Kelman Technologies (KTI) has appointed Don Chitwood VP seismic
processing and Greg Hess VP data management. KTI USA president Paul Huff has
resigned to pursue other interests. Ken Tornquist is to manage KTI’s newly-opened
office in Oklahoma City. PPDM Association Scott Beaugrand, CEO of the Public Petroleum Data Model Association
has left the Association. Trudy Curtis has been promoted to CIO and Joe
Tischner taken on as director of business development. IFP Olivier Appert has been promoted to Chairman and CEO of the
French Petroleum Institute (IFP), replacing Claude Mandil who has moved to head
up the International Energy Agency. PGS PGS has completed the latest phases of its central and southern
N. Sea Mega Surveys which merge a large number of massive 3D datasets
into a massive 3 terabyte regional seismic library. PGS also announced a
staff reduction of 250—part of an ongoing program to save $ 75 million costs.
Schlumberger Schlumberger Information Solutions has launched a new online
technical support newsletter ‘The Click’—the web-based successor to the printed
GeoQuest Bulletin. ESRI ESRI Petroleum Manager Andrew Zolnai pointed out that the
tally of GIS usage in the pipeline industry (as reported in Oil IT Journal Vol.
8 N° 1) looks rather different when ESRI’s ‘exclusive partners’ Geofields, MJ
Harden and Tobin are included—boosting the ESRI camp to a healthy 42%. KSI Knowledge Systems has hired Shane Knutsvig as sales manager
and Gemma Keaney as head of geomechanics. Energy Security Council The Energy Security Council and the American Petroleum Institute
is co-hosting seminars on security and vulnerability assessment (SVA) in Houston,
Los Angeles and Trenton New Jersey later this year. A keynote address will be
given by Jim McDonnell, Director of the Infrastructure Protection Division at
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The API and DHS are developing methods
and guidelines for petroleum industry SVA. Fakespace VR specialists Fakespace Systems has merged with Mechdyne
Corp. Mechdyne’s Chris Clover will be CEO of the new company and Fakespace president
Carol Leaman serve as President. Landmark Landmark Graphics Corp. has granted $2.6 million in integrated
software and services for geosciences research at The Center for Spatial Analysis
in the FedEx Technology Institute, at The University of Memphis.
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