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Technology Watch summary from SPE Digital Energy

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

The summary and contents from The Data Room's Technology Watch report from the SPE 2007 Digital Energy conference and exhibition are now available on www.oilit.com/tw.

Chevron moots object database

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

An object database from Objectivity may soon underpin Chevrons Architecture for Refinery Real-Time Interoperable Systems (ARRIS). Mike Brooks outlines Chevrons real time problem set.

Conference Announcement

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

IQPC Data and Knowledge Management for Asian Oil and Gas Kuala Lumpur, Malasia.

OpenFlow announced

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

New software integration platform from French Petroleum Institute (IFP) leverages the Eclipse IDE and open source databases.

Digital oilfields, silos, laggards and irritation

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton sees encouraging signs of silo boundary-breaking ventures from the vendors, but gets mildly irritated by some engineering old chestnuts.

CERAs Capital Cost Index rise slows

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Six monthly rise down from 13% to 7% as costs constrain activity.

Oil IT Journal Interview-Pat Kennedy, CEO OSIsoft

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

OSIsoft founder talks about the PI data historian and its growing role in the upstream.

Chevron backs high performance computing startup

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

SiCortex is building a supercomputer from the ground up-targeting six teraflops in single cabinet.

Geotrace announces Diamond seismic processing package

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Geotrace's seismic processing and interpretation package designed as unified subsurface information system.

Google Earth Enterprise-not quite what we thought!

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Googles enterprise-level mapping system eschews hosted data paradigm of public version.

Celoxicas claims seismic benchmark for FPGA-based system

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

AMD Torrenza field programmable gate array said to increase processing speed 28 fold.

Software, hardware short takes ...

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

News this month from Madagascar, Aveva, CiDRA, Deloitte, EPS, Ikin, Innerlogix, RapidMind andInvensys.

PGS deploys vibrator tracking from Fleet Management Solutions

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Satellite tracking links PGS seismic vibrators to head office for real time monitoring and supervision.

Robbins-Gioia teams with Landmark on project management

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Deal to offer project and portfolio management services to Halliburton clients.

SPE 2007 Digital Energy Conference, Houston

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

The Society of Petroleum Engineers Digital Energy Conferences included updates on Shells smart fields, Chevrons digital oilfield, and reflection on the difficulty of recruiting the renaissance engineer, a hybrid PE/IT specialist. BP showed a Microsofts Virtual Earth-based application in its Arkoma Basin assets and an intelligent closed loop integrated digital system for artificial lift operations in the San Juan basin. Schlumberger presented emerging semantic techniques for securing remote operations and showed a mock up of a Petrel/Interact combo for geosteering.

SPE DEC07 high performance computing special session

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Shell, BP and the US Council of Competitiveness outline trends in oil and gas HPC.

Folks, facts and orgs ...

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Ziebel, Absoft, Aker, API, Deloitte, Energy Solutions, SolArc, Halliburton, ESRI, Oildex, Schlumberger and more.

P2ES new BI tool leverages Business Objects

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Excalibur Report Studio announced and sales chalked-up to EXCO and Taylor Energy.

FIATECH Annual Technology Conference

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Washington meet focuses on data interoperability with the ISO 15926 Work in Progress standard.

DTS Standard mooted as optics extend to offshore platform

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

SensorTran and J-Power systems propose IDOPTS standard for distributed temperature sensing.

Bearing Point implements Total EandP Canadas SAP

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Consultants align oil sands financial and supply chain processes.

Hydro awards WellDynamics well steering framework contract

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Five year NOK 540 million deal covers SmartWell intelligent completion technology and services.

Decision Dynamics Oncore for major Alberta oil sands project

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Project tracking and cost control package deployed in million dollar deal.

Neoris delivers SAP portal to Pemex Basica gas unit

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Visualization and integration portal leverages xApps for Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence.

Marathon Technologies partners with Transpara on visual KPIs

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

everRun fault tolerant server delivers key performance plant information to mobile workforce.

PlantWeb to enable digital automation of North West facility

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Oil sands upgrading facility to deploy Emersons intelligent digital control system.

SL Corp. and OSIsoft offer Java API for PI Historian data

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Enterprise RTView exposes OSIsofts PI Historian data to Linux/Unix server-based applications.

Honeywell to upgrade MOLs European facilities

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Ten UniSim operator training simulators to roll out over three year period.

Roxar rolls-out FracPerm 2.0

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Data-driven modeling approach claimed to reduce risk in fractured reservoir management.

Autonomy/Virage to digitize BPs film library

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Intelligent XML tags to make rich content historic video resource searchable.

Aleyaska Pipeline renews SAICs pipeline IT contract

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

1,800 desktop application and 100 server support contract renewed in $35 million deal.

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging acquires ER Mapper

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Geospatial image processing solution extends Leicas enterprise software offering.

MOL uses Palisade @Risk in enterprise risk management system

Thu, 31 May 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Hungarian oil and gas company uses Monte Carlo optimizer for investment decisions.