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GE Oil & Gas Chief Digital Officer Explains How Software Is Changing His Industry

Tomas Kellner
January 27, 2017
Earlier in January, GE’s Oil & Gas business signed a $180 million agreement with Transocean, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling companies, to service the massive six-story machines called blowout preventers (BOPs) the driller carries on its ships. In the past, this would have been a routine maintenance contract, but this deal is different.
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Neural Networks And Dynamite: AI Engineer Peter Kirk Talks About His Fascination With Coal Power Plants

Tomas Kellner
September 20, 2016
In April 2016, GE Power acquired the Boston-based machine learning and data analytics startup NeuCo Inc., which uses software and artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of coal-fired power plants. They are still the most common source of electricity in the world.
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Brussels Is Sprouting A Digital Grid For A Green Boom

Tomas Kellner
August 02, 2016
There is plenty of uncertainty in Brussels this summer, the home to a number of European Union institutions. But one safe bet in the Belgian metropolis is that the lights will stay on.
That’s because the city’s electrical grid is using the Industrial Internet to get smarter. Sibelga, the company that operates the only distribution network in Brussels, will soon adopt GE’s PowerOn Advantage, a sophisticated software solution that controls electricity flows between the traditional grid and the consumer. The software runs on Predix, GE’s data and analytics platform.
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Software Will Light The Way To Cleaner Electricity: Q&A With GE Power’s Digital Chief Ganesh Bell

Tomas Kellner
July 18, 2016
Henry Ford’s Model T looks like no car on the road today and the Wright Flyer has been rightfully retired in the Smithsonian. And yet another piece of technology that predates them both—the electric grid—still looks like a network that its designer, Thomas Edison, would recognize.
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Ganesh Bell: How the Digital Revolution Can Power Future Growth

Ganesh Bell GE
February 25, 2016

To meet the world’s growing demand for energy, the power sector needs to transform into a digital industry.

 
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Deep Learning: New Subsea Service Model Helps Oil Drillers Limit Costs

February 24, 2016
When Marc Edwards joined Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. as chief executive in 2014, he already knew how dependent offshore drilling rigs were on blowout preventers — valve assemblies designed to prevent oil spills. But he was surprised when he found out how costly it was when those blowout preventers were out of service.
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Marco Annunziata: Oil Prices Got You Down?

Marco Annunziata GE
February 23, 2016

 

The sharp decline in oil prices has placed them squarely at the center of the global economic debate. Many see low oil prices as evidence that the world economy has lost steam. Stock markets jump anxiously at every piece of news coming from the oil market.

The market story is important. But more important is that the oil and gas market is undergoing a deeper and more complex transformation, one that will have powerful repercussions over the coming decades.
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The Digital Energy Mix: Securing & Sustaining the Future

GE Staff
February 22, 2016

The demand for energy will continue to grow at an accelerated pace. Digitizing the energy ecosystem from end to end will be essential in helping meet this demand, enabling unprecedented opportunity socially, economically and individually.

 
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The Electron’s Digital Journey: Do You Know Where Your Power Comes From?

Tomas Kellner
February 22, 2016
The electrons that brew your first cup of coffee in the morning have many different parents. Some were born on a wind farm, while others came from a gas-fired power plant or a water turbine buried deep inside a massive dam.
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That’s So Nice: Electricity’s Digital Future Has Dawned On The French Riviera

February 02, 2016
The commune of Carros in the south of France straddles a leafy valley tucked away a short ride from Nice and the beaches of the French Riviera. Like much of Provence, the medieval town of 11,000 swells every summer with tourists seeking tans and sipping rosé. But it may soon become a magnet for people interested in the sun for a different reason.
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