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3D virtual modelling \ digital twins with drones in Oil and Gas Industry

3D virtual modelling \ digital twins with drones in Oil and Gas Industry

Drone technology, integrated with 3D virtual modelling is a cost savings technique, and it also significantly vastly improves HSE and security perspective. The magnificent infrastructure and their parts in the oil and gas industry require a nearly consistent evaluation and maintenance.

Where manual evaluation of these big, mostly inaccessible structures takes months or weeks and costs…

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#YearInReview: Major satellite launches of 2019 2019 was a busy year in spaceflights. A total of 101 space launches have been carried out so far this year.

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Five myths about Location Intelligence

Five myths about Location Intelligence

If you follow the tech industry, you’ve probably encountered the term location intelligence, but what does it really mean? For some, it’s about technology like GIS and mapping software. For others, it’s about analysis and spatial data. And for others still, it’s a business concept that refers to improved performance through better spatial awareness.

Myth 1: It’s just GIS rebranded

Myth 2: It’s…

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IBM expands AI-based platform for precision agriculture IBM has announced the global expansion plans for its Watson Decision Platform which supports precision agriculture. The AI-based platform is customized as per new crops and regional variations to enable food security for the rapidly booming population.

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Heavy Crude Oil

#funfacts #petroleum #interesting #oilandgas

Heavy crude oil (or extra heavy crude oil) is highly-viscous oilthat cannot easily flow to production wells under normal reservoir conditions. It is referred to as “heavy” because its density or specific gravity is higher than that of light crude oil.

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Companies will either be a catalyst for change, or they will be a casualty of change

Companies will either be a catalyst for change, or they will be a casualty of change

Convincing petroleum companies to use cloud services is big dream from all the technology companies including, Google, Microsoft, Amazon etc. I myself was also part of a similar exercise in collaboration with one of these company, however that was a failed effort. There are many lesson learned from that activity and the main bottleneck is just removed by google in this smart move.

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The Concept of Data Stewards & Owners in Petroleum Enterprise Geospatial Infrastructure

The Concept of Data Stewards & Owners in Petroleum Enterprise Geospatial Infrastructure

Defining roles and responsibilities in an enterprise GIS is very important. As petroleum industry has not many professionals with expertise in Geoscience as well as Geographical Information System at the same time, therefore it’s important to model  scenarios in which different roles take responsibility of different aspects of the system. Companies should revisit their GIS infrastructure in…

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Premium Class Career in GIS Technology

Premium Class Career in GIS Technology

GIS was quite an interesting and intelligence rich subject. This quite a big domain and offer a verity of jobs and career paths to professions since more than a decade. The future of GIS professionals is bright provided they improve their knowledge and capabilities to link and use GIS along with Big Data, AI and Analytics.

The above picture is taken from “The Digital Workforce of the Future”,…

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Best practices to manage your source data paths in ArcGIS project? ArcGIS projects provides an ability to make amazing maps while loading data from a variety of sources.

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Text Mining – Concepts, techniques and workflows Ths picture very well explains the concepts & technqiues involved to solve various challenges in the domain of data science speciallt the text mining.

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Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favorite maps From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane,

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An implementation of Portal for ArcGIS in Chevron, named as Map Hub

An implementation of Portal for ArcGIS in Chevron, named as Map Hub

  Chevron’s Nathan Marx shared the journey toward their corporate-wide digital web-based Map Hub. A well thought out plan, structured approach, and phased implementation has lead to greater information accessibility and simple to use apps across many functional departments and operating offices wo

rldwide. The future of the Map Hub…

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Annual Houston PUG 2018 Proceedings

Annual Houston PUG 2018 Proceedings

1,200 participants, 30+ user presentations on the latest solutions to common business challenges

Firsthand, how GIS solutions can drive your location strategy forward to help you increase productivity and reduce costs within petroleum organization.

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Use of NPL techniques with Oil and Gas Drilling Data

#NLP technique to provide engineers more insight from unstructured drilling data.

Use of machine learning and analytics are significantly increased for making decisions in oil and gas exploration. However, to achieve an excellence, we must train our models with much bigger training dataset.

In petroleum exploration, drilling is the most expensive part with high stakes involved. Therefore companies, engage all possible surveillance and control mechanisms to record every…

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World best employers by country in 2017

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Data Wisperer - skills & traits needed

Here are skills & traits needed for data scientists. #datascientists #skills #datascience

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Geoscientists Without Borders® funds projects that apply the geosciences to humanitarian issues such as groundwater management, earthquake and tsunami hazard mitigation.

The deadline for the next round of Geoscientists Without Borders® Phase I applications is 15 January 2018.

Successful project proposals:

Focus on geoscience applications to solve critical needs

Include collaboration with local…

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