E&P Highlights: Aug. 5, 2024

Here’s a roundup of the latest E&P headlines, including new oil discoveries and an implementation of AI technology in operations offshore United Arab Emirates.

E&P Highlights: July 29, 2024

Here’s a roundup of the latest E&P headlines including Energean taking FID on the Katlan development project and SLB developing an AI-based platform with Aker BP.

E-wireline: NexTier Taps Oilfield Grid, Automation for Completions

NexTier Completion Solutions is using advanced electric-drive equipment, automation-enabled pump down technology and digital connectivity to optimize wellsite operations during shale completions.

E&P Highlights: July 22, 2024

Here's a roundup of the latest E&P headlines, with LLOG acquiring 41 blocks in the Gulf of Mexico and Saipem securing $500 million in contracts from Saudi Aramco.

ProFrac, IWS Taking the Garbage Out of Oilfield Data Transfer

ProFrac and Intelligent Wellhead Systems’ MQTT protocol promises to speed up communications at the frac site, not only by saving costs but laying the foundation for future technological innovations and efficiencies in the field, the companies tell Hart Energy.

Give Us a Signal: Tech Firm Ups E&P Coverage in Remote Plays

As E&Ps struggle to transmit information over public networks in out-of-the-way oil and gas basins, tech firm Digi is working to improve its reception.

Exclusive: ChampionX Innovation Needed to Drill the Incremental Barrel

Soma Somasundaram, president and CEO of ChampionX, emphasized the need to innovate when drilling for the incremental barrel, as well as the oilfield services sector’s role in the path to net zero.

Tech Trends, OTC Edition: Drills & Bits

In this month’s Tech Trends, which takes place at the 2024 Offshore Technology Conference, new drilling technologies are on display as well as other bits that ensure efficient operations.

Oil States’ ACTIVEHub for Digitized Assets

Oil States Energy Services’ new ACTIVEHub system and ACTIVELatch help operators remotely monitor and automate frac locations for a more efficient and safer wellsite.

Exclusive: Meet the Data Van, the Heart of Completion Operations

In this Hart Energy Live Exclusive, NexTier’s Ben Dickinson describes how the data van centralizes completions controls and data and reduces on-site personnel requirements as the industry moves ever closer to remote fracs.