emerson. Through even…
Greg Myers, of GE Oil & Gas, explains how the digital transformation of offshore assets enables a competitive advantage by reducing excessive inspection and maintenance costs and increasing uptime with real-time operational data. Fig…
Emerson Automation Solutions has launched the Roxar API (Application Programming Interface), its extensibility solution for reservoir modeling and, in particular, for Roxar RMS. The Roxar API is designed to help operators customize their workflows to achieve specific goals…
Emerson Automation Solutions has released Roxar RMS 10, the latest version of its reservoir characterization and modeling software. Through a host of new features and greater workflow integration to support the Big Loop solution, RMS 10 provides improvements to the seismic to simulation workflow…
Schlumberger released the GeoTesting geology-based well test design and interpretation services at the 2016 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. GeoTesting services, built in the Petrel exploration and production software platform…
India will auction 67 small oil and gas fields on 25 May that will test some of the key policy changes introduced by the government in the upstream sector, local media The Economic Times reported. The fields previously held by ONGC and…
CGG GeoSoftware has released VelPro 9.5, a velocity modeling and depth conversion commercial software technology used by interpreters and velocity modeling experts to integrate seismic and well velocity information, horizons, faults, and well tops into velocity models…
Santos has appointed Excom as its new executive team, which will report to company CEO Kevin Gallagher. Gallagher said the appointment of Excom is a key step in establishing a new operating model for Santos that is focused on both lifting…
Jerry Lee takes a look at recent work conducted by the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) to mitigate gas hydrate formation. Hydrate formation, deposition, and detection…
Level and flow instrumentation manufacturer Magnetrol International launched the Pulsar Model R96 non-contact radar transmitter for level control in process applications. The two-wire, loop-powered, 6 GHz radar transmitter measures a variety…
Diamond Offshore Drilling and GE Oil & Gas entered into the offshore drilling industry's first-of-its-kind contractual service agreement (CSA) that transfers full accountability for blowout preventer (BOP) performance to GE Oil & Gas. In this Pressure Control by the Hour model…
FEI released PerGeos, a product that the company says is the industry’s first comprehensive digital rock software that helps geoscientists rapidly interpret and model digital rock imagery so that exploration & production (E&P) engineers can obtain meaningful…
Aging assets and life extension are consuming ever more engineering hours in the offshore oil and gas industry. How can engineering tools help? Meg Chesshyre looks for answers. Image from Petrofac…
Barge Master launched its motion compensated gangway. The model 3.0 compensates vessel motions in significant wave heights (Hs) up to 3m by actively telescoping, slewing and luffing the bridge. Tip compensation allows for landing on an offshore facility…