Visualise a drilling engineer on a remote platform, equipped with ‘smart-glasses’. This wearable device is powered by AR technology and provides live alerts about the position of the drill bit throughout the drilling sequence, step by step workflow information and a live link to colleagues and experts around the world through voice command
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Halliburton to support local employee development programme in Egypt
Halliburton has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources (MoP) to support a specialised development programme for middle management and young professionals in Egypt
Emerson, Repsol form alliance for advanced geophysical technologies
Emerson, an engineering and technology company, and Repsol, an energy company, have established a strategic alliance to deliver advanced subsurface geophysical technologies to help accelerate oil production
BP, Environmental Defense Fund partner to reduce methane emissions
Energy firm BP and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have announced a three-year strategic commitment to advance technologies and practices to reduce methane emissions from the global oil and gas supply chain
Oranto Petroleum to fund educational training for South Sudan’s communities
Oranto Petroleum will fund an education programme in conjunction with the Ministry of Petroleum to provide training to 25 teachers in the most underprivileged parts of South Sudan