Remote telemetry specialist Ovarro and partner KXCit have supplied Kingfisher RTUs to support Beijing Gas Group pipeline operations in China.
Apache Corporation has deployed Omnira Software’s Mosaic reserves management and petroleum economics solution.
UK-based Azuli International has signed a memorandum of understanding with Australian Gas Infrastructure Group to collaborate on carbon capture and storage opportunities in Australia.
Barco has partnered with GCCD to provide the Norwegian control room market with advanced visualization and collaboration solutions. GCCD provides control room solutions, including Barco video walls, networked visualization and LundHalsey control room furniture. Barco has also teamed with SkySoft ATM to enable recording and synchronized replay of video walls and workplaces in control rooms. SkySoft’s air traffic control-derived record and replay technology will be integrated with Barco’s control room solutions. The solution has application in training, incident investigation and application debugging. More from SkySoft.
CGI has strengthen its global partnership with SAP,
adding ‘RISE with SAP’ to its Canadian portfolio of services. The new
qualification will help CGI provide enhanced services to clients in
their move to the cloud. More from CGI.
Emirates National Oil Company has given Krakow, Poland-based Comarch a ‘partnership award’ commemorating seven years of business collaboration. Comarch’s ‘practical IT products and services’, including customer loyalty and marketing solutions, have ‘played an important role in helping ENOC achieve many of its business goals’. More from Comarch.
Davisware, a provider of cloud-based software for commercial field service companies, has partnered with Pump and Meter Service and Zahl-Petroleum Maintenance Company. Davisware works with companies in the petroleum equipment services industry, accelerating their digital transformation. More from Davisware.
Ocean services provider DeepOcean and Norwegian Water research Institute unit Akvaplan-Niva
are to collaborate on the use of remotely operated vehicles and
unmanned glider vehicles to perform environmental studies for offshore
wind and oil and gas developments. The deal envisages a combination of
DeepOcean’s autonomous vehicles with Akvaplan’s environmental data
collection services. DeepOcean will also share environmental data
collected during the company’s ROV operations with Akvaplan for use by
the wider research community. More from Akvaplan.
Flowserve Corp. is to provide Saudi Aramco’s Jafurah
unconventional gas field development with a diverse portfolio of over
400 pumps, mechanical seals and sealing systems for different
components. More from Flowserve.
PTTEP has chosen Honeywell to provide carbon capture technology for its storage project at the Arthit Gas Field in the Gulf of Thailand. Honeywell’s Separex membrane will concentrate CO2 for geologic disposal in depleted reservoirs.
Koch Engineered Solutions is collaborating with Percepto to deploy the latter’s autonomous drone technologies and AI-driven software to enable remote emissions monitoring and leak detection in a variety of industries. Percepto’s ‘drone-in-a-box’ will now be available from KES’ Koch Specialty Plant Services unit. The offering will be packaged as a turnkey solution to customers as KSPS Aerial Inspection Solutions Powered by Percepto.
The Texas Railroad Commission’s LoneStar state tracking and reporting system is being built on the risk-based data management system originally developed by the Groundwater Protection Council. All of the RRC’s oil and gas division’s business applications will migrate to LoneSTAR by year-end 2028. The move involves re-engineering some 12 million lines of legacy mainframe code written over the last 50 years.
Lummus Technology is to provide process technologies and ‘value-driven’ energy solutions to Zhangzhou Chimei Chemical Co. to digitize its petrochemical facility in Gulei, Fujian Province, China. The deal includes Lummus’ O3S operator training simulator and other training and digitalization services.
Petronas has signed a memorandum of understanding with Emerson to ‘drive digital transformation and decarbonization initiatives’. The agreement involves a collaboration on extracting highway addressable remote transducer (HART) diagnostic data from field instrument and control systems, developing effective predictive analytics and optimizing wireless instrument performance. Applications include process control and cybersecurity along with automation solutions for decarbonization initiatives including CCUS, hydrogen and ammonia.
Resoptima is partnering with operators Aker BP, Sval Energi and Norway’s NORCE Institute on the development of algorithms to optimize reservoir production activities with the aim of CO2 abatement. More from Resoptima.
Control and safety solutions from Rockwell Automation will be the ‘operational heart’ of Petrobras’ ‘P-79’ FPSO. Rockwell will supply the integrated control and safety systems to the new build vessel with support from Sensia, Rockwell’s joint venture with SLB.
SLB (formerly Schlumberger) has teamed with Cognite to deliver ‘data-driven solutions at scale’ to the global energy industry. The partnership sees SLB’s Enterprise Data Solution for the subsurface coupled with Cognite’s Data Fusion industrial ‘DataOps’ platform. Schlumberger is lead commercial partner in the venture and will ‘exclusively provide’ customers with access to the EDS. While the release does not exactly spell this out, the SLB EDS is elsewhere described as ‘the first fully unified enterprise data solution for the OSDU data platform’.
At its Global Partner Symposium in Las Vegas, Seeq recognized its 2022 reseller and service partners of the year. In the oil and gas space these included IT Vizion (migrations of end users to Seeq), Vertix Technologies (LATAM region training and implementation services) and BKO Services (customer support at Marathon Oil, Suncor, TexGen and Shell). The event also launched the Seeq Partner Advisory Council to advise on Seeq deployment best practices and influence Seeq’s product direction. More from Seeq.
Adnoc has awarded Technip Energies (as leader of a Samsung/Tecnimont joint venture) a ‘pre-construction services agreement for the onshore facilities at its Hail & Ghasha gas development project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The PCSA follows the successful completion of an updated front-end engineering and design contract, executed by Technip Energies.
Beacon Offshore Energy has awarded Trendsetter Engineering a contract to support the development of its Gulf of Mexico Shenandoah project. The deal includes a multi‐year rental and servicing agreement for the provision of a 20,000 psi subsea well intervention package. Trendsetter will use Advanced Technology Valve’s subsea valves for the production and export systems. More from Trendsetter.
An unnamed ‘American supermajor’ has deployed Windward’s
Maritime AI software to enhance its trade compliance processes and
mitigate risks in a ‘turbulent’ oil trading environment in a three year
enterprise contract. The new client joins Shell and BP in using
Windward’s solution to help it comply with, inter alia, new regulations
by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and other Western
coalition members, including the price cap on Russian oil. Windward
reports that 2022 saw a 300% plus per year hike in ‘dark activity’
connected to Russian oil, heightening the need for counterparty due
diligence. Windward’s platform verifies that potential business
partners are not a compliance risk, flagging suspicious behavior. More
from Windward.
Corrigan Oil has selected iRely’s web-based ERP system for petroleum distributors and convenience stores at its Michigan-headquartered fuel, lubes, and propane distribution business. The deal includes a business process review with the iRely team, overviewing goals and improvement areas across accounting and finance processes and warehouse management.
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