Category: Energy

As a service provider for the oil and gas industry, Dalbo Holdings Inc. (DHI) has to navigate harsh conditions in the Texas oil fields. High winds, strong storms, and extreme temperatures create difficult conditions for gathering the reliable data that DHI needs to gain a clear picture of its field operations. Moreover, oil fields are […]

As we wrote in the ‘Reduce Collaboration Toil for Capital Projects Using AWS’ blog post for Capital Project Collaboration Platform (CP2), customers in the energy industry spend millions of hours collaborating internally and externally over the life of a capital project. They face numerous pain points, including the inability to collate comments, inefficient routing of […]

Western Power Distribution (WPD) aims to be forward-thinking, innovative, and cost effective in its approach to managing the vegetation in its electricity distribution network. To that end, the company wanted to begin digitizing its vegetation strategy so that it could increase network visibility and confirm that its contractors were maintaining the network’s vegetation effectively. The […]

Energy technology provider TechnipFMC knows that turning brownfields into smart fields is the future of the energy industry. By using artificial intelligence (AI) to gain insights into remote operations, energy companies can operate more sustainably and cost efficiently, as well as use predictive analytics to fix issues before they become bigger problems. To support its […]

The seismic methods are the most common and effective ways for subsurface imaging to delineate and characterize oil and gas reservoirs. Seismic data are acquired in the field by deploying a seismic source (vibrator) that radiates elastic waves into the subsurface. The waves travel through the formations and are reflected back due to the variation […]

Across the oil and gas industry, companies struggle to gain insights from data spread across siloed systems and processes. For BKV Corporation (BKV), these challenges were all too familiar, but the energy company recognized that unlocking the full value of its data was necessary for future growth. After a large acquisition in 2020, BKV knew […]

Introduction Hot work is defined as any operation that could be an origin of ignition in an environment with flammable materials. According to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), hot work is one of the most common causes of worker death. It is also leading cause of industrial fires. A hot work […]

Utilities are responding to increasing threats and vulnerabilities targeting both familiar enterprise information technology (IT) channels and others outside of traditional systems, such as ransomware attacks on business processes, and operational technology (OT)/Internet of Things (IoT) vulnerabilities that straddle the cyber-physical world. Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) are seeing the security landscape change and are […]

Customers in the energy and utilities industry process PDF documents in a number of use cases. Here are two examples we have worked on: Example 1 – In upstream and midstream, service companies such as SPL Inspection Services generate PDF reports during meter inspections. They send these reports to customers as email attachments. Customers may […]

Large industrial enterprises in manufacturing, oil and gas, and electric transmission and distribution collect operational technology (OT) data from millions of sensors. Much of this valuable data remains unused, sitting in OSIsoft PI Historians, with 80% of the world’s largest oil and gas companies and 65% of the industrial companies in the Fortune 500 relying […]