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DRILLING & COMPLETIONS 28 Virtual reality
Greg App provides an overview on new drilling simulators used by Royal Dutch Shell and National Oilwell Varco.
32 Using high-? delity simulators to develop non-technical skills
Tim Bailey, Director of BP’s Global Wells Institute, explains how simulators are used in the applied deepwater well control program.
36 Multi-dimensional
Aker Solutions’ Kjetil Notodden discusses the bene? ts of drilling simulator technology post-Macondo.
EPIC 38 Taking nodes to a new level
Elaine Maslin examines how nodes have been taken to a new
Features level on Statoil’s massive Aasta Hansteen spar development.
PRODUCTION
Digital Oil? eld 44 Autonomous tractoring 22 Real-time data collection and analysis
Elaine Maslin looks at a new autonomous tractor unit for well
Kepware Technologies’ Stephen Sponseller discusses work developed by Welltec and BP.
how automation can improve remote drilling operations.
48 Rigless origins
Reaching Ultra’s Fernando Hernandez explains how rigless 26 Intelligent design intervention has evolved to meet new challenges.
Audrey Leon speaks with Deloitte’s David Traylor and NASA’s David Kaplan to discover how arti? cial
SUBSEA intelligence can be used in the oil and gas industry to 52 ROVs take on BOPs improve safety and cut risk during remote operations.
Elaine Maslin attended Subsea Expo in Aberdeen to view the latest in ROV technology and learned of a new model that
FMC Technologies Schilling Robotics plans to release.
ON THE COVERON THE COVER 54 Underwater intelligence
Bird’s eye view. Bird’s eye view. Aker Solutions’
Required reading for the Global Oil & Gas Industry since 1975
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