Digital Deflation: How Hard to Save $1/boe?
A typical offshore operator can very readily save $1/boe via continued, digital deflation; which is tantamount to $1bn per annum at a c3Mboed Oil Major. Our numbers are derived from…
More dangerous than coronavirus? The safety case for digital and remote operations.
Remote working, digital de-manning, drones and robotics — all of these themes will structurally accelerate in the aftermath of the COVID crisis. Our research outlines their economics and how they…
Deploying the Digital Twin
This data-file tabulates 36 recent technical papers into “digital twins”, in order to understand how the technology is being deployed around the upstream oil and gas industry. The data show…
Do “digital” completions lift Permian IRRs?
We have modelled the economic uplift of extra digital instrumentation on a typical Permian well. If the data can uplift production by 2.5%, then c$0.4M of instrumentation costs would “pay…
MOSFETs: energy use and power loss calculator?
MOSFETs are fast-acting digital switches, used to transform electricity, across new energies and digital devices. MOSFET power losses are built up from first principles in this data-file, averaging 2% per…
Energy Technologies and Energy Transition
…who benefits and how much? (Apr-2020, 22-pages) More dangerous than coronavirus? The safety case for digital and remote operations (Apr-2020, online) Internet versus Oil: CO2 contrast? (Nov-2019, online) CO2-labelling for…
Digitization after the crisis: who benefits and how much?
…most digital operators and identify longer-term winners from the supply chain. $329.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Pages 2 outlines our database of case studies into digitization around the energy industry….
Upstream technology leaders: weathering the downturn?
…the downturn, benefit from dislocation and thrive in the recovery. This 14-page research note finds clear leaders in onshore, offshore, shale, LNG and digital, while others in the industry may…
Tesla: where’s the IP?
…digital features (chart above). Patent filings since 2019 have focused on big data/digital technologies, solar and improved batteries (including novel electrolyte systems using lithium fluorates, borates and other improved additives)….
US shale: the quick and the dead?
It is no longer possible to compete in the US shale industry without leading digital technologies. This 10-page note outlines best practices, process by process, based on 500 patents and…