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December 21, 2017
TGS announces new multi-client acquisition project, Alonso 3D in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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December 20, 2017
A total of 30 oil and gas discoveries were made in the third quarter of 2017. Of these, 18 are conventional oil, one is heavy oil, one is unconventional gas, and the remaining 10 are conventional gas, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company.
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December 19, 2017
Maana, digital technology company, today announced it has raised $28 million in Series C funding. The round is led by China International Capital Corporation (CICC) and Eight Square Capital. Other new investors include Accenture Ventures and Sino Capital. All of Maana’s existing strategic investors, Intel Capital, GE Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures and Shell Technology Ventures participated.
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December 14, 2017
Reveal Energy Services announced today the company has produced and delivered the first near real-time DiverterSCAN technology results, which allowed an operator to identify a diversion design that enhances hydraulic fracturing fluid distribution.
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December 08, 2017
Polarcus Limited has announced that the Company has secured significant industry prefunding and has been granted the environmental permit for a broadband 3D marine seismic project in Australia.
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December 07, 2017
CGG Multi-Physics has announced completion of the acquisition, processing and interpretation of a multi-client airborne gravity and magnetic survey of approximately 38,000 line km over the Perdido Fold Belt.
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December 05, 2017
Drillinginfo, the energy industry's leading SaaS and data analytics company, announced today it has acquired Dallas-based Pattern Recognition Technologies (PRT), a global leader in energy forecasting.
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December 04, 2017
Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU) has today (Monday, Dec. 4) launched a state-of-the-art decommissioning simulator to service the growing sector.
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November 17, 2017
Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazpromneft-Khantos has launched an Upstream Control Centre as part of its “Digital Field” program.
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November 16, 2017
Deloitte has announced an exclusive go-to-market collaboration with FOROIL to help upstream clients dramatically increase production and reserves from brownfields – conventional oilfields with more than seven years’ operating history – using historic production data, breakthrough mathematical modeling and high-performance computing.
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November 16, 2017
Quantico Energy Solutions announced today the release of QOpt, a drilling optimization solution that maximizes rate of penetration (ROP) and reduces the overall cost to drill a well.
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November 16, 2017
Global energy services and software company AGR has been awarded a Frame Agreement with the Hungarian Operator MOL.
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November 16, 2017
Norwegian technology group Norbit has acquired field monitoring specialist Aptomar.
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November 14, 2017
The Saudi- and Russia-led supply limits that have lifted crude to a 2 1/2-year high must be prolonged for an extended period or prices will collapse, said Ed Morse, global head of commodities research at Citigroup Inc.
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November 13, 2017
DNV GL has introduced remote witnessing in independent verification surveys, providing operators with more flexibility and efficiency without compromising safety.
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November 13, 2017
Sperry Drilling, a Halliburton business, has announced the release of JetPulse high-speed telemetry service, which provides consistent, high-data rate transmission of drilling and formation evaluation measurements.
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November 09, 2017
Sembcorp Marine, DNV GL, A*STAR’s Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) and National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop disruptive applications in additive manufacturing, drone and digital twin technologies that could revolutionize solutions for Singapore’s offshore and marine (O&M) sector and boost its global competitiveness.
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November 09, 2017
The opening of the Valemon control room was celebrated today at Sandsli in Bergen. Valemon will be the first platform in Statoil’s portfolio to be remote-controlled from land.
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November 08, 2017
Bsquare, a provider of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions, today released the findings from its first annual IIoT Maturity Study, which explores the current IoT adoption progress of business buyers in manufacturing, transportation, and oil and gas (O&G).
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November 08, 2017
A digital transformation of oil and gas safety-critical emergency response training is set to save the industry more than a million hours of training time per year, driving time and cost efficiencies across the sector, a gathering of world-wide industry leaders heard today.
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November 07, 2017
Tenable, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, and Siemens, a global engineering and technology leader, announced a strategic partnership to help energy, utilities and oil and gas companies close the industry readiness gap with a new solution for industrial asset discovery and vulnerability management.
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