Entries by duperron

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PHDSOFT WINS ANOTHER INNOVATION PRIZE: NOW IN CHINA

After being recently awarded with Shell Innovation Challenge, PhDsoft and its Digital Twin technology has just won a new prize. This time, it was the 1st prize in InnoSTARS Competition, in Shenyang, China. The company won the Competition on September 20 after a fierce preliminary competition with nearly 1,000 companies and makers from the United […]

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The next frontier for digital technologies in oil and gas

Over the past several years, the global oil and gas industry has had to navigate very choppy waters; after a prolonged run of high and growing rig counts, mega-capital-expenditure projects, and plentiful capital to support investment, oil prices slid precipitously in 2014 and 2015. Within a matter of months, oil companies that had invested heavily […]

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Study Points to Public Policies to Develop Innovation in the Oil Sector

PhDsoft was invited to join in a study that has just been released: Technological Learning and Industrial Innovation – Working Paper Series. It was made by FGV EBAPE, a renowned Brazilian Institution. The objective was to answer two basic questions: To what extent and how have companies in the Brazilian oil and gas industry accumulated […]

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Economic Prosperity in the Digital Age

BY JOHN CHAMBERS SAN JOSE – Around the world, people are demanding change. Recent electoral outcomes – perhaps most notably, the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States – have highlighted rising economic uncertainty. In this environment, it is imperative that leaders articulate and deliver on a clear […]

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GE’s on How Digitization Helps Reduce Costs in Oil and Gas

“Unplanned downtime continues to plague the oil and gas industry. The offshore sector, in particular, has been saddled with unnecessarily high costs and exposed to unnecessary risks as a result. This was made clear in a study by Kimberlite, an international oil and gas market research and analytics company, in Summer 2016. And the problem […]