Ways to improve production - report from Intelligent Energy
Technical sessions at the 2012 SPE Intelligent Energy conference in the Netherlands covered a range of ways to improve production, on complex fields, old fields, across Africa, with thermal EOR and with fibre optics. With speakers who were employees of Shell, Chevron and Schlumberger
13 Sep 2012

Improving drilling - Intelligent Energy
The SPE Intelligent Energy conference in the Netherlands included a range of technical papers on how to improve drilling performance with better data and better use of data - reports of papers from employees of ExxonMobil, SINTEF, Saudi Aramco, Chevron
13 Sep 2012

OriginOil: using pulsed electrical current to clean frac water
OriginOil, Inc. of Los Angeles has developed a technology for cleaning water using electrical pulsing.
06 Sep 2012

sparesFinder - cloud solution for managing spares data
UK company sparesFinder has added a new module to its cloud-based Master Data Management (MDM) software to help companies organise their spares and equipment data for new projects.
31 Aug 2012

Chevron - managing Southern California fields
Chevron has 17,000 wells in Southern California, with an average production of just 10 barrels of oil per day, said Steve Cassidy, Manager, Applied Reservoir Management, Chevron, speaking in the Intelligent Energy conference plenary session.
31 Aug 2012

ConocoPhillips - making integrated operations work
ConocoPhillips celebrated 40 years of production from its Ekofisk field (in the Southern part of the North Sea) in June 2011, and on the same day received approval for a $40bn redevelopment of the field, said Brage Sandstad, Manager Norway Operations, ConocoPhillips, also speaking at the 3rd plenary session of Intelligent Energy conference in Utrecht.
31 Aug 2012

Unconventionals drive new ways of thinking - Halliburton
Development with unconventionals are driving new ways of thinking, particularly learning from the manufacturing industry, said Jonathan Lewis, Senior Vice President, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Halliburton, speaking at the 2012 Utrecht Intelligent Energy conference
31 Aug 2012

Giving people more attention - views from Chevron, BP, USC
Speakers from Chevron, BP and USC talked about the topic of people at the second plenary session of Intelligent Energy - a topic which 'deserves a lot more attention than we usually give it,' said Jim Crompton, manager of Upstream IT Architecture, Chevron
31 Aug 2012

Intelligent Energy: Shell, Saudi Aramco, BP, Petoro
Speakers from Shell (CTO), BP (chief scientist), Petoro (CEO) and Saudi Aramco (manager, Southern area reservoir management) gave their views on how they see digital technology developing at the Intelligent Energy conference in Utrecht earlier this year
24 Aug 2012

Don't forget - it's about atoms - Satish Pai
Amid all the talk about 'intelligent energy', don't forget that it is the atoms which ultimately count, said Satish Pai, VP operations with Schlumberger, speaking at the SPE 2012 Intelligent Energy conference earlier this year
24 Aug 2012

Moody's outlook on Total goes negative
Ratings agency Moody's has changed it outlook on oil major Total from "stable" to "negative".
24 Aug 2012

Bands from BP, BG Group, E.ON, EDF, National Grid "battle" in London
A "battle of the [musical] bands" for the energy industry event is being held in the Cargo nightclub in Shoreditch, London, on September 20th.
16 Aug 2012