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 IQPC Data Management, Bahrain. EAGE/EUROPEC, Vienna. Schlumberger Information Solutions Forum, Paris. Mon, 6 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_1.htm At 9th Annual Human Resources Technology Conference and Exposition in Chicago this month, Occidental and Hess revealed e-HR solutions to the people problem. With help from AVEVA, Petrobras has focused on training-up local design engineers. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_2.htm A Wood Mackenzie study on project cost overruns shows wide variance in tax treatment. Some countries pay virtually all excess cost out of tax. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_3.htm Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton is fed up with software vendors that are moving towards web services. During a refreshing visit with the geo-information community, he learns how mash-ups of publicly available information are delivering serendipitous insights for free. Inspired, he rolls his own mash-up of the recent Woodmac survey with Transparency Internationals corruption index. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_4.htm Schlumbergers Brice Bouffard and Lester Bayne talk to Oil IT Journal at the SIS Paris Forum. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_5.htm The Office of Fossil Energy reports on e-commerce and the Chemistry Council on cyber attacks. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_6.htm Petrel is not the only .NET show in town. JOAs Jewel Suite has similar scope and now sports an API. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_7.htm Archivas and Enigma Data Solutions roll out joint Hierarchical Storage Management for oil and gas. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_8.htm West Australian petroleum agency is anchor tenant of ISA/Schlumberger application hosting service. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_9.htm United States Geological Survey to safeguard nations geological and geophysical data. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_10.htm Ikon, CMG, Object Reservoir, Peloton, AGI, Badleys, dGB, Fugro, GeoLogic, GeoSoft and more. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_11.htm New hardware leverages graphics processors to speed seismic processing by claimed 20x. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_12.htm Petrel has caught the hearts and minds of the upstream-offering easy integration of almost all upstream data types. The Ocean API is proving popular and Petrels seismic interpretation capability has passed Shell initial tests. Petrels data management is problematical-but SIS promises a fix in a detailed IM roadmap. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_13.htm The Pipeline Open Data Standard is gaining traction-driven by stringent reporting requirements from the US Office of Pipeline Safety. Operators Texas Gas Transmission and Sunoco report successful deployment. Collaboration with the Corrosion Engineers Association is announced and Google Earth use demonstrated. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_14.htm POSC, OFS Portal, ISA, PeakStream, PTAC, vMonitor, API, BJ Process, Finetooth I/O and more. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_15.htm Deals with Verari, Nvidia and EMC Centera offer ready-to-run interpretation and storage solutions. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_16.htm Well log library now holds 850,000 logs and images. Digitizing on demand service for subscribers. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_17.htm New luggable unit brings operations control center to small to mid-size companies. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_18.htm Drilling toolkit repackaged with PetrisWINDS, adding collaboration support and data reuse. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_19.htm E-records management best practices to leverage content management in Microsoft Office 2007. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_20.htm RandD targets environmentally responsible improved recovery of oil in slow-flowing formations. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_21.htm Norwegian conference brings W3C luminaries together with oil and gas data specialists. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_22.htm Companies plan to integrate facilities management and pipeline integrity solutions. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_23.htm Den-Cons surface acoustic wave technology to extend RFID to high temperature and pressure. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_24.htm Records management and storage network associations to study information collaboration. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_25.htm New advanced seismic volume interpretation blends multi-frequency data to 3D image. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_26.htm WITSML-based data and communications bundle levels offshore playing field for smaller players. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_27.htm Latest release of Pavilion 8 introduces metadata warehouse, web services, real time management. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_28.htm WellDynamics and Landmark to couple asset modeling with downhole SmartWell technology. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_29.htm Apache and Perenco deploy McLaren Softwares lifecycle engineering content management solution. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0610_30.htm Society of Petroleum Engineers targets the digital oilfield and oil and gas technology research. Tue, 31 Oct 2006 24:00:00 +0100