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World Oil white papers include literature on the latest trends, development and advances in the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry, including technology and technologies relating to operations, shale, technology, subsea, deepwater, rig activity, drilling, innovations in the oil and gas industry and more.

3 Keys to Success when Embarking on Your Digital Acceleration Journey

October 25, 2018
Sponsored by: AspenTech
In asset-intensive industries, IIoT and digitalization technologies are paving the way to increased profitability and reliability. However, capturing this opportunity does not require a full-scale digital transformation. This paper discusses how to apply these technologies where they will create the most impact, and outlines three keys to success when embarking on your digital acceleration journey.

Improve the Reliability of Your Assets with Prescriptive Maintenance

September 21, 2018
Sponsored by: AspenTech
Equipment failures and process disruptions are creating unplanned downtime that is costing the process industries billions of dollars in lost revenue and profit every year. With asset performance management, it’s now possible to extract value from decades of design and operations data to perform prescriptive maintenance and optimize asset performance. In this white paper, you’ll read about nine companies that have implemented prescriptive maintenance solutions and the bottom-line results that have been achieved—in as little as 2 ½ weeks.

The Future of Inspections: Technologies Converge to Transform Asset Integrity Management

August 15, 2018
Sponsored by: BHGE
There's a steep price to pay for unplanned maintenance. But what if your inspections predicted or detected corrosion and other costly risks that force downtime, require replacement parts or necessitate expensive experts to be brought in for support? In this whitepaper, Frost & Sullivan examines the impact digital and technological shifts are having on the NDT market and how more facilities are moving toward a new strategy called digital inspection.

The Four Types of Threat Detection

July 31, 2018
Sponsored by: Dragos
Threat detection is one of three core cybersecurity functions, along with prevention and response; it can help avoid significant environmental and financial impacts to organizations, loss of safety, and inappropriate response plans. This paper discusses the four types of threat detection and offers sample use-cases focused on industrial control system (ICS) and industrial internet of things (IIoT) environments.

Further pipeline infrastructure essential as Permian oil production surges

July 26, 2018
Sponsored by:
Oil production in the Permian Basin is booming and the demand for pipeline infrastructure to accommodate necessary takeaway capacity is growing. As production surges in the region, midstream companies are rushing to build pipelines to debottleneck capacity constraints and move supply to US Gulf Coast markets. Download this whitepaper to learn more about the developing pipeline infrastructure in the Permian Basin that will provide sufficient takeaway capacity to keep pace with production growth.
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