http://www.oilit.com/ Monthly headlines from Oil IT Journal. en-us The Data Room 2005 TDR VB Autocoder rss@oilit.com http://www.oilit.com/ http://www.oilit.com/2images/Buttons/logo.gif 120 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 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_1.htm Activity is hotting up in the transmission sector as Baker Hughes Petrolite acquires Baseline, GeoFields spins-off a new international unit and Invensys allies with Energy Solutions. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_2.htm LogDB and AssetDB/eSearch are to displace PetroBank/Recall in the UKs Common Data Access well log and hard copy data repository. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_3.htm Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughtons triptych covers the true scope of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, technology lead, lag and master data management, and one of the oldest IT gotchas in the book. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_4.htm Shells head of exploration believes that the world needs better integration of technology and data. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_5.htm Following last months editorial, we are pleased to print Les Hattons analysis of software woes. Hatton, of Oakwood Computing Associates, studies defects in seismic and other code. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_6.htm BPs Russian joint venture is to equip its multifunctional teams with Schlumbergers Petrel. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_7.htm RokDoc slated for extensive use in North Sea exploration, appraisal and development program. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_8.htm OpenSpirit appears to be gathering momentum even if it is some way from Dan Piettes vision of a copy on every geoscientists workstation. The next generation framework heralds a new extensibility paradigm that will expose third party data models. The current version received enthusiastic support from users in SMT, Transform Software and T2B specialist PointCross. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_9.htm IHS Energy presented the results of a survey of clients IM strategies that showed rapid growth in unstructured data. Other presentations focused on taxonomies, metadata and quality issues. David Hood called for more data openness. PPDMs relational data model now underpins much existing industry software and first time modelers like BJ Services increasingly turn to the standard. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_10.htm The 2005 Annual POSC members got a couple of surprises with the departure of POSC CEO David Archer and the announcement by POSC Chairman Herb Yuan that POSC, PPDM and PIDX are in merger discussions. BP and Pioneer presented major in-house IM projects. WITSML is spawning a production reporting standard PRODML and POSC is planning to extend its XML activity to seismic, geological and facilities, to offer a single integrated standards family. The Data Store SIG is reborn as the Epicentre Data Model SIG and the POSC/CAESAR Association returns to the POSC fold. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_11.htm Hiring hots up chez Knowledge Reservoir, AspenTech, Badleys, OpenSpirit, PiSys, Energy Solutions, ExxonMobil, GeoFields, Geotrace, Halliburton, Oedegaard, RPS, Ryder-Scott, Ulterra and Petrolink. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_12.htm RWE-DEA, Star Energy and Pioneer use Baysian statistics to optimize reservoir simulations. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_13.htm News from Ryder Scott, CartoData, Quorum, Foster Findlay, Rapid, Badleys, ElectroBusines, Energy Solutions, Geovariances, IHS, GX Tech., Linux Networx, LogTech, Scandpower, Maraco and Geocon. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_14.htm TGS is using synthetic seismogram technology from Loren and Associates to add value to A2Ds log database. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_15.htm New generic web-based data access technology for data centers and client in-house datasets. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_16.htm Log data management tool now shares PetrisWinds infrastructure, adds GIS and Archive edition. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_17.htm 128 GB of shared memory to handle ADNOCs reservoir simulation with Schlumbergers Eclipse. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_18.htm Yet another data center opens in Calgary-offering aggregated public/hosted data storage. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_19.htm CERAs Robert Esser reassures the House of Representatives on Peak Oil and world reserves. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_20.htm New web-based unified geographical interface and Layer Wizard for enterprise GIS. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_21.htm ArcGIS-in-a-box solution with 12.8TB disk store to host GeoFields clients pipeline data. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_22.htm Shell is finding new plays with its IM architecture spanning structured data, documents and GIS. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_23.htm HP and EMC team to build Malaysian data center around Landmarks Team Workspace. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0512_24.htm Shell spin-off, IBM, Knightsbridge and Ventana to tame todays IT unwieldy organisms. Sat, 31 Dec 2005 24:00:00 +0100