http://www.oilit.com/ Monthly headlines from Oil IT Journal. en-us The Data Room 2006 TDR VB Autocoder rss@oilit.com http://www.oilit.com/ http://www.oilit.com/2images/Buttons/logo.gif 120 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_1.htm Labrador is to showcase its new eTriever low cost data access front end at geoLOGICs Calgary data center next month. The package leverages Microsofts new Virtual Earth AJAX-based map technology. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_2.htm Chesapeake has signed up Oildex invoice processing, automated approvals workflows and soon, business intelligence software as a service. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_3.htm Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton tries to spot winners and losers in new technology-from license management to internet telephony before reporting on buoyant service sector financials. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_4.htm Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium (POSC) has named Randy Clark as President and CEO. Clark was previously with Baker Hughes and the e-business marketplace, CC-Hubwoo/Trade Ranger. In this exclusive interview, Clark tells Oil IT Journal why he took the job and of his plans to build POSC into a community-embracing both vertical and horizontal standards. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_5.htm Software news from IES, Badleys, Midland Valley, Safe Software, Fugro-Jason and LogTech. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_6.htm A new SBED module offers rigorous upscaling of relative permeabilities and improved history match. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_7.htm New commercial service offers one stop shop to multi-million US well and production dataset. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_8.htm A decade ago, unclean data, mostly in the form of inconsistent well names, plagued the data management community, but nobody else seemed to care. Paras Hamish Wilson suggested that today, compliance issues are renewing interest in technical to business data integration and are forcing IT departments to clean up their data act. Neil McNaughtons presentation on upstream standards showed that while there have been failures, the oil and gas is a serial early adopter of new technology. Other presentations covered the impact of freedom of information legislation, gravity data management in Shell and a novel data store developed for the WAHA Oil Co., Libya. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_9.htm The Society of Petroleum Engineerings Conference on Digital Security covered the security aspects of information sharing across joint ventures, complex data types and a nomadic oil and gas population. SCADA and Process Control Systems as deployed in productions facilities, pipelines and refineries present specific security issues. Oil and gas security initiatives roll in government organizations such as the US Department of Homeland Security, and academic institutions. Oil company presentations included Chevrons work on a pipeline security test with the DHS, BPs approach to SCADA security, Shell on smart cards for access control and Oxys frank presentation of the harsh reality of a true (near) disaster, hurricane Rita. A KPMG presentation described SOX impact. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_10.htm A Dartmouth College study, Trends for Oil and Gas Terrorist Attacks investigates potential threats. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_11.htm This months people in the news hail from POSC, Fugro, Zeh, WellDynamics, Aveva, Total, AspenTech, CygNet, Energy SciTech, Fairfield, Millennial Net, OGRE systems, Paras, RSI, Scandpower, Schlumberger, Spectrum, Global Geo services, Tadpole, W3C and Xodus. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_12.htm Newfield, ConocoPhillips and Marathon deploy software license management package. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_13.htm New project sets out to develop production reporting standard with web ontology language OWL. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_14.htm WellDynamics DTS, digital hydraulics and real time operations bring snake well in at 16,700 bbl/day. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_15.htm History matching and uncertainty estimation package to augment Roxars portfolio in Asia and Latin America. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_16.htm New database holds pipeline utilization information, tariffs and macro economics by region. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_17.htm Continued deployment of P2ES Enterprise Upstream volume management package in GOM unit. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_18.htm Calgary-based e-commerce specialists software now aligned with SAPs R/3 web interface. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_19.htm New release of pipeline engineering package includes liquids database, sizing data and more. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_20.htm Advantica guru explains how satisfying utilities demands requires both simulation and experience. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_21.htm Energy Solutions client reports success with neural net modeling of EU pipeline network. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_22.htm Software giant offers API for general purpose computing with standard graphics cards. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_23.htm New Tape as Disk SATA disk-based technology set to change data storage equation. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_24.htm New plant information project leverages state-of-the art W3C ontologies and triple stores. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_25.htm Shells Nigeria unit has migrated legacy UNIX-based SCADA to Windows-based OPC system. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0601_26.htm Schlumberger to deploy Seabed data model, the Integration Engine and DecisionPoint. Tue, 31 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/4php/4_rebuild_center_frameset.php?item=tw Summary from SPE Digital Security in Oil & Gas, London now online Sun, 22 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/4php/4_rebuild_center_frameset.php?item=tw Summary from POSC 2005 AGM and Member Meeting, Houston now online Sun, 22 Jan 2006 24:00:00 +0100