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<title>Ras Tanura ISO flop</title>
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<description>Dow presentation on Saudi Aramco giga-scale project finds few best of breed  solutions, constraints on interoperability, immature engineering standards and a hegemonic Excel!</description>
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<title>Regulatory standards</title>
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<description>Oil and Gas Producers report finds plethora of overlapping, duplicated standards  in use by regulatory bodies. Compliance mostly voluntary.</description>
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<title>On standards, take-up and data initiatives</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_3.htm</link>
<description>Editor Neil McNaughton introduces an engineering data issue of Oil IT Journal,  reflects on 20 years of data standards and reports on imminent deployment and take-up. He also looks at some of the politicking that is taking place between the .orgs, conference organizers and standards bodies.</description>
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<title>International Digital Oilfield Conference, Abu Dhabi</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_4.htm</link>
<description>Schlumberger on automated decision support. SAICs EngineeringEdge-based DOF  2.0. Totals Full Control of Wells program. Out of the box well performance management from Matrikon.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Statoil risk guru reflects on the state of the art</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_5.htm</link>
<description>For Statoils John Zhao, financial meltdown wasnt Wall Streets Quants fault-it  was management!</description>
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<title>Following Berkeley workshop, OpenEM.org launches</title>
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<description>Virtual institute to showcase electromagnetic applications and R and D.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Tibco Spotfire powers DrillingInfo portal</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_7.htm</link>
<description>New release of business analytics tool brings predictive analytics to mainstream.  </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Petris software bonanza</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_8.htm</link>
<description>New upstream business intelligence, well lifecycle management tools. Zeh and  DrillNET upgrades.</description>
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<title>Geovariances, Estimages launch moving geostatistics consortium</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_9.htm</link>
<description>Group to apply patented parameter optimization technology to oil and gas vertical.  </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Software, hardware short takes</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_10.htm</link>
<description>Caesar Systems, Coreworx, IHS, Egal, Emerson, Exprodat, Fugro, New Century,  Petrolink, Barco...</description>
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<title>Fraunhofer Institute-bye bye MPI, hello GPI!</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_11.htm</link>
<description>Geophyical processing spawns general purpose API for multicore architectures.  </description>
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<title>Petrel 2010. Ocean application store opens doors</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_12.htm</link>
<description>New release automates structural framework building, improves risk management.  </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>AAPG 2010, New Orleans</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_13.htm</link>
<description>McLendon, Nehring-contrasting views on US shale gas. BP backs Bakers AziTrak  deep resistivity tool. Shell contrasts sedimentological modeling and meteorology. Cornell leverages Matlab for carbon sequestration. CLTC introduces CO2 data management. Marathon on new micropal solution.</description>
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<title>FIATECH 2010, Austin</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_14.htm</link>
<description>Engineering data conference hears from Woodside, OLF, Emerson, AspenTech,  Fluor, CH2M Hill.</description>
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<title>Wipro productizes EIM offering-demos cloud to Shell</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_15.htm</link>
<description>SAP-centric services for oil and gas unveiled at 2010 SAPphire. Microsoft  Azure hosted B2B POC.</description>
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<title>Folks, facts, orgs ...</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_16.htm</link>
<description>AGR, Badger, Belsim, CMS Energy, Expro Group, Geotrace, Grid Petroleum, IFP,  ITF, MMS, MVE, Paradigm, Chevron, RPS Group, WellPoint, HP, PTC, SPE, SensorTran, TriplePoint, Verdande...</description>
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<title>Done Deals</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_17.htm</link>
<description>Energy Ventures, National Oilwell, Read, Viking, GSE, Honeywell, RIM, QNX,  Thomson, Point Carbon...</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Pemex extols AuraPortal business process management</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_18.htm</link>
<description>Webcast tells of multi-vendor BPM evaluation and selection of configurable  procurement solution.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Ipcos guru describes best practices in process control</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_19.htm</link>
<description>Petronas-sponsored meet hears how best practices sustain process operational  excellence.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Going, going ... green!</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_20.htm</link>
<description>IBM and the changing oil and gas risk landscape, Peloton SiteView, Iconics  Energy Analytics.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_21.htm</link>
<description>Allegro, Aker, AMEC, Coreworx, Sharecat, Eclipse, Weatherford, Emerson, ENGlobal,  ESI, GE Oil  and  Gas, Intergraph, IPCOS, TriplePoint, Cortex, Octaga, ffA, Invensys, AT and T, Techno House ...</description>
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<title>Standards Stuff</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_22.htm</link>
<description>Data exchange model form. ISO in oil and gas. Total endorses Energistics.  Fit-for-service Toolbox.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Pipeline data models revisited</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_23.htm</link>
<description>Eagle Information Mapping guru Tracey Thorliefson blogs on pipeline data model  merits.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Wireless World</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_24.htm</link>
<description>New Netris offering from Sensile Technologies, Pedigrees Tag-n-Track  and Airbiquity for Shell.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Invensys hardens OPC with Triconex/Tofino firewall</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_25.htm</link>
<description>Cyber security solution protects against process control system accidents  and attacks.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>IntelaTrac mobile workforce solution sees upgrade</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_26.htm</link>
<description>System now has dedicated oil and gas module. Used in BPs operations management  system.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>IBM whitepaper outlines turnaround optimization</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_27.htm</link>
<description>TAR Optimization Solution blends ERP, Maximo and engineering documents.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Kongsberg Oil  and  Gas rolls-out LedaFlow</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1005_28.htm</link>
<description>Integrated asset model uses full physico-chemical simulation to multi-phase  flow in pipes.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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