Drilling & Completion Tech Digest
Open Group issues OSDU Data Platform Standard
The Open Group released its OSDU Data Platform Standard, Version 1.0. The standard establishes a clearly defined baseline for data platform capabilities, supporting greater interoperability across the energy industry. It provides a common framework that aims to help organizations better manage, access and use enterprise data. Key benefits include interoperability, stability for application development and deployment, and a clear foundation for certification.
Version 1.0 represents a well‑defined subset of existing OSDU Data Platform capabilities, specifying consistent behavior for a defined set of application programing interfaces. By focusing on tested functionality, the standard provides organizations with a predictable interface between applications and conformant OSDU Data Platform implementations. This enables reliable integration across cloud providers and vendor applications.
The standard is intentionally not tied to a specific community implementation release. Instead, it lags ongoing open‑source development to ensure capabilities have reached sufficient maturity.
Tenaris manufactures 88-metric-ton coiled-tubing string
Tenaris recently successfully delivered an 88-metric-ton string, the longest and heaviest heat-treated 2 5/8-in. OD coiled-tubing string the company has ever manufactured. The work was completed for Cudd Pressure Control, which had approached Tenaris with a request to design and manufacture the exceptionally long BlueCoil string for a special-order reel trailer to support extended-reach completion activities.
As the string would far exceed the established manufacturing weight limits at Tenaris’ Houston facility due to the volume of steel required, the company had to expand the facility’s accumulator and reel capacity before production could begin. It also had to utilize a specialized crane for lifting and loading, as well as implement a new internal material flow for heavy-string processing.
Standard strings for shale applications typically weigh between 55 and 60 metric tons. Any design exceeding 63 metric tons is classified as a heavy string. The record-length string has been shipped to Oklahoma and will begin operations in the Mid-Continent region.
ABS releases class notation for nuclear power offshore
ABS recently launched an industry-first classification notation for marine and offshore assets designed to support future conversion to nuclear energy. The ABS Nuclear-Ready Notation, featured in the Guide for Nuclear-Ready Applications for Marine and Offshore, addresses expanding interest in nuclear energy as a marine and offshore power source and as the technology continues to develop.
Readiness considerations evaluated under the notation may include space allocation, structural arrangements, system interfaces, safety-related features and other design elements needed to support a future nuclear conversion. The notation signals that future nuclear conversion has been built into the design approach from the outset rather than treated as a distant or aspirational concept.
In separate news, ABS also recently issued approval in principle to Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for its design of a 50-megawatt floating data center.
SHI’s design utilizes a standardized shipbuilding process, integrating design, manufacturing and equipment installation concurrently. SHI states that this approach enables shorter lead times and incorporates a proprietary power generation system, thereby minimizing reliance on onshore electricity. ABS completed design reviews based on class requirements.
“Floating data centers represent a new business model that extends shipbuilding capabilities into the digital infrastructure sector,” said Young-kyu Ahn, SHI’s Chief Technology Officer. “Combined with eco-friendly energy solutions, it will set new standards in the global data market.”
