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/0603_1.htm Schlumberger and Microsoft back new Qatar energy hub-set to capture revenue streams with new trading exchange and upstream RandD facility. A new rival to Houston, Aberdeen and Stavanger? Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_2.htm A new report from the American Gas Association offers vulnerability assessment and advice on the deployment of encrypted SCADA communications. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_3.htm In guise of an editorial, this month we bring you a short email exchange between Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton and two leading members of the WITSML community. The subject-an investigation into how XML,SOAP etc. can be used to assure data QC on-the-fly. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_4.htm Roxars CEO talks to Oil IT Journal about the change of ownership, its plans for the future, the shortage of geoscience personnel and the IT cultural tussle centered on the digital oilfield. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_5.htm Short takes this month from OLF, Scandpower, Shell, IHS, DigitalOilfield, Fakespace, Genetek, FFA, Schlumberger, Geomatics, Veritas, OpenSpirit, Petrosys, Kappa Engineering and Silicon Graphics. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_6.htm Deal sees expansion into seismic data management and GIS for plotting specialist. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_7.htm Premier Oil is early adopter of Exprodats web browser for SMTs Kingdom database. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_8.htm I/Os first client to trial 10,000 trace seismic acquisition system on Wyoming gas field revamp. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_9.htm UK swords to ploughshares program begets fiber optic seabed monitoring specialist Stingray Geophysical. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_10.htm Patented Age Volume technology to be developed as Open dTect plug-in. More Stark technology to follow. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_11.htm Data management and information management (DM/IM) in the Middle East countries is different. First because it has much more of a production focus that in Europe or the USA. Second, because Middle East National Oil Companies have taken the long term view. If building a corporate data store for fields with hundreds of wells and decades of production history means a five year plan, with allocation of people, training and finance, then that is what happens. Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) has over 1,000 users of its Finder database with projects ongoing for data quality, SCADA integration, data mining, decision support and automated data capture. Finder database has cornered the data store market for Middle East NOCs. This is both a great achievement and a potential embarrassment for Schlumberger which is in the process of trying to wean its clients off Finder and onto Seabed. An animated debate at the close of the conference showed that this will not be easy. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_12.htm Companies win seismic tape contract from Woodside and Spectrum gets New South Wales Archive. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_13.htm This months movers, shakers et al. hail from 3D Geo, Schlumberger, Ryder Scott, POSC, MetaCarta, Gas Technology Institute, ElectroBusiness, HARC, Hyperion, Infield Systems, CMG, Sungard, PPAM, Roxar, SMT, W3C, Microsoft, ESRI, Multiwave Geophysical and PODS. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_14.htm French Petroleum Institute report shows all-time high EandP spend and increased Chinese competition. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_15.htm Earth Sciences Associates offers direct access to Gulf of Mexico dataset and GIS analysis of hurricane RITA. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_16.htm Strategic drilling, completion and workover schedules, WellView enhanced with alert management. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_17.htm Tool adds rich, private data option to RapiData well information system. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_18.htm Packaged approach embeds generic survey metrics from TraQs management consultancy. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_19.htm Corporate EandP unit to deploy Microsoft OLAP solution designed by Altius Consulting. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_20.htm RMSgeoplex design of experiment-based modeling to be tested at Norsk Regnesentral facility. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_21.htm Sam Mehta (Det Norske Veritas) explains the rationale behind new Norwegian plant data IM project. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_22.htm Hydros US arm underwrites data migration project. A2D gets UK Nigerian government contracts. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_23.htm Invensys intelligent automation to link Burgan gathering centers to unified process control center. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_24.htm Scandpower Prediktor key component of Norwegian gas giants flow assurance system. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_25.htm US unit to deploy P2 Energy Solutions hosted solution for finance, operations and Sarbanes-Oxley. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_26.htm Companies sought for free web-based survey on IT costs, productivity and best practices. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_27.htm Cheniere to deploy state-of-the-art terminal management in new LNG boilerplate design. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0603_28.htm New partners for Scandpowers ongoing testing of pipleline flow simulator, Olga 2000. Fri, 31 Mar 2006 24:00:00 +0100