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BOP Monitor

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

A software solution from Lloyds Register companies ModuSpec and Scandpower repurposes real time risk assessment modeling technology developed for nuclear reactor monitoring.

Baker Hughes Artificial Intelligence

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Following equity stake, case based reasoning technology from Verdande will be embedded in BEACON remote operations platform.

Enterprise architectures for anyone?

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Neil McNaughton walks through the content of this months Oil IT Journal wearing his enterprise architects hat. The interoperability problem statement remains essentially the same. But there are a lot of potential solutions out there and more are coming. Will the semantic web focused integrated operations initiative come good? Will vendor solutions prevail?

Oil IT Journal interview-Richard Pang, ISS Group

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Richard Pang is CEO and MD of ISS Group, developer of the BabelFish platform and solutions for well testing, production loss accounting and more. Pang covers successes with BP and Hess, its deal with Schlumberger, MURA and offers his take on the digital oilfield and production optimization.

Energy Institute whitepaper on safety critical task analysis

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

UK body investigates disparity in accident reporting, proposes methodology for safety analysis.

UK announces PEARS online licensing system

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

UK Department of Energy and Climate Change adds web-based licensing and relinquishments.

Hadoop/MapReduce LIDAR data and the cloud

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Cyberinfrastructure presentation reports successful use of big data solution for geoscience data.

Austin GeoModeling gets patent for 3D geological interpretation

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Broad patent covers geological interpretation, well log correlation and dynamic cross sections.

Software, hardware short takes

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

ESSI Corp., ES and H Consulting, Mechdyne, Expro, Fugro, Zeiss, IDS, BGS, Object Reservoir, OSIsoft, Tecplot, P2 Energy Solutions.

OSIsoft Barcelona Regional Symposium

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

GDF Suez and RasGas present PI System use cases. Total fields Magions complex event detection.

2011 ECIM Data Management, Haugesund

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Upstream data event heard from IBM info-guru Sunil Soars on data governance, Spring Energy on data management in small oils and Statoils quest for an information architecture and big data.

Semantic Days 2011, Oslo

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Integrated operations in the high north update. Statoils new environmental monitoring solution. Model-driven access to OPC. IBMs safe technology roadmap. EPSIS oil platform topology.

Fuse, Western Refining, ConocoPhillips on Teradata

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Fuse demos seismic on Teradata SRDS. Teradata user conference to highlight oil and gas use cases.

Folks, facts, orgs ...

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

ITF, Absoft, Aker, Altair, Baker Hughes, CiSoft, UtiliPoint, Decision Strategies, Dow, eLynx, ENGlobal, UT, MIT, IFP, ISS, OFS Portal, Oiltanking Partners, Pioneer, PwC, Select Energy Services, Senergy, Schlumberger, Spectraseis, Oracle, SMT, Westheimer.

Done Deals

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Cameron, LeTourneau, Joy Global, Dell, Force10, Emerson, Net Safety Monitoring, SensorTran, Halliburton, HP, Autonomy, Lawson Software, Approva, Intertek, QinetiQ, Lufkin, Pentagon Optimization Services, Nova Metrix, Sensornet, Tendeka, SGI, OpenCFD, Spectraseis, VSG, Noesis.

Wireless World

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Fern Communications for Qatargas. M2M and Skywave. CalAmp and Matrikon. RigNet and Intelsat.

2011 Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Caltech shows impact of big data and big computing with spectacular whole earth models.

Visage shows analytics on Geologic Systems dataset

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Bertrand Groulx and Nathalie Saint Hilaire investigate Monteney natural gas and Bakken oil shale.

BP plans Houston real time operations center

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Company pledges revised drilling standards to Boemre.

Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Kongsberg Oil and Gas, IDS, Energy Solutions, ABB, KBR, Assai, McLaren Software, CJV, Dow, Saudi Aramco, Emerson Process Management, Rockwell Automation, Honeywell, SAP, Industrial Defender, CoreTrace, Kinesix, Opsens, Paradigm, Acceleware, Meridium, Sintef, TNO, IFP, Hart, VSG.

Standards Stuff

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Boemre embeds OGP spec. ECCMA announces data quality summit. Energistics geographic metadata profile. IFIT releases IT glossaries. Wellstorms Ruby Witsml tools. CoLan new release.

TA Cook Research on turnaround/shutdown software

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Review finds turnaround lost production opportunity costs exceed cost of turnaround itself.

Baird blogs on PPDM in a Box

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Geologic Systems pre-populated PPDM implementation now ready for at scale testing.

RPSE-government largesse for US shale gas explorers

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

And the winner is ... funding for fracture technologies and AI applied to poroperm prediction.

Stonebridge ESB for P2ES environment

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Enterprise service bus provides master data management for Excalibur, Bolo and other tools.

Well integrity management package for Tullow Oil

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Expro Well Services SafeWells package underpins global operations.

Aberdeen Business School identifies safety information gap

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

Aveva-sponsored study finds poor training and lack of clarity in HSE procedures and documentation.

Fracture predictive technology models cracks in Macondo riser

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 24:00:00 +0100

MITs lab floats substantial research program in oil country tubular failure analysis.