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New Technology Watch contents

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 24:00:00 +0100

The Data Room has released the summary and contents pages from its Technology Watch report from the 2007 EAGE/EUROPEC conference held last month in London.

Oracles Digital Oilfield

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Oracle re-enters the upstream vertical with a PPDM-based master data management offering. Oracle claims that oil and gas is five years behind financial services in data warehousing.

Conference Announcement - OReilly Energy Innovation, San Francisco 22-24 August

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

The OReilly Energy Innovation Conference - the intersection of technology, energy and conservation. Oil IT readers save 35 percent off conference fees with regsitation code ei07oit.

Arcapita cleans-up

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Norwegian Corrocean has acquired Roxar from Arcapita in a $380 million cash deal-a 90% mark up on the February 2006 purchase price!

OilIT.com new sponsors, web stats and insider trading

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton reports on new sponsorship for the oilit.com website, on paroxysmal traffic, a Google PageRank of 7, and concludes with a couple of fascinating facts.

Conference Announcement - IBC Digital Oilfields, London 25-26 September

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Using technology and organisational change to achieve integrated operations in oilfields. Presentations fro ENI, OMV, Addax Petroluem, AspenTech, ABB and more ...

Book Review-Alarm Management for Optimum Performance

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

An entertaining read-packed full of practical insights of value to users and systems developers.

Chevron floats Oilfield Ontology Repository proposal

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Tricon Geophysics, Seismic Exchange deploy Isilon storage array

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Isilon IQ storage array supports seismic processing and non-exclusive data library.

Petro-Canada deploys Isatis to characterize oil sands

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Geovariances geostatistical package used to create and analyze multi-million cell stochastic models.

Landmark to leverage OpenSpirit in DecisionSpace

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

OpenSpirits framework extends Landmarks DecisionSpaces reach to third party data stores.

P2ES enhances Tobin GIS Studio Spatial Data Creator

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

P2 Enery Solutions adds spatial data analysis to land data management system.

MetaCarta adds oil and gas geo-lexicon to IHS data provision

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Natural language processing powers new Oil and Gas Geographic Data Module.

Software, hardware short takes ...

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

ModViz, NVIDIA, Roxar, Intervera, Impress Software, Encom, Mercury Computer, SensorTran and Sun.

Seismic Micro Technology gets cash injection from VC funds

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Technology Crossover Ventures and JMI Equity buy into Kingdom Suite developer.

HRH Geostream-geology for the digital oilfield

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Offering combines wellsite geological data acquisition with Gravitas geological data management.

EAGE SPE/EUROPEC 2007, London

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

This years EAGE/SPE-Europec event in Londons Docklands sees huge growth in oil companies recruitment efforts. We report on how oil and gas is storing its estimated 70 petabytes of data on disk, on Statoils interpretation management, on IBMs prolific hardware and web software offering and the return-following a short break-of Sun Microsystems to the oil and gas vertical.

Energistics European Member Meeting, Paris

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Ex-POSC EU members reflect on past, look to future (its XML!) and hear from IBMs process guru.

Folks, facts and orgs ...

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

PeakStream, AMEC, Aveva, BHP Billiton, BP, Cairn, CGG, ESRI, GE, Geotech, Hess, Ikon, OpenSpirit and more ...

dGB releases new OpendTect, moots Madagascar integration

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

de Groot-Bril plans seismic processing add-in to open source interpretation package.

Geogathering 2007, Estes Park, Colorado

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Oil and gas pipeline community discusses regulation, GIS, integrity management and databases.

Deloitte and Energy Council Canada study labor shortage

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Report forecasts huge labor shortfall for Alberta, advocates permanent sustainable solution.

IBM Blue Gene tops latest Top 500 HPC hit parade

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Lawrence Livermores BlueGene/L hits 280 teraflops.

Society of Petroleum Engineers first RandD Conference

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

San Antonio event hears from BP, Saudi Aramco, Schlumberger on future of oil and gas RandD.

Amata to secure Pacific Texas pipeline infrastructure

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

A $152 million contract covers physical protection and intrusion detection of western US system.

OSIsoft to leverage Enspiria for back office connectivity

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Deal links PI System with Enspirias asset management for reliability and performance monitoring.

Aker Kvaerner, SKF, team on CBM

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Condition-based maintenance deal rolls-in bearing specialists real time monitoring.

Petris acquires Production Access

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Deal adds financial and operational data management to PetrisWINDS DrillNet offering.

AspenTech gets worldwide extension for BP EandP and refining

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

AspenOne to remain global engineering standard for process design and simulation.

ISAB reports on oil and gas accounting standards work

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

International Accounting Standards Board to work on upstream reporting and reserves definitions.

Holographic front end for Shells 123DI interpretation system

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Holografikas HoloVizio was on show at World Oil Visualization fest at Barcos Belgian location.

Landmark and Statoil team on $13 million bespoke development

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

DecisionSpace at heart of comprehensive basin-scale interpretation system.

FIATECH organization unfolds roadmap for 2007-2010

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Texas-based standards body looks to engineering procurement and construction (EPC) future.

Kadme to power Digital Earth oil and gas information portal

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 24:00:00 +0100

Companies to team on global energy-centric portal with Amazon-like e-commerce functionality.