Saudi Aramco

down as the biggest “breach of military networks” to date. What we now know as a program by the name of “agent.biz” is scripted to spread from one computer to every other computer in a certain network, just as the Shamoon virus was coded to do to Aramco. The agent.biz virus made its way into the American military networks by simple USB flash drive. It was never released how, but somehow the USB containing the virus was inserted into a computer on an American military base in the middle east.…

serves the oil & gas, power, clean energy, environment & infrastructure and mining industries. Globally its clients include both the private and public sector, are among the world’s biggest and best companies in their fields, such as BP, Shell, Saudi Aramco, Petronas and etc. Amecfw has two offices in South Africa the Bryanston office which deals with mining projects and the Midrand office deals with oil and gas projects. The South African Oil & Gas division provides services to oil and gas…

Many years ago, much of society may have envisioned a future with flying cars and robots that shared the Earth with humans. While this has yet to occur, technology is leaps and bounds beyond what it was imagined to be at this point. With technological advancement comes a necessity to secure it; and for some, exploit it. Zero day exploits employed for economic or military advantage; cyber crime, cyber terrorism and threats to SCADA systems; meta-data collected and used by the private sector and…

Response: One of the major operation challenges in the E&P industries are stuck pipe incidents which usually lead to a considerable amount of lost time and associated costs. The increases in drilling activity, drilling in depleted and higher risk reservoirs leads to an increased risk of stuck pipe. As we can observe in this case for this NOC, the greatest impact is when the drilling performance is Non-Productive Time (NPT). We know that around 25% of the NPT is regarded to stuck pipe and this…

External Analysis Porter’s Five Competitive Forces: Threat of New Entrants - Low For a new company to successfully enter the Integrated Oil & Gas Industry there is a requirement for significant capital investment in specialized machinery and equipment, skilled labor, and technology. After undergoing these initial sunk costs, a company will incur substantial costs associated with finding reserves, drilling, and developing these reserves. The industry is dominated by large firms that have…

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