Canada has a “pretty big gap” in terms of a concise strategy on energy research and development, says Monica Gattinger, Positive Energy chair and director of the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy.
November 25, 2020, 6 AM MST
Technology and innovation — especially digital — is a big part of the future for Imperial Oil Limited which is already seeing $150 million per year in digital value, the company’s virtual investor day heard Thursday.
November 20, 2020, 6 AM MST
Avatar Innovations Inc. launched today the first innovation accelerator focused on supporting the development of cleantech and clean energy solutions with the support of industry and in collaboration with Indigenous peoples.
November 18, 2020, 2:43 PM MST
One of the main horizontal directional drilling (HDD) challenges is underground uncertainty; a common solution is to drill technical boreholes to get a better understanding of the soil. However, according to one Avatar Program team’s presentation, such a method inevitably requires some assumptions and misses the “full picture” in the earth.
October 28, 2020, 8:24 AM MDT
Crude oil and condensate are highly variable, and useful information around factors such as price, transportation and quality equalization are not easily attainable, making it difficult for producers to determine where best to deliver their bbls. Validere has produced a solution with Edge.
October 8, 2020, 7:21 AM MDT
PetroNet production accounting software has joined Pandell Technology Corporation’s comprehensive back-office software suite for oil and gas companies.
October 7, 2020, 6 AM MDT
In the post-industrial age, the most precious resource becomes access to timely and accurate information, says Thomas Siebel, chairman and chief executive officer at C3.ai.
September 10, 2020, 6 AM MDT
Explor has successfully ran seismic data processing in the cloud — a milestone the Canadian company achieved in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. and Halliburton Company.
September 9, 2020, 11:44 AM MDT
September 8, 2020, 10:56 AM MDT
The digital oilfield is a catchphrase that has come into increasingly common use but, unlike many other companies that use the phrase, Nisku, Alberta-based Latium Technologies, Inc. actually delivers on its potential with some of the biggest names in heavy industry today.
August 6, 2020, 11:05 AM MDT
Today, the Energy Excellence Awards features the Champion in Innovation & Technology Excellence in the subcategory of Digitial Oilfield: Precision Drilling Corporation.
May 20, 2020, 6 AM MDT
May 20, 2020, 11:04 AM MDT
TC Energy Corporation has migrated almost 90 per cent of its corporate and commercial applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc., leveraging the Amazon.com company’s featured cloud-computing services.
May 13, 2020, 11:25 AM MDT
Ensign Energy Services Inc. anticipates 10 of its Canadian well-servicing rigs and their crews will work this summer and into the fall thanks to the federal government’s orphan well abandonment program.
May 12, 2020, 6 AM MDT
Using mobile apps that enable trucking companies, carriers and shippers to share risk and minimize empty backhauls in oilfield services simply makes sense, say some tech-savvy solution providers.
May 11, 2020, 12 AM MDT
The second annual Energy Excellence Awards (EEAs) program, presented by the Daily Oil Bulletin, uniquely recognizes energy excellence and focuses on the advancement of collaboration within Canada’s energy industry. Today, we feature the best in Innovation and Technology Excellence in the subcategory of Digital Oilfield.
April 30, 2020, 6 AM MDT
Rig automation cannot happen fast enough for Precision Drilling Corporation, says top brass, as the company plans to deliver automation on 24 more rigs this year to join the 33 rigs already on automation in the field.
February 5, 2020, 1:39 PM MST
While the “digital oilfield” has been talked about for decades, digital penetration into the industry has tended to lag other sectors. But if a new openness to collaboration and a number of deals struck over the past year between oil and gas and big tech companies, tech startups and local organizations are any indication, that could be about to change.
February 5, 2020, 6 AM MST
While the “digital oilfield” has been talked about for decades, digital penetration into the industry has tended to lag other sectors. But if a new openness to collaboration and a number of deals struck over the past year between oil and gas and big tech companies, tech startups and local organizations are any indication, that could be about to change.
February 4, 2020, 6 AM MST
While the “digital oilfield” has been talked about for decades, digital penetration into the industry has tended to lag other sectors. But if a new openness to collaboration and a number of deals struck over the past year between oil and gas and big tech companies, tech startups and local organizations are any indication, that could be about to change.
February 3, 2020, 6 AM MST
Tapping into the next wave of oil and gas workers through virtual reality may be the next big thing in recruiting for the energy industry.
November 28, 2019, 10:01 AM MST
Artificial intelligence’s “ugly truth” is that despite all the surrounding hype, it doesn’t actually exist — not now, anyway. Therefore, according to Joanne Pires, energy sector technology and digitization is still people dependant.
November 25, 2019, 12 AM MST
November 13, 2019, 8:07 AM MST
Digital and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation technologies could be key to solving the challenge of reducing operational costs and implementing more efficient processes to improve overall company performance and safety given the current state of the market, according to Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC).
October 28, 2019, 11 AM MDT
The Alberta government expects a “leaner” Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), it said in its budget tabled today.
October 24, 2019, 3:25 PM MDT