Digital Oilfield
Drones, robotic swarms, lasers and AI enlisted in Shell’s quest to explore ocean depths
Monday, March 19, 2018, 4:51 PM MDT
XPRIZE has chosen nine finalist teams advancing in the $7 million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a three-year competition challenging teams…
Canada ‘leapfrogging’ to the front of 5G technology with commitment to wireless innovation
Monday, March 19, 2018, 4:16 PM MDT
OTTAWA - The governments of Canada, Ontario and Quebec are partnering with some of the world's digital heavyweights to usher…
Cenozon launches InstantChart featuring artificial intelligence technology
Monday, March 19, 2018, 4:10 PM MDT
Calgary-based Cenozon Inc., in an exclusive partnership with Houston-based Peak AI Solutions, has released InstantChart, a chart reading mobile app…
‘Netflix for oil’ setting stage for $1 trillion data battle
Monday, March 19, 2018, 11:34 AM MDT
A battle for big data is brewing in the oil patch.The service companies that map underground pockets of oil, drill…
Cyber-attacks ‘literally happening hundreds of thousands of times a day’: US energy secretary
Thursday, March 15, 2018, 6:18 PM MDT
Russian hackers are conducting a broad assault on the U.S. electric grid, water processing plants, air transportation facilities and other…
Airscope expands use of drone inspection tech with 3-D modelling
Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 2:31 PM MDT
Inspections and asset visualization company Airscope said it has expanded on the benefits of drone technology by developing computer-generated 3-D…
Hughes rolls out next gen rapid deploy communications hub for oil field services
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 4:12 PM MDT
Hughes Network Systems, LLC has been awarded a contract to provide its new HT2900 Rapid Deploy Communications Hub to one…
Most of blockchain's benefits don't come from blockchain: Bank of Canada paper
Monday, March 12, 2018, 4:21 PM MDT
OTTAWA - A new research paper by a Bank of Canada staffer says most of the proposed benefits of the…
Tech centre developing next generation of robotics for oil and gas
Thursday, March 8, 2018, 3:45 PM MST
The U.K.-based Oil & Gas Technology Centre has invested in three robotics projects to transform pressure vessel inspection, which it…
Crypto miner Bitfarms to invest $193 million in Canadian centres
Thursday, March 8, 2018, 3:39 PM MST
Backbone Hosting Solutions Inc., a cryptocurrency mining company, said it plans to invest $250 million in computing centres in Sherbrooke,…
‘Possibilities provided by digitalization will change our industry’: Statoil
Thursday, March 8, 2018, 3:36 PM MST
An integrated operations support centre and a drilling operations centre will help reach Statoil’s ambition of increasing value creation from…
ESG Solutions marks record number of passive microseismic events as fracking picks up pace
Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 3:07 PM MST
ESG Solutions said its Energy Services Unit has acquired and processed a record number of passive microseismic events in 2017.…
