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Energy

These Drones Have A Flair For Flares: UAVs Are Taking Over The Dangerous Work Of Inspecting Industrial Assets

Bruce Watson
February 14, 2017
If you’ve ever driven by a petroleum refinery, you’ve probably seen a flare stack “on fire.” What looks like shooting flames are the waste gases produced during chemical manufacturing burning off. At the stacks’ mouths, the heat can reach into the hundreds of degrees, and the metal is under constant, intense pressure. The slightest crack or the smallest amount of corrosion in the wrong place could cause a fire that would shut down the plant — not to mention endanger the lives of the people who work there.
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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.”
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Oil & Gas

GE Just Turned the World’s Most Powerful Jet Engine Into A 65-Megawatt Power Plant

Tomas Kellner
January 30, 2017
GE is taking the world’s largest jet engine and turning it into a power plant. The machine’s beating heart comes from the GE90-115B, which is the largest and most powerful jet engine, capable of producing 127,900 pounds of thrust, according to Guinness World Records. The electricity generator, which GE calls LM9000, will be able to generate a whopping 65 megawatts — enough to supply of 6,500 homes — and reach full power in 10 minutes.
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GE and Baker Hughes to form new fullstream digital-industrial service company

December 15, 2016

GE and Baker Hughes agreed to combine GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes to create a world-leading oil and gas technology and services provider. The new name of the company will be Baker Hughes, a GE Company.

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Make It Bigger: Ike Eisenhower And This GE Engineer Have Something In Common

December 11, 2016
Dartmouth had one of our computers, and they programmed it to develop the computer language BASIC. It allowed people to use the system to solve problems and handle data coming in out of the computer. Steve Wozniak may have used one such remote terminal to write software for Macs.
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Electrification Software

Keep Calm And Carry On: This Software Code Can Protect Subsea Rigs From Hurricanes

November 17, 2016
As a senior robotics and machine-to-machine systems scientist, Judith Guzzo spends most of her days in a lab at GE’s Global Research Center in upstate New York. But in late June, she broke out the sunscreen and her steel-toed boots and spent a week aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. There, Guzzo created a “digital twin” of the pipes that connect oil wells to drill ships—equipment called the drilling riser—turning an idea her team imagined in the lab into an application that could save millions of dollars.
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Oil & Gas

GE And Baker Hughes To Form New Fullstream Digital-Industrial Service Company

Timothy Cheng
October 31, 2016
GE and Baker Hughes agreed to combine GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes to create a world-leading oil and gas technology and services provider. The new name of the company will be Baker Hughes, a GE Company.
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Energy

New GE Research Center Deploys Science To Lift Oil And Gas

Todd Alhart
Tomas Kellner
October 05, 2016
Oil and gas operators have endured two years of a petroleum glut that shows no signs of abating. In fact, last week, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed to cut production for the first time since 2014 to stem the flood of cheap oil.
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Electrifying Gorontalo: Our Commitment to Deliver Fast Power to The Nation’s Remotest

June 03, 2016
Located at the northern tip of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, on the Minahassa peninsula, Gorontalo province is famous for its beautiful mountainous panoramic view and beautiful diving sites. Home to the highest marine biodiversity on the planet, making up one of the many fascinating underwater landscapes.
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Ian Bremmer: 3 Risks Poised to Disrupt a Fast-Changing World by 2021

Ian Bremmer Eurasia Group
March 29, 2016

The forces of technological change and geopolitical decentralization are set to transform the world over the next five years. Here are the three biggest risks to watch.

 

We spend a significant amount of time looking at the year ahead at Eurasia Group. But given how quickly the world is changing — especially when the absence of global leadership means considerably more geopolitical conflict — I thought it would be useful to look further out on the horizon.

Here are the top three risks I see coming down the pike for the coming five years:

 
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