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/0611_1.htm The heavy oil session at the SPE ATCE foresaw a co-located oilfield and refinery for Albertas tar sands, merging the digital oilfield with the refinery of the future. Its all about fixing the H2 deficiency. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/4php/4_redirect_url.php?url=http://www.saic.com/career A leader in systems solutions and technical services in the United States, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) brings people of all backgrounds and interests together on projects of mission-critical impact. We currently have opportunities for oil and gas professionals in the Houston, Texas, area. If you have a strong background in the oil and gas industry as a technical professional or business consultant, consider a career with SAIC. Join us and make SAIC your company. We offer a competitive salary, full benefits and growth potential. To apply, visit http://www.saic.com/career, and search for jobs by keyword. Equal Opportunity Employer. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_2.htm The Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium is now Energistics. CEO Randy Clark and chairman Jon Lewis explain why. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_3.htm Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton considers the SECs significant investment in XBRL as auguring well for the standards movement in general-and for the newly rebranded POSC/Energistics. He reflects on the merits of open and closed standards development to suggest that a move to a more open process would allow more stakeholder involvement in upstream standards development. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_4.htm CEO Randy Clark explains the rationale of the POSC/Energistics rebrand to Oil IT Journal. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_5.htm Equipment manufacturer to embed network traffic sniffer in Cyberbase drilling control chairs. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_6.htm Speakers from Chevron, Marathon and PetroSkills vaunt merits of Excel Monte Carlo plug-in. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_7.htm Enersights portfolio management package extended with new business planning workflow. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_8.htm Foster Findlay Associates to apply image processing to fault seal analysis. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_9.htm News from Mercury, Ark, Tibco, Imation, Energy Solutions, Exprodat and Tigress. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_10.htm Securities and Exchange Commission move heralds likely mandating of reporting standard. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_11.htm Rich geographical place name resource gets semantic web makeover. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_12.htm The digital oilfield is as much concerned about enabling hardware, like recording instrumentation and control systems, as it is with computer modeling. Exxon reported on its 28 year experience of permanent downhole gauges and Kinder Morgan on smart well control of a CO2 flood. David Deaton (Halliburton) reported on the Real Time Optimization technical interest groups automation benchmark study. Most vendors are too busy to be producing much in the way of new tools. But we spotted a newcomer of note in NumericalRocks. Another Norwegian organization, EPSIS, has been working on a data drill down and visualization to monitor work on Chevrons San Ardo i-field. The SPE is addressing the manpower problem with a Young Professionals mentoring program and is putting distinguished lecturers presentations online, significantly reducing its carbon footprint! Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_13.htm ConocoPhillips, Total, Petris, Weatherford, CEI, Ikon, ECSI, Invensys, MSDOnline, AspenTech ... Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_14.htm DrillNET to integrate PAs Operations Center, combining drilling and production data products. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_15.htm Foxboro I/A series process control system to displace legacy Emerson PCS. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_16.htm $80 million project to provide robust, regional communications network for up to 64 platforms. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_17.htm Gilats SkyeEdge platform to provide high bandwidth connectivity to refiners retail outlets. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_18.htm Chemical tags and inventory management system to combat rampant theft. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_19.htm ECSI to provide high end security and perimeter protection for US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_20.htm Reserves database and corporate reporting system provides information intensive decision support. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_21.htm ProCount 2007 hydrocarbon accounting package promises no more reconciliation surprises. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_22.htm Chemical division rolls-out Enterprise Invoice Resolution system with document choreography. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_23.htm PlantWeb monitors and controls operations at new Nova BioSource America biodiesel plants. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_24.htm ProdML integrates the POSC/Energistics Production Operations SIG-2007 program sketched out. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_25.htm Users discuss electronic AandD, production data validation and SCADA data management. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_26.htm Roxars WetGas meter and SandMonitor critical for multi-field GOM development. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_27.htm BPs Ellis Armstrong explains wide azimuth seismic process to Harvard grads. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100 http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0611_28.htm Lawrence Livermores smart casing to monitor production with data fusion. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 24:00:00 +0100