Strata Innovative Solutions,
a systems integrator and developer of the PadPro wellsite automation
solution has replaced an end-of-life deployment at Pennsylvania-based
producer Apex Energy with a new system incorporating Opto22 technology.
The new StrataVu solution embeds Opto’s Groov hardware and Epic
controller. Read the detailed case study.
Falkonry AI has teamed with IBA AG on a technology partnership to leverage Falkonry’s time series AI in conjunction with IBA hardware in an ‘AI co-pilot’. The partnership eases the transition to data-driven automation, combining high resolution data from multiple sources including legacy systems.
A joint venture led by consultant Aecom has been selected by the US Department of Interior to remediate orphaned oil and gas wells. The Slicom joint venture with managing partner Street Legal Industries has been awarded an ‘indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity’ contract by the Bureau of Land Management to support the government’s Federal Orphaned Well Program. The program includes planning, environmental assessments, permitting, testing, and compliance, investigations of abandoned oil and gas wells, digital and geographic information system services and inspection services.
BP has awarded a long-term master services agreement for the provision of well services and emergency well control to Add Energy. The contract includes well control engineering modelling services.
Add Energy has also been awarded a contract by Motive Offshore to automate and digitize its pool of rental equipment. The deal involves the use of Add Energy’s AssetVoice software that blends automated work flows with scannable tags to link a physical asset with its digital imprint. Motive is implementing the automated asset tracking solution along with RFID technology.
BP has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Subsea Integration Alliance, a ‘nonincorporated strategic global alliance’ between Subsea7 and OneSubsea (itself, curiously, a teaming of SLB, Aker Solutions and … Subsea 7) to develop a framework for subsea project performance. The agreement combines BP’s experience to frame, build and execute projects with the Alliance’s capability to deliver integrated subsea production systems and subsea umbilical, riser and flowline systems.
CGG, PGS and TGS have announced new tiered offerings for Versal, the multi-client data ecosystem. With the free version, users can view data coverage, download coverage shapefiles and import their map layers and shapefiles. Upgrading to Versal Pro unlocks additional benefits, including viewing entitlements, accessing vendor contracts, and downloading acquisition and processing documents. Versal Premium clients gain access to enhanced data management capabilities such as seismic visualization and downloading entitled traces.
EOT (previously Embassy of Things) has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to provide software for ‘AI-optimized’ industrial assets in oil and gas, mining and energy. The deal sees EOT’s TwinFusion portfolio ported to the Amazon cloud, connecting SCADA systems and historians to AI-ready cloud historians and an ‘enterprise-wide digital twin graph asset model’. Poster child client Hilcorp uses EOT software across its upstream assets, with a scalable analytics platform build on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. More from EOT.
FPT Software has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s Toho Gas and TOGIS, its Information System unit, to set up an offshore development center in Da Nang, Vietnam. The ODC will provide support with a team of 50 dedicated IT engineers.
Working with its Nigerian representative, Daptem Engineering, Fluenta has deployed its ultrasonic sensing technology for the measurement of flare gas at Nigeria’s Dangote facility Africa’s largest oil refinery. Some 18 ultrasonic flare gas meters have been installed on large diameter pipelines around the plant. The plant is said to operate at a ‘ never-seen-before’ scale and with the world’s largest flare pipe.
Iron-IQ has completed its oil field of the future initiative with Vital Energy, leveraging the AWS platform. Iron-IQ’s architecture ‘eliminates the engineering complexities of on-premise systems’. Vital operations have been streamlined, and its ML/AI initiatives have been accelerated, ‘leading to substantial cost reductions and impressive time savings’. Since migrating their assets to Iron-IQ’s Patch-IQ platform, Vital’s analytical solutions team has leveraged real-time data pipeline flows to eliminate false loads and provide dynamic routing to its hauliers.
Odfjell Technology has implemented Kahuna Skills Management to assure workforce competency in its daily operations.
Angolan Azule Energy (a 50/50 JV between BP and ENI) has signed a multi-year partnership with Palantir Technologies to deploy Palantir Foundation across its upstream production assets. Foundry will be used by Azule’s petroleum, process and flow assurance engineers. Foundry is also to assist in the development of Azule Energy’s upstream ontology, connecting data from wells, pipelines and compressors. More from Palantir.
Petrobras has awarded Radix Engineering and Software a contract to develop projects for its FPSOs. The agreement will last 31 months, with services estimated at $11.5 million. The contract includes developing multidisciplinary engineering projects using digital automation tools for the state-owned company’s new assets.
SLB has signed a ‘Performance Centre model of collaboration’ agreement with INEOS Energy. The deal covers ‘digital AI solutions to maximize operational and cost efficiencies, minimize risk and secure quality recoverable reserves’. Technologies include the Delfi digital platform and ‘domain-centric AI’, deployed across subsurface, wells, transport and monitoring.
Vedanta Group unit Cairn Oil and Gas has awarded a contract to an alliance of SLB and Cognite to digitalize work processes at scale, provide insights from AI, and optimize surface production operations. The solution will deliver an intelligent system for production operations, leveraging a range of workflow solutions developed by SLB and Cognite.
SLB, AWS and Shell Global Solutions are teaming to ‘accelerate adoption’ of the OSDU data platform by delivering digital end-to-end workflows to Shell, using SLB subsurface solutions on AWS cloud infrastructure. The ‘high performance and cost efficient’ subsurface digital solutions are to be used by Shell and made available to the industry. The deal is also said to accelerates the availability of SLB’s industry leading software including Petrel and Techlog on AWS.
SafetyChain and SiteSync have joined Inductive Automation’s alliance partner program, expanding the Ignition ecosystem. SafetyChain’s cloud-based digital plant management platform provides tools for production, safety and quality, maintenance and supplier compliance. SiteSync leverages the latest connectivity technology, including LoRaWAN, LTE, to bring stranded assets and manual measurements into a central source of truth for data visualization, alarming, and advanced analysis. More from Inductive Automation.
Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Technology has acquired a Velo3D Sapphire XC 3D printer. The device can print large parts up to 600 mm in diameter by 550 mm in height in Inconel 718 alloy.
Mexican process specialist Sedicosa has deployed an Atvise SCADA system at a Pemex ethylene plant. The web/client-server architecture provides JavaScript libraries and interoperability with the plant’s ABB devices.
Seeq has partnered with Databricks on native integration between their platforms to ‘simplify access to high quality asset and process data, unify IT and OT data processing and accelerate AI/ML adoption across the industrial manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and energy sectors’.
Shearwater GeoServices reports a 10x speed-up for its Shearwater Reveal seismic processing software with NVIDIA GPUs. The improved performance also leverages NVIDIA Bitcomp , part of the nvCOMP library that provides fast, lossy data compression and decompression for reverse time migration. Headquartered in Bergen, Norway, Shearwater is owned by Rasmussengruppen AS, SLB and GC Rieber Shipping ASA.
Snowflake has joined the Inductive Automation alliance partner program. Industrial data, published using MQTT Sparkplug, is now visible to Ignition SCADA users from the Snowflake Manufacturing Data Cloud. More from Inductive Automation.
Southern Cross has partnered with Satelytics to provide satellite-based artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics for the gas, electric, and water utility sectors in North America. The initiative includes natural gas leak surveying, assessment, and grading.
VAST Data, an AI platform company and CoreWeave,
a cloud provider, have partnered to deliver a scalable and performant
cloud infrastructure for AI and accelerated compute workloads. VAST
Data is said to be ‘designed for the AI era’, leveraging a global,
NVIDIA-powered computing cloud for deploying, managing and securing
hundreds of petabytes of data for generative AI, high performance
computing and visual effects workloads. More from VAST.
Galp Energia has selected Vontier’s Invenco to enable its C-store digital transformation. Invenco’s Passport X convenience retail management software connects c-store networks and fuel stations to ‘boost revenue and meet customers’ ever-evolving demands’.
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