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Oil and gas MDM

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Shells SAP and Microsoft master data management trials. IPL on Statoils model-driven approach. Envizion on GDF Suezs IBM InfoSphere-based semantics for information management.

TGS bags Volant

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Acquisition of Volant Solutions promises tight integration of vendor data products with geoscience data integration tools EnerConnect and Envoy.

Kaizen, the cluttered desk and upstream workflows

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Inspired by a Brendan Greeleys Business Week article on Monomoy Capital Partners approach to shop floor efficiency, Oil IT Journal editor Neil McNaughton wonders if kaizen is really necessary if your window on the world is a computer monitor. Back from the 2010 PNEC data integration conference he decides that yes, cleanup is needed-both on the desktop and on the desk itself!

IBM on Big Data

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Oil IT Journal reviews IBMs booklet-Understanding Big Data. More marketing material than treatise, UBD provides a peek into the puzzling phenomena of Hadoop, MapReduce and more.

Artificial lift R and D council 2012 gas lift workshop

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Non conventionals and the gas lift renaissance. OVS virtual data integration for Pemex. Honeywells HGLO optimizer. Batch gas lift trouble shooting at ConocoPhillips Alaskas Kuparuk field.

LMKR upgrades GeoGraphix with Blue Marble GeoCalc

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

New geodetic calculator assures pinpoint horizontal well placement.

Paradigm 2011.1 leverages Nvidia Maximus GPU/CUDA

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Computation, display tasks shared across appropriate hardware.

Petrosys dbMap/Web achieves PPDM Gold compliance

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

PPDM web-based data browser complies with 3.8 model at table-level.

Forest Oil reports on AFE navigator deployment

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Automated workflow system replaces error-prone manual AFE process.

Software, hardware short takes

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Baker Hughes, Invensys, Eliis, Expertune, Exprodat, Geomodeling Technology, Gedco, Schlumberger, Petris, Quorum Business Solutions, Senergy, Tecplot.

Spotfire 2012 Energy Forum

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Spotfires statistical calculator and data visualization engine under the Chevron iRave hood. Wood Mackenzie consolidates data delivery through Spotfire-powered portal.

ESRI PUG, Houston

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

The oil and gas geographic information systems Mecca that is the ESRI petroleum user group heard of an imminent GIS tipping point, from Shell on the facts and FUD of the cloud and of ExxonMobils spatial data framework. Virtual outcrop geology, OMVs WebGIS, navigating the Bakken and more.

Free and open source software for geospatial a.k.a FOSS4G

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

While ESRI is the only game in town for GIS in the oil and gas vertical other communities are leveraging open source tools. Blogger Anthony Quartararo of Spatial Networks reports.

Folks, facts, orgs ...

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Asset Risk Management, Aveva, Celerant Consulting, Chesapeake, Emerson, Fiatech, GE Energy, Fraser Institute, ITF, KBR, Midland Valley, OGC, OSHE Consultants, OVS Group, Senergy Development Solutions, Serafim, Union Drilling, West Engineering, Lloyds Register.

Done deals

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

AGR, CMG, Deloitte, CRG, DNV, NPS, Expro, Siemens, FMC, CSI, Schilling, Fugro, Lloyds Register, West, PetroLogistics, Reiten, Competentia, Statoil, SokorninVest, Sekal, Schlumberger, more...

Logica productizes StreamInsight accelerator for oil and gas

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Logica productizes complex event processing-targeting speedy analysis of offshore real time data.

Millennial Net, IPSO Alliance and the Internet of Things

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Industrial wireless network provider to promote IP-based networking of smart objects.

Matlabs video how to on GPU-based seismic processing

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

80 minute video provides introduction to Matlab, virtual arrays and CUDA/GPGPU acceleration.

Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Entero, Fluor Corp., DynaEnergetics, GE Oil and Gas, Halliburton, Intergraph, Emerson, OYO Geospace, Paradigm, Petrofac, Rajant Corp., Safe Environment Engineering, Safe Software, Blue Marble Geographics, Triple Point, Transform Software, ESSCA, Wood Group Mustang, Inpex, Expro.

Standards stuff

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

EQ-Hubs data exchange standard. Infoweb floats ISO 15926 Part 10, validation. International digital object identifier now ISO standard. ISO/DIS 19115-1 Energy Industry Profile real soon now!

Mellora rolls-out smartphone HSE reporting app

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

iPhone/Android app simplifies user capture and reporting of HSE incidents.

SPOC Automation releases Well Insight SCADA monitor

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Monitoring, data acquisition and control of artificial lift equipment over cellular radio.

TeleCoil-downhole communication for coiled tubing operations

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Baker Hughes device captures pressure, temperature and casing collar location.

Kongsberg simulates Superiors multi-vessel operations

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Marine and subsurface operations simulator prepares Alaskan workforce for complex scenarios.

AGR Solutions rolls out P1 probabilistic drill planner

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Field testing leads to productized well planner. Riserless drilling achieves 500 well milestone.

Baker Hughes embeds Shell safety KPIs in HSE system

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Macondo fast tracks health, safety and environment consolidation. Shells DROPS scheme shared.

Ecoms ATEX-certified handheld

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

BP-endorsed, curiously named i.roc Ci70 -Ex ruggedized handheld runs Windows embedded OS.

IFS-super fast document replication for oil and gas

Thu, 31 May 2012 24:00:00 +0100

IFS Applications module promises reliable data transfer in the face of challenging communications.