Why Your Dedicated Employees are Your Worst Enemy
Someone once told me your enemies are not your competitors down the street underbidding you. Your enemies are your employees. Employees, like anyone else, are...
Technology
Electronic Tong Testing Stand Enables Off-Site Associate Training
Information and technology are key components of success in the oil and gas industries. Being able to assimilate and manage large amounts of data between...
Three Bottom-line Building Ways 3D Printing is Quietly Revolutionizing the Oil and Gas Industry
Although the technology of Rapid Prototyping (RP) was born at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it’s found a home in the American automotive industry....
Innovation & Technology in Oil & Gas – Hughes Rotary Bit 1926
by Story Sloane
Innovation has always been a part of our industry. It certainly was back in the old days and still is today. The need to explore,...
Innovation & Technology in Oil & Gas – Fishtail Bits 1927 to Hughes Rotary Bits 1936
by Story Sloane
Hughes Rotary Bit 1936 With the increasing need to drill through harder formations without failure, rotary rock bits proved to be more reliable, efficient, and cost-effective...
Innovation & Technology in Oil & Gas – Cable Rigs 1918 to Rotary Rigs 1928
by Story Sloane
Crew working on a rotary rig 1928 Replacing cable tool technology, (see below from 1918) the rotary rig was a steadily evolving technology by the...
Drilling Wastes: Recovery & Beneficial Reuse
While the oil and gas industry may fluctuate, the presence of drilling waste remains consistent – as does the need to dispose of that waste....
ABB Advances Oil Field Networking
ABB has introduced the Tropos 6420-XA, a fourth-generation outdoor broadband mesh router that is an oil well pad communications hub for all life cycle phases...
BP Deploys Schlumberger’s Petrel Software
BP has agreed to use Schlumberger’s Petrel E&P software platform to support BP’s new digital technology roll out. The first deployment of the two-year global...
Mtell, MapR Release Mtell Reservoir
Mtelligence Corp. (Mtell) and MapR Technologies Inc. have released a big data platform, called Mtell Reservoir, which uses the MapR Distribution, including Hadoop, Mtell Previse...