Following a 2016 loss of containment incident resulting from a landslide, Husky Midstream has implemented a state-of-the-art instrumentation monitoring program from HiFi Engineering and Stantec.
The solution leverages real-time geotechnical instrumentation,
distributed fiber optic sensing, repeat ILI* and weather data
monitoring to locate areas of ground and pipeline instability. The
early-warning system includes alarm thresholds that proactively shut-in
the pipeline when required. More from HiFi.
* inline inspection.
Working with ExxonMobil, Nabors has announced a ‘major industry milestone’ with the retrofit of a ‘fully automated’ robotics module on a land rig. The Canrig Red Zone Robotics system automates the rig floor, increasing safety and performance. Nabors’ RZR-equipped rig has already drilled multiple horizontal wells in the Permian Basin.
Blackline Safety reports multi-year contracts with large, international customers across the Middle East and Europe valued at $1.8 million. The largest, a three-year deal worth some $500,000 with OQ Oman covers Blackline’s G7c cloud-connected wearable gas detector with two-way emergency voice calling and push-to-talk service.
Cenovus Energy is using Bridger Photonics’ gas mapping lidar to detect methane emissions in a large-scale monitoring program across its Canadian assets. The program is run under the auspices of the Alberta Energy Regulator’s alternative fugitive emissions management program (Alt-FEMP).
Brunei Shell Petroleum has awarded CGG a multi-year contract extension for the operation of a dedicated seismic imaging center at its head office in Seria, Brunei.
Thailand’s PTT Oil and Retail has chosen Cloudera
to create an integrated retail and fueling customer experience through
the enhancement of its data analytical capabilities. The Cloudera data
platform will provide PTT with a clearer view of its customers and
enhance engagement across PTT’s 1,900 gas stations and 3,000 retail
branches. Full implementation is slotted for 2024. More from Cloudera.
SLB (formerly known as Schlumberger) has awarded a ‘moonshot pioneer’ award for its use of Dataiku’s analytics technology to perform predictive maintenance of its drilling rigs. More from Dataiku. The work involved a multi-terabyte collection of time series data, contextualized with meta information about drilling context and maintenance actions. One case study addressed failure mechanisms of rotary steerable systems.
Equinor is the first operator to scan an offshore structure with a rolling ultrasound scanner from Elop Technology. The Elop Insight was used to perform non-destructive testing and monitoring by ‘seeing’ deeper into concrete material with a view to extending the lifetime of offshore structures.
Equinor has awarded Emerson a five-year framework agreement for the provision of operational support services on its Norwegian North Sea Martin Linge platform. These cover maintenance and upgrades of the control technology, software and instrumentation to ‘accelerate carbon-efficient production’ and enable remote operation from onshore. The award follows Emerson’s implementation of a complete automation solution leveraging its DeltaV distributed control system.
Siemens Energy is using Gecko Robotics’
wall-climbing robots, to offer ultrasonic robotic inspections services
across the EU. The solution collects ‘rich multi-modal’ data for
condition-based maintenance of rotating equipment. Gecko’s robots are
remote controlled and equipped with ultrasonic transducers,
localization sensors, lasers and HD cameras. They climb vertically and
horizontally, adhering magnetically to an extensive range of equipment
types to scan for changes in thickness, cracks, corrosion, blistering
and other forms of degradation. More from Gecko Robotics.
Petronas has implemented Halliburton’s Digital Well Program and Digital Well Operation DecisionSpace 365 cloud solutions as the foundation of its ‘enterprise digital well integrated operation’.
Equinor has signed a collaboration agreement with Hitachi Energy covering electrification, renewable power generation and low-carbon initiatives worldwide. Hitachi has previously provided Equinor with microgrid solutions on several projects, such as the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm and Troll A, the world’s first HVDC* power-from-shore connection.
* high voltage direct current
Klarian is teaming with InfinyOn, a ‘real-time event streaming company’ to run its Digipipe, pipeline monitoring solution and dashboard atop the InfinyOn cloud. Data from Klarian sensors stream into the platform ‘with single digit millisecond latency’. Klarian evaluated ‘traditional’ event streaming solutions as Kafka, AirFlow and Broadway before settling on InfinyOn.
Petrobras has awarded a three year, R$49 million (approx. $9.5 million) contract to Radix to develop and maintain scientific software focused on well and subsea engineering. Radix will develop software for two lots of subsea and one lot of wells, marking its return to large contracts with Petrobras. The partnership will last for three years, extendable for an additional two years. The deal will generate 50 new job positions at Radix’ Rio de Janeiro HQ.
TotalEnergies is to ‘explore’ the use of Regent’s electric seaglider for travel to offshore platforms. The seaglider is a new category of marine electric vehicle with a range of 180 miles and a top speed of 180 mph with existing battery technology. Total’s earlier dalliance with unconventional vehicles envisaged the use of an airship from FlyingWhales in seismic survey.
Schneider, Aveva and Shell have formed a strategic alliance to support their transition to net-zero. The partners will explore opportunities to co-develop integrated end-to-end energy solutions designed to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries such as cement. Aveva and Schneider are to bring digital engineering, operational process and energy optimization technologies to the table. Shell adds its sustainable energy supply solutions, project engineering capabilities and its renewable energy portfolio.
Shell and GE Additive have 3D printed a complex (but non-operational) oxygen hydrogen mixer. The demonstration part was printed in nickel alloy 718 on a GE Additive Concept Laser M Line system, installed at Shell’s 3D printing center of excellence at Shell’s energy transition campus in Amsterdam. The mixer’s design was ‘inspired by natural geometries and symmetry including the Fibonnaci sequence as replicated in flowers and petals’.
Aker BP has selected Tietoevry as digital services partner in a long-term partnership to deliver on Aker BP’s ambitions on digitalized operations. In a separate announcement, Tietoevry has formed a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to ‘scale data innovation and digital transformation in the Nordics’.
Weatherford is adding drilling analytics from Kwantis to its Centro well construction platform. Kwantis’ ID3 (integrated drilling data discovery) software will enable real time well planning and post-well analysis, predicting downhole drilling issues and identifying opportunities to reduce cost and emissions.
Evolution Markets, a provider of energy and environmental financial and transactional services is to deploy cQuant’s price simulation, renewable energy, and battery storage analytic offerings to assist clients in procuring or selling renewable energy and managing energy price risk.
mCloud has partnered with Google Cloud to launch new sustainability applications notably its AssetCare oilfield emissions management solution. mCloud also announced that it was exiting its low-margin Technical Project Services business and has ‘retired’ low-value legacy connected assets and workers.
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