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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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November 03, 2017
FairfieldNodal’s Red Tank acquisition project in the Delaware basin continues to progress on schedule. There are 380 sq mi of fast-track data now available, completing this portion of the project. Final PSTM data will be available mid-December 2017, and a PSDM product is expected in early first-quarter 2018.
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October 31, 2017
Rockwell Automation Inc., a major supplier of robotics software, rejected a $27.6-billion offer from Emerson Electric Inc., which is trying to rebuild following a restructuring.
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October 31, 2017
Chevron Corporation has announced a seven-year partnership with Microsoft Corp. establishing the company as Chevron’s primary cloud provider, accelerating the application of advanced technologies including analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive performance and improve efficiencies.
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October 31, 2017
Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE) has announced the introduction of its FASTrak Prism fluid analysis and sampling-while-drilling service.
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October 27, 2017
Avitas Systems, a GE Venture, announced a strategic partnership with Kraken Robotics to integrate autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), acoustic and laser sensor technology, and artificial intelligence-based navigation software into unique subsea inspection solutions for the oil and gas, offshore renewable energy, and shipping industries.
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October 26, 2017
CGG has been awarded a contract by Côte d’Ivoire’s Direction Générale des Hydrocarbures (DGH) and PETROCI, the national oil company, to acquire with its local partner, Harvex Geosolutions, a multi-client program of gravity, gravity gradiometry and magnetic data over the Republic’s onshore and shallow offshore basins.
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October 26, 2017
Fugro has teamed up with Amplified Geochemical Imaging (AGI) to acquire offshore hydrocarbon seep data in advance of Canada’s 2018 east coast bid round.
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October 25, 2017
International oilfield services company, Expro, has successfully accomplished the world’s first proven wireless transmission of reservoir pressure data to surface, from a recently abandoned subsea appraisal well, which incorporated a rock-to-rock cement plug.
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October 24, 2017
Rose Petroleum, the AIM quoted natural resources business, has announced the completion of the acquisition of data from its 3D seismic shoot in the Paradox basin in Utah.
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October 24, 2017
Zamil Offshore Services and UTEC announce strategic partnership for offshore survey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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October 24, 2017
Texas, home to two of the nation’s busiest oilfields, now has a new way for the public to track in real time how many earthquakes are rattling the Lone Star State since the expanded use of new drilling techniques.
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October 19, 2017
Emerson Automation Solutions has launched the latest version of its reservoir management software suite - Roxar Tempest 8.1, designed to provide robust and efficient numerical solutions to support reservoir engineers in maximizing field recovery.
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October 19, 2017
Industries ranging from health care to refining have been radically changed by the digital revolution. A new initiative has been launched to help accelerate the same digital transformation for the upstream industry, which is facing the most dramatic business challenge of the past few decades.
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October 18, 2017
Emerson has agreed to acquire Paradigm, a leading provider of software solutions for the oil and gas industry, for a purchase price of $510 million, reflecting a multiple of 13 times expected 2017 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization.
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October 17, 2017
FairfieldNodal’s project to acquire and process high-resolution 3D marine seismic for the Libra consortium has left port for deeper waters to begin work.
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October 17, 2017
FairfieldNodal will begin a large Z700 acquisition project offshore Trinidad in late October 2017.
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October 12, 2017
DNV GL has acquired ComputIT, a specialist independent company for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software and R&D.
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October 11, 2017
Specialists from the Gazprom Neft Science and Technology Centre, in partnership with Yandex Terra (LLC Seysmotek), Pangea PJSC and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) are developing Russia’s first integrated platform for the processing and interpretation of seismic data, supporting the entire seismic-survey cycle, from objective setting to project completion.
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October 11, 2017
Oil and gas executives’ confidence in a quick industry recovery seems to have materially shifted this year from a return to optimism to more caution, according to Deloitte’s “2017 Oil and Gas Industry Executive” survey. With lower expectations of a rapid price recovery, the need by many to find new efficiency gains and reduce costs could push the digital revolution to its tipping point.
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October 10, 2017
The technology group Wärtsilä has acquired Guidance Marine Limited, a privately owned company with offices in the UK, Singapore and the U.S.
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