Category: Energy (Oil & Gas)

Digitization is transforming the energy industry. However, at Xcel Energy, a major US electricity and natural gas company, legacy technology infrastructure and a reliance on cloud-service contractors were limiting the benefits of digital development. Jared Keith, DevOps lead, joined Xcel Energy in 2019 to help launch new solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and later […]

Identifying onshore oil pads on satellite images using Amazon Rekognition In this post, we’re exploring an end-to-end solution for creating an object detection model with Amazon Rekognition to identify oil and gas well pads in satellite images. This low-code solution lets users interact with a pre-trained machine learning (ML) model that identifies well pads with Amazon Rekognition, […]

Tips for Managing Your Vendors Securely, While Maintaining Control Today’s episode is a continuation of our conversation with Robert Albach, a leader in product management for secure firewall / industrial security at Cisco Systems. We’ll dive into the complex world of securely managing vendor integration and the importance of doing it while maintaining control within […]

It’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month!  In 2003, the National Cybersecurity Alliance and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. To recognize this annual tradition, join AWS for a 4-part mini-series highlighting the different ways cybersecurity impacts your industrial landscape, especially since, as Caroline points out, “Over the pandemic, cyber events […]

Energy data and intelligence provider TGS wanted to innovate its energy data library by implementing data visualization capabilities and improving the delivery times of its products for its customers. To handle the demand of delivering large amounts of data, TGS wanted to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions that would scale to large data requests […]

An oil field technology company needed a better way to deliver its chemical solutions and services that prevent scale from clogging water pipelines used in oil and gas well drilling. To determine how much scale inhibitor to use, the company must monitor customers’ dynamic water flow rates, a process that used to incur high operational, […]

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 […]

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 […]