Innovation & Technology in Oil & Gas – Hughes Rotary Bit 1926
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,...
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Innovation & Technology in Oil & Gas – Fishtail Bits 1927 to Hughes Rotary Bits 1936
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
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...
Reliability and Performance: What is the right way to judge a product by its presentation?
Is there a true metric that can completely identify the unbiased reliability of a product or even a company as a whole? For as long...
A Winning Combination! -Triple-play for the oil and gas industry
As technology moves with the speed of industry, new technologies emerge to make our lives better and better at home. One of these is “Triple...
Oil and Gas Going Social: Will Our Industry Ever Reap the Benefits of Social Branding?
There’s no denying that online social media platforms have transformed consumer brands. But can social technology really be valuable to the oil and gas world?...