Automation & Control

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February 04, 2019
Industrial workers can strengthen their grasp of production and make more informed operating decisions with the new Allen-Bradley CompactLogix 5480 controller by Rockwell Automation.
News
January 23, 2019
Under the deal, 4Subsea’s autonomous, retrofittable sensors will be available to the global oil and gas industry via Ashtead Technology. Additionally, 4Subsea will explore utilizing Ashtead’s acoustic sensors for further developing their services offering to the market.
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January 16, 2019
LYSAKER, Norge -- Aker BP has become the first company on the Norwegian Continental Shelf to operate a staffed platform from an onshore control room. Ivar Aasen in the North Sea is now operated from Aker BP’s offices at Trondheim torg.
Article
January 2019
With a few considerations, today’s data-centric workflows can be enhanced with the introduction of MBE, reducing risk and cost.
News
December 06, 2018
Ice-class passenger ferry Suomenlinna II was remotely piloted through test area near Helsinki harbor, proving that human oversight of vessels from anywhere is achievable with today’s technologies.
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December 04, 2018
Equinor is stepping up its use of wired drill pipe to acquire subsurface real-time data during drilling operations, in line with the corporate digitalization strategy and to prepare for automated drilling.
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November 06, 2018
Fugro has signed a joint development agreement with L3 ASV, a leader in the field of unmanned and autonomous vessel technology, to create the next generation of autonomous vessels for the commercial survey market.
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October 24, 2018
UK subsea services company, Rovco, has expanded its ROV and hydrographic survey capabilities with the addition of a Saab Seaeye Falcon DR ROV to its fleet.
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October 16, 2018
UTEC, a global surveying company in subsea services group Acteon, successfully commissioned its new launch and recovery system (LARS) for the fleet of seven autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) it uses for seabed surveys in the oil and renewables industries.
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August 21, 2018
Rack up one more thing robots can be used for: Fracing for oil.
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August 21, 2018
Halliburton Company today unveiled Prodigi AB Service, a first-of-its-kind offering that introduces automation to hydraulic fracturing. By automating the breakdown process of a fracturing treatment, Prodigi AB Service helps deliver better well performance.
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April 18, 2018
Air Control Entech and the Oil & Gas Technology Centre have launched new unmanned aerial vehicles that aim to reduce offshore oil and gas inspection costs by up to 50%.
News
April 12, 2018
Independent global completions service company Tendeka has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to deliver autonomous inflow control devices (AICD) screens for an operator in Sub-Sahara Africa.
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April 02, 2018
Robots could soon be working autonomously alongside humans on a North Sea platform as part of a world-first project from the Oil & Gas Technology Centre, Total E&P (Total) and taurob, in partnership with Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt).
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March 29, 2018
The first in a planned fleet of Saab Seaeye Sabertooth underwater electric robotic vehicles has been ordered by a leading company in the sector.
News
March 26, 2018
UTEC, a global survey company in subsea services group Acteon, has delivered a bespoke Virtual Asset Management tool to an offshore Operator in Eastern Canada, to allow its team to remotely access its Floating, Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO), from their desktop.
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March 21, 2018
Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity company, today announced that the Schilling Robotics business unit of TechnipFMC, a global leader in Oil & Gas projects, technologies, systems and services, has selected RTI Connext DDS as the connectivity framework for its underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs).
Article
March 2018
A new MPD approach provides comprehensive decision-making to safely circulate out influxes.
News
February 26, 2018
In the early hours of Sunday, Feb. 25 drilling started at Oseberg Vestflanken 2. On the Capital Markets Day on Feb. 7 the project could boast break-even reduction from $34 to $16/bbl.
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February 14, 2018
Weatherford International plc today announced a new software release for its ForeSite production optimization platform, which combines physics-based models with advanced machine-learning data analytics to improve performance across conventional and unconventional oil and gas assets.
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