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/4php/4_rebuild_center_frameset.php?item=tw Summary page of The Data Room's Technology Watch report from the 2006 AAPG Convention, Houston. Sat, 20 May 2006 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_1.htm Operations of Norways national data will return to Halliburton in 2009. The Consortium is pushing for more open access to Diskos data and a PetroBank API is likely, along with new data types. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_2.htm Paradigm and other OpenSpirit investors are to underwrite a share capital increase. A stamp of approval for the upstream middleware. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_3.htm Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton opines on this months news from Landmark, Schlumberger and Paradigm before enumerating some shortcomings of current digital oilfield real-time offerings. To which he believes he may have stumbled across a possible remedy from the battlefield. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_4.htm Following our report on Invensys terminal management system for the Cheniere Sabine Pass LNG terminal in last months Oil IT Journal, John Gilmore and Stan de Vries offer an insight into this complex system and how the technology will impact the digital oilfield of the future. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_5.htm Short takes this month from Intervera, Systems Evolution, ESRI, Fugro-Jason, Geomodeling, Geosoft, INT, Knowledge Systems, MetaCarta, Energy Solutions, TGS NOPEC, PGS, Schlumberger, BT, M2M Data, BP, Telenor, RECOPE, Techint, Geovariances and Tobin International. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_6.htm Petris has ported Recall to its PetrisWinds Now infrastructure with storage at secure data center. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_7.htm Data vendor leverages middleware to serve PPDM-based data to end users. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_8.htm dGB announces sequence stratigraphic interpretation system-a commercial plug-in to Open dTect. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_9.htm CT-scan movies of sand and putty tectonic experiments now available in digital analog database. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_10.htm Company acquires seismic processing boutique for C$ 11.5 million. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_11.htm Around 600 turned out for the 2006 Society of Petroleum Engineers Gulf Coast Sections Digital Energy conference. The show marks an epiphany for the Petroleum Engineering community with the recognition of data management as a serious problem. A related topic is the degree to which technologies from outside oil and gas can be brought in to solve such issues. This question is often associated with the allegation that oil and gas is a technology laggard. Here, the CIOs are skeptical. But they are having a hard time fending off advances from the likes of Microsoft and Google. In this report we summarize talks from Marathon, Chevron, Shell, Anadarko, BHP Billiton and others. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_12.htm EnerConnect Transfer promises web services data integration and data QC on-the-fly. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_13.htm This months news from Oil IT Journal, PNEC, CygNet, Energy Solutions, ExxonMobil, Schlumberger, ESRI, Fugro-Jason, Geotrace, Sun Microsystems, Techsia, Roxar and Petrotech. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_14.htm Invensys is to supply SCADA control systems on the 180 well Abu Dhabi GASCO gas expansion. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_15.htm ODIN Project investigates concept uncertainty, finds interpreters are major source of risk. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_16.htm Document management from EMC/Documentum is now available from DecisionSpace IM Solution. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_17.htm New business to business exchange set to enable Qatari companies to expand internationally. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_18.htm RandD organization seeks projects that enhance brown field recovery and improve data use. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_19.htm Straightforward port of multi-million line code base leverages Microsoft Services for Unix. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_20.htm A people shortage is compromising commercialization of Shells well surveillance package. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_21.htm Datalogs ANAX 500 logging system runs QNX real time OS. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_22.htm Invensys InFusion promises unified, real-time control, information, and application environment. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_23.htm New package from IHS Energy bundles field database, fiscal terms and economics. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_24.htm Aberdeen software house to leverage upstream experience with refiners and terminal operators. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_25.htm The digital oilfield of the future sees integration of DecisionSpace with model-based controllers. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_26.htm KBC Private Equity takes 60% of Shells Fieldware solution partner, IPCOS Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0604_27.htm New demonstrator consolidates real time centers and visualization rooms across the enterprise. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/press/PNEC2006.htm Neil McNaughton receives the first Press Award at the PNEC Data and Information Integration Conference, Houston. Sun, 30 Apr 2006 24:00:00 +0100