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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.

Beyond Oil Digitalization: The Roadmap to Upstream Profitability

November 07, 2017
Sponsored by: AspenTEch
This paper discusses digital transformation in the oil patch. It explores how upstream industry leaders are capitalizing on the explosion of data and how, in particular, merging rigorous process models with both analytics and data visualization can help achieve a competitive advantage. It also reveals how innovations from AspenTech are helping to lead the way toward asset reliability and profitability.

Lowering Your Total Installed Cost Through Structural Steel Savings

September 15, 2017
Sponsored by: Eaton
Eaton's B-Line series metallic cable ladder systems are engineered to provide superior strength to weight ratio while providing the lowest total installed cost of any cable management system in the industry today. This is achieved through continuous innovation, market and customer based knowledge.

Industrial IoT: From Concept to Reality

July 03, 2017
Sponsored by: Bsquare
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is dramatically shifting how businesses operate. IoT capitalizes on using software, sensors and devices to predict equipment failures along the supply chain, track performance in real time, and help refine designs and processes to prevent failures in the future. For the Oil & Gas professional interested in digital innovation and IoT, this ebook will walk through the five stages of IoT progression, describe the value of each stage, and illustrate a real-world, end-to-end deployment.

ZF 8 TX Functional Powerhouse: Robust Lightweight for Oil and Gas Production

June 15, 2017
Sponsored by: ZF
ZF exactly customized the new 8 TX automatic transmission to the specific requirements for high pressure pumping applications. It offers eight gears and particularly harmonious gear transitions as well as a high spread of gear ratios. Together with the very robust basic design, this minimizes both component stress and wear and results in a reliable, durable transmission with very low life cycle costs. More than anything else, ZF 8 TX ensures a precise control of the pumping station.

Do More than Just “Manage” Energy - Improve Operational Excellence Through Continuous Energy Improvement

April 21, 2017
Sponsored by: Schneider Electric
The hydroprocessing industries are currently operating in a volatile environment of depressed oil prices, alternate feedstock availability, global competitiveness, changing economics, and rising energy costs, etc. A comprehensive Energy Management strategy that scopes a programmatic Energy Management approach, implements an Online Performance Solution to drive its initiatives, and demonstrates benefits through Visualization can help the process industries achieve more efficient and flexible production, reduce operating costs, and promote a greener global economy. This will not only provide immediate savings today but will help drive operational excellence through continuous energy improvement well into the future.
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