Software, hardware short takes…

Upstream: Badleys TrapTester 7.2, Eliis’ Paleoscan 2022.1.1, Resoptima’s ResX 2022.10, HDF5 NeXpy GUI, New PVI CEMLab. Operations: Emerson DeltaV subscription service, HiveMQ 4.9, Sensia Avalon cloud platform. Emissions/environment: AspenOne 14.0, CSA Slick Kit, New KFX JIPs from DNV: Hardware: Seeed Studio’s AI minicomputer, Emesent Hovermap ST-X, MFE gas imaging camera, Schneider’s R-Series micro data center. Miscellaneous: SAP Build, L3Harris Geospatial Envi 5.6.3, New Simscape battery simulator, Origin 2023, Terradepth Absolute Ocean repository.

Upstream

Badleys TrapTester 7.2 introduces ‘Strata-Cubes’ and user-defined macros for seismic processing. Strata-Cubes is a 3D container for gridded seismic attributes which will support new functionality in future T7 releases. More from Badleys.

EliisPaleoscan 2022.1.1 improves data exchange with OpenWorks, improves well log management and optimizes fault import.

The 2022.10 release of Resoptima’s ResX package includes a validation feature to check configuration prior to running a whole ensemble-based simulation. The process has also been upgraded to enable one-shot QC checks before run submission. The ‘create initial ensemble’ process supports drag-and-drop of facies data into the model. Resoptima also announced a partnership with Aker BP, Sval Energi and NORCE on the reduction of CO2 emissions from oil and gas production.

The HDF5 community has announced NeXpy a GUI toolbox for analyzing HDF5 data. HDF5 is used inter alia in the Energistics standards for E&P data.

Pegasus Vertex’ new (4.3) release of CEMLab introduces new function for fluid search, multiple water densities, and a ‘show on report’ option for fluid tests.

Operations

Emerson has released DeltaV IO.Connect, a subscription service for plant modernization. The system is claimed to provides a ‘faster, easier and cost-effective’ path to replacing any legacy system with a new DeltaV distributed control system, ‘while leaving existing I/O infrastructure in place’.

Release 4.9 of HiveMQ’s Enterprise MQTT platform offers distributed tracing, underpinned by OpenTelemetry and IoT data ingestion from MQTT clients into the public cloud, leveraging the enterprise extension for Google PubSub.

Avalon, from Sensia, is a new cloud platform for oil and gas operators. The ‘open, vendor-neutral’ platform can be deployed over existing infrastructure. Applications can be migrated to the platform or customized for specific visualization, alarming and data-reporting needs. Sensia is a Rockwell Automation/Schlumberger oil and gas automation joint venture.

Emissions/environment

The 14.0 release of AspenTech’s AspenOne includes over 100 sample models to help customers manage and report Scope 1 and 2 emissions. More in the release.

CSA Ocean Sciences has launched ‘Slick Kit’, a portable oil sampling system for slick sample characterization by offshore professionals. The kit includes standard operating procedures and supplies needed to collect slick and sheen samples.

DNV is leading three parallel joint industry projects to develop its KFX gas dispersion, fire and explosion simulator. The JVs target CO2 dispersion, hydrogen and ammonia safety.

Hardware

Seeed Studio has announced new compact, high-performance Nvidia Jetson-based ‘mini AI’ computers designed for ‘edge AI’ in the Industrial Internet of Things. The high end T906 sports the Jetson AGX Orin module and an eight-core Arm CPU plus 1,792-core Ampere GPU to provide 200 trillion operations per second for ‘sparse INT8 workloads’. More on the T506S, T906 boxes from Seed.

Emesent’s Hovermap ST-X augments the reach of autonomous Lidar with a 300 meter sensing range of 300 meters and over a million points per second.

The MFE Inspection Solutions handheld optical gas imaging camera allows operators to visualize gas leaks in real-time. The 640 x 512 high operating temperature mid-wave infrared camera is powered by its 70wh rechargeable battery handle.

Schneider Electric has rolled -out the EcoStruxure Micro Data Center R-Series, expanding its ruggedized micro data center offering for IT applications in remote/harsh industrial environments. The 905 kg package houses a NEMA 12/IP54 rated 42U cabinet and APC Smart-UPS backup power.

Miscellaneous

SAP has announced SAP Build (previously AppGyver), a ‘low-code’ environment for citizen developers. Build exposes SAP’s Business Technology Platform and Signavio solutions to business users.

The latest 5.6.3 release of L3Harris Geospatial’s Envi includes a machine learning toolbox that offers random forest models, anomaly detection algorithms and K-means unsupervised classification.

Matlab and Simulink have unveiled a new Simscape battery simulator in the 2022b release. Simscape Battery provides design tools and parameterized models to let designers create digital twins, run virtual tests of battery pack architectures, design battery management systems, and evaluate battery system behavior across normal and fault conditions.

The 2023 release of OriginLab’s Origin graphing software adds over 100 new features and extended graphing and analysis capabilities. A list of oil and gas users of Origin can be found here.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles specialist Terradepth’s ‘Absolute Ocean’ solution allows survey companies, marine organizations, and ocean data consumers to interact with all their data sets in one geospatially-referenced place. Alongside Terradepth’s survey data, Absolute Ocean houses public data sets of side-scan and synthetic aperture sonar, magnetometer grids and satellite imagery. The solution also serves as a storefront where customers can purchase commercial products, such as satellite-derived bathymetry from TCarta of Denver. More from Terradepth.

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