The last 18 months have shifted collaboration forever. So how effective has the upstream sector shift been? They say necessity is the mother of invention and the limits of all sectors, including our own, have certainly been tested over the last year. The unprecedent challenges have been many; from restrictions on travel to rig sites,…
Applications which produce 3D trajectory displays have been around for a long time and are routinely used as important tools to safely plot a path to the pay zone. Since we launched PetroVue last year our product team has been working on improvements to our trajectory tool and we are excited to share the latest…
Shift your drilling up a gear with Heatmaps! At the rigsite a picture is worth a thousand data points. Your drilling team – engineers, tool pushers and geoscientists often spend too long wading through large volumes of data to decipher patterns, subtle rates of change, and thresholds being breached. It remains a challenge across the…
Petrolink People is our staff interview series which aims to get inside the minds of some of the brightest people at the company. We aim to uncover what makes them tick, exciting projects they are working on and their ambitions for the future. In this edition, we sat down with Rony Anand – Senior UI/UX…
We’ve all had experiences of software with tired interfaces, buggy apps and regular crashes – the results are predictable. You either begrudgingly continue working in it, or leave the platform. Crafting great user interface design and user experience (UI/UX) is not simple in any business. Designing visualization platforms in oil and gas is no exception.…
Over the past few decades, the world has seen a speedy evolution of mobile generation technology. From ‘only voice’ analog 1G mobile network to the rise of mobile internet experience and focus on wireless World Wide Web (WWW) – the mobile space has surely changed a lot. With that, the way we use our mobile…
Upstream data management is a complicated process and getting it right is critical. Logs and reports composed using raw real-time or static data are constantly being generated and distributed. Unpicking the strands is not a trivial task. Each contractor has their own database which grows minute by minute – throw in duplicate reports and inaccurate…
Drilling Engineering Today Designing, monitoring, analyzing performance and coordinating onshore and offshore drilling teams. These are just some of the tasks required of your drilling engineers to ensure that a well is executed safely. To bridge the gap between the rig and the office; Geoscientists, the drilling teams, and service contractors, must all work together.…
Building up a picture of the subsurface is a massive undertaking, one which takes thousands of hours and a diverse team. Everyone from drilling engineers, geologists and petrophysicists are involved. Unfortunately, on many projects, insights from planning in the office are not transferred to the well site. It is a long-standing issue and without closing…
My first 100 days at Petrolink The Petrolink People series has charted the course of some of the longer-serving members of our team. For this interview we thought we would mix it up and hear from Pavlina Houdkova, Marketing Coordinator on her first 100 days with the company. “I believe that bringing a fresh pair of eyes can bring value,…