FUGRO
Fugro has extended its integrated survey services to help improve efficiency in coastal management and enable more informed decision-making. A new agreement with global specialist EOMAP enables the creation of integrated bathymetric survey products that comprise elements from Satellite Derived Bathymetry (SDB), Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry (ALB) and traditional acoustic survey technologies. The integrated data and product solutions will provide clients with outstanding value and unmatched coverage.
EOMAP's robust technology platform can process satellite images and deliver global bathymetric and benthic habitat data over the full range of temporal and spatial resolutions through its proprietary, sensor-independent Modular Inversion Processor (MIP). This both complements and augments services already provided by Fugro, to provide even more spatial data solutions to suit a wide variety of budgets and purposes.
Schlumberger
Schlumberger and IBM announced that they have teamed up to provide integrated services to upstream oil and gas customers that will improve the business impact of production operations projects.
The offering combines Schlumberger's production optimization services, upstream expertise, and industry-leading Avocet* production operations software platform with IBM's enterprise asset management and enterprise services to deliver an end-to-end service for optimizing integrated production operations. Through the service, customers should expect improved productivity, efficiency and cost management across operational areas including production optimization, flow assurance, logistics, scheduling, HSE, human resources, equipment monitoring and maintenance.
This new service unifies the decision environment to provide the support critical for productivity and efficiency gains in today's oilfield operations. The combination of production optimization workflows with enterprise business processes enables multidisciplinary solution teams to implement customized business offerings spanning asset to enterprise levels.
Dragon Products LTD.
In an effort to meet customer demand and expand its line of oil field production equipment, Dragon Products, LTD is currently developing its very first LACT units.
Dale Gunderson, LACT Product Manager, says these LACT units will give customers a total well pad solution, making Dragon Products a single source shop for oil producers.
LACT units, which are commonly referred to as the "cash register" of the oil industry, are responsible for accurately measuring crude oil as it transfers custody from one entity to another, Gunderson explains. Compared to older manual methods of measurement, the LACT unit is significantly more accurate and safer.
Gunderson says he estimates the first LACT units should be available this quarter, and will continue the legacy of Dragon Products as a company that gives its customers the highest-quality equipment at the best value.
Dragon Products, LTD manufactures a wide range of quality, durable products for the industrial and energy sectors. Their equipment and inventory include surface production equipment, mobile and workover rigs, double conical, roll off, dump/aggregate and transport trailers, industrial waste and liquid waste containers, and pumps and stimulation equipment.
Cohesive Solutions, Inc.,
Cohesive Solutions, Inc., a premiere IBM business partner and leading provider of IBM's Maximo Enterprise Asset Management solution, announces the opening of new office space in Houston's Energy Corridor.
Cohesive Solutions, Inc. provides business transformation, consulting, and technical services for Enterprise Asset and Performance Management. Cohesive's Enterprise Asset Management solutions, powered by IBM's Maximo, provide a single point of control over all types of assets within organizations, enabling customers to optimize those investments. Cohesive's complementary Enterprise Performance Management Solution, Propel™, unlocks the potential within enterprise systems and provides businesses with a powerful toolset enabling them to
Halliburton
Halliburton announced that it has developed a first-of-its-kind mobile app for the oil and gas industry to help customers identify solutions for their well challenges.
The new Solutions app allows oil and gas operators to quickly and easily find and share information about specific solutions for deep water, mature fields, and unconventional resources challenges.
In addition to an overview of available solutions for key target areas, the Solutions app allows users to access Halliburton case studies, technical papers, news and product announcements, industry events and awards, as well as to test their knowledge through an oilfield trivia game.
One of the app's key features is the 'Briefcase.' When viewing available solutions for a key target area, users can select and share technologies and add them to a digital briefcase. The customized collection of information is saved and may be viewed later or shared electronically via social media. The app also allows customers to contact a Halliburton expert for further assistance.
CBMM
SZMF, the central research company of the Salzgitter Group, will shortly publish the results of this strategically important three-year research project on the welding of X80 high strength pipeline steels. Their systematic work has been carried out in collaboration with Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM), the premier supplier of niobium and niobium technology, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the weldability of high strength, low carbon microalloyed linepipe steels with niobium up to 0.10%. This new research builds on an earlier award winning contribution to the literature in which the research team in the Salzgitter pipe mill demonstrated the advantages of the low carbon, niobium concept process route for the production of coiled strip for X80 Helical Submerged Arc Welded (HSAW) pipe production by Salzgitter Mannesmann Großrohr GmbH.
Many of the world's current and planned major pipeline projects often have to operate in extreme environments and are increasingly designed to employ steels at the X80 strength level. The steel used for such projects has to be capable of being consistently fabricated into pipe usually using high heat input Submerged Arc Welding (SAW) and, more importantly, must be able to be field welded successfully using lower heat input welding processes such as Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW).
The SZMF project has carefully studied the way in which low carbon steels with various levels of niobium react to the application of these relevant processes with the above mentioned welding procedures and the results, which provide data from weld metal and various heat affected zone (HAZ) locations, systematically reveal the influence which niobium microalloying introduces in low carbon steels intended for pipe manufacture.
In addition to improving weldability, this advanced metallurgical design philosophy may simplify many aspects of strip or plate production and encourages steelmakers and end users to take full advantage of the low carbon higher niobium metallurgical design philosophy that makes plate or strip manufacture easier.
High strength plate intended for pipe manufacture for sour service applications is also increasingly important and the recently completed Salzgitter work also includes a valuable welding evaluation of a newly designed low manganese niobium microalloyed steel which shows significant promise following a comprehensive worldwide evaluation program of an industrial heat of the new alloy.
For both projects, it has been demonstrated that all important areas of SAW and GMAW welded joints readily exceed the toughness requirements of the most onerous specifications.
Altaaqa Global
Altaaqa Global, a global provider of large-scale temporary power services, has appointed energy industry veteran, Julian Ford as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). As the company's CCO, Ford's remit is to ensure that Altaaqa Global achieves revenue growth targets and overall commercial success, and to facilitate the formulation and implementation of innovative global commercial strategies.
Ford's career in the industry started at the time when the concept of power plants on a rental basis was just gaining ground. He had a hand in introducing the concept of power project rental to governments of developing economies, which allowed them to hire power capacity to address short term energy issues during times of hydropower shortage or other generation or transmission issues.
Ford was instrumental in taking the rental power concept to different regions across the globe, including Middle East and Africa, South America, East Asia and South Asia. Ford also led the way for the development of the gas-fueled temporary power equipment market in the mid-2000s. With keen interest in markets where gas reserves were not vast enough to be commercially developed, Ford pioneered a new business model that allowed countries to monetize their 'stranded gas' reserves to generate useful low-cost electricity for the national grid.
GeoTeric
The release of GeoTeric 2015.3 marks another major step in the evolution of Cognitive Interpretation. With the advancement of broadband seismic, there is a growing need for high resolution analysis techniques that are compatible with the complex waveforms of broadband data.
With the 2015.3 release, GeoTeric brings ground breaking high resolution frequency decomposition technologies suitable for both broadband & conventional data.
High Definition Frequency Decomposition (HDFD) utilizes advanced frequency splitting techniques developed for the complex waveforms of broadband seismic. In line with the rest of the GeoTeric software it is an interactive, example driven tool - designed to work in symbiosis with your cognitive capabilities. This symbiosis encourages progressive thinking and an improved understanding of the geology, before interpreting.
The HDFD technique allows you to reveal at seismic resolution, the detail of the geological elements in your data leading to a more precise delineation and extraction of the stratigraphic features.
Weatherford
Weatherford International plc announces the acquisition of the assets of Elite Energy Products, a North American oil and gas manufacturing and service company that designs and manufactures rotating control devices (RCD) and other specialty drilling equipment.
Elite Energy Products offers an existing infrastructure and manufacturing capacity allowing Weatherford to extend the scope of its land RCD and managed pressure drilling (MPD) technology and services to include original equipment manufacturing (OEM) RCD sales to rigs for permanent installation.
Weatherford Secure Drilling Services is the recognized leader in underbalance and MPD technology and services worldwide, and RCDs are a cornerstone technology that enables MPD operations. Traditionally a rental and services business, the MPD market is growing as managed pressure techniques are being adopted as a conventional method to increase productivity and well integrity. As a result, demand is growing for integration of RCD and MPD equipment into rigs.
The SafeShield® RCD series will continue to be the primary solution for the Weatherford rental and service business.
