The use of hull life-cycle maintenance software since 1995 on 26 major Brazilian oil company tankers has reduced inaccuracies in the evaluation of ship renewal costs during dry-docking. Due to its success, the software has been redeveloped and extended for the whole floating fleet, including FPSOs and jackups, replacing regular drawings by the 3D models. […]
The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) has just appointed the members of its Scientific-Technical Committee (Comtec), which was created by the end of last year among the new regulation for implementation, by the oil companies, of the mandatory investments in Research, Development and Innovation (R&D). According to this contractual obligation, […]
“If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity”, concluded in 1972 […]
World’s foremost authority on corrosion, Nace International has just published the study “International Measurements of Prevention, Application and Economics of corrosion Technology”, Impact. In it, the association estimated at $ 2.5 trillion per year the overall cost of corrosion today, equivalent to 3.4% of world GDP. Prepared for two years and presented in Canada, the […]
This is a Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) integrated with PhDC4D. It was a project financed by a private company, like the oil ones obliged to invest part of its revenue in R&D, in Brazil. Last year, this obligation resulted in more than R$ 1 billion invested in projects like this. PhDsoft is looking for new partnerships. There […]
“The epic quest for oil, money and Power”, announces the subtitle of the classic book written by Daniel Yergin: “The prize”. At PhDsoft someone could add “for awards”. The company was founded in 2000 already being awarded by Finep at the I Venture Forum Brasil. Since then, it has never passed many time without recognition. […]
PhDsoft’s founder and CEO, Duperron Marangon spent last April 7th in a workshop with one of the company’s clients to explain the most recent developments of PhDC4D®, like piping integrity management. He also announced rapid piping modeling – reading data from Navisworks – as one of the ongoing developments. PhDC4D® is a comprehensive system resulting […]