R&D
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March 07, 2019
After the initial opening remarks from key officials, the annual SPE-IADC Drilling Conference on got down to what it does best—presentations on a wide variety of technical innovations and advancements over the last year.
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March 05, 2019
Halliburton Company has announced Motors Center of Excellence, a new approach to drilling motor development that combines specialized engineering and manufacturing capabilities to customize motor designs for specific basin challenges.
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February 05, 2019
Aberdeen-based production optimization specialist Enpro Subsea has announced that the $1.9 million (£1.5million) investment project in its Flow Intervention Services (FIS) technology, which included a $977,800 (£755,000) research and development grant from Scottish Enterprise, has started onshore testing ahead of planned subsea field trials later this year.
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February 04, 2019
Southwest Research Institute is helping lead the first phase of a joint industry program (JIP) to verify and validate oil and gas drilling sensor systems.
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January 31, 2019
DynaEnergetics, a business of DMC Global Inc. has announced it achieved a 100% success rate on field trials of its new DS Trinity perforating system.
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January 23, 2019
In their quest to make one of the most expensive methods of producing crude more profitable, Canada’s oil-sands companies have been ramping up efforts to get their thick bitumen to flow through pipelines more easily and cheaply.
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January 17, 2019
Aberdeen-based oil and gas production technology business, Pragma Well Technology, has been given the green light by Pharis Energy and OGTC to progress with the manufacture and prototype testing of their Downhole Steam Injection Valve (DSIV) following a successful feasibility study.
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January 15, 2019
A new computational model could potentially boost efficiencies and profits in natural gas production by better predicting previously hidden fracture mechanics. It also accurately accounts for the known amounts of gas released during the process.
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January 14, 2019
Attollo Offshore has launched its Aberdeen-based Innovation Incubator.
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January 11, 2019
The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC), a global technology R&D hub, is today opened by Lord Duncan, UK Government Minister for Scotland and Paul Wheelhouse MSP, Scottish Energy Minister, in Newburgh, in North-East Scotland’s Energetica Corridor.
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December 19, 2018
Following recommendations from a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report released earlier this year, the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program (GRP) is developing a long-term research campaign to improve understanding and prediction of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current System (LCS).
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December 11, 2018
The American Petroleum Institute has awarded a contract to DNV GL, the technical advisor to the oil and gas industry, for the full-scale S-N fatigue testing of large diameter bolts.
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December 11, 2018
Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands Paul Wheelhouse, has opened Petrofac’s new technology Innovation Zone in Aberdeen.
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December 11, 2018
LUX Assure, a specialist in the provision of chemical monitoring and management solutions, and the University of Strathclyde have secured a grant from the Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) to further develop LUX’s successful CoMic technology to provide the industry’s first corrosion inhibitor micelle detection tool with automated data analysis capability.
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November 26, 2018
Hydraulic subsea tools specialist, Webtool, is developing a Fast Intervention Tool for subsea pipeline decommissioning in conjunction with Chevron Energy Technology Company.
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November 13, 2018
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November 13, 2018
Fluor Corporation has announced that its JV team, KPJV, has developed one of the world’s largest, single 3D intelligent plant design models for Tengizchevroil LLP’s future growth project.
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November 06, 2018
Fugro has signed a joint development agreement with L3 ASV, a leader in the field of unmanned and autonomous vessel technology, to create the next generation of autonomous vessels for the commercial survey market.
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November 01, 2018
JFE Connections America and JFE Technical Center are pleased to announce the opening of our new research and development lab in North Houston, at 6415 N. Sam Houston Pkwy W., Houston, Texas 77086.
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October 17, 2018
Clariant has announced the inauguration of a new state-of-the-art laboratory at its facility in Midland, Texas.
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October 16, 2018
Deriving facies models from the outcomes of seismic inversions, and their derivatives, has become standard practice in reservoir characterization workflows.
