Feature Articles

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

How virtual collaborative environments can save $120m
Feature Articles, Jan  18  2010 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Cap Gemini recently put together two “proof of concept” projects with virtual collaborative environments for oil companies – and one of them estimated that it could... >>more

Off the shelf software for pipelines
Feature Articles, Dec  04  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Californina company CygNet believes that long distance gas pipeline operators could update their operations software much faster, if it was available off the... >>more

Getting technology implemented
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Steve Jacobs, president of RMI, an oil and gas marketing consultancy company in Houston, is on a Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) panel to try to accelerate... >>more

Nano technology and the oil business
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- We might never put robots in reservoirs, but nanotechnology can help out in plenty of other areas of the oil business – particularly enhanced oil recovery, better... >>more

UK’s seismic data available via CDA
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- UK oil and gas data management organisation Common Data Access (CDA) is how storing public seismic data, so people who need it do not have to go to the trouble of... >>more

New multiphase flow modelling software available
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- A new multiphase flow modelling software is available on general release from Kongsberg, building on an estimated $20 m of research funded by Total and ConocoPhillips... >>more

Schlumberger - new subsea landing string electrohydraulic operating system
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Schlumberger has launched a new subsea landing string electrohydraulic operating system called SenTURIAN*, which is used during completion installation and well... >>more

GE launches new SVXT S-Series subsea tree
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- GE Oil & Gas has developed a new subsea tree that has a streamlined pre-configured design and promises to be massively more efficient than conventional predecessor... >>more

Anadarko Petroleum – using Primavera for project planning
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Anardarko Petroleum uses Oracle’s Primavera software for project planning and co-ordination, including making sure it makes best use of its available rigs and avoids... >>more

Autodesk - 3D plant design software
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Autodesk, a world leader in 2D and 3D design software, has launched AutoCAD Plant 3D 2010, a new software product that brings the proven benefits of model-based... >>more

Automating Your Fields
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Houston company GlobaLogix has a simple business strategy – make the oilfield look more like the factory floor. By helping companies automate their oil and gas fields... >>more

Shell’s HSE director talks about safety
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Safety managers should be ready to challenge and should be the kind of people with the “headroom” to run the business one day says Kieron McFadyen, head of global... >>more

Digital Oilfield 2.0
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- We are now moving to phase 2.0 of the Digital Oilfield, where vendors are expected to not just provide technology, but also ensure that their customers achieve... >>more

EIC Monitor – update on oil and gas activities
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- The UK’s Energy Industries Council (EIC) has launched a new service called EIC Monitor, providing an update on energy projects, taking information from EIC’s substantial... >>more

ConocoPhillips – using ASCI’s inventory software
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- ConocoPhillips has signed a deal to use inventory management software developed by Asset Management Services (AMS), to manage its global supply chains, both upstream... >>more

Tracking helicopters outside radar coverage
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Oil and Gas UK has launched a system to automatically track the location of helicopters when they are outside radar coverage – collecting data from their transponders >>more

Lloyd’s Register forms energy risk business
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- The Lloyd’s Register Group, a global organisation with some 232 offices worldwide that helps oil and gas, power and manufacturing companies assess and manage their... >>more

QuickWells – software to manage your completions
Feature Articles, Nov  27  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Aberdeen software company QuickWells wants to make it easier for you to manage your completions >>more

Paradigm good growth in Africa
Feature Articles, Nov  09  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Richard Jefferies, Paradigm executive VP for Europe, Africa and the CIS, says that the company is seeing good growth in its African business this year, with more... >>more

Offshore Europe debate - energy security and climate change
Feature Articles, Oct  02  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Energy security and climate change are two of the biggest issues of our time, and it doesn't help that they are normally discussed separately. A brave attempt was... >>more

Schlumberger launches Enterprise Planning Software
Feature Articles, Sep  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Schlumberger has made its Merak Enterprise Planning (MEP) software available on commercial release – which can be used for dynamic oil and gas corporate planning >>more

Microwave communications at Apache Corporation
Feature Articles, Sep  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Apache Corporation wanted faster data communications to support its drilling operations in Texas - and faster data transmission time (latency). So it chose a Mobile... >>more

Video on demand offshore
Feature Articles, Sep  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Caprock Communications has put together a service to provide video on demand offshore via satellite – including handling all the licensing >>more

ITF issues two calls for proposals
Feature Articles, Sep  14  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- ITF, the oil industry technology facilitator, has issued two calls for proposals for global technology developers to come forward with solutions to challenges facing... >>more

BP – using connectivity to drive productivity
Feature Articles, Sep  01  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- BP has installed real time monitoring systems on 80 per cent of its high rate wells – along with 2 million data tags and 2,000km of fibre – but there’s plenty further... >>more

Gravity and cheaper 3D - transformational technologies? - by David Bamford
Feature Articles, Sep  01  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Much is made of the fact that the oil & gas resources of our planet will last many decades yet: this is evident if one digs into the most recent BP... >>more

Future of energy debate – Groningen
Feature Articles, Sep  01  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- A debate about the future of energy, including climate change and security, was held at a conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Groningen gas field – with... >>more

Groningen: unconventional gas – 9 times as much as conventional?
Feature Articles, Sep  01  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Stephen Holditch, head of petroleum engineering department at Texas A+M university, said he thought that in every gas field in the world there could be nine times... >>more

Groningen: Carbon capture – public biggest obstacle
Feature Articles, Sep  01  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- The public is still one of the biggest obstacles to carbon capture and storage (CCS), with people not wanting carbon dioxide to be stored under their houses, said... >>more

Paradigm upgrades its software
Feature Articles, Sep  01  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Oil and gas software company Paradigm has announced the launch of “Rock & Fluid Canvas™ 2009,” a major upgrade of its suite of software that integrates applications... >>more

Welltec – precision robotics in the well
Feature Articles, Aug  14  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Oilfield service company Welltec is making good progress with its robotic tools which can go into a well and perform perforations, clean sand or scale, set barriers... >>more

Ocean bottom seismic – helps increase recovery “up 3-5%”
Feature Articles, Aug  14  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- By installing ocean bottom seismic cables, you can increase overall recovery from your field by 3-5 per cent, says Samir Seth of PGS >>more

Improving RFID for oilfield operations
Feature Articles, Aug  03  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- There have been many improvements in reliability to RFID (radio frequency identification) tag technology for oilfield operations over past years, says Merrick Systems... >>more

Can seismic be improved?
Feature Articles, Aug  03  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- There’s no better tool than seismic for finding oil. But can it be done any better? The fourth OilVoice Forum (now Finding Petroleum forum) in London in June 24... >>more

Dry holes – did we have the information to prevent them?
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- In many dry hole reviews, it emerges that the technical team had identified problems with the well – but the information was lost amid all the other information... >>more

Caesar Systems – helps you ask the right questions
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- As finances get tighter, the importance of good decision making gets a lot more important. Caesar Systems offers a range of software, training and advisory services... >>more

Making new IT work for the business
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Many implementations of new IT fail because they are not integrated well enough into a company’s existing business, writes Dutch Holland of Houston consultancy Holland... >>more

Flare – award for cataloguing oil and gas information
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- UK company Flare Solutions, which helps oil and gas companies catalogue their information so they can easily find it, has won the UK Queen’s Award for Enterprise... >>more

Working out the grain of the rock
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Geotrace has developed a technology for working out the direction of the grain of subsurface rock – useful for estimating the direction of natural fractures, and... >>more

Whereoil – information exploration
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Kadme’s Whereoil product helps geoscientists and engineers to find the information they are looking for regardless of the data’s shape or the place it is stored. >>more

Halliburton – forum for software vendors promotes collaboration
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- In April of this year, Halliburton held a forum to for software vendors to help them determine new ways to integrate their products with the Landmark software... >>more

Social networking tools not used to full potential – Microsoft and Accenture survey
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Social networking tools are not being used anywhere near their full potential in the upstream oil and gas industry said respondents to a recent Microsoft and Accenture... >>more

National Data Repository conference in Delhi
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- As plans come together for NDR9, the ninth oil and gas National Data Repository conference in Delhi on Aug 31 – Sept 3, we spoke to Martin Peersmann, chairman of... >>more

Good data for e-commerce – some new ideas
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- OFS Portal, the e-commerce service for oil and gas, gives some new ideas about how to make e-commerce work – and make sure your data is good enough >>more

IT good - IM bad - survey
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Most oil and gas companies are satisfied with their IT departments, but think there is room for improvement in information management -particularly in how well... >>more

O&G use of Inmarsat and Iridium satcoms increasing
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- The oil and gas industry is increasingly using Inmarsat and Iridium satellite communications solutions, which can offer more flexibility than VSAT, and more reliability... >>more

Palantir Solutions – modelling your company in one go
Feature Articles, May  29  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- UK company Palantir Solutions has launched a new version of its economic modelling and financial forecasting software running on 64 bit which can handle data sets... >>more

Using low frequency seismic
Feature Articles, May  21  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)
- Analysing low frequency seismic waves, which come naturally from deep in the earth’s surface, is developing as a useful way to find oil and gas. Dale Blue and Audius... >>more

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