Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments

Virtalis, Epsis, Allegro Development, CGGVeritas, Technip, CNL Software, MatrikonOPC, Cortex, Powervision, Emerson, FMC, Halliburton, Hyperion Systems, KSS Fuels, WhiteStar Corp., LandWorks, Leica Geosystems, IPOS, Metrisys, Sercel, Paragon Geophysical.

Virtalis is to supply a supply a Highly Immersive Visualization Environment (HIVE) to the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Funding for the unit is provided by the University and BP. More from www.virtalis.com.

Epsis is to deliver a system for monitoring drilling operations to Petrolia for its drilling operations in Africa. More from www.epsis.no.

Allegro Development Corp.’s Allegro 8 platform has been selected by National Grid to manage its power, natural gas, LNG, liquids and renewables trading operations in the US. More from www.allegrodev.com.

CGGVeritas has created a joint venture with Petrovietnam Technical Services Corp.(PTSC) for 2D and 3D marine seismic operations in Vietnam. More from www.cggveritas.com.

Chevron Indonesia has awarded the contract for its Gendalo-Gehem natural gas development to Technip Indonesia, Worley Parsons Indonesia and Singgar Mulia.

CNL Software is the latest company to join MatrikonOPC ‘s Global Partner Network. CNL will integrate Matrikon’s range of OPC Servers into its IPSecurityCenter – a software-based control system integration platform. More from www.cnlsofware.com and www.matrikonopc.com.

Cortex Business Solutions and Powervision have signed a new hub project with a ‘mid-sized natural gas-focused Canadian energy corporation based in Calgary’ to implement the Powervision Workflow Management software and automate 80% of each company’s invoicing process by on-boarding the hub’s suppliers onto the Cortex Trading Partner Network. More from www.cortex.net and www.powervision.com.

Petrobras has selected Emerson Process Management to provide process automation technologies and services for the Petrochemical Complex of Rio de Janeiro (Comperj) in Brazil. More from www.emerson.com.

FMC Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with Petrobras to develop future subsea technology solutions for its oil and gas projects offshore Brazil, for both pre-salt and mature oil and gas fields. FMC has also signed an agreement with Norske Shell for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment for the Ormen Lange development project in the North Sea for approximately $95 million, and won a $75 million contract with Statoil for the Vigdis North-East development. More from www.fmctechnologies.com.

Halliburton has been awarded a contract by ConocoPhillips for directional drilling, logging-while-drilling (LWD) and surface data logging (SDL) services to help develop the high temperature Jasmine discovery in the central North Sea. More from www.halliburton.com.

Hyperion Systems Engineering has delivered a Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit operator training simulator to Preem Petroleum’s Lysekil refinery in Sweden. More from www.hyperion.com.

Hess has selected a suite of products and services from KSS Fuels to provide day-to-day fuel price management and optimization. Hess will utilize PriceNet’s pricing performance management and KSS Fuels consulting services. More from www.kssfuels.com.

WhiteStar Corp has named LandWorks as a reseller of the WhiteStar Exploration Cube product line. LandWorks will bundle the WhiteStar map products with its LandWorks GIS software. More from www.whitestar.com.

High accuracy GPS service provider Leica SmartNet Bulgaria has launched a partnership with IPOS to operate a control center and Metrisys (a Leica Geosystems distributor) for user support. More from www.leica-geosystems.com.

Sercel has sold a Unite cable-free acquisition system to Paragon Geophysical Services. The telemetry-based Unite system is used for large-channel-count surveys in challenging environments. By year end 2010, a total of 4,000 channels will have been delivered. More from www.sercel.com.

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