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Insight Earth announced

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

TerraSpark's seismic interpretation package offers semi- automated, 3D fault, attribute and geobody extraction. Technology derives from JIP funded by BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron and ConocoPhillips.

Landmark buys KSI

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Halliburtons software arm adds Knowledge Systems geomechanical analysis and geopressure capability to its well placement portfolio.

A tale of two tradeshows ...

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Editor Neil McNaughton offers a user guide to this semantic issue of Oil IT Journal and goes on to contrast the razzmatazz of the SPEs Intelligent Energy conference with the relative dullness of PNEC. How can it be that so much success can be reported from the digital oilfield when the underlying heavy lifting proves so problematical?

FIATECH Annual Technology Conference and Showcase

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

US standards body hears from Bechtel, BP, Chevron and NRX of real world ISO 15926 deployment.

Acceleware shrink-wraps seismic GPGPU library

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

New AxK library adds graphics processing unit number crunching to pre stack time migration.

JOA extends Jewel Suite in deals with Fusion and Enres

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Jewel Suite-based service offering in Houston. CycloLog-based well correlation toolset announced.

Landmark teams with Panasas on seismic storage

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

ActivStor storage appliance now available bundled with ProMax/SeisSpace software.

PDVSA selects NeuraDB for corporate log repository

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Venezuelan state oil to store 500,000 well logs in Neuralog's structured/image database.

Software, hardware short takes ...

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

3DGEO, Beicip, Earthworks, ETL Solutions, Engineous, Ikon, Neuralog, Petrosys and Quantapoint.

ConocoPhillips GeoCraft open source geoscience framework

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Geoscience code base placed in public domain to encourage collaboration with vendors, academia.

Knowledge Reservoir and 3GiG form strategic alliance

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Companies offer business process and well lifecycle management services around Prospect Director.

Semantic Days, Stavanger

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

The well-endowed Norwegian Integrated Operations project has sparked off great interested in oilfield standards. The POSC/Caesar organizations annual Semantic Days conference heard of increasing take-up from StatoilHydro, Petronas Carigali and National Oilwell Varco.

Microsoft Global Energy Forum

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Around 400 users of Microsofts software and development tools gathered in Houston to share experiences of oilfield development leveraging Microsofts technology. Marathon, Chevron and BP report on digital oilfield developments-many leveraging the ubiquitous SharePoint portal.

Microsoft softens high performance computing (HPC) stance

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Microsoft-sponsored survey of HPC in oil and gas finds satisfied users and burgeoning budgets.

Folks, facts, orgs ...

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

News this month from Shell, SensorTran, Halliburton, OFS Portal, Ikon, GCS-Spectrum, PODS, Beicip, ffA, ZEH, Caesar Systems, Baker Hughes, Energistics, Fugro-Jason, ION, iStore, Fiatech, Geomage, Aker, Fieldbus Foundation, Schlumberger and X-Change Corp.

IBM fleshes out its petroleum service oriented architecture

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Intelligent Energy and WebSphere user group presentations offer different slants on new technology.

Paradigms consultants to work on Excelsior oil sands project

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Strategic consulting unit to provide full service interpretation of oil sands resource play.

Cortex teams with Spira on e-field ticket solution

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Joint solution targets an open industry-wide e-commerce solution for oil and gas.

NASA data to be used in Nostradamus demand forecasting

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Ventyx utility demand forecasting system to leverage high resolution weather models.

Wired coiled tubing enhances operations monitoring

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

New ACTive service from Schlumberger uses fiber communications and DTS to optimize jobs.

P2 ES sales to Anadarko, Energy XXI, Maritech, Swift

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

P2 Energy Solutions Tobin unit contracted to determine Texas production units.

Infield announces new map interface to global upstream datasets

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

EnergyGateway web mapping system exposes offshore energy database, new reports announced.

Elynx real time monitoring for Tempest, Bachtell Oil

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Automation and remote monitoring solution used to diagnose problems and improve reliability.

Norwegian deals for Kongsberg extend reach of Assett simulator

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

StatoilHydros operator training simulator scope extends to HSE and operations.

Shipcom and Texas A and M team on oil country wireless RFID

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Oil and Gas radio frequency identification solutions group to create systems and data standards.

ISA committee addresses wireless standards convergence

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

ISA100.11a and WirelessHART standards set to merge to single solution for plant and process.

Applied LNG selects Blue Wireless as IT services provider

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Multi-mode communications system offers phone, internet and IT relocation services.

BT Openzone fulfils unprecedented offshore WiFi demand

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Schlumberger Information Solutions kits out Byford Dolphin with WiFi for the workers!

Business intelligence added to DecisionSpace for Production

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Incuitys EMI tools extend Landmarks AssetObserver. Sigma frac service available as new workflow.

Mobile wireless networksfor Medco Energi's drillers

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Meshdynamics' wireless solution links field base to mobile rigs operating on the Karim Small Fields Area, Oman.

Baker Hughes licenses DiscoveryWells WITSML technology

Sat, 31 May 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Kongsberg Intellifields SiteCom provides secure communications for drilling and production data.