Sales, partnerships, deployments

Over 50 items in this issue covering the whole spectrum of geoscience, production, operations, energy transition to retail. Even Blockchain!

Upstream

Ambyint has partnered with Microsoft to provide oil & gas E&P companies with solutions to optimize production at scale. Ambyint artificial lift optimization solutions are now available in the Azure Marketplace.

The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) are collaborating on a ‘shared vision of openness’. For GEO, this means open data, open standards, and open science. For OSGeo, this means free and open-source software. More from GEO.

Schlumberger and Equinor, in collaboration with Microsoft, are to deploy the Delfi cognitive E&P environment, integrated with the OSDU Data Platform, to ‘accelerate Equinor’s ability to integrate data at scale and improve decision making’. More from Schlumberger.

Flare Solutions has delivered a new digital strategy to support OGUK’s future digital and data capabilities. More from Flare.

Halliburton and TGS are to collaborate to bring advanced seismic imaging to fiber optic sensing providing operators to determine reservoir potential for oil and gas production or carbon storage. More from Halliburton.

Schlumberger has partnered with AWS to deploy domain-centric digital solutions, enabled by the Delfi ‘cognitive’ E&P environment on the Amazon cloud.

Drilling

Schlumberger and NOV are teaming up to accelerate automated drilling solutions adoption to unlock higher performance for operators and drilling contractors. The combined solution leverages advanced AI from the Schlumberger DrillOps well delivery solution, while NOV’s Novos process-automation platform controls NOV rig equipment.

Operations

Metron has selected Dive Technologies for the commercialization of its Autonomy, Navigation, Command & Control (ANCC) software suite on Dive Technologies’ large displacement autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), the DIVE-LD. More from Metron.

Halliburton and Optime Subsea have formed a global strategic alliance to leverage Optime’s technologies within Halliburton’s existing subsea completions and intervention solutions. More from Halliburton.

HWCG has selected Integrity Management & Response as its core contractor. IMR is to provide HWCG’s operating members with deepwater source control (blowout) responders to staff the Incident Management Team (IMT) with well integrity and subsea expertise.

Kongsberg Digital, BW LNG and Alpha Ori Technologies have signed a partnership to enhance efficiency and reduce the environmental footprint of LNG carriers (LNGCs) and floating storage and regasification units (FRSUs). Learn more about the alliance from Kongsberg.

Snam, one of the world’s largest gas networks, has selected Red Hat OpenShift and other cloud-native technologies to help drive the organization’s digital transformation. More from Red Hat.

The Seeq AWS Glue integration for Enterprise Historians is now available on AWS Marketplace. More from Seeq.

FTSI has initiated its machine health automation technology and KCF MachineIQ on its first fleet, working for Devon Energy, and is now rolling out this technology across all its fleets.

The partnership between GSE Systems and ABB Bailey Japan is to provide process simulation for the NIHONKAI LNG Niigata terminal in Niigata, Japan. More from ABB.

Lloyd’s Register and Falkonry are teaming-up to combine its predictive digital twins with asset performance and risk management solutions for heavy industry, including chemicals and oil and gas.

Tecnimont has signed a MoU with AVEVA to create new digital predictive and prescriptive maintenance services. More from Maire Tecnimont.

Downstream

Quantum has secured a total value of approximately $10 million additional ‘virtual pipeline’ trailers from Certarus. Certarus’ total investment in trailers to be delivered in 2021 approach to nearly $32 million. More from Quantum.

LTI and AspenTech are teaming to deliver Aspentech solutions through LTI managed cloud services to Oil & Gas and Chemicals Industries. More from L&T Infotech.

Infosys and BP have signed a MoU to develop an integrated Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS), end-to-end management of a customers’ energy assets and services. More from BP.

Globalstar do Brasil and Cisa Trading are to bring asset management solutions to Brazil. More from Globalstar.

Shell Catalysts & Technologies has implemented Aspen Schedule Explorer software in multiple plants throughout North America and Europe to improve coordination, communication and visibility for operations and supply chain personnel.

NIS (Naftna Industrija Srbije) has deployed Nutanix to simplify IT management and provide a more scalable and agile platform for future developments. More on the NIS deployment here.

Oilfields Supply Center (OSC) has invested $570M for the construction of a center in King Salman Energy Park (SPARK), an energy hub managed by Saudi Aramco.

Trading

Barchart and Evolution Markets have signed a distribution partnership to offer Evolution Market’s energy and environmental data products over Barchart’s ‘cmdty’ pricing network.

Sales/retail

Quorum Software and Merit Energy has successfully transitioned its gathering assets to myQuorum TIPS in the cloud. More from Quorum.

Future Gas Station (a Recon Technology subsidiary), Henan CNPC and Alipay have developed ‘Hao Ke Le Jia’, operation and maintenance services for the related joint membership program.

Diebold Nixdorf is to provide BP with an integrated solution comprised of hardware, software and managed services.

Implico has implemented SAP RFNO at Oest’s network of AVIA service stations.

P97 is to provide Petro-Canada a mobile commerce platform including Pay at the Pump and EV charging functionality. The P97 mobile commerce platform is PCI DSS and SOC 2 Type II compliant, utilizing Microsoft Azure Cloud Services with multifactor authentication to protect sensitive cardholder data.

Pri Mar Petroleum has selected iRely as its partner of choice for its ERP software solutions.

Regulatory

CGI has secured a five-year single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) $60 million ceiling-contract from the US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs for continued enhancement of its Trust Asset Accounting Management System (TAAMS). More from CGI.

Energy transition

Bechtel is collaborating with Greentown Labs in Houston to reduce carbon emissions and achieve a future of net-zero emissions through the deployment of existing and new climatetech solutions.

INPEX and Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) have jointly initiated a study for CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) 1 pilot test at the Minami-aga Oil Field in Agano City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. More from JOGMEC.

ENGIE Lab CRIGEN uses Ansys' physics-based digital twin technology to develop an ultra-fast and high-fidelity platform to help companies transition to carbon-free energy.

IFPEN and Unesco have partnered in the field of geosciences for sustainable management resources for the energy transition. More from IFPEN.

Total and IFPEN have signed a collaboration agreement to evaluate the contribution of new digital technologies to carbon capture use and storage (CCUS). More from Total.

Blockchain

Worley is now a member of the Blockchain for Energy consortium.

EZ Blockchain has partnered with Silver Energy to help its oil and gas clients define a new business model, monetizing waste natural gas while reducing emissions with the help of Bitcoin mining.

Miscellaneous

Servomex has opened a new laser test bench at its Houston facility, to expand its service capability and strengthened its commitment to supporting customers locally. More from Servomex.

INPEX and Plug and Play have partnered to promote a joint business with startups in the energy sector in Japan and the United States. More in the press release.

ZEDED has signed a strategic OEM supplier agreement with Agora to provide customers in the oil and gas and renewable energy industries with full lifecycle management capabilities for their edge deployments as part of Agora’s overall IoT solution portfolio.

Technip Energies has been awarded a contract for Project Engineering and Management Services (PEMS) by KIPIC, a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation for various projects in southern Kuwait. More from Technip Energies PMC.

ZEISS, SENAI (Brazil) and Petrobras have signed a research alliance to develop and validate methodologies for the manufacturing and qualification of static as well as dynamic critical components for the oil and gas industry.

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