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<title>Teradata for oil and gas</title>
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<description>Manchester University researcher comes from left field with data warehousing  solution to upstream data management-including seismic processing, production, financials-the whole shebang!</description>
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<title>SAICs SOA play</title>
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<description>Consultants to embed work performed for major oil and gas accounts in public  service-oriented architecture-based interoperability toolkit.</description>
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<title>Conference Announcement - SMi E&amp;P Information and Data Management</title>
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<title>Our message for 2008-move up!</title>
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<description>Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton witnesses a rare moment of drama on  the UK data scene, notes confusion in the tape standards department and suggests a stretch goal for 2008.</description>
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<title>Oil IT Journal interview-Dean Forrester, SAIC</title>
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<description>We quiz SAIC assistant VP of commercial business services about the new SOA  architecture for energy. The soon-to-be released public spec leverages work performed for clients including BP.</description>
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<title>ONGC, Chevron select Paradigm</title>
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<description>Paradigm has major sales this month to Indias ONGC and Chevron.</description>
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<title>HPC news from Schlumberger, Microsoft, SGI and SC07</title>
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<description>Microsoft HPC now mainstream. IBM and SGI head the Top500 high performance  computing list.</description>
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<title>ESRI ArcGIS Image Server supports CenterPoint Energy</title>
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<description>ESRI responds to the Google Earth challenge with enterprise image management  for utility.</description>
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<title>Chevron adds Petrel to E and P software mix</title>
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<description>Supermajor integrates Schlumberger flagship with in-house technology and deploys  globally.</description>
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<title>Husky deploys Invensys cyber security solution</title>
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<description>Real time monitoring protects upgrader facilitys networks-but prevention  is better than cure...</description>
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<title>Software, hardware short takes ...</title>
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<description>Ikon, eLynx, ESRI, Aveva, Beicip-Franlab, Petrosys, TradeCapture, Zeh, DresserWayne,  Killetsoft, A-Prime.</description>
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<title>$70 oil price required to match 2005 $30 projects</title>
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<description>WoodMac study finds $70 oil needed to match returns made in 2005 with $30  oil</description>
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<title>EU Plant Engineering and Design Conference, The Hague</title>
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<description>The EPEDC conference focuses on the oil and gas, process and power verticals.  This year saw renewed interest in the ISO 15926 data standard (especially for handover) which has been leveraged successfully by Malaysian power generator Malakoff. Other presentations focused on commercial tools from Aveva, InnoCielo, Intergraph, ShareCAT and Dassault Systemes. Presentations covered deployments on ExxonMobils North Sea assets and the Shell-operated Sakhalin II project. </description>
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<title>Energistics Standards Summit, Houston</title>
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<description>Updates on WITSML, PRODML, global well identifiers, seismics and e-Permitting.  </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Folks, facts, orgs ...</title>
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<description>Shell, Baker Hughes, SAIC, Roxar, TietoEnator, DPTS, cc-Hubwoo, CGGVeritas,  Tudor Pickering, DecisionStrategies, Petris, Geotrace, Halliburton, TradeCapture, IES, Knowledge Systems.</description>
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<title>Standards news from ECCMA, OGP, CIDX, OGC, COMCARE</title>
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<description>New announcements on metadata, cyber security, asset management, GIS, emergency  response.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>MicroStation at heart of Petrobras obstacle management system</title>
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<description>GIS-based obstacle inventory aids pipeline route planning and safe operations.  </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Rowan deploys SARS Intellitrax fleet management</title>
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<description>Driller extends asset tracking system to onshore rigs and offshore hurricane  response.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>GeoFields User Group</title>
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<description>Pipeline GIS and data management presentations from SoCal Gas, Kern River  and ESRI.</description>
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<title>Qinetiq OptaSense for pipeline security</title>
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<description>New multi-mode system detects intrusion, damage, mechanical failure and flow  issues.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Canadian Pipeline industry unveils Pipelines 101 website</title>
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<description>New website provides balanced information on midstream operations, safety  to public.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Petrel supports GPGPU-based number crunching</title>
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<description>New package from Mercury adds NVIDIA TESLA compute engine to Ocean toolkit.<span style="font-weight: bold">  </span></description>
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<title>HART bus underpins OrmenLange predictive maintenance</title>
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<description>HART Communications and Emerson AMS Suite cited as key enablers of state of  the art diagnostics system.</description>
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<title>Kanak enhances Schlumberger gas operations</title>
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<description>WITSML-based data aggregator from Moblize now component of Production Watcher  solution.</description>
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<title>Yokogawa augments VigilantPlant with GE monitoring package</title>
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<description>Plant Resource Manager-a field of the future enabler-now adds rotating equipment  diagnostics.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>WellPoint extends Axapta ERP with IDEACA</title>
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<description>Companies cooperate on sales and roll-out of Microsoft Dynamics enterprise  resource planning.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Schlumberger wins exclusive MetaCarta distribution to E and P</title>
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<description>Deal augments information management offering with lexicon-driven map search.  </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>MapInfo acquires Encom</title>
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<description>Following its own acquisition by Pitney Bowes, deal adds geoprocessing and  data management.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Landmark gets exclusive rights to ISATIS geostatistics</title>
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<description>Geovariances high end geostatistical package to underpin next generation  earth modeler.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>CO2 consortia move from hot air generation to sequestration</title>
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<description>US and Norway lead the way in tonnage sequestered-UK initiates evaluation  project.</description>
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