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/0412_1.htm The acquisition of Houston-based enterprise applications integration consultants puts Perficient on track to become a $100 million/year company. ZettaWorks is a leading implementer of Tibco-based solutions to the oil business. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_2.htm Norwegian software house Roxar has signed a software agreement with Russian Lukoil for its Irap Reservoir Modeler and Tempest simulator. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_3.htm Oil IT Journal Editor Neil McNaughton reflects on the dangers of PowerPoint and on how to measure the value of a technical presentation. His bullet point Reverse Banality Test (RBT) is used to evaluate the Monetary Value of Information in a talk. This can be weighed-up against the Expected Intellectual Value generated by the presence of 50 highly paid executives. Who wins? Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_4.htm Network Applications has announced its Data Ontap 7G solution storage solution. Industry manager Vaughn Miller and storage guru David Lin tell Oil IT Journal about the dynamic virtualization engine. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_5.htm At the SEG, Oil IT Journal caught up with Doug OFlaherty (AMD), Eldad Weiss (Paradigm), Paul deGroot (de Groot-Bril), Bill Bartling (SGI) and Nick Weston (Sun Microsystems). Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_6.htm IBM is offering clients computing on demand from VeriCenters Houston-based facility. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_7.htm Contract renewal extends GIS framework to a corporate spatial data infrastructure. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_8.htm New industry consortium, BioPetsRisk, seeks to assess biodegradation risk in oil exploration. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_9.htm Research group to offer structural modeling component to Irap RMS reservoir modeling tool. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_10.htm Business analysts and geoscientists to use Spotfire DecisionSite to evaluate EandP opportunities. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_11.htm The new strategic alliance focuses on deriving industry solutions from defense-funded research. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_12.htm UT Bureau of Economic Geology JIP to work on sub-detectable resolution of reservoir structure. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_13.htm Interoperability framework now supports SMT and offers enhanced GIS. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_14.htm The 2004 Denver Annual Conference and Exposition was buzzing even if the mood was of optimistic uncertainty because, although oils are raking in the cash, little of it is trickling down to the service companies. SEG president Peter Duncan contrasted the shell shocked situation in US geophysics with energized countries like China where 180 land crews operate, and where there are 1,000 geophysics graduates per year. Matthew Simmons (Simmons and Co.) said that peak oil is at hand, but the world is in denial and there is no plan B. Ibraheen Assaadan (Saudi Aramco) opined that recovery factors are set to rise from 40% to a target of 70-80%. Meanwhile, the SEG has become a hardware vendors paradise-with a vast range of NAS, SAN, switches and clusters on offer. Cluster farms now support Computing on Demand, with offerings from IBM, Sun and Appro. Another trend is visualizing multiple representations of the same data-achieved by co-rendering or bump mapping. Landmark showed a 400GB dataset running on an 11 pipe SGI Onyx with 1TB RAM. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_15.htm News from Halliburton, IAGC, BGS, CatSites, CGG, ESI, Petris, POSC, UKOOA, ESRI, Kelman etc.. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_16.htm GeoKnowledge is now offering fiscal model plug-ins for fifty countries and a range of agreements. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_17.htm Petroleum Place Energy Solutions unit Tobin is migrating its Land Suite to web components. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_18.htm Systems in Motion and Geodata are carving up Statoils virtual reality simulator project. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_19.htm Total is using handheld computers and radio frequency equipment tags to manage HAE inspections. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_20.htm Trinity 3D basin modeling consortium is developing new simulator. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_21.htm IHS Energys Canadian subsidiary will integrate Ensights PipesWest database with AccuMap. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_22.htm Boston Universitys CISE and Millennial have kicked-off a joint industry sensor network project. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_23.htm EOS Technologies is to bring its Middle East-developed marketplace to the North Sea. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_24.htm Quorum makes international debut with Russian-language version of land management package. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_25.htm Deal links upstream buying community to global e-commerce consumer packaged goods hub. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_26.htm Canadian pipeline operator joins Petro-Canadas electroBusiness-operated e-business hub. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_27.htm The American Petroleum Institute has released a new UNSPSC taxonomy for oilfield services. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_28.htm Microsoft and partners Avenade and Meridio are hardwiring Excel spreadsheets to corporate data. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0412_29.htm POSC/Caesar is to leverage semantic web technology to map between ISO, Epicentre and WITSML. Fri, 31 Dec 2004 24:00:00 GMT