Emerson has adopted advanced thermal energy harvesting as a power source for its wireless products. Power Puck thermoelectric energy harvesters convert ambient heat commonly released in industrial processes into electricity for powering Rosemount wireless transmitters…
Total E&P Services awarded Emerson a 10-year contract to provide control and safety system maintenance services that will support Total’s global upstream oil and gas operations. The 10-year frame agreement is part of Total’s Integrated Control and Safety Systems standardization strategy…
Riyaz Ali from Emerson Process Management describes the problems and possible solutions for testing the final control element of Safety Instrumented Function loops. Accidents in process industries have created concern as to whether functional safety protects personnel…
Automating data collection reduces operator exposure to offshore hazards, as well as making it easier, says Emerson Process Management’s Craig Abbott. Statoil’s Gullfaks’ B platform. Photo from Statoil…
Emerson Process Management has launched Roxar Tempest 7.2, the latest version of its integrated reservoir engineering software suite that can be applied in a wide variety of scenarios such as field appraisal, field optimization, and brownfield development…
Emerson Process Management has been awarded a contract to automate the Maersk Oil Culzean gas field development in the North Sea. Image of Culzean, from Maersk. Emerson will provide…
The International Society of Automation appointed James Keaveney as its 2016 president. Keaveney. Image courtesy of the ISA. Keaveney will work with Society leaders and staff…
Greg Hale takes a look at how Shell integrated an asset integrity program into its new Prelude FLNG project with the intent of saving millions over the next 20-25 years. Integrating an asset integrity…
Gregory Hale explains how avoidable downtime costs producers billions of dollars every year, with equipment failures being the most common culprit. Engineers remotely monitor all aspects of oil production…
Stork successfully installed Emerson Process Management’s Roxar SandLog wireless sand erosion monitoring solutions on a major North Sea operator’s installation. The collaboration with Stork marks the first installation of the Roxar…
BP and Emerson have signed a global agreement for Emerson Process Management to provide automation technologies and aftercare services for BP’s upstream oil and gas operations. The new 10-year agreement extends the existing arrangement between the companies…
Emerson Process Management has acquired Norwegian company Yggdrasil, a provider of flow assurance and production optimization software. Emerson will incorporate Yggdrasil’s METTE production optimization solution into the Roxar reservoir management software portfolio…
Two additional contracts have been awarded for the Shah Deniz Stage 2 project, offshore Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea, some 100km south of Baku, operator BP announced. FMC Kongsberg Subsea won a US$297 million contract for the supply of the subsea production system hardware…
The last few years have seen significant advances in reservoir modeling technology, aiming at removing some of the critical bottlenecks in underlying work processes. Ingrid Aarnes. Given…
Emerson Process Management introduces the Micro Motion F100P and HPC010P Coriolis flowmeters to measure accurate flow rates for wellbore chemicals injected at high pressure conditions. Both meters are designed for demanding offshore…
