Automation & Control
News
April 10, 2021
Halliburton has signed an eight-year contract with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate to deploy and operate Diskos, the Norwegian national repository of seismic, well, and production data for the oil and gas industry.
News
April 07, 2021
The strategic alliance between Halliburton and Optime Subsea will jointly commercialize and deploy innovative and efficient subsea interventions and controls.
News
March 25, 2021
Tenaris is scaling up industrial activity at its Conroe, Texas plant, adding about 140 employees onboard to support the facility’s ramp up, which includes a $600,000 investment in IT and automation infrastructure.
Webcast
Beyond Automation in Well Construction
March 24, 2021
Schlumberger
Learn how we are taking well construction beyond automation and into autonomy. The great strides that have been made in well construction automation are delivering good results, but the complex and dynamic environment of well construction requires more than automation to deliver consistent performance improvements. Our expert presenters will explain how we are achieving this by maximizing the capability with Autonomous systems, both in rig operations and downhole drilling.
News
February 02, 2021
The initiative provides a framework for energy operators, service providers, equipment providers, and independent software vendors for energy services to offer interoperable solutions, including AI and physics-based models, monitoring, diagnostics, prescriptive actions, and services, powered by the BHC3™ AI Suite and Microsoft Azure.
News
January 14, 2021
Siemens Energy AS and BPT have been successfully working together for the past two years, as part of the Oil and Gas Technology Centre’s ‘Facility of the Future’ study, developing and maturing Floating Normally Unattended Installation technology.
News
January 13, 2021
Following successful six-month operational trials on Stena Spey and Stena Carron rigs, IDS will deploy its data driven TourNet Pro drilling contractor reporting service and drilling performance monitoring service, Anova DPM, across Stena Drilling’s fleet in Q1 2021.
News
December 17, 2020
engageSubsea remote serves as an equipment inspection tool, technical support and operational management platform, and is designed to drive operational excellence and increase capital productivity for offshore oil and gas operators.
Webcast
Oilfield Automation, Control & Monitoring: Fall 2020
October 22, 2020
M-I SWACO, Aggreko
During this 60 minute live webcast, Moderator, Joe D. Woods, President, International Pinpoint, will lead discussion on these topics: 1) “Digitizing Drilling Fluids”, with presenter, Katherine Price Hoelscher, PhD, Product Champion, M-I SWACO. 2) “Real-time Remote Monitoring Provides Improved Uptime in Oilfield Operations”, with presenters, Jesse Brazier, Remote Operations Center Manager and Joshua Haugan, Business Development Manager – North America Oil & Gas, Aggreko.
News
January 09, 2020
The U.S. Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research Program has awarded a Phase I grant to E-Spectrum Technologies and Dr. Eduardo Gildin, associate professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, to create an advanced advisory system that accurately depicts underground conditions in real time during drilling operations.
News
December 17, 2019
ABB has signed a new frame agreement to deliver safety and automation systems across Equinor’s installed base and greenfield projects worldwide, helping minimize cost, schedule and risk.
News
December 16, 2019
A new compensation format will help improve efficiency as Equinor awards new framework agreements for safety and automation systems with five suppliers.
News
November 13, 2019
The pilot project, performed with Total’s Multiphysics Exploration Technology Integrated System (METIS), uses autonomous drones and a ground vehicle to drop off and retrieve seismic sensors without human intervention.
News
November 04, 2019
Ingu Solutions, a Calgary-based technology company whose Pipers technology is dedicated to the pipeline inspection industry, announced it raised growth capital from Energy Innovation Capital and Chevron Technology Ventures.
News
October 17, 2019
The system was interfaced with a traditional land rig and performed automated well control, i.e. influx detection, spacing out, stopping of the mud pumps, stopping of the top drive and then shutting-in of the blowout preventer.
News
October 09, 2019
The vehicle is the first observation class ROV to utilize Forum’s Integrated Control Engine to bring greater functionality commonly only found in larger work-class vehicles.
News
October 02, 2019
The joint venture leverages Schlumberger’s deep oil and gas domain knowledge and Rockwell Automation’s rich automation and information expertise to address this fast-growing market.
News
October 02, 2019
“It is very exciting to be a pioneer for this type of technology offshore. Enabling personnel to plan and perform operations from shore rather than being flown offshore, this pathbreaking technology will also reduce costs,“ says Olav A. Godø, operations manager, Njord.
News
October 01, 2019
PTTEP selected Halliburton Landmark for joint development of new well design workflow to automate drilling and completion engineering processes across the well lifecycle.
News
September 30, 2019
“As operators drill longer laterals, obtaining quality data at greater depths can be difficult because of noise and interference,” said Lamar Duhon, vice president of Sperry Drilling. “We designed the QuickPulse system with advanced sensors that detect and automatically transmit data so operators can drill faster and more accurately.”
News
September 09, 2019
BP’s first foray into unmanned over-the-horizon operations, using Sonardyne technology and an unmanned surface vessel (USV), is helping it gather strategic data. It’s also a key step towards a more marine autonomous systems-led future.
