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Innovation

Fast Company Magazine Names Two GE Businesses Among The Most Innovative Companies In The World

Alaynah Tombridge
February 13, 2017
GE made history last year when its wind turbines started producing electricity at America’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. The landmark project, the first of several planned for the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, launched the country’s push into a powerful source of renewable energy. It also earned GE a spot on Fast Company’s annual list of the 10 most innovative companies in energy in the world.
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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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Electrification Software Energy

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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Energy

This Is What We Call A Sea Change! Shell's Floating Giant Will Revolutionize The Natural Gas Industry

November 30, 2016
It’s not unusual to see giant cruise or cargo ships out at sea today. But even by those standards, Shell’s new floating liquefied natural gas facility is huge.
Dubbed Prelude after the gas field where it will operate off the coast of northwestern Australia, the massive facility is 488 meters long and 74 meters wide. Its footprint is larger than an average New York City block, or, if you prefer sports, large enough for four soccer fields. .
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Augmented reality

Move Over Pokémon, GE Is Testing Augmented Reality Helmets In Qatar’s Giant Sandbox

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 03, 2016
What makes Pokémon Go so addictive? Blame it on augmented reality (AR), which populates what looks like the real world with Pokémon creatures. Now that technology is being used for a much bigger play in a world beyond gaming. GE, for example, is using it to keep oil and gas flowing.
Imagine it is a hot day in the north of Qatar. A field engineer just arrived to carry out routine maintenance at one of the world’s largest LNG plants located there. She’s wearing a snazzy blue helmet that—besides keeping her safe on-site — is her link to the outside world.
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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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Manufacturing

Land Of Silk And Lasers: Bespoke 3D Printing Factory For The Oil & Gas Industry Thrives in Italy’s Fashion Heartland

Tomas Kellner
October 31, 2016
For decades, fabric factories on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como kept the fashion houses of Milan resplendent in silk. Today, a new kind of manufacturing in the fashion heartland is spinning up parts for gas turbines that move oil and gas through pipelines and generate electricity.
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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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Electrification Software thread

Times Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says The X Prize’s Peter Diamandis

Tomas Kellner
May 17, 2016
GE kept working on jet engines, which are now GE Aviation’s core product. The $24 billion business makes the world’s largest jet engines, now roughly 100 times more powerful than Sorota’s original. The latest engines like the GEnx and LEAP can be connected to the data cloud to analyze their efficiency and operations. A jet engine with GE technology takes off every two seconds somewhere in the world. Says Sorota: “It never dawned on me it was going to turn over the entire aircraft industry like it did.”
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