Today’s digital oil field encompasses a comprehensive list of emergent technologies that deliver increased productivity gain in upstream petroleum operations.  learn more...

Industry players discuss the challenges and solutions for deploying people and supplies to the nation’s hottest unconventional plays. From housing and catering to communications and infrastructure, this supplement covers the logistical "best practices" for today’s oil and gas industry.  learn more...

In 2011 Royal Dutch Shell plc gave E&P editors unparalleled access to its chief scientists and research partners for a supplement that would highlight its efforts in advancing subsurface understanding. The result was Advancing Subsurface Knowledge, which contains information gathered from nearly 30 private interviews with Shell employees, academicians, R&D consortia leaders, and major service companies.   learn more...

Emerging trends in the IT industry are creating the need to rethink traditional approaches to upstream oil and gas data centers to better manage the data explosion, and also to facilitate global collaboration and to speed interpretation by using Cloud computing technologies.  learn more...

Optimal project outcomes flow from contractor coordination by creating an integrated business process for project insights and changes, owner/operators keep contractors in synch.  learn more...

Learn how oil & gas companies seeking to maximize resources can leverage technology to optimize wellhead control to   learn more...

Today’s digital oil field encompasses a comprehensive list of emergent technologies that deliver increased productivity gain in upstream petroleum operations.  learn more...

The oil & gas industry must maintain the highest standards of safety at all times. While a distributed control system (DCS) typically manages normal plant operation, the most common type safety systems are the fire and gas (F&G) and emergency shutdown (ESD) systems.  learn more...

As leading oil and gas producers look to increase subsea production, one area of design focus is the closed-loop controllers used, for example, to guard compressors against dangerous pressure surges.  learn more...

Upstream oil and gas companies are becoming increasingly aware of the growing cybersecurity threats to their businesses. Until recently, the industry perceived security as an IT issue that security staff working for the CIO could handle with passwords and firewalls.  learn more...

Wouldn't you like to spend less non-productive time searching for data? How much can your company benefit from quick access to better information for decision support? And from faster decision-making throughout your operations?  learn more...

For the world's oil and gas companies, sustainability – as a means to enhanced recovery and improved productivity - is best supported by solid real-time infrastructure and sound business integration.  learn more...

Digital prototyping includes the 3D models, visualizations and simulations that can be the single source of truth for complex offshore developments coordinated amongst multiple, independent and highly specialized contractors.  learn more...

The digital oil field is no longer a concept. It is an operating philosophy that is delivering greater production volumes in a shorter time. In today’s oil and gas industry, real-time data is generating huge value. The more data that can be gathered during oil and gas operations, the better placed the operator is to make quick and accurate decisions that impact drilling and production, which, in the end, can dramatically increase revenue.  learn more...

No matter how much a business or production process is automated, the human element – whether as an organizational structure, workflow, or collaboration – remains a key determinant of efficient operations. For example, more than 40% of people invited to participate in a survey by Hart Energy Publishing and CSC responded.  learn more...

Unstable oil prices and a global economic downturn place exploration and production (E&P) asset teams under pressure to more precisely characterize prospects and existing dormant assets. At the same time, data managers look to stretch shrinking information technology budgets. These challenges are particularly acute for development of unconventional resources, which entail large risks and require specialized engineering and seismic interpretation techniques. By optimizing information resources, E&P managers can improve decision-making, and companies can begin extracting more efficiently.  learn more...

The upstream sector of the oil and gas industry today uses increasingly sophisticated, higher-resolution seismic acquisition, processing, analysis, and modeling techniques. And that’s a good thing.  learn more...

Increase geophysicist productivity and decision-making ability by deploying the most up-to-date seismic modeling software in a 64-bit computing environment.  learn more...

Upstream oil and gas exploration and production is a skill-based industry made up of highly trained individuals, and its use of advanced technologies and computerization is unmatched. Yet there is pressing demand in the upstream, as in other industries, to move away from point solutions and over-reliance on spreadsheets.  learn more...

Make all of your seismic files and project data archives instantly available to users. PetroStor technology from Landmark, NetApp and Storwize lowers archival storage costs to less than $1000 per terabyte with automatic, real-time data compression. Now you can increase your storage capacity, data reliability and storage performance while reducing the associated infrastructure footprint, and cooling, power and administrative costs. You'll also improve back-up and disaster recovery capabilities while totally eliminating tape transcription and re-mastering costs. Landmark offers this solution with comprehensive managed services including deployment, data migration and disaster recovery.  learn more...

Learn about a set of technologies and solutions that will allow you to remove the barriers to securely communicating and collaborating with everyone on your global team. Ensure the right people have rapid access to information they need to make higher-quality decisions and accelerate cycle times.  learn more...

Operational risk management is a rising priority for companies in asset-intensive industry segments. Disparate and disconnected efforts in safety, environmental compliance, and asset utilization at the individual facility are converging to provide better enterprisewide control and management accountability. Companies that make substantial efforts today will not only improve risk mitigation but create an enduring competitive advantage.  learn more...