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Standards leadership?

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

The great and good of the oil and gas standards world gathered in Houston recently. But what are they actually going to do to square the IT circle of competing, overlapping data protocols?

BMC for Pemex

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

BMCs ERP for IT solution sees across-the-board take-up in Pemex drive to rationalize applications and data centers.

Modeling shale gas production-bonanza or bust?

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Editor Neil McNaughton, with help from Kappa Engineering CEO Olivier Houze, takes a skeptical look at shale gas. Behind the game changer for world energy headlines is a complex picture of price and reserves. Anyone for a million year buildup test?

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Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

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Letter to the editor from Hasso Plattner

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP and professor at Potsdam University, takes issue with our review (Oil ITJ June 2011) of his book In Memory Data Management. No FUD was intended!

Interview with Jim Pritchett

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Following Halliburtons acquisition, Petris Technology CEO tells of his plans for the future.

ISN moots FlexPod oil and gas data solution

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Upstream potential seen in joint Cisco, NetApp, VMware hardware bundle.

Earth sciences ontology in the spotlight

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Ontolog Forum mini sessions propose improved meta data, formats for geoscience and GIS.

Subsurfr powers North Dakotas well data showroom

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Wellstorm leverages open source tools in 2D/3D well and seismic decision support system.

Future trends in GIS

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

UN geospatial experts crystal ball shows geospatial evolving to new data types, formats and usage.

White paper on seismic processing storage solutions

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Robert Lai explains NetApps big data, high bandwidth, single data container solution.

Software, hardware short takes

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Petris, Headwave, Industrial Defender, Kepware, NPD, Petrosys, Pegasus Vertex, SherWare, Meridium, On Track Technology, GE, Chart Industries, University of Missouri.

New Zealand NDR leverages open source mapping tools

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

GNS, developers of Petroleum Basin Explorer, encountered trouble near the international date line. The solution was the open source Geoserver reference implementation of the OGCs standards.

ECIM 2012, Haugesund

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

NDB on application selection for Cairn. Shells enterprise architecture. Multi domain data management for Statoils injection/disposal well monitoring and BPs seabed survey database. ExxonMobils ESRI/VoyagerGIS spatial data framework. ConocoPhillips Petrel project management. Western-Gecos seismic data management. ISO semiotic framework for data. Shells data quality guru.

Folks, facts, orgs ...

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

A.D. Little, Baker Hughes, eLynx, Emerson, Greater Yield, Helix Energy Solutions, IBM, Ikon Science, Infotechnics, Ipcos, Neuralog, Nvidia, OFS Portal, OSIsoft, FMC Technologies, Rajant, Wood Group, Petrosys, Reservoir Group, T.D. Williamson, Tata Consultancy, Murchison Law, SPE.

Done deals

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Fugro, AspenTech, Excellere, FMC, Pure, GE, Presens, Naxys, HII, AES, New Tech, Carr, Quest, Digital Insight, Tetra Technologies, Westward, DLM, Ikon, JRS, STI, Technip, FEI, VSG.

Consortium corner

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Subsea instrumentation interface standard plugfest. RSI floats reservoir anisotropy research.

Gaming technology drives HARCs virtual drilling rig

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Coastal Impacts Technology Program and Epic Software roll-out green drilling demonstrator.

Smalltalk facilitates PetroVR object retrieval and re-usability

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Caesar Systems uses Smalltalk programming language to capture, modify and audit user actions.

Kongsberg IT for Pacific Drillings Santa Ana

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

New information management system for dynamic drill ship.

Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Aveva, Citi, EST Enerji, MatrikonOPC, Expro, Fugro, IFS, Mahindra Satyam, Ikon, Petrotrace, Ingrain, ISN, M2M Data, SkyWave, Meridium, OSIsoft, Kongsberg, Petris, Intergraph, KSS Fuels, NRX, Bright Computing, EnergyNet, Schlumberger.

Standards stuff

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

OGC GeoSparql. CSIRO secret borehole project. Oasis LegalXML. OGP shapes. PPDM UWI.

Agip deploys Ubisense location-based personnel safety solution

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Worlds largest deployment of real time mustering solution leverages S3 IDs personnel safety tags.

Real time location system tracks oil and gas personnel and assets.

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Mojix RFID tags track personnel and critical mobile assets for safety and supply chain transparency.

Shell, Neos presentation on remote sensing of stray gas

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Airborne EM survey tracks Marcellus stray gas and identifies production sweet spots.

Voice of the customer heard at Shell UK retail

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Nice Systems Fizzback provides Shell with real time feedback from gas stations.

Control system virtualization

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Invensys offers thin client support and cyber security best practices for DCS installation projects.

Pemex trials Chimeras non hydraulic helium frac

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Mexicos Chicontepec tight oil reservoir slated for test. But what does non hydraulic mean?

eLynx announces GPS-enabled alarm for oil and gas

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Enhanced i4D device adds location information to alarm data for mobile asset monitoring.

Utilipoint leverages Hadoop in energy data analytics

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 24:00:00 +0100

Sister company StraTech and partner Cloudera team on big data solution to energy data mining.