Folks, facts, orgs etc…

API, Energy Solutions, IronMountain, Shell, CGG, Linux Networx, Maurer, Zettaworks and Bengal.

ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva is now also chairman of the Board of the American Petroleum Institute.

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Al Jacob has joined Energy Solutions as Executive VP of Global Services. Jacobs was previously with EDS and Koch Pipelines.

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Bob Brennan has been named President of Iron Mountain’s North American operations. He was previously CEO of Connected Corporation.

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Shell has awarded a four year extension to it contract with CGG for the provision of in-house seismic data processing services in the Netherlands, Aberdeen and Stavanger.

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Linux Networx is the beneficiary of $40 million of funding raised by Oak Investment Partners and Tudor Ventures.

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SPE member Haveluck Harrison is offering over 50 free Java-based calculators for a variety of petroleum engineering problems on his website www.peteng.com.

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Maurer Technology has released a new version of its free electronic Tally Sheet for Pocket PCs. This program was developed under DOE sponsorship.

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Eric Roch has been named CTO of EAI specialists Zettaworks. Before joining Zettaworks, Roch was with TIBCO Software and Deloitte Consulting.

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Bengal Development has conducted a study of information sharing outside the firewall to help operators share non sensitive information in their ERP systems.

Corrections

In our lead on Microsoft’s upstream ERP offering last month we wrongly stated that Microsoft Axapta was developed by Navision. Tommy Christensen of Wellpoint Systems tells us that Damgaard Data wrote the original tool, before merging with Navision.

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Knut Bulow of Landmark Graphics points out a more ‘complete and correct’ account of the NDR5 conference is available on www.agiweb.org. Bulow also states that while ‘Diskos is a leading NDR facility, it has been over emphasized to the detriment of other innovative NDR approaches’.

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