ARRIA NLG has forecast it is on course to more than double revenue after picking up a number of new clients.

The company, which uses technology developed at Aberdeen University to translate complex data in readable text or diagrams, also announced it has picked up its second customer in the oil and gas sector.

It already provides services to Shell platforms in and around the Gulf of Mexico.

The new unnamed client has signed a pilot agreement to use Arria's natural language generation technology.

That will be used to provide summaries of the condition of critical oil exploration equipment.

Arria said that a successful completion of the pilot could lead to further deployment and licensing agreements.

In recent months Arria has also signed up customers in the aviation and agriculture sectors.

That led it to predict that revenue in the 12 months to September 30 next year is likely to come in at around £2 million.

That would be around 150 per cent ahead of the £787,000 booked in the financial year to September 30, 2014.

Stuart Rogers, chairman and chief executive, said: "Arria NLG is pleased to announce its fourth new client in as many months, and the second major client in our core industry of oil and gas.

"At the beginning of 2014, we stated that a good year for Arria NLG would be a broad expansion of the agreement with Shell, an expansion in our relationship with the UK Met Office, a first financial services client and a second oil and gas client. We have delivered on all of those contract goals on target.

"Additionally Arria NLG has extended further into aviation and US agriculture and we have delivered 2014 financial results in line with our expectations.

"The pace of signed agreements reflects the investment we made this year in our sales force and the quality and quantity of prospects in the sales pipeline. We see that pace continuing into 2015."