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SAP HANA CEP breakthrough

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

A hardware/software combo, the High Performance Analytic Appliance, heralds a back to the future move from loosely coupled web-services to big iron systems with terabytes of memory.

Digital Rock

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Shell signs multiyear R and D agreement with Schlumberger targeting reservoir monitoring for EOR and pore-scale clastics modeling.

Ten years total face time for www.oilit.com visitors in 2010!

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Editor Neil McNaughton reports on a successful year for Oil IT Journal and its website oilit.com which saw nearly half a million visitors spend an average of ten minutes on the site. News from publisher The Data Room on changes in the Technology Watch service. And a big thanks to our sponsors.

Panorama Technologies-en route to a Fermi architecture

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

NVIDIA Tesla GPUs bring 6x speedup to seismic imaging boutique.

Oil IT Journal Interview-Jim Pritchett, Petris Technology

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Petris CEO Jim Pritchett and product manager Greg Palmer talk of the design choices and technology behind the new Operations Management Suite. Target customers? Users of Excel spreadsheets!

Book Review-Data analysis with open source tools

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

A new book from OReilly Media provides insight into statistics-targeting the risk area of using statistical concepts with a limited understanding of what they really mean.

Industry at large

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Upstream outlook healthy. Statoil gets dressing down from regulator. US moots LNG export.

Oil and gas IT scrutinized by mainstream media

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Guardian and Compterworld UK spotlight oil software issues in US and UK.

GeoBrowse 4 takes E and P workflow to the cloud

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Geotrace Data Integration Services adds Amazon/Eucalyptus cloud option and new ArcGIS front end.

Software, hardware short takes

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Exprodat, Wilson Urdaneta, Reality Mobile, Hampson-Russel, Merrick Systems, HDD Rotary, Senergy, Kalido, Transzap, P2ES, Caesar Systems, Quorum, Expertune, Emerson, ERDAS, Expro.

Energistics 2010 Member Meet, Houston

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

ProdML moves towards EnergyML convergence with SAM and GDA. ResqML V1.0 nears release.

SMi Energy Data Storage 2010

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Isilons OneFS bests open source. Wipros upstream storage reference architecture. NetApp, EMC, Isilon, Panasas slug it out over storage efficiencies. Neil Brown says switch off the lights. For Volantice, its really about data management. Quotium, Spectra Logic in praise of tape.

Blue Marble User Group

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Shells geodetic framework. Noel Zinn (Hydrometrics) on earth-centered, earth-fixed scheme.

PPDM AGM and Member Meet, Calgary

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

TGS-Nopec on well data quality. Noah Consulting on merging geotechnical and financial information. OpenSpirits PPDM data link. DAMA/PPDM tie the knot. Infosys compares industry MDM solutions.

Folks, facts, orgs ...

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

AGA, GE, AspenTech, GITA, Hampson-Russel, Helmerich and Payne, HTC, IDS, IFP, Ikon, CDA, PCA, TechInvestLab, Morgan Keegan, Midland Valley, Ryder Scott, Shell, Teradata, Terraspark, Weatherford, Wunderlich Securities, Hyperdynamics, Matrix, Wireless Seismic.

Done Deals

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Atos Origin, Siemens, Coreworx, Golden Triangle Angelnet, EMC, Isilon, Energy Ventures, Chesapeake, Wireless Seismic, Fugro, Riise, GE, Wellstream, Geovariances, Tenzing, Halliburton/KBR, Idox Group, McLaren Software, Platts, Bentek, United Communications Group, Siemens.

Calsep PVTsim User Group

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Statoil on multi-phase meter data unification. Calsep outlines new Nova PVTsim edition.

Training efficacy questioned at OPITO safety meet

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Dean of Aberdeen Business School advocates common, global oil industry safety standard.

Consortium Corner

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

HARC on low impact drilling. Object Reservoir on Marcellus shale JIP.

Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Virtalis, Epsis, Allegro Development, CGGVeritas, Technip, CNL Software, MatrikonOPC, Cortex, Powervision, Emerson, FMC, Halliburton, Hyperion Systems, KSS Fuels, WhiteStar Corp., LandWorks, Leica Geosystems, IPOS, Metrisys, Sercel, Paragon Geophysical.

Standards Stuff

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

PHMSA leverages PODS. Open Group rolls-out web ontology guide. Oasis defends de jure.

Going, going, green...

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

ExxonMobil, RasGas capture CO2. CSLF notes scale of problem. CSCs carbon managed service.

Laser scan data blends with 3D CAD for PDOs asset models.

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Petroleum Development Oman leverages technology from VRcontext and Z and F.

API Security Conference hears from FBI security guru

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Disgruntled employees, duff networks, economic espionage, viruses, worms-and no quick fix!

AuraPortal BPMS platform for Chilean ENAP

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Business process management toolset to automate fuel logistics.

On-Ramp Wireless Partners with Koncar

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Croatian engineering contractor to offer wireless pipeline condition monitoring.

Liander to trail TNOs pipeline sensors

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

STOOP-IJknet combines sensor data with geological models in condition monitoring solution.

Aveva rolls-out Microsoft Windows Communications Foundation

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 24:00:00 +0100

Global engineering workflows enabled by secure exchange of engineering data.