Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Software Applications News

New App Aims to Improve Project Performance

Andy Sutherland, director at Prism Energy (Photo: Prism Energy)

An Aberdeen-based company has created a lessons learned management system that captures critical project data and helps inform the future performance of complex oil and gas developments globally.Prism Energy, which provides project and risk management applications and consultancy, has worked closely with Genesis over…

GE Power Division Signs $3 bln Services Deal in Algeria

GE Power, a division of General Electric Co, has signed a services deal with a subsidiary of Algerian utility Sonelgaz valued at more than $3 billion, the largest such agreement ever for GE Power, GE said on Monday. Under the 20-year contract with Sonelgaz SPE, GE will provide long-term maintenance and operations services for 10 power plants in Algeria…

GE Signs Exelon In Its Largest Power-plant Software Deal

General Electric Co has signed up U.S. energy utility Exelon Corp to use its full software set to analyze and manage power plants in 48 states, the largest GE deployment in the power sector so far, the companies said on Tuesday. The Exelon deal, aimed at wringing greater efficiency from the business of generating electricity…

CGG Launches VelPro 9.5 Velocity Modeling Software

As well as intuitive velocity model building, VelPro offers workflows for pore pressure prediction. Here, results including mud-weight curves are shown using the Eaton method (image courtesy of CGG GeoSoftware).

CGG GeoSoftware has released VelPro 9.5, a velocity modeling and depth conversion commercial software technology used by interpreters and velocity modeling experts to seamlessly integrate seismic and well velocity information, horizons, faults and well tops into robust and data-driven velocity models. VelPro models complement the workflows of geophysical interpretation software applications…

Lamprell to Implement Software for Automated Manufacturing

Photo: Lamprell

U.A.E based offshore jackup rig builder Lamprell Energy Ltd., will implement SSI's EnterprisePlatform software solution to allow its engineering team to automate manufacturing processes. Acording to SSI (developer of ShipConstructor software), the immediate benefit will come from streamlining and automating Lamprell's processes used to control robotic machinery on the production floor (e.g.