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Huge GE Gas Turbine Generator Starts Up at One of the World’s Largest Gas Projects Operated by Chevron

April 22, 2015
Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo fashioned David from marble cut out of the mountains towering over the Tuscan town of Carrara. Today, however, the area’s craftsmen are in the business of making Goliaths.
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Shazam for Aquaman? This App Decodes Sounds of the Deep Sea

February 03, 2015

Deep under the North Sea, an orchestra of transformers, choke manifolds, pumps and valves whirs an improvised subsea symphony. The audience is a 500-pound electronic ear whose design is a trade secret.

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Could Crowdsourcing Lead to Lower Emissions, Water Use in Shale Oil and Gas Wells?

February 02, 2015
Last fall, the Wall Street Journal reported that a small Wisconsin private equity company turned a $91 million investment into a $1.4 billion fortune when it invested in a mine producing fine silica sand suitable for use in hydraulic fracturing. Energy companies mix the sand with water and additives and pump it down wells.
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Where Virtual Reality is Worth a Thousand Pictures: A Mile Under the Sea And Nary A Wet Toe

January 05, 2015
Subsea oil and gas deposits off the coast of Brazil exist in a world of extremes. They are locked more than four miles beneath the ocean’s surface, the same distance as 16 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other. Layers of near freezing water, salt and rock squeeze them with pressure equal to six really big dinosaurs balanced on a single chair.
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Holiday Cheer for Captain Nemo? These Bright Yellow Christmas Trees Light Up the Deep Sea Murk

January 04, 2015

It’s not quite the North Pole, but the Christmas season seems to be always on at the Bridge of Don plant in Aberdeen, Scotland, where GE builds massive machines for subsea oil and gas exploration. That’s because workers at the plant make Christmas trees, an industry nickname for huge mechanical systems that control the flow of oil and gas from subsea wells.

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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.
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New $500 Million GE Research Center in Brazil Will Focus on Subsea Oil & Gas Exploration

November 13, 2014

GE opened its Brazil Technology Center in Rio de Janeiro today. The $500 million research hub will focus on developing advanced technologies for offshore oil and gas exploration and production.

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Oliver Astley: Taking Oil and Gas Exploration to New Depths

Oliver Astley GE
November 12, 2014
The challenges of offshore, deep sea drilling are, in a word, immense. Imagine a place three miles below the surface of the ocean, where there is almost complete darkness and the pressure exerted on every square inch is equivalent to the weight of three automobiles.
 

That’s the type of incredibly harsh environment that GE researchers are competing with as we design electrification equipment for our customers that will power oil and gas processing functions reliably on the seabed.
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Taming North Dakota’s Gas Flares

September 10, 2014
A few years ago, astronauts orbiting the Earth started seeing a strange patch of lights flickering in a formerly dark corner of North Dakota. The region is going through an oil boom and the lights, which are spread over an area larger than Minneapolis, are flares burning up natural gas from hundreds of new oil wells in the Bakken shale formation.
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When Shale Gas Met Software: The Industrial Internet Will Monitor a Vast Pipeline Network

September 08, 2014

Getting shale gas out of the ground is one thing. But taking it to customers is quite another.

American pipeline operators are investing as much as $40 billion every year to maintain, modernize and expand their networks. The shale gas boom is putting operators under pressure to move more gas to market faster and more safely, and many U.S. pipelines have been in service for at least two decades.

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