Automation & Control
Article
January 2021
Well construction can benefit from available intelligent technologies, taking AI capabilities close to the action, where it encodes knowledge and captures learnings to improve drilling efficiency.
Article
January 2021
A partnership between a drilling contractor and an OFS provider is taking MPD systems, which are fully owned and operated by the drilling contractor, to the next level with unique, integrated capabilities.
Article
December 2020
When a pad well blows out, other nearby wells are in danger of blowout, posing a unique risk. Cascade failures require synergistic use of technologies and specialized expertise to properly respond to, and secure, multiple well blowouts.
News
December 17, 2020
engageSubsea remote serves as an equipment inspection tool, technical support and operational management platform, and is designed to drive operational excellence and increase capital productivity for offshore oil and gas operators.
Article
November 2020
Oil and gas organizations are looking increasingly to embrace technology and improve processes to move further down the path toward transformation in a post-Covid world. To accomplish these objectives will require structure, pragmatism and agility while navigating the road ahead.
Article
November 2020
Operators cash-in near-perfect asset efficiency and long-term value
Article
October 2020
Effective reservoir management requires combining multiple engineering/geoscience disciplines to identify improvement opportunities. To optimize analysis, an AI-powered management platform was developed that delivers faster, more accurate results to maximize asset value.
Article
October 2020
A new solution offers tool-free, 8-min. setup and reduces NPT in multi-well pad operations, thereby yielding more drilling time and lowering costs.
Article
October 2020
Dependable rotary steerable systems, tied to an effective drilling engineering process through digitalization and automation, are the foundation of a new era in directional drilling.
Webcast
Oilfield Automation, Control & Monitoring: Fall 2020
October 22, 2020
M-I SWACO, Aggreko
During this 60 minute live webcast, Moderator, Joe D. Woods, President, International Pinpoint, will lead discussion on these topics: 1) “Digitizing Drilling Fluids”, with presenter, Katherine Price Hoelscher, PhD, Product Champion, M-I SWACO. 2) “Real-time Remote Monitoring Provides Improved Uptime in Oilfield Operations”, with presenters, Jesse Brazier, Remote Operations Center Manager and Joshua Haugan, Business Development Manager – North America Oil & Gas, Aggreko.
Article
September 2020
Pursuing revolutionary transformation will redefine how we work and catapult the oil and gas industry forward
Article
September 2020
Effective management of reservoir sweep, with regard to wellbore influx, is an inherent issue affecting horizontal well lengths. As an active, self-regulating technology, autonomous inflow control devices respond to viscosity changes to choke water and gas more effectively, increasing production and sustainability.
Article
July 2020
An advanced software platform takes a human-centric approach in distilling knowledge from unconventional well data.
Article
July 2020
Our industry requires technological advances during this historic downturn to make well construction and production operations safer and more efficient. But with capital expenditures likely to be severely constrained, where will the money come from? To help bridge the gap, existing digital solutions that require no capex spending can be used immediately to increase efficiencies and deliver improved performance.
Article
June 2020
Each year, the oil and gas industry could save billions in OPEX if just a tiny fraction of the world’s rod-lift and gas-lift wells had the benefit of autonomous optimization.
Article
June 2020
Selecting wells for workover or intervention is time-consuming, resulting in fewer well reviews per year and longer intervals between the pre-planning and execution stages. This article presents a solution that uses automation and advanced data analytics to turn months-long manual well selection into a minutes-long process that supports economic production gains.
Article
March 2020
A novel, high-density logging technology illuminates areas of high tortuosity in the wellbore to improve production equipment placement and reduce downhole damage.
Article
March 2020
New technology enables small and mid-sized operators to benefit from digital solutions, without installing a capital-intensive SCADA network.
Article
March 2020
Researchers at NETL are working to increase the role that AI and ML play in everyday E&P operations.
Whitepaper
Digitally transforming offshore oil and gas production with Topsides 4.0
March 04, 2020
Siemens
Article
February 2020
As wellbores and drilling operations have become more complex, drill bit development must keep pace to meet increasingly difficult performance requirements.
