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<title>Autonomous agents</title>
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<description>Multi-agent systems e la The Sims trialed by ExxonMobil in production optimization.  Pump, well and facility agents cooperate and conflict to mimic real world scenarios. </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Paradigm sold</title>
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<description>Geophysical software house bought by Apax Partners and JMI Equity for $1 billion  cash from Fox Paine which paid $100 million for Paradigm in 2002.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>On the devilry of commercials and the sanctity of the company presentation  </title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_3.htm</link>
<description>Editor Neil McNaughton returns to an old subject-disclosure in technical presentations.  He finds that while commercial presentations from vendors are generally deprecated, many presentations from oil and gas operators are commercials too-for the company, its engineers and researchers. The open source community sees things differently and is calling for the publication of both method and code.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>*** DATA MANAGEMENT ACCELERATED (ADVERTISEMENT) ***</title>
<link>http://www.tiandienergy.com</link>
<description>Tiandi’s actual army of experienced data management engineers—all full-time employees on staff—is ready to accelerate your project. That means petrophysics, core data, E folders, wellbore schematics, state regulatory filings, well montages and digitizing at exceptional speeds. See our list of successes for noteworthy clients at tiandienergy.com or call 1-713-487-6546.</description>
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<title>Semantic Days 2012, Stavanger</title>
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<description>Bechtel update on PCA/Fiatech iRing project. TopQuadrant migrates EQHub to  AllegroGraph triple store. Fluid Operations on Statoils Optique big data project. Milan Polytechnic and the Large Knowledge Collider LarKC and streaming RDF for complex event processing.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>BGS rolls-out geochemical data model</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_5.htm</link>
<description>Open Geoscience Knowledge Exchange releases second data model, a borehole  geochemistry database developed by the British Geological Survey.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Logica teams with USC Viterbi on Chevrons Session</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_6.htm</link>
<description>CiSoft researchers to apply complex event processing to real time production  data filtering.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Seismic novelties abound at EAGE</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_7.htm</link>
<description>IONs Calypso seabed seismics. Sercels new Sentinel. Schlumbergers IsoMetrix  MEMS system.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Fuse rolls-out seismic data appliance</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_8.htm</link>
<description>No wheels on this VMWare/EC Cloud image-based data management solution.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Nvidia virtualizes the GPU</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_9.htm</link>
<description>Single PCI Express card provisions 100 BYOD users with high-end graphics  workstation experience.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Software, hardware short takes</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_10.htm</link>
<description>Ikon, ffA, Paradigm, Hampson-Russell, Geovariances, Petris, Honeywell, ExxonMobil,  Azbil, Wellstorm.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>OSIsoft 2012 User Conference, San Francisco</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_11.htm</link>
<description>Industrial Evolutions proof of concept electric submersible pump optimization.  MOL Group leverages PI System in strategic integration and application infrastructure. </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>PNEC Data Integration, Houston</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_12.htm</link>
<description>Hadoop and big oil and gas data. Factory data management for shale gas.  Talismans data decade. W and T Offshore and 3Gigs Prospect Director. Qatar Shell and the upstream taxonomy. BPs new data organization. Schlumberger manages the managers. Shells Petrel reference projects. Exxons production data framework. Aramco improves BAD! Petris, Neuralog and Petrosys strut data stuff.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Folks, facts, orgs ...</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_13.htm</link>
<description>Energistics, GITA, Fugro, Baker Hughes, Jee, Cal Dive, CGGVeritas, Spectraseis,  SIGMA3, Emerson, EOC, ffA, Exprodat, SeisWare, Fiatech, IPL, Institute for Supply Management, Lazard, Panopticon, Knight Oil Tools, Oceaneering, Tranzap, Oxford Princeton, Prometheus Energy Group.</description>
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<title>Done deals</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_14.htm</link>
<description>Fugro, Aker Solutions, Axon Energy Products, Cameron, Hexagon, IFS, Proserv  Group, Steel Excel, Technip, TGS Nopec Geophysical, Trimble.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Best practices for process control networks</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_15.htm</link>
<description>Industrial Defender white paper offers seven steps to minimize cyber risk.  </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Dont touch that dial!</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_16.htm</link>
<description>ExperTunes George Buckbee describes four situations where control loop tuning  is not advised.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>McElroy giant gets i-Field makeover at age 86</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_17.htm</link>
<description>Work flow optimization by i-Field team identifies 1500 bopd of incremental  production</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>AspenTech wins process patent tussle. M3 to appeal judgment.</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_18.htm</link>
<description>M3 Technology ordered to cease marketing software components.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_19.htm</link>
<description>Aker Solutions, TGS, CGGVeritas, Saudi Aramco, eCorp, Advanced Drilling, Emerson,  IFS, Setal, Inova, Tesla, Marathon Technologies, Invensys, Lundin, OptaSense, Shell, Cairn, Paradigm, Venari, Divestco, Petrosys, Kelman, ConocoPhillips, Pemex, Recon, Telogis, FleetCor, Yokogawa.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Standards stuff</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_20.htm</link>
<description>Energistics, NDR11, Fiatech, Open Geospatial Consortium, OSGeo, PIDX, PPDM,  W3C, USGIN.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>E-biz roundup</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_21.htm</link>
<description>Trading and payment software updates from Updata, KSS, AJB, Allegro and CME  Group.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Digital seals and signatures</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_22.htm</link>
<description>Fiatech publishes white paper on digital signing of engineering documents.  </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>CSI Houston-Ernst  and  Young opens up forensic lab</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_23.htm</link>
<description>Fraud investigation and dispute unit to target energy industry financial shenanigans.  </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Enough engineering to be dangerous (and useful)!</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_24.htm</link>
<description>Workflow transformation looks beneath tip of data iceberg. AI identifies workover  candidates.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Petrobras enters Top 500 supercomputer list</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_25.htm</link>
<description>Petrobras and ENI highest entries in latest HPC list-but with rather modest  machines.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Mangrove frac package announced</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_26.htm</link>
<description>Schlumbergers Well Services unit offers Petrel-based software and services  to clients.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Heterogeneous parallel processing solutions for oil and gas Industry</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_27.htm</link>
<description>Sheaf abstract data model from &lt;a target="_blank" title="Sponsored Link" href="http://www.limitpoint.com"&gt;Limit Point Systems&lt;/a&gt; bundled with MBA Sciences  primitives.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Waterfalls unidirectional comms gateway at two upstream assets</title>
<link>http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1206_28.htm</link>
<description>Read-only link to process control network claimed to eliminate hacking.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2012 24:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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