Technology: Siemens launches distributed energy system as solution to Africa’s energy transition

Technology: Siemens launches distributed energy system as solution to Africa’s energy transition

German electronics manufacturer Siemens on Wednesday launched, at its headquarters in Midrand, its end-to-end distributed energy system (DES) as a solution to assist the African continent in its energy transition.

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Industry Science & Innovation: These five technologies will shake up the mining industry in 2018

  After years of pessimism, in 2017 I wrote an article about why I thought there were a few reasons to be positive about the mining industry (find it here), and I was really pleased with the reception it had, and conversations I had following on from it! So, to follow on from that, I wanted to take a look ahead at 2018, and the technologies I think are really disrupting the industry at the moment.

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Industry & Technology: Microsoft, Halliburton partnership to spur Oil And Gas Industry Digitalization

  Halliburton and Microsoft have struck a partnership that will see the oil industry transform in radical ways, Microsoft said in a statement, digitizing a massive business that has been wary of sharing information.

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Tecnology & Innovation: Submerged Platforms To Revolutionize Offshore Oil & Gas

Efficiency is the new buzzword for the oil and gas industry in case someone’s missed it. But it is more than just a buzzword, at least for some industry players as well as tech giants like German Siemens and Swiss ABB. These two have partnered with E&Ps to bring the concept of automation a step further – a huge step. Siemens and ABB are competing in the development of automated, unmanned, entirely submerged offshore oil…

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Global Oil & Gas: “It’s time to innovate to reduce LNG costs”, Shell CEO

The LNG industry needs to continue to innovate to drive down capital costs across the LNG value chain to make gas competitive with other sources of energy such as coal and renewables, Ben van Beurden, CEO of LNG giant Shell said on Tuesday.

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