Baker Hughes has released rig count numbers for the week ending on September 11, with the U.S. industry seeing a slight dip after its first big uptick at the end of August, while Canadian numbers show status quo since last week's count.
In collaboration with Halliburton and AWS, Explor has achieved a key milestone with respect to seismic data processing in the cloud.
On August 16, 2020, Suncor reported it had experienced a fire at the secondary extraction facilities of its Base Plant mine, on August 14. As of August 29, production was restored to 165,000 barrels per day (bbls/d) of mined bitumen, and although initial repairs can allow the mine to operate at full rates, production has been restricted to manage bitumen quality into the upgraders, according to the company's most recent update.
Baker Hughes announced that the Baker Hughes international rig count for August 2020 was 747, up 4 from the 743 counted in July 2020, and down 391 from the 1,138 counted in August 2019. The international offshore rig count for August 2020 was 184, up 1 from the 183 counted in July 2020, and down 60 from the 244 counted in August 2019.
Husky has achieved first oil at the Spruce Lake Central thermal project in Saskatchewan and is moving towards startup of the Liuhua 29-1 field at the Liwan Gas Project.
Stratagraph, a pioneer in providing mud logging and pressure detection services to the global oil and gas industry, has launched new RockProp advanced reservoir analysis software in partnership with its Cuttings Alliance consortium.
Emerson's new DataManager software v8.2 helps refiners monitor corrosion of hydrofluoric (HF) acid alkylation units to prevent costly, unplanned shutdowns and maximize profits and productivity.
Wearable Technologies Ltd. has joined a worldwide partnership with IT services consultancy giant Wipro, to offer WTL's ELEKSEN Connected Worker solution to their respective global client bases.
Oil and gas companies are finding innovative ways to capitalise on the benefits of virtual reality (VR) technology, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Quorum Software, a leader in digital transformation for the oil and gas industry, announced the release of myQuorum DynamicDocs, a cloud-based document management system purpose-built to make oil and gas operators more secure, agile and compliant. As part of the myQuorum platform, DynamicDocs will play a central role in helping Quorum customers evolve document-based business processes to deliver more value and streamline workflows.
Schlumberger announced that its technology partnership with Microsoft to develop cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack has been strengthened by new deployments being introduced at the SIS Global Forum 2019 in Monaco.
Honeywell has unveiled new software to help field workers in the oil and gas, mining, and aerospace industries digitize equipment inspection programs, which can increase productivity, improve accuracy and minimize unplanned asset downtime.
