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We live in a data world. Our personal and professional lives rely on data, lots of it, every day, to make decisions and to be honest, make life a little more interesting. If you've ever played fantasy football or if you competed in fantasy playof ...
In this blog post we will look at some of the achievements during a 5-day machine learning hackathon we arranged recently. We were curious about one of the key concepts in our current strategy - could we manage to become a bit more "data smart" on in ...
The oil and gas industry is going through a tough period and many companies are downsizing. Oil and Gas UK reports that jobs in the North Sea have been reduced by 1/3 over the last three years. Unfortunately, we can see this trend all over world for ...
In a recent article, I wrote a bit about technology waves and the difficulty we experience when we have to decide on jumping onto a wave or just letting it pass by. Actually, the same applies to all the buzz-words you face when working in the tech-in ...
Opportunity maintenance is a form of preventive maintenance based upon "convenient" replacement of equipment items or components by taking the advantage of the unplanned or planned shutdown of a system where we have suitable maintenance resources alr ...
Systems and process equipment in the oil and gas industry typically require maintenance resources and repair activities to sustain a level of availability. Maros and Taro present an extensive maintenance strategy modelling capability to cover mainten ...
Asset management comprises of a range of techniques to ensure maximum production at a minimum cost. This is achieved through an optimum combination of design configuration, maintenance strategy and operational procedures. RAM analysis can be used to ...
Maintenance strategy is one of the main pillars for sustaining production availability in an oil rig or refinery. In my experience, when developing a RAM (reliability, availability, maintainability) study, the reliability of the system and its ...
Oil and gas facilities around the world experience a large number of power interruptions, ranging from small shortages to complete power failures leading to lower productivity, higher maintenance costs and unsafe operating conditions for equipment. T ...
As the oil and gas industry (and technology) moves forward, traditional performance prediction techniques are unable to cope for the degree of complexity encountered these days. Nevertheless, they offer a strong base to new techniques and methods. Mo ...