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Totals Field Monitoring

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

An agile IT infrastructure centered on OSIsofts PI System and Microsoft BizTalk are key to Totals drive to maximize production and reserves through more efficient oilfield management.

Open Source WITSML

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Petrolink is releasing Powerstore, a WITSML-based well site data server and query engine, as open source software to promote take-up across E and P.

On productivity, keyboard shortcuts, futzing and automation

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton wonders what it means when an oil company standardizes on Microsoft. Futzing with Office 2007 he wonders what happened to productivity, elaborates a conspiracy theory and offers a snapshot of the interoperability situation in oil and gas IT today.

Anadarkos financials mapped to US GAAP XBRL taxonomy

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

A team from the Coles College of Business finds XBRL suited to reserves and financial reporting.

Paradigm issues InnoCentive challenge for fault representation

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Open Innovation Marketplace to solve thorny problem in reservoir characterization.

Microsoft now at No 10 as NVIDIA Tesla enters TOP500

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Roadrunner breaks petaflop barrier as Microsoft and NVIDIA make significant moves in HPC.

Dataflux, Terraspark and Intervera sign-up for interoperability

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Data quality specialists and seismic interpretation vendor join OpenSpirit.

CyrusOne to host Repsols Gulf of Mexico Kaleidoscope

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Houston data center to house IBM Cell-BE-powered seismic supercomputer.

Petris and Warrior form strategic alliance around UnRiskIT

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Risk management package to be embedded in PetrisWinds Enterprise and Recall.

ffA and Mercury team on high end visualization

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Next generation tools for seismic interpretation to leverage GPU-based computing.

Software, hardware short takes ...

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

News from OpenGeoSolutions, Cartopac, ffA, Intervera, OHM/RSI, WesternGeco, SMT and Tecplot.

Energistics Standards Summit

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

AspenTech, Chevron, ONGC and Oracle present at upstream standards meet.

OSIsoft/PI System user group 2008, Amsterdam

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Presentations from Shell, Iberdrola, RasGas, Saudi Aramco and NiSource put OSIsofts PI System at the heart of their enterprise production monitoring effort. Microsoft SharePoint Server is an infrastructure component for some-while niche applications from Magion (for data quality) and Intellution (for connectivity) add to the OSIsoft process monitoring ecosystem.

BPs Inglis-no demographic crisis, oil is technology leader

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Andy Inglis minimizes impact of baby boomers imminent retirement but warns of capability gap.

Folks, facts, orgs ...

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Aclaro, Aveva, Spectraseis, Coade, Coreworx, US DoE, Energy Navigator, Exterran Holdings, ffA, FreeWave Technologies, FuelQuest, SRC, Caesar Systems, Spectrum, TietoEnator, LITE, IFP.

Done deals

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

CGGVeritas, Cartasite, Siemens, FMC, IHS, ION, National Oilwell, Schlumberger, Quorum, Teledyne.

Social networking in oil and gas

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Microsoft evangelist Zain Naboulsi advocates blogs, Twitter, Wikis and hybrid tools for oil vertical.

Sintef, Hitec team on eDrilling Solutions software unit

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Startup to develop computer aided guidance and control of drilling and well operations.

Riversand fixes ConocoPhillips master data in global SAP rollout

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Global purchase to pay project eliminates free form procurement and manual transactions.

Sales, contracts and deployments

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Brainware, Quorum, Emerson, Energy Solutions, P2ES, Paradigm, TriplePoint, Roxar, SMT.

Standards Stuff

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Energistics SOA, PPDM name change, Adobe joins Fiatech, OASIS DITA, eBusiness interop.

Hess signs with RapidRatings supplier scorecard

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Financial health ratings monitor corporate counterparty risk exposure.

SAS rolls out PAM-Preventative Asset Maintenance

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

New maintenance centric data model builds on service intelligence architecture.

MegaPath broadband for Shells CoolBand retail network

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Deal brings managed security, VPN for credit card processing, cash transfers and tank monitoring.

EIC Data Stream tracks oil and gas industry projects

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

UK Energy Industries Councils database provides business intelligence on 6,500 upstream projects.

West Energy rolls-out esi.manage spend management system

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

3esi toolset supports planning, budgeting and spend tracking and analysis for E and P company.

CAMS, Capital Asset Maintenance Streamliner announced

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

ProgramFramework rolls out oil and gas project management toolkit.

Welling study-Linux key to future of geoscience interpretation

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Worldwide Seismic Market study compares G and G software, platforms and price leadership.

AspenTech patents key aspects of aspenONE data model

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 24:00:00 +0100

Plethoric claims for data sharing, amalgamation and vendor neutrality for federated data model.