Ikon Science has ‘beefed-up’ its quantitative interpretation (QI) offering with new workflows and personnel at its locations in Houston, Durham, London and Perth. QI adds geopressure, reservoir and time lapse capabilities to Ikon’s rock physics-to-reservoir line of business. New workflows include rock physics-calibrated reservoir characterization, geopressure analysis, time-lapse (4D) reservoir monitoring and fractured reservoir characterization in association with Golder Associates.
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eLynx Technologies has just released WellLynx, a remotely configurable communications device for oil and gas wells. WellLynx uses cellphone technology to transmit flow, alarms and other information from producing wells over the ‘ubiquitous’ public digital network. GSM technology supports wireless internet access over 90% of the US coastal regions. Users can check compressor status, tank levels, casing and tubing pressures, flow rates and valve positions from a browser.
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ESRI has also announced a new release of ArcGIS Explorer which now includes better map customization, improved ways of communicating map feature information and ‘instantaneous’ navigation to target areas around the globe à la Google Earth. In fact another Explorer enhancement is better support for Google’s KML.
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AVEVA has just released a new package, ‘ReviewShare,’ for collaborative design review and markup of 3D engineering models. ReviewShare works at any scale—from valve, to pump, compressor, or an entire process plant in full 3D. The package supports email and document-based review and annotation tools to record reviews on an ‘intelligent’ 3D model.
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French Petroleum Institute unit Beicip-Franlab has launched the ‘OpenFlow Suite,’ a next generation platform for geosciences and reservoir engineering. Early release OpenFlow components include FracaFlow, for fractured reservoir characterization, CondorFlow, for assisted history matching, and PumaFlow, the IFP’s new reservoir simulator. All share a common, Windows-based user interface, data model and visualization environment.
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Version 16 of Petrosys’ eponymous mapping package provides ‘significant Enhancements’ for Coordinate Reference System handling—notably long term data integrity thanks to enhanced metadata management and storage and referencing of CRS information against the authoritative European Petroleum Survey Group’s standard model and dataset.
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TradeCapture has announced ‘new and refreshed’ software products for scheduling and physical trading of liquid hydrocarbons—building on its flagship ICTS Symphony product line. Symphony streamlines operations, reduces transaction costs and manage futures, exchange options, OTC options, swaps and physical trades.
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A new release of ZEH Software’s Montage Professional for Windows adds offline working and support for multiple print servers. Other enhancements include ‘fit to plotter’ and improved plot annotation. Montage Professional is used to combine CGM and raster graphics into a single montage of unlimited canvas size.
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Dresser Wayne has received ‘PCI 2.0’ level certification from the Canadian Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council for its fuel dispenser secure payment solution. The certification applies to unattended terminals such as automated fuel dispensers that accept PIN-based transactions.
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German software house Killetsoft has announced GeoDLL, a plug in for geodetic software development. GeoDLL offers 2D and 3D coordinate transformation, geodetic datum shift and other geodetic functions for a vast range of current and historical European and North American coordinate and reference systems. GeoDLL is fully documented and can be called from most commonly used programming languages or supplied as C++ or Computer Associates Visual Objects source code. More from www.killetsoft.de.
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A-Prime Software has announced CrossView, an ArcGIS plug-in for creating cross sections and profile views from inside ArcGIS. The package targets occasional users of ‘heavyweight’ packages such as AutoCAD, Earthvision, or Illustrator who want to create cross-sections of topographic or geoscience data. CrossView expands the ESRI toolset and removes the need to spatially adjust files. A-Prime is the newly created software arm of GIS consultants and developers DPRA. First CrossView sale went to the US Geological Survey.
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