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Shell uses real-time data for early detection of underreamer failure in deepwater Gulf of Mexico
It’s no secret to the offshore drilling community that expandable underreamers are tremendously important tools…
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Exxon Mobil’s Halsey: Oil patch’s digital transformation will be comparable to horizontal drilling’s tech revolution
The oil field’s digital transformation is bringing sweeping change to the upstream industry, from using data analysis…
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WannaCry attack brings cybersecurity to front, center for upstream oil industry
The upstream oil and gas industry should take notice of the WannaCry ransomwareattack that hit companies…
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Statoil outlines digitalization strategy toward 2020, spearheads E&P effort
As more and more E&P companies, including supermajors and large independents, continue to praise the possibilities created by…
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Oil and gas industry lags new trend of chief digital officers
Companies from around the world are starting to establish new executive-level positions, as in “chief…
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Deloitte’s hacking report underscores cybersecurity threat to oil and gas companies
Cyber-attacks are developing into formidable threats within the oil and gas industry, and according to a…
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“Digital twin” defined for the oil field
The “digital twin” is one of many common colloquialisms used by data wizards during technical…
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Service companies vie for market share of digital technologies
The E&P industry’s oilfield service companies seem to be meeting the sector’s digital transformation head-on.…
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Big data could help operators prepare offshore assets for hurricanes
Add storm prep to the list of operations that big data analytics can help oil…
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Blockchain could become disruption technology for energy companies
The digital ledger system called blockchain, which was created along with the invention of the digital…