×

GE.com has been updated to serve our three go-forward companies.

Please visit these standalone sites for more information

GE Aerospace | GE Vernova | GE HealthCare 

header-image
Electrification Software Energy

Davy Jones’ Software: Making Subsea Oil More Productive Through Data

Tomas Kellner
January 31, 2017
Drilling down into the ocean’s floor for oil is challenging even in the best of times. It involves installing and operating massive pieces of equipment in greater and greater depths, crushing pressures and extreme temperatures. It’s difficult, dangerous and expensive. The oil market slump of 2015-16 added an additional squeeze. “Today, anything we can do to increase the availability of the equipment goes a long way,” says Chuck Chauviere, president of drilling systems at GE Oil & Gas. “Every bit of productivity helps.”
header-image
Innovation

Can You Unring A One-Ton Bell? This Student's Idea Could Make The Impossible Possible

August 29, 2016
When you or I go shopping for noise-cancelling headphones, we imagine ourselves listening to music in blissful quiet stripped of traffic noise and seatmate chatter. But Christopher Nguyen has something much bigger in mind. He wanted to use the technology to silence a 1-ton church bell.
header-image
Electrification Software Energy

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.
header-image

The Sunken Frontier: These Machines Will Map the Bottom of the Sea

June 04, 2015
A dozen people have walked on the moon and nearly 4,000 have stood on top of Mt. Everest. But only three humans have ventured the other way to Challenger Deep, the seabed’s deepest point. There, seven cold and dark miles below the surface, the water pressure feels like an entire elephant standing on your big toe.
The deep ocean is our planet’s last unexplored frontier. Water covers 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates that we have seen no more than 5 percent of the seafloor.
header-image

Kenneth Herd: Technology for Brazil, Technology for the World

Kenneth Herd GE
November 13, 2014
As Brazil sets its sights on becoming one the world’s top five oil producers by the end of the next decade, it is also demonstrating global leadership in another key area — innovation.
header-image

Full Fathom Five Thy Factory Lies: Machines Are Rising from the Seafloor

March 24, 2014

GE machines are working deep underground, on the International Space Station, and even in the interstellar space. Now the sea floor is opening up to underwater factories designed to recover oil and natural gas deposits that used to be out of reach.

Subscribe to Subsea