IHS Energy has announced the appointment of Ron Mobed as its fifth president since the company was acquired in 1998. Mobed was previously with Schlumberger.
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In a single week last month, Electronic Data Systems Corp. signed 13 contracts with the energy industry—a total of over $235 million.
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John Anderson, Jose Guzman, Richard Footitt and Suvimol Maingarm have joined C&C Reservoirs’ geoscience team.
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Aspen Technology has appointed Irwin Weiss as Chief Information Officer. Weiss was previously with Akamai Technologies.
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Speaking to analysts, Schlumberger CEO Andrew Gould forecast that accelerating oil demand in China and the US will sustain robust E&P activity worldwide.
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Mercury Computer Systems has acquired 3D visualization specialists TGS Group in an $18.5 million cash and paper deal.
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A Federal judge has ruled that part of LizardTech’s image compression patent is invalid. The ruling clears ER Mapper of patent infringement allegations dating back to 1999.
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Divestco reported revenues for the year ended December 31, 2003 at $15 million—up from $5 million in 2002.
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Gores Technology Group has acquired web-developers Proxicom from Dimension Data Holdings. Proximcom’s products are deployed on ChevronTexaco’s website.
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The 2004 AAPG salary survey conducted by Tulsa-based MLA Resources showed no increases in overall salaries—and small decreases in some experience ranges. The survey reflected ‘a lack of hiring and some downsizing by majors last year’. MLAR’s Mike Ayling described the trend as ‘alarming, indicative of the boom-and-bust hiring practices of the past decade’.
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Imation Corp. has announced a road map to multi-terabyte capacity storage for its Tera Ångstrom tape cartridge.
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Infield Systems has announced a new report on ‘Deep and ultra-deepwater Oil and gas markets— 2004/08’.
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Saudi Aramco president Abdallah Jum’ah and Olivier Appert, president of the French Petroleum Institute (IFP) have signed a heads of agreement covering a joint R&D, training and technology transfer program.
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Calgary-based WellPoint Systems has acquired EnCompass Solutions in a paper and royalty deal.
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