Digital Energy Journal

Feature Articles

Getting more out of your fibre
Feature Articles, June 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- UK Telecoms Equipment Manufacturer Metrodata Ltd. has helped a UK North Sea rig operator get more capacity out of their existing fibre optic communications - by... >>more

What is Intelligent Energy?
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Delegates to the SPE Intelligent Energy conference on March 23-25 in Utrecht discussed many things - not least what Intelligent Energy actually is. >>more

How is Intelligent Energy progressing?
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Peter Kapteijn, Director Technology and Innovation at Maersk Oil and was previously smart fields programme director with Shell, and chair of the program committee... >>more

Tony Edwards - do it your way
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Tony Edwards, chair of the program committee for the 2008 Intelligent Energy event and now CEO of consultancy Stepchange Global, thinks that the best advice for... >>more

BP’s COO Doug Suttles on Intelligent Energy
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- In his keynote speech for the Intelligent Energy conference, Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of BP Exploration and Production talked about the importance... >>more

Melody Meyer - comments at Intelligent Energy
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Melody Meyer, president of Chevron Energy Technology Company, said she thought that intelligent energy is becoming a lot more mainstream, summing up the conference... >>more

Shell, Schlumberger, Chevron, Aramco, Halliburton
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- In the opening plenary session of the Intelligent Energy conference, senior executives from Shell, Schlumberger, Chevron, Saudi Aramco and Halliburton talked about... >>more

Optimising with better visualisations.
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Patrick Calvert, optimisation engineer with BP, thinks that people in the oil and gas industry should try harder to make graphs and diagrams easier to understand?... >>more

Plenary two - "to the next level"
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- In Plenary session two of the Intelligent Energy conference, speakers from IBM, Schlumberger, Saudi Aramco and Baker Hughes talked about how they were taking Intelligent... >>more

Plenary 3 - making it happen
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- In plenary session three of the Intelligent Energy conference, speakers from BP, Saudi Aramco, Chevron and Shell talked about how they were making intelligent energy... >>more

Helen Ratcliffe - comments at Intelligent Energy
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Helen Ratcliffe, managing consultant oil and gas at UK consultancy PIPC, and programme committee chair for the event, said she thought the priority is working... >>more

DOF Enabled Procurement Approaches
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Dr Michael Popham of BAE Systems, together with Dr Tony Edwards, CEO of Stepchange Global, talked about how having more information, collected and shared through... >>more

BAE Statoil and CISCO - delivering change more effectively
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- UK company BAE Systems, the global defence, security and aerospace company, has been working with Statoil & Cisco Systems to explore how improved Proactive Environmental... >>more

CSC / Oracle - Oil company on one screen
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Imagine having all your oilfield data and information available together – including financial, technical and operational data. >>more

Woodside’s online “improvement zone”
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Woodside Energy of Australia has developed an online tool for employees to share ideas and keep track on new development projects, called the “Woodside Innovation... >>more

Using fibre optics in wells to ‘listen’
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Did you know you can use fibre optic cables in wells to listen to what is happening down there, like a long microphone? Silixa has developed the underlying technology... >>more

Baker Hughes – all well data on your desktop automatically
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Baker Hughes has launched a software tool called ‘WellLink Desktop,” which will automatically download the latest data about wells you are working on, onto your... >>more

PDS - making workflow less rigid
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Petrotechnical Data Systems, a company based in Rijswijk, The Netherlands, has developed a new approach to building production, well, and reservoir management... >>more

BP FOF – halfway to 2017 target
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- BP’s Field of the Future program, to use advanced digital technology to improve production, is already halfway to completing its target, set in 2007, of increasing... >>more

Roxar – making reservoir modelling quicker to do
Feature Articles, May 14 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Roxar (a Norwegian company owned by Emerson Process Management), believes it is making big strides in making reservoir modeling easier and quicker to do, and end... >>more

Finding oil in University archives
Feature Articles, May 04 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- As an industry we have focused on the management of in-house and proprietary data. Is this just the tip of the information iceberg? What about the thousands of... >>more

Collaborating to optimise fracturing
Feature Articles, May 04 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Schlumberger brought a project team together at its central London collaborative visualization environment, so they could work together on finding the best way to... >>more

Fitting the data together
Feature Articles, May 04 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- For oil companies to fit together data from different sources across their company, you need a comprehensive 'reference semantic architecture' to explain how it... >>more

Chevron - Mega Project execution requires disciplined approach to application of project management systems
Feature Articles, May 04 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- The North West Australia Gorgon project is the largest ever natural resource project in Australia, producing 15m tons of LNG annually. Chevron and its partners are... >>more

GE Oil & Gas – improving equipment reliability
Feature Articles, May 04 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- GE Oil & Gas has a range of initiatives underway to constantly help improve the availability, reliability, and performance of oil and gas equipment for operators.... >>more

Improving production at BP
Feature Articles, May 04 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Unconventional gas, improving water sweep, reducing deepwater costs and improving recovery – some of the ways where BP anticipates it can improve production and... >>more

Tessella – software for asset condition monitoring
Feature Articles, May 04 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- R&D IT consultancy Tessella has developed a software solution to enable oil and gas companies set up and deliver their own asset condition monitoring – and to optimise... >>more

Dangers of workflow
Feature Articles, May 04 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- As the oil and gas industry rushes to implement ‘workflows’ Dutch Holland advises us of the dangers – including too much focus on the workflow itself not the desired... >>more

ERF Wireless –boom in wireless services to oilfields
Feature Articles, May 04 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- ERF Wireless of League City, Texas, has been ranked the 113th fastest growing company in North America on Deloitte’s 2009 Technology Fast 500 list. Its business:... >>more

BP’s Field of the Future
Feature Articles, Apr 27 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- BP has a challenging target to deliver 100 mboed of additional production by applying digital oilfield technology through its Field of the Future™ programme. Following... >>more

$400m for oil and gas technologies – Energy Ventures
Feature Articles, Apr 27 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Stavanger based Energy Ventures currently has $400m under management, all invested in upstream oil and gas technology >>more

Archiving geoscience data
Feature Articles, Apr 27 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- UK company Enigma Data Solutions (www.enigmadata.com) provides systems to back up geoscience data for 4 out of 5 oil majors – not bad for a company in business for... >>more

PPDM – developments with data management
Feature Articles, Apr 27 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- How Hess, BP and Total are managing their data – and developments from PPDM to define what a well is – report from PPDM’s first user conference in London on January... >>more

BP’s David Latin - plans for Intelligent Energy conference
Feature Articles, Mar 12 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- We interviewed David Latin, VP of E&P technology at BP, and executive co-chairman of SPE Intelligent Energy 2010, about what he expects from the event Utrecht, The... >>more

Land seismic with a million channels – HP and Shell
Feature Articles, Feb 20 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Shell and HP are collaborating to develop a new seismic sensor technology which could make it feasible to do seismic surveys with over a million channels >>more

How good are geologists?
Feature Articles, Feb 19 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- In a test of almost 500 geological interpreters, conducted by the University of Glasgow, only 21 per cent could correctly identify a geological structure of an... >>more

What is the “pull” for new technology?
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- This magazine always has plenty of articles about technology which vendors would like oil companies to use. What happens if we look at it from the other side – what... >>more

Exploring off Brazil and Angola
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Since South East Brazil used to be attached to what is now Angola, you might expect the geologies in both to be similar. Neil McMahon, senior analyst with Bernstein... >>more

Tullow - success in Uganda
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- After acquisition of Energy Africa in 2005 and Harman Resources in 2006, Tullow Oil has had groundbreaking exploration success in the Albert Rift in western Uganda,... >>more

Reservoir software – false sense of confidence?
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Reservoir simulation software can easily give people a false sense of confidence while it takes them up a blind alley, says Luiz Amado, senior reservoir engineer... >>more

Integra – Western exploration technology in difficult places
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Moscow based oilfield services company Integra has an interesting business model - applying Western exploration technology in difficult parts of the world, including... >>more

PPDM, Energistics and RFID consortium
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- The Oracle oil and gas OpenWorld event brought together representatives of oil and gas standards bodies PPDM, Energistics and the RFID consortium, to see how the... >>more

PGS – rolling out GeoStreamer technology
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- PGS has developed a new streamer technology using particle velocity sensors as well as conventional pressure sensors, which promises to greatly improve seismic image... >>more

Weatherford – minimizing inventory costs
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Oil services giant Weatherford recently embarked on a project to try to reduce the amount of capital it has tied up in inventory (storage). >>more

Optimising gas wells with remote monitoring
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Calgary oil and gas data management company Zedi helped a oil and gas operator in Southeast Alberta (Canada) to get a much better understanding of how to optimise... >>more

GE Oil & Gas – European services upgrade and new Smart Center
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- GE Oil & Gas has opened new facilities in the UK for refurbishing control systems and remote monitoring & diagnostics of subsea equipment >>more

People and the digital oilfield
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Unlike many “re-engineering”, or “slash and burn” industry initiatives, the digital oilfield promises to empower people and improve their working lives. But it only... >>more

Reality Mobile – Expanding mobile technology’s frontiers
Feature Articles, Feb 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Virginia (US) company Reality Mobile has won $6.5m venture capital investment from Energy Ventures, Chevron Technology Partners and the Dobson Partnership to empower... >>more

Adrok – find hydrocarbons with dielectric resonance
Feature Articles, Jan 29 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Adrok Group of Edinburgh, UK, has developed a remarkable technology which can gain an understanding of the subsurface using dielectric resonance (which roughly means,... >>more

How to use social networking
Feature Articles, Jan 18 2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Dr. Karen L. McGraw, Founder & CEO of Austin (Texas) based Cognitive Technologies, explains how oil and gas companies can make the most out of social networking >>more

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