Oracle is to invest $1.5 billion to meet cloud computing demand in Saudi Arabia, opening a new public cloud region in Riyadh and expanding its existing Jeddah region. The investment results from an MoU between Oracle and the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. More from Oracle.
DuPont has selected AspenTech’s Enterprise IP.21 data historian to optimize its industrial data strategy. With help from Tata Consultancy Services, 20 years of historical data was ingested in under two days. More from AspenTech.
Bell Geospace, a provider of full tensor gravity gradiometry data and services, has teamed with Saudi Geophysical on future FTG exploration programs in Saudi Arabia. More from Bell.
Shell has awarded Bluware an enterprise software agreement covering its software line up of VDS, FAST, and ScaleOut. Also in the deal is ‘Pickasso’ a custom version of Bluware InteractivAI that was jointly developed with Shell. More from Bluware.
CGG has signed a strategic agreement with 2CRSi to launch a new high-performance computing-as-a-service offering. 2CRSi is a designer and manufacturer of energy-efficient HPC servers which can be located in any of CGG’s compute hubs. The deal results from CGG’s decade-long internal use of 2CRSi systems. More from CGG.
CGI has announced a global alliance with NetApp to organizations across industry sectors ‘unlock the potential of hybrid and multi-cloud environments’ with a ‘single, consistent cloud environment, unified data services, and centralized management that supports full visibility of both on-premise and cloud-based systems and data’.
North American operator Delek US has shifted of its ‘highly customized’ ERP systems to the cloud, leveraging SAP’s ‘RISE with SAP’ suite of services and standardizing on SAP S/4HANA and adopting SAP standard content activation best practices. More from SAP.
A joint venture of Chevron, Phillips and Qatar Energy is deploying Emerson PlantWeb to automate the $8.5 billion ‘Golden Triangle’ ethane cracker facility in Texas. The deal includes DeltaV distributed control and safety instrumented systems, Rosemount gas analyzers, Emerson’s Mimic and AspenTech Hysys simulation software. Emerson’s AgileOps operations management software also ran.
Saudi Aramco has awarded Genasys a contract for the provision of its Genasys Emergency Management (GEM) enterprise services.
Hess Corporation has selected Halliburton Landmark’s DecisionSpace 365 Well Construction applications powered by the iEnergy hybrid cloud to construct safe, cost effective, and productive wells. The solution includes AI-powered predictive drilling analytics .
Petrobras is to deploy the Landmark iEnergy digital platform in a contract that gives Petrobras access to the entire Landmark DecisionSpace 365 Geoscience Suite including Seismic Engine, Scalable Earth Modeling, Assisted Lithology Interpretation, DS365.ai, and Neftex Predictions.
IntelliShift, a provider of connected fleet intelligence for safety and operations has announced a partnership with construction management software developer Procore Technologies. IntelliShift dashboards and analytics are now accessible from the Procore GUI.
Aveva systems integrator Parsons Corp. has announced a partnership with Microsoft to combine Microsoft’s Azure AI technologies with Parsons’ expertise in digital twins, ‘X-as-a-service’, threat detection and response and smart infrastructure. More from Parsons.
Rockwell Automation and has formed a strategic partnership with Cognite, combining Rockwell’s FactoryTalk software with Cognite’s Industrial DataOps platform to ‘create an industrial data hub ready for enterprise-wide scaling’. The partnership is said to ‘enhance edge-to-enterprise capabilities’ from Sensia, a joint venture between Rockwell and Schlumberger.
Sierra Digital has leveraged SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP), a low-code/no-code platform, to develop EnerBridge, an app suite for oil and gas. EnerBridge provides production revenue and accounting users with the ability to enhance, simplify, and automate key features and functions, minimizing costs, implementation time and change-related risk.
Seeq has unveiled its Process Health Solution for process monitoring and diagnostics Seeq PHS leverages advanced analytics and machine learning to address high value, complex process manufacturing challenges related to production, quality and optimization. PHS embeds Seeq ML, a no code multivariate pattern learning and diagnostic technology for near real time process optimization. PHS has been deployed by oil and natural gas provider Williams Co. to accelerated its transition from a ‘reactive to proactive’ monitoring approach.
China’s Sinopec has ordered more land seismic recording equipment from CGG unit Sercel. The deal includes a 25,000 channel 508XT acquisition system and vibrator control software. This is the fifth 508XT system delivered in the past four years and brings Sinopec’s 508XT inventory to a 130,000 channel total.
TechnipFMC has been awarded an integrated EPCI (engineering, procurement, construction and installation) contract for Aker BP’s Utsira High development. The award follows a two-year front-end engineering and design study to optimize field layout. Contract value is put at ‘between $500 million and $1 billion’.
Vallourec has selected e-business solutions provider Balance for its entry into the oil and gas e-commerce market. Balance will power the payments solution for Vallourec’s Behub-e online market for tubular goods.
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