2H Offshore has designed and launched a new engineering critical assessment (ECA) software: FlawIQ. FlawIQ is a comprehensive tool that automates both BS7910 and API 579 procedures, making it faster and simpler to perform accurate fatigue assessments for offshore components…
Oil and gas has all the resources for a big data revolution – so what’s holding us back? Robert Dickson, Director – field development project excellence at io sets out his view. Image from iStock…
Efficiency gains could be made through better use of digital technologies, but the industry is still shy on the uptake. Nada Ahmed, senior consultant, DNV GL - Oil & Gas, looks at the opportunities and risks. Images from DNV GL…
AICDs are enabling production engineers to manage reservoir uncertainty along the well with better flow assurance and greater oil recovery says Tendeka's Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail. AICD in housing…
The hype around buzzwords like big data and data analytics has created both believers and skeptics. Wary players in the offshore industry have adopted a wait-and-see approach, hoping clear business solutions will solidify. In dealing with disruptive technology…
It's day two of Subsea Expo. Despite the down turn, there's still some good news, including new technology coming to the market. OE, official media sponsor of the show, being held in Aberdeen this week, spoke to ABB's John Guthrie, Regional Sales Manager…
HAWXEYE, developed by Xodus engineers as an alternative to spreadsheets, is a cloud-based web app geared to screen assets for vibration, erosion and corrosion related issues. Complex data from monitors and piping and instrumentation…
GE Oil & Gas and SBM Offshore have agreed to what they are calling the first ever global maintenance agreement for an entire fleet of floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. Under the agreement, GE Oil & Gas will provide spare parts…
Power and automation firm ABB is to provide software for three newbuild deepwater subsea construction vessels being built by new company Ultra Deep Solutions. Ultra Deep Solutions was set up in 2014, by industry veteran Sheldon Hutton…
Greg Hale, Dassault Systemes' Nelia Mazula and freelancer Dora Laine explain how digitizing information can help improve uptime, increase production and optimize resource utilization in the asset-intense industry oil and gas industry. The…
Challenging market conditions, including high operational costs, low prices, and declining reserves in the North Sea are driving many organizations in the industry to seek more efficient and cost effective ways of working, without compromising safety…
The North Sea oil and gas industry is at a critical stage in its life-span. In a similar way that the automotive industry here in the UK was battered by lower cost imports, old technology and methodology in the 1980s, the offshore industry is being battered by a similar perfect storm…
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. has signed a joint development agreement with Hunting Energy Services’ Titan division to develop new autonomous tools technology focused on well construction and intervention efficiency. The two Houston…
Delmar is answering the call for better risk assessment software in Australia with the launch of ConStatAU. This technology will allow operators to better understand and potentially avoid risks offshore. The ConStat risk assessment software…
The International Society of Automation appointed James Keaveney as its 2016 president. Keaveney. Image courtesy of the ISA. Keaveney will work with Society leaders and staff…
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