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May 15, 2025
Weatherford has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a move to strengthen its digital capabilities. Through the agreement, AWS will support the development of next-generation technologies, further enhancing Weatherford’s Unified Data Model.
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May 08, 2025
OTC 2025 day three kicked off with a keynote speaker panel on the ongoing challenges of digital transformation in the offshore sector. Across various digital technologies, a critical keystone must be addressed to provide a suitable digital foundation: quality data and access to it. 
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May 07, 2025
In keeping with the overall themes raised on day one of OTC 2025, Weatherford CEO Girish Saligram discussed some of the major challenges facing the offshore industry as a whole in an executive dialogue panel on Monday. 
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May 06, 2025
In a session titled “Offshore Production and Recovery: The Value of a Holistic Approach,” SLB’s President of Production Systems, Paul Sims, gave his take on key factors affecting the current offshore energy landscape, as well as SLB’s latest strategies and innovations.
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May 06, 2025
SLB announced at OTC Day 2 the launch of Electris™ — a portfolio of digitally enabled electric well completions technologies that boost production and recovery while reducing the total cost of ownership of an asset.
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May 06, 2025
ABS and Akselos S.A. have announced the joint completion of technical assessment for structural digital twin technology. This marks a significant advancement in the application of digital twin technology for FPSO units, enabling more accurate and reliable assessments of structural integrity. 
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April 2025
Technology is creating opportunities to optimize operations and improve maintenance, to extend the operational window of aging drillships. The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) knows a thing or two about drillships, having a dominant position in the market of providing classification services to two-thirds of the global fleet. 
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April 30, 2025
Argentina shale operator YPF has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Globant, a digitally-native company focused on transforming companies through the use of AI. Through the agreement, YPF will apply AI technology across its supply chain operations.
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April 2025
The energy sector is undergoing a digital transformation, driven by B2B eCommerce, cloud computing, blockchain, and AI, which aim to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. However, regional disparities in digital adoption create a fragmented landscape, leaving many suppliers—especially smaller, rural ones—struggling to keep pace. Bridging this gap is crucial to ensuring a more inclusive, efficient supply chain. 
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April 25, 2025
LUFKIN Industries has launched its LWM 2.0 with NOVAWAVE™ solution to address the unique pressure, friction, and gravitational effects encountered in deviated horizontal wells, allowing operators to maximize production in real-time with validated data.
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April 23, 2025
Last Mile Production, LLC, an independent oil and gas operator in West Texas, has reported transformative results following the deployment of Enovate AI’s 3-Clicks Digital Strategy in collaboration with B4ECarbon™.
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April 22, 2025
Weatherford has entered a strategic partnership with AIQ, the Abu Dhabi-based AI company. The collaboration aims to integrate Weatherford's software and hardware solutions with AIQ's AI-driven systems to maximize efficiency for oil and gas production.
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April 17, 2025
The Railroad Commission of Texas continues to make great strides in digitizing oil and gas records, with more than 89.4 million records now digitized. The RRC is aiming to have 100 million records uploaded to its online digital archives by the end of this fiscal year.
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April 15, 2025
Halliburton and Nabors Industries have achieved the first fully automated surface and subsurface execution of rotary and slide drilling operations in Oman. The closed-loop drilling execution earned both companies the 2025 Digital Enabler of the Year Award and represents a step forward in automation in the region.
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April 11, 2025
Nabors and Corva AI are expanding their alliance with the launch of RigCLOUD® Powered by Corva, a fully integrated drilling intelligence solution that combines Nabors’ edge and cloud computing platform with Corva’s AI-driven analytics.
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April 10, 2025
OEG Energy Group has officially unveiled GEOBASE, the offshore industry’s first dedicated vessel dimensional control assurance solution for survey and positioning systems onboard ships and subsea vehicles to feature calibration software.
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April 08, 2025
AIQ, the Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence (AI) champion developing innovative solutions for the energy sector, has entered a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Gulf Energy Information (Gulf) to enhance the development of ENERGYai by integrating Gulf’s vast energy sector data assets with AIQ’s advanced AI capabilities.
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March 2025
DNV’s annual survey and analysis finds that even as the energy industry becomes more mature in its cybersecurity posture, it needs to continue to strengthen and adapt, to remain resilient against a growing number of increasingly sophisticated threats. 
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April 04, 2025
Lufkin Industries, a global leader in surface production equipment and automation solutions, has announced the sale of its North America Downhole (NAM Downhole) business to Q2 Artificial Lift Services, a leading provider of downhole reciprocating pumps.
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April 04, 2025
SLB today announced a partnership with Shell to deploy Petrel™ subsurface software across its assets worldwide. The adoption of Petrel software is designed to increase digital capabilities and drive operating cost efficiencies.
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March 2025
Atlas Energy Solutions delivered 100 loads of proppant as the first semi-truck customer to make driverless deliveries with its own RoboTruck fleet. Atlas concurrently launched the Dune Express, a 42-mi autonomous conveyor system that delivers sand to the firm’s autonomous RoboTrucks.  
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