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/corporate/2article/0607_1.htm Paradigm has bought Earth Decision, developers of the GOCAD geomodeling package. Paradigm chairman John Gibson plans to leverage GOCAD in novel model-centric workflows. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_2.htm Low cost acquisition kicks-off new Data Solutions unit. Fugro to develop data management solutions targeting small to midsize oil companies. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_3.htm Editor Neil McNaughton wonders which direction technology is being transferred in the digital oilfield. Is the upstream to apply technology from the downstream? Or is it the other way round? His investigations lead to the discovery of yet another silo boundary, at the very heart of the digital oilfield. Oh, and by the way, this issue concludes 10 years of Oil IT Journals existence! Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_4.htm Oil IT Journal interviewed Paradigm CEO at the EAGE-just before the Earth Decision acquisition. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_5.htm Three reviews, of Neural Nets in Oil and Gas, Spatial Metadata Standards and RFID Essentials. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_6.htm Kuwait Gulf Oils Baqer Bahbahani offers some advice on successful data management. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_7.htm Software and hardware short takes this month cover Petrosys Release 15, Datalogs WellWizard Tour Sheet, JOA Jewel Suite, Simcos Internet Application Suite (beta), M2M Datas 2.5 iSCADA release and alliances between C Tech and EarthSoft, ESRI and SAP, and IBM and Mercury. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_8.htm SpectrumIT contract extended to include drilling and reservoir description documents. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_9.htm New package offers high speed, managed log plotting direct from upstream applications. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_10.htm New VRQC service offers interactive, remote seismic processing and visualization. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_11.htm Data and Consulting Services unit to create geomechanical center of excellence in Salt Lake City. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_12.htm Seismic processing house claims easy to use solution leveraging new Cray XD1 FPGA-based supercomputer. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_13.htm Keynote speakers to the 68th meeting of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers spoke of exciting times in an industry which is at the top of everyones agenda. OMVs Helmut Langanger wondered if this was boom time or revenge time for suppliers. We report on Totals move to ubiquitous pre-stack depth migration of its seismic data, Petrel data management, Aramcos knowledge management and new hardware from IBM. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_14.htm IQPCs first Middle East data and knowledge management conference confirmed the methodical approach adopted by National Oil Companies to preserving information assets. We report on data initiatives from Saudi Aramco, Kuwait Oil Co. Woodside and Shells Oman unit. A speaker from OPEC described the JODI data initiative to increase transparency and aid market stability. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_15.htm News this month from Sensornet, ER Mapper, Decision Dynamics, MetaCarta, Deloitte, Roxar, Geotrace, ITF, Ionik, Ikon, IHS, Emerson, Siemens, Rose and Associates, Digital Oilfield, Datalog, AspenTech, Hyperion, Aker Kvaerner, Scotia Watrous, BGP, Input-Output, Veritas and WellPoint. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_16.htm Following our piece last month on the use of Tadpole Technologys i-Plan in management of BPs refinery shutdown, we received the following letter from Tapoles Ross Coulman. Ross reviews i-Plans ancestry and explains how geographic information systems (GIS) are used in plant overhaul. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_17.htm Scandpowers OLGA 2000 technology at heart of Norsk Hydros Ormen Lange digital gasfield. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_18.htm Windows 64-bit edition doubles performance over vanilla XP but is 13% slower than 64-bit Linux. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_19.htm Australian oil and gas data specialist to trial Symbols RFID technology in asset management. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_20.htm Data loading speed and integration claimed for new release. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_21.htm Network-centric IP storage solution brings four fold increase in upstream application performance. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_22.htm SIOR project shooting for 55% average recovery and 1,200 million barrel hike in reserves. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_23.htm TGS-Imagings seismic processing package part of Linux cluster-based turnkey solution. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_24.htm Non-lethal acoustic warning device offers intrusion protection for remote, unmanned facilities. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_25.htm Analytical technique targets reservoir sweet spots with time-lapse vertical seismic profiling. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_26.htm High-end graphics platform now supports worlds first dedicated visual computing system. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_27.htm SCADA security in the limelight with arrival of US DoE Critical Infrastructure Protection legislation. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_28.htm Audit deficiencies in popular EquityEdge package leave loophole for options backdating. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_29.htm IHS Energys venture into wireless data ends with sale of monitoring technology to Dover Corp. unit. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/corporate/2article/0607_30.htm AAPG, SPE and SEG kick-off LookUpstream, a multi-discipline technical paper search engine. Mon, 31 Jul 2006 24:00:00 +0100