Halliburton and Armada exploring edge computing’s potential in oil & gas arena

Landmark, a business line of U.S.-headquartered oilfield services giant Halliburton for data-driven tech solutions and services in the oil and gas industry, has signed an agreement with compatriot edge computing platform Armada aiming to help the former maximize its features.

The duo has signed an iEnergy partner agreement, allowing Armada to join Halliburton’s iEnergy Ecosystem, described as the engineered cloud that connects the field to the boardroom, by deploying, integrating, and managing exploration and production (E&P) cloud applications across the enterprise. The collaboration aims to unlock the full capability of Halliburton’s DecisionSpace365 and other third-party applications at the edge.

Armada CEO, Dan Wright, said, “We are excited to work with Halliburton, a global leader with over a century of innovation in the oil and gas industry, to bring its groundbreaking Landmark Solutions to the edge. The amount of data being generated at the edge is exploding, and this is particularly true for oil and gas companies. We look forward to enabling customers to utilize the combined power of Landmark’s Solutions and Armada’s revolutionary Commander platform and Galleon modular data centers to solve mission-critical problems.”

Recent developments in the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and satellite connectivity have enabled Armada to build what it believes to be the first full-stack edge computing platform. In addition to an end-to-end software platform called the Commander serving as a single source of data for all of a company’s edge operations, Armada offers a complete hardware solution for edge computing in remote areas – Galleon. This data center-in-a-box can be deployed anywhere in the world, leveraging Starlink as needed for satellite backhaul.

“Armada represents a unique opportunity to fully realize Landmark’s enterprise capabilities for real-time data processing, automated control algorithms and enhanced operational decision making at the edge. The joint solution allows operators to move decisions into the process and control loop thereby improving asset utilization and reliability,” said Nagaraj Srinivasan, Senior Vice President of Halliburton Landmark.

Late last year, Halliburton partnered with Sekal to jointly provide well construction automation solutions. The duo agreed to collaborate on technologies and services that incorporate Halliburton’s digitally integrated well construction solutions and Sekal’s DrillTronics automation platform. 

The U.S. firm also joined forces with Oil States Industries to allow customers more control over deepwater managed pressure drilling (MPD) equipment, control systems, and services.