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<title>Oil  and amp; Gas No1 cyber-victim</title>
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<description>A Presidential Commission finds oil and gas SCADA and control systems particularly vulnerable to cyber attack. The report concludes with a strong recommendation for reperimeterization.</description>
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<title>Data metrics workshop</title>
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<description>A well attended Hampton Data/SMi data metrics workshop resulted in a proposal for a new standard of the elusive holy grail of upstream data KPIs. </description>
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<title>What is a well-or for that matter, a turnip?</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_3.htm</link>
<description>Oil IT Journal Editor Neil McNaughton weaves some threads from PPDMs What is a Well initiative, a new book on RDF and BPs data modeling into a semantic web all of his own.</description>
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<title>PPDM-first European User Group</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_4.htm</link>
<description>What is a Well explained. How Hess raised the bar on data management. BPs competitor analysis and data strategy. Mathew Wests comprehensive approach to information quality.</description>
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<title>Booklet offers advice on document capture and management</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_5.htm</link>
<description>&lt;a target="_blank" title="Sponsored Link" href="http://www.ufcinc.com"&gt;User Friendly Consulting&lt;/a&gt; offers free advice based on 20 years of scanning and content management.</description>
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<title>PGS signs data hall deal with CyrusOne</title>
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<description>10,000 sq. ft. facility to house data and compute infrastructure for seismic processor.</description>
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<title>Hybrid Multicore Consortium kicks-off</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_7.htm</link>
<description>US National Laboratories, NASA and others team to accelerate accelerator take-up!</description>
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<title>Palantir teams with Fekete on technico-economic evaluation</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_8.htm</link>
<description>Fast/Cash combo promises seamless workflow from reservoir evaluation to portfolio management.</description>
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<title>Software, hardware short takes</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_9.htm</link>
<description>Halliburton, IBM, New Century, LandWorks, Emerson, Encom, ffA, IHS, IDS, Ikon, Paradigm, more...</description>
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<title>33rd Artificial Lift R and amp;D Council Workshop, Houston</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_10.htm</link>
<description>Weatherford rolls out WellSavvy robotic digital engineer. Decker on Valve Performance JIP.</description>
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<title>GE Oil and Gas User Group 2010, Florence</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_11.htm</link>
<description>GE Oil  and amp; Gas 2010 User Group meeting in Florence offered insights into GEs approach to managing innovative R and amp;D, Chevrons mega projects, BPs high tech and new trends in deepwater drilling.</description>
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<title>GE Oil  and amp; Gas Nailsea Smart Center</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_12.htm</link>
<description>Oil IT Journal visits GEs real time operations center-linked-in to high end assets around the world.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Global Energy Forum, Houston</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_13.htm</link>
<description>The 2010 Microsoft Global Energy Forum held in Houston last month (to which Oil IT Journal was not invited) had a certain deje vu about it with repeat performances from ConocoPhillips and Marathon. The big technology thing was Herb Yuans unveiling of Shells Petrel/Ocean strategy. But the real event was Steve Ballmers passionate expose on Microsofts involvement in oil and gas. </description>
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<title>Collaboration survey-oils not proactive!</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_14.htm</link>
<description>More <em>deje vu</em> as Microsoft and Shell rediscover potential of social networking in oil  and amp; gas!</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Folks, facts, orgs ...</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_15.htm</link>
<description>1Spatial, Acorn Energy, AGR, ALC, Chief Outsiders, Atos Origin, Best Energy, BNK, Energistics, CSC, CNOOC, DNV, ETL, FaultSeal, GITA, Honeywell, Ingrain, Inpex, Invensys, , Northeast Natural Energy, Neuralog, Oilennium, Pearson-Harper, PAS, Kadme, SMT, RigNet, Schlumberger, DEAL.</description>
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<title>Done Deals</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_16.htm</link>
<description>Triple Point, Softmar, Enerbility, GeoQuasar, ARKeX, Hyperion, ffA, Terraspark, Recon, Technip, more...</description>
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<title>Consortium Corner</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_17.htm</link>
<description>OCTek, GeoIllustrator, Inherently Reliable Facilities, Environmentally Friendly Drilling kick-off.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Beyond handover-Mustang teams with Aveva</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_18.htm</link>
<description>ARC Advisory Group whitepaper studies Mustangs engineering document handover process.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_19.htm</link>
<description>Chevron, Landmark, Tullow, Ikon, Newfield, Paradigm, Marathon, MicroSeismic, Flare, Wipro, Pluspetrol, Blue Skye, Woodside, KBR, WorleyParsons, Aveva, Emerson, Yokogawa, KSS, more...</description>
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<title>e-Business round-up</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_20.htm</link>
<description>Coretex, Powervision, Murphy Oil, Basware, Apache, Oildex, BP, ESS, Technip, Ivalua, OFS Portal.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>SmartSignal Shield provides predictive diagnostics for oil  and amp; gas</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_21.htm</link>
<description>System mines hundreds of millions of machine hours of blind customer data, anticipates failure.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Weatherford announces online oil country tubulars database</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_22.htm</link>
<description>Online resource offers one-stop-shop for information on tubing, casing and drill pipe connectors.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Leica Geosystems improves point cloud data processing</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_23.htm</link>
<description>Laser and Lidar data capture enhanced in deals with MicroSurvey and INOVx. </description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Wireless World</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_24.htm</link>
<description>New wireless deployments and applications involve Emerson, Petrobras, Nynas AB and FreeWave.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>GeoNorth moves to Heroku/Amazon EC cloud</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_25.htm</link>
<description>Alaskan GIS specialist trials geo data delivery across several Cloud services.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Electronic inspection and safety compliance management</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_26.htm</link>
<description>MSA embeds N4 Systems Field ID in new Evotech full body anti-fall protection.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Senergys WellScope tames CFD for drillers</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_27.htm</link>
<description>Computational fluid dynamic modeling set to transform well inflow analysis.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Recession to end in 2010-upstream employment to rise</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1002_28.htm</link>
<description>Grant Thornton survey recalls challenging 2009, sees A and amp;M picking up steam for 2010.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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