Weatherford has launched Weatherford Industrial Intelligence at the company’s flagship FWRD 2025 Technology Conference in Houston

Weatherford Industrial Intelligence contextualises the physical world through physics-based and data-driven software. This delivers actionable insights for every end user, from engineers to executives, resulting in greater reliability, improved efficiency, and enhanced performance across the energy value chain.

The new portfolio sees the integration of Modern Edge, which enables customers to modernise their edge operations and facilitate autonomous production, with the flexibility to expand operations, while optimising resource usage and reducing costs. It features:
• Weatherford Autonomous Surveillance Platform (WASP) – Provides full-time remote visibility above, below, and on-surface infrastructure and assets using a network of distributed fibre optic systems, cameras, and IoT devices.
• R2TUs Edge Device Family – Family of Edge Devices with embedded physics and empirical models, as well as network models that are self-connected and powered to deliver closed-loop automation in the field.
• MetaFlow Virtual Flow Meter (VFM) – Delivers accurate, real-time flow measurements using AI and physics-based models in conjunction with existing and new flow meters.

Unified data model

Weatherford is also advancing its own unified data model through its Synsera Unified Data Model, which integrates multi-asset, multigeneration asset metadata across operations into a structure of the customers’ choosing. By combining operational and financial analysis into an API-supported framework, the platform enables smarter decision-making and streamlined workflows across facilities.

In addition, the WFRD Software Launchpad gives customers a single, comprehensive industrial SaaS platform to manage all of their software needs, providing a secure and centralised point of access for all Weatherford and partner-built applications while also giving customers the ability to publish their own applications to be consumed across the enterprise.

Girish Saligram, president and chief executive officer of Weatherford, commented, “Weatherford Industrial Intelligence empowers our customers to accelerate adoption, regardless of infrastructure maturity, by integrating our software, our partners’ software, and our customers’ systems with any hardware. With domain intelligence embedded at the edge and grounded in decades of engineering expertise, we deliver automation that drives safer operations, greater efficiency, and stronger returns.”

Digital Edge Subsea is a leading provider of digiatl video recording and inspection systems. (Image source: Digital Edge Subsea)

Digital Edge Subsea continues to enhance its offering as a world leader in digital video recording and inspection systems for the subsea industry, capitalising on the growing demand for remote inspection

Digital Edge Subsea at ADIPEC

Digital Edge Subsea's busy programme of events for 2025, continues in November at ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi where we will be attending as part of the EIC UK pavilion.

Partnership with Ashtead Technology

Digital Edge Subsea is delighted to announce that following their successful acquisition of Seatronics, Ashtead Technology will continue to supply customers with our industry leading digital video recording and inspection systems.

As well as continuing to support existing customers, this partnership is already allowing Digital Edge Subsea to service more regions, with new rental stock having been delivered to Ashtead Technology's bases in Abu Dhabi and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

With access to the full range of products including 2u and 3u DVRs, as well as the existing 4u, workstation and laptop solutions, Digital Edge looks forward to working with Ashtead Technology across the globe.

Remote Inspection

The partnership between Digital Edge Subsea and Harvest Technology, the Perth, Australia- based video-streaming experts, has taken another leap forward. The ability to stream live video and serial data to the cloud, facilitating remote situational awareness for the offshore was a game changer in the subsea inspection market in 2024 and this year the solution has been enhanced with the addition of audio streaming. The solution still uses Harvest Technology’s proprietary Nodestream technology.

For 2025, Digital Edge Subsea is seeing an increase in demand for full remote inspection, whereby the inspection engineer is based onshore. Utilising Harvest Technology’s all-new Flex hardware, four HD video feeds and serial data can be streamed to shore over low bandwidth. The four HDMI outputs from the onshore Flex decoder connect directly to the Digital Edge Subsea DVR and the frame synchronised serial data from offshore can be input via the DVR’s serial ports.

With full two-way audio communication, the inspection engineer can be located onshore, recording four HD video channels, with overlay and logging raw data from offshore, as easily as if they were based on the vessel. All of this can be achieved over very low bandwidth, negating the requirement for additional low earth orbit satellite communication to be added to the spread.

This development represents a significant reduction in costs to subsea service contractors with inspection personnel and technical representatives able to work remotely, from anywhere in the world. By reducing travel requirements, the carbon footprint of offshore operations can be reduced, with the added benefit of fewer personnel working in potentially hazardous environments.

Land seismic data can often exhibit strong elastic effects that violate the assumptions of acoustic imaging. (Image source: DUG)

The Earth is inherently elastic. As data processing has advanced to better honour physics, we have continually refined our ability to understand the subsurface

Land seismic data, such as the example above, can often exhibit strong elastic effects that violate the assumptions of acoustic imaging.

The traditional processing workflow involves the testing and application of dozens of steps such as deghosting, designature, demultiple and regularisation, which are all designed to overcome the limitations of conventional imaging. These workflows are complex, subjective, and very time-consuming due to their serial nature and they rely on many assumptions and simplifications. All of these issues impact the output data quality. The resulting, primary-only data then undergoes a similarly complex model-building workflow to derive an estimate of the subsurface velocity, which is used for depth imaging. Post-migration processing is performed before the pre-stack reflectivity undergoes another workflow to derive rock properties that feed into quantitative interpretation, also relying on simplifications of the actual physics. As a result of these workflows, projects can take many months to years to complete.

DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging is a unique approach to seismic processing and imaging which turns the traditional paradigm on its head. It replaces not only traditional processing and imaging workflows, but also the subsequent inversion workflow for elastic rock properties.

Elastic MP-FWI Imaging accounts for both compressional and shear waves, handling variations in seismic wave dynamics as a function of incidence angle, including in the presence of high impedance contrasts and onshore near-surface geological complexity. Multiples and converted waves are now treated as valuable additional signal, increasing sampling, resolution and constraining the inverted parameters.

Here, velocity model updates generated using a conventional workflow and DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging were evaluated using a Kirchhoff pre-stack depth migration (KpreSDM), using the fully pre-processed data as input.

The figure above compares common-offset-vector KpreSDM snail gathers using the initial velocity model (left), the conventionally derived velocity model (middle), and the DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging derived velocity model (right). The MP-FWI imaging velocity model demonstrates a clear and significant kinematic improvement (gather flatness) and a reduction of jitter due to the azimuthal variations, particularly around the high-impedance contrasts that result from the carbonates in this onshore desert setting.

A complete replacement for traditional processing and imaging workflows is no longer a stretch of the imagination. Visit dug.com to see more outstanding DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging results.

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The technology provides a lightweight offline intervention solution.

In a first divestment development for FrontRow Energy Technology Group, its subsidiary, WellSense, a rapid fibre-optic well diagnostics provider, has sold FiberLine Intervention licence to oilfield services company, Halliburton

The agreement terms secure a global licence for Halliburton to deploy WellSense FiberLine Intervention (Fli) technology for use in well stimulation monitoring.

A FrontRow Energy Technology Group company, WellSense, will continue to deploy the technology globally for all other oil and gas applications, including well plug and abandonment (P&A), well integrity and leak detection, as well as carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).

Annabel Green, CEO of WellSense, said, “The successful completion of this deal is a defining moment for WellSense and for our parent company, FrontRow Energy Technology Group. Not only is it a strong industry endorsement of our technology and the value it delivers, but also our business model of bringing new and innovative solutions to market.

“Our unique bare fibre dynamic despooling technology delivers superior data quality for a detailed subsurface understanding. Unlike other well monitoring techniques it provides a lightweight offline intervention solution with disposable probes for significant efficiency savings and reduced risk.

“Meeting the complex challenges of upstream oil and gas requires the adoption of technologies that fundamentally improve how the industry operates. This agreement is the result of a decade of focused innovation, collaboration and delivery and I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all our employees, past and present, whose dedication has built the strong foundation that made this success possible.”

Steve Kent, CEO of FrontRow, said,“This deal is a major milestone for FrontRow and is a clear example of how UK-born innovation can solve industry challenges and attract global attention.

“This is FrontRow’s first commercial licence sale and a landmark in our journey. It demonstrates that innovation, when nurtured with the right expertise and support, can deliver technical success as well as real commercial value.”