http://www.oilit.com/ Monthly headlines from Oil IT Journal. en-us The Data Room 2005 TDR VB Autocoder rss@oilit.com 120 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/4php/4_rebuild_center_frameset.php?item=tw The Data Room has just released new summaries from the 2005 ESRI PUG, Smi Data Management, the 2004 Denver SEG and other conferences. Sat, 29 May 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_1.htm As Schlumberger and Aspen Tech premiered their embryonic sim-opt solution at the Las Vegas Tech Forum, Honeywell unveiled its UniSim offering which leverages its own share of HySys IPR. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_2.htm French software house is accused of misappropriating code from the Geolog well log data management tool in its Techlog product. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_3.htm Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton, back from an action-packed trip to Las Vegas, Houston and Austin for the MS 150 bike ride, reflects on the increasing role played by marketing in oil and gas conferences. Product placement, endorsements of technology by oil company clients-anything goes. But is Petrel really a video game? Or has Schlumbergers marketing department gone nuts? Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_4.htm Andrew Zolnai comments on our report from the 2005 ESRI PUG. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_5.htm OFS Portal is an e-business survivor. CEO Bill Le Sage tells of PIDX take-up and new P2P success. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_6.htm New fluviatile simulator, uncertainty assessment and user-developed plug-ins from Total, CGG. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_7.htm US-based oil and gas data broker is latest target of acquisitive Canadian-should that be Investco? Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_8.htm Ovation Datas UK unit is to remaster and manage KOCs seismic tape library. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_9.htm Sense Intellifield partners Geologix to commercialize ExxonMobils WITSML mud log extension. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_10.htm Meeting traces data portals history and current success in promoting UK bidding rounds. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_11.htm Seismic processing house deploys Mercury Softwares tools to render huge seismic volumes. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_12.htm The Information Stores PetroTrek data management suite to support Pemex data management. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_13.htm Foster Findlay Associates new tool leverages Mercurys VolumeViz LDM to view large data sets. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_14.htm Software deal brings Irap RMS to Repsols geoscientists. Roxar to extend WITSML to production. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_15.htm For the marketing department, it was Petrel, Petrel, Petrel. Schlumberger Information Solutions flagship has carved out a huge piece of the interpretation market in a remarkably short time-4,500 licenses are projected for 2006. But there is a lot of other stuff still going on under the Schlum-berger hood. ExxonMobils Elvis impersonator and CIO, Steve Comstock, called for better Petrel data management. The boys from Aspen Tech stole the digital oilfield show. And the struggle for a coherent information, management system goes on-with the promise of data nirvana-RSN! Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_16.htm New interface connects simulators like HySys, Eclipse and Pipesim for holistic modeling of a facility. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_17.htm 4th Wave, KSI, MMS, Paradigm, Halliburton, Wellogix, WellPoint, Hampson-Russel and Transform Software. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_18.htm Attendees at the USPI-NL/PELC conference in The Hague learned that the plant information standards debate has moved on from the arcane data modeling to a practical approach based on the ISO 15926 standard. BP, Shell and ChevronTexaco are just some of the companies actively deploying the content standard. The potential savings in IT interoperability overheads are massive-as a US NIST study of CAPEX projects recently showed. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_19.htm Interveras Rapid HealthCheck offers lightweight data QC. Production data quality rules now available. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_20.htm Western Australian Energy Research Alliance is to benefit from super major's largesse. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_21.htm Baker Hughes Inteq augments BEACON operations center with remote MWD/LWD control. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_22.htm 3 CD set holds gigabytes of data on Teapot Dome oilfield. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_23.htm Systems integrator tunes real-time data specialists tools to deliver upstream performance metrics. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_24.htm New version of SimScis VisualFlow simulator models production systems pressure relief networks. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_25.htm How much did Fugro pay for CandM Storage and Volumetrix? All is revealed in the 2004 accounts. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_26.htm Deals with Houston-based DMS and Gemini Performance in Calgary broaden e-business reach. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_27.htm Loading terminal management system simulates tank farm. Will later integrate real-time portal. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_28.htm Wellogix Complex Services Management suite to streamline oilfield purchase to pay. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_29.htm SGI introduces deskside Prism targeting interpretation workstation market. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_30.htm Spur Digital surveys Energy IT professionals. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_31.htm Maintenance, repair and operations think tank links HSE academics with oil industry. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_32.htm Monitoring-on-detection technology lets one operator work up to 300 live video feeds. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0504_33.htm Next generation oilfield fluid flow simulator to apply IT advances to model heavy oil operations. 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