Tech Trends (Week of Oct. 18, 2021)
This weekly section highlights the latest upstream technologies designed to improve efficiencies.
Halliburton Introduces iStar Intelligent Drilling, Logging Platform
New generation of services provides enhanced subsurface insight, superior drilling performance, and consistent well delivery.
Expro’s Octopoda Achieves World Record Depth for Annular Intervention
The Octopoda system successfully reached 300 m in the annulus, a world record depth, and sealed the C annulus of the well.
Automakers Funding New Tech Aimed at Making Greener Lithium for EVs
Automakers, investors and even oilfield giant Schlumberger NV are beginning to embrace environmentally friendly technologies to produce lithium that could help meet 25% or more of global demand for the electric vehicle battery metal by the end of the decade.
BP Acquires US Tech Firm that Turns Commercial Buildings into Virtual Power Plants
BP has acquired Blueprint Power, a U.S.-based technology company whose technology can help turn buildings into a flexible power network by connecting them to energy markets through cloud-based software.
ConocoPhillips Partnership to Develop Shale Production Monitoring Service
The solution increases the accuracy of determining individual cluster oil production in unconventional wells and can be deployed with either permanent or temporary deployment options.
Deloitte Greenhouse Helps Oil Sector Develop Strategies for Low-carbon Future
Deloitte’s Houston-based Greenhouse is an immersive environment helping oil and gas businesses devise low-carbon solutions to meet the evolving needs of the energy transition.
ABB, Enovate Upstream Collaborate to Offer Onshore Digital Oilfield Solution
ABB and Enovate Upstream have signed a memorandum of understanding on Oct. 4 to apply their complimentary digital platforms, ABB Ability Wellhead Manager and Enovate Upstream’s Digital Production, to create a fully automated and scalable, digital oilfield solution.
Tech Trends (Week of Oct. 4, 2021)
This weekly section highlights the latest upstream technologies designed to improve efficiencies.
Schlumberger, AVEVA Partner to Advance Digital Solutions for Production Operations
Industry leaders to integrate AVEVA PI System with Agora edge technologies and cloud-based production solutions enabled by the DELFI environment from Schlumberger.