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Emerson bags Roxar

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Upstream software house-cum oilfield metering specialist bought by process behemoth in a $179 million deal. A new contender for Schlumberger and Halliburton in the digital oilfield?

CDA seismic award

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Common Data Access has awarded the long-awaited seismic data store contract to Schlumberger Information Solutions.

On the wisdom of crowds, surveys and management.

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton reflects on the wisdom of crowds, on Web x.0, collaboration technology and self serving surveys. What happened to managers managing?

Interview-iStore CEO Barry Irani and CTO Oscar Teoh

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Petrotrek developers tell of SharePoint migration and data integration for the aha moment.

Seismic Ventures augments toolset with VisualVoxAt, 1DFM

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Applications from SMT and Geomodeling offer AVO, DHI and workflow-oriented visualization.

Kadmes Whereoil front end for Colombia NDR

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Browser and crawler combo displaces custom DecisionPoint solution in national data repository.

Petrobras reports extensive use of Isatis geostatistical toolset

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Geovariances package supports lifecycle reservoir characterization workflow and 4D seismics.

Data in Context adds MetaCartas geotagging to Petrel

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Petrel 2009 release supports unstructured information browsing and a native 64 bit Vista runtime.

SEG awards Tierra Geophysical SEAM modeling job

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Society of Exploration Geophysicists unit awards advanced seismic modeling phase one project.

Software, hardware short takes

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

iStore, Roxar, Landmark, Petrosys, AMEC, OpenSpirit, eSimulation, Geosoft, Geotrace, P2ES, Paradigm.

Shell proselytizes on enterprise social networking for upstream

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Shell sees promise in social networking. Microsoft/Accenture poll suggests potential time savings.

Plant Tech-2008, The Hague

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Plant Tech is the definitive European event for oil and gas capital project software and data management. We report on the evolving world of plant data standards, increased recognition of the role of data quality, and on engineering projects of the future from Fluor Corp. and Aker Solutions. Shells presentation describes a near ideal handover of data and operations on Ormen Lange.

PESGB-PETEX 2008 focus on the future

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

UK Minister, if banks dont play ball, tell me. Brent reservoir surveillance, co-visualization and infrastructure-led E and P.

Folks, facts, orgs ...

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

News from Aveva, Baker Hughes, Caprock, OPC, Deloitte, GCI, Geomodeling, Geoservices, GRL, HARC, Texas A and M, IDG Global, Ingrain, KBR, MicroSeismic and Microsoft. Apologies to Endeca, ITF.

Done deals

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Intertek buys Wisco, GE joins ATP in deepwater production venture, El Paso signs with OFS Portal.

RPSEA contracts with Knowledge Reservoir, unveils 2009 program

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

The Research Partnership for America awards R and D contract for ultra deepwater reservoir study.

Hess confirms PPDM success in $2 million data effort

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

International well data now centrally managed in effort to be faster and smarter.

Palantir and Tibco Spotfire team on oil and gas project support

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

PalantirPlan models and visualizes complex project interdependencies, financials and timing.

Berkana, CIDG announce cyber security solution for oil and gas

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Modulos Risk Manager used in comprehensive SCADA systems security assessment methodology.

Sales, contracts and deployments

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Appro, Fugro, Halliburton, Organic, eSimulation, Ingrain, Paradigm, VRContext, SPT Group, Techsia.

Standards Stuff

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Energistics-national data repositories, PRODML and RESQML. API/PIDX surveys business practices.

Shell goes for Industrial Defender cyber security solution

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Shell deploys SCADA critical infrastructure protection across global production processes.

Oil and gas RFID Group sets up field test center

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

52 acre live-lab at Texas A and M targets at scale tests of radio frequency ID tags and applications.

Yokogawa-Plant Resource Manager and Production Organizer

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

New solutions include standards support for business process modeling and EDDL.

Universal Well Services UniSkid, a plug and play CBM platform

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Hardware, software and communications combo for coal bed methane well management.

BP tunes Maximo component of E and P Backbone

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

IBM Pulse presentation describes consolidation and performance tuning of MRO system.

CSC and Oracle team on Petroleum Enterprise Intelligence

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Computer Sciences Corp. announces Oracle E-Business Suite-based business intelligence solution.

NuPhysicia offers telemedicine for offshore sites

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

InPlace Medical Solutions-digital diagnostics and two way videoconferencing for the oil field.

Invensys announces immersive VR for plant and process

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 24:00:00 +0100

Immersive Virtual Reality heralds next generation human machine interface for training.