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1998, from riches to rags, a tale of yet another downturn. (January 1999)
2000 - the virtual year (December 2000)
2005 PESGB Data Management SIG (January 2006)
4D seismics absent from SPE (October 2001)
4D, from Petabyte to Power Point (September 2001)
500,000 hits to www.oilIT.com (March 2001)
A data management 101 (April 2008)
A million miles of spaghetti eaten every day! (March 2004)
A tale of two tradeshows ... (May 2008)
A trip to the moon, an objective view of E&P computing (not) and a p
A visit to the field, geology, tests - what really happened?
Accelerating technology uptake, patents and vanity (October 2005)
An open letter to the president of the SPE (March 2010)
Are we really that bad? (June 1999)
Ask Any Question Any Time (AAQAT) (September 2006)
Asset sweating, paltry returns and new business models (December 2003)
Bandwidth - will there be enough? (February 2001)
Book Review—Just gimme the number! (February 2007)
Brand bulimia, or what’s in a name? (May 2003)
COTS, ping ’n power! (February 2003)
Cavaliers, roundheads and XML (January 2003)
Cavalry coming to digital oilfield’s rescue? (April 2006)
Change of PDM ownership, stocktaking time, and a new mission?
Conferences, sponsors, ads and newsletters (February 2008)
Data modeling special issue (January 2011)
Data validation—the next big thing, really! (March 2006)
Data—to crunch or not to crunch? (July 2005)
Digital oilfields, silos, laggards and irritation (May 2007)
Don’t mention the ‘F’ word in marketing! (October 2002)
Downsizing, offshoring and IT projects (June 2004)
E&P Web Services (November 2001)
E-business—a brief history of trying (April 2003)
ESRI Petroleum User Group 2009, Houston (April 2009)
Editorial - Is the Web still news? You bet! and for a while to come.
Editorial - e-commerce? Thanks but no thanks..
Efficiencies, from license management software to Skype (January 2006)
Efficient frontier or wild west? (April 2000)
Enterprise Oil - an IT tribute (July 2002)
Failures, declining professionalism, ethics etc. (April 2004)
Folks, facts and orgs… (April 2006)
Free agents, captains of industry and risk (November 2003)
From Cretaceous to namespace—really useful RDF? (September 2007)
From data to financials—a small step indeed! (February 2004)
Future of GIS—internet, ArcGIS and Petroleum User Group (January 2008)
GIS - the last bastion of ‘build not buy’ (March 2002)
Gates, E-business and open software! (May 2001)
Geology rears its ugly head in subsea engineering mishap (December 2009)
Geophysicists do it till it Hertz! (November 1999)
Good news for subscribers and how OilIT is weathering the downturn (May 2009)
Google Earth Enterprise—not quite what we thought! (May 2007)
Google Earth hits the enterprise—good news? (May 2006)
Google Earth, hosted data and the way of the world (April 2007)
Grass no greener on other side of DOFF fence (July 2006)
Gries - are we not wimps? (April 2002)
Haptics, AI, what’s next? (July 2001)
Heat pumps, phlogiston and the world wide web (March 2008)
How Interoperable are the Standards Organizations? (May 1999)
How do you evaluate R&D quality? (January 2007)
How much time will you spend online in 2010? (October 2007)
How the FTC regulates the oil industry (September 2004)
How the SEC chose its discount rate and other tales (June 2005)
Hurricanes, global warming and all that… (September 2005)
IAGC E-Commerce in Geophysics (January 2001)
IQPC & SMi host London data conferences (February 2006)
Is the oil software industry in decline? (November 2002)
Klein Bottles, 3D models and the big picture (May 2005)
Making Software—what really does work? (November 2010)
Making espresso, modeling reservoirs (October 2003)
Microsoft - irresistible? (July 1999)
Microsoft Office—a productivity tool? (January 2010)
Microsoft dominates oil and gas HPC? (March 2007)
Modeling subprimes, reservoirs and global warming (November 2007)
Mogul Oil, The Troubleshooters and KM (June 2002)
More (or less?) on MURA and on secretaries and social networking (September 2010)
New Publisher for PDM
New sponsors for www.oilit.com (June 2003)
New study released on Upstream Information Management (April 1999)
Oil IT Journal - bringing you the big picture! (January 2002)
Oil IT Journal at SPE, SEG, SIS etc. (September 2003)
Oil IT Journal declares 2008 the year of geomechanics (December 2008)
Oil Information Technology Journal (December 2001)
Oil-world to end with whimper! (September 2002)
OilIT.com new sponsors and more on lists (July 2004)
OilIT.com new sponsors, web stats and insider trading (June 2007)
On MP3, HPC and having vs. eating cake (July 2003)
On ROI and competition between ‘digits’ and other projects (April 2009)
On computers in oil and gas, politics and the semantic web (January 2009)
On gas guzzling, CO2, horsepower and ‘green’ ... (October 2008)
On openness, web services and ‘mash-ups’ (October 2006)
On papers, references, software and plagiarism! (July 2009)
On standards, take-up and data ‘initiatives’ (May 2010)
On the ‘wisdom of crowds,’ ‘surveys’ and management. (February 2009)
On ‘productivity,’ keyboard shortcuts, futzing and automation (November 2008)
Open Source Software (February 2002)
Our message for 2008—move up! (December 2007)
Outsourcing, consultants and dog food (May 2002)
PDM Editorial - are things really getting better?
PDM discovers ASP (June 2000)
PDM interviews Gordon Phillipson, IBM’s Eastern Hemisphere Oil
PESGB Data Management SIG
PNEC Data Integration 2004, Houston (June 2004)
PowerPoint(-less) and why MVI >= EIV (December 2004)
Prime numbers, beans, religion, objects and hype.
Putt’s Law and the data managers (June 2010)
Read the book!
Real time patent nonsense from Halliburton? (March 2005)
Report from the data management frontline (May 2004)
SEC reserves rules—from ultra conservative to ‘anything goes’? (October 2009)
SMi Data & Information Management (February 2002)
SMi E&P Data and Information Management (February 2001)
SOA near and yet SOA far! (January 2008)
SOX, master data, standards and ‘Yaca-Focon!’ (December 2005)
Shell’s hiring, service industry on a roll! (January 2005)
So that’s the ‘semantic’ web! Now I understand! (March 2009)
Software orientation and the IT Phanerozoic time scale (October 2000)
Standardize—on Microsoft and Google? (February 2006)
Standards and openness proliferate, but which is the right one? (February 1999)
Standards development, cathedrals, bazaars etc. (November 2006)
Tale of two conferences—Crouse strikes back! (September 2008)
Technology Watch - why bother? (January 2000)
Technology, marketing, and videotape (April 2005)
Ten years total face time for www.oilit.com visitors in 2010! (December 2010)
The DAMA Dictionary, master/metadata and the meaning of it all... (July 2010)
The Perfect Knowledge Work Talk Class (PKWTC)
The new Swiss army knife
The semantic web is here now! (January 2004)
What happened to oil and gas R&D? (July 2008)
What is a well—or for that matter, a turnip? (February 2010)
What is a ‘silo,’ how do you know you are inside one? (November 2009)
What makes a good investment in R&D? (March 2003)
What’s a market worth? (January 2001)
What’s in a name? (September 2009)
Where’s the science? What happened to scrutiny, debate and dissent? (September 2008)
Who’s to integrate the portal? (June 2001)
Why don’t contractors supply data in workstation formats?
Windows in HPC, breakthrough or bluff? (November 2005)
e-Field struggles as 4D seismic wins over SPE (October 2004)
eBay, between online poker and Spider Solitaire (February 2005)
howABOUT© th1s™? (July 2007)
oilIT.com sponsors for 2000 (January 2000)
www.PublicLibraryofScience.org (April 2001)
‘He-man’ Dual Control marketing and upstream software (October 2010)
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