http://www.oilit.com/ Monthly headlines from Oil IT Journal. en-us The Data Room 2004 TDR VB Autocoder rss@oilit.com 120 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_1.htm Petroleum Place software arm P2ES has acquired Tobin International. The acquisition extends P2ES corporate ERP offering through Tobins Land Suite which is widely used alongside SAP. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_2.htm Now that PGS is out of liquidation, Tigress management has been able to complete its buyout of the upstream software house. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_3.htm Last month, Oil IT Journal launched its RSS-enabled news feed. Without realizing it, we found that, like many other publishers of news sites and blogs, we were joining the periphery of a new improved semantic web. Editor Neil McNaughton has been boning up on other semweb developments to find tons of interesting stuff. If standard nomenclature, catalogues and metadata are your bag the semweb has a lot to offer-once you have deciphered the W3Cs terminology. . sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_4.htm Tarig Anani is President of International Operations with Petroleum Place and its software unit, P2 Energy Solutions. Anani spoke to Oil IT Journal about the rationale behind P2ESs acquisition of Tobin International, and the companys plans for the future. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_5.htm Andrew Gould welcomes activity gains but warns that WesternGecos turnaround depends on Q. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_6.htm Devon Energy has awarded a full service contract to A2D for hosting and use of geological data. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_7.htm Schlumbergers hosted submersible pump monitoring service tracks performance via satellite. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_8.htm Shell reports on massive take-up for its LiveLink-based knowledge management initiative. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_9.htm Cambrian and Applied Logic have teamed on well composite log and final reporting software. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_10.htm Seismic data management is migrating to Microsoft .NET with a new release of Trango Manager. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_11.htm Landmarks Team Workspace data and application hosting is used by 18th round AMI group. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_12.htm Reservoir simulator output visualization software has been developed for ChevronTexaco. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_13.htm Maurers Advanced Drilling Applications are now available through Petris ASP service. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_14.htm Around 140 attended the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britains Data Management 2003 conference with quite good oil company representation. Data management obviously remains a concern! Unfortunately, no oil company folks presented papers-leaving the field open to vendor infomercials. Many of these centered on the use of geographical information systems (GIS) to manage and use upstream data. Records management was highlighted-with presentations on the need for systematic records management policies. The standards movement ploughs on with more work on catalogues and a new petrography initiative. Technology-wise, we report on an insightful presentation from Landmark on seismic transcription, and on well deviation data acquisition and processing QC from Hydro Systems. On the governmental front it was Groundhog Day all over again-with yet more initiatives to preserve the Nations data and keep the oil flowing. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_15.htm News from ConocoPhillips, Petrosys, Geotrace, CGG, Apache, RSI, NewtonEvans, AAPG and SEG. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_16.htm Malibu Engineering Software reports growing revenues from its life-cycle well management suite. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_17.htm New entry-level 4D time lapse seismic analysis from EarthModels and an upgrade to Chronos. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_18.htm VRCO has used an Itanium cluster running Windows 2003 Server in a VR showcase application. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_19.htm The acquisition will strengthen Schlumbergers Russian presence and provide a technology outlet. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_20.htm Marathon Oil reports ease of application deployment and patch distribution with SMS 2003. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_21.htm AspenTechs upstream simulation-optimization suite offers holistic modeling of production assets. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_22.htm A new component of Decision Space predicts rock properties from prestack seismic data. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_23.htm Kalidos information warehouse drills down to access multiple financial sources in situ. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_24.htm Emersons process optimizer now leverages web services to support real time asset control. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_25.htm A joint development sets out to integrate front-end plant engineering with process simulation. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_26.htm The latest version of WITSML underpins ONGCs real-time center. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_27.htm The acquisition adds seismic brokerage applications to IHS Energys Accumap environment. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_28.htm The DTI is at the cutting edge of e-government with digitally signed offshore operations approvals. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0401_29.htm Infrastructure provider Tibo is to embed digital security into its single sign-on portal builder. sam, 31 Jan 2004 24:00:00 GMT