Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments

IceWeb, Cortex, CygNet Software, Emerson Process Management, Kongsberg Maritime, Exprodat, Paradigm, GE Oil & Gas, Al Shaheen, IBM, Object Reservoir, RigNet, Stratos Global, Theta Oilfield Services, eLynx Technologies, Venture Information Management, WellPoint Systems, Wood Group.

IceWeb has provided the US authorities with an emergency geospatial data storage solution to help the Deepwater Horizon recovery team effort—www.IceWEB.com.

Apache Canada has ‘gone live’ on the Cortex Trading Partner Network which now services over 3,000 companies. Apache’s US unit will follow suit later in the year—www.cortex.com.

Future releases of CygNet Software’s CygNet Gas Measurement Repository will include support for Flow-Cal Common File Exchange format for electronic flow measurement data—www.CygNetscada.com.

The University of Texas at Austin-operated Separations Research Program pilot plant has been upgraded with Emerson Process Management’s ‘PlantWeb’ digital automation technology—www.emerson.com.

Statoil has selected Emerson Process Management as one of three preferred automation and safety systems suppliers in a five-year frame agreement.

Kongsberg Maritime also received a five-year frame agreement covering safety and automation systems (SAS) for future Statoil green field projects both on and offshore—www.kongsberg.com.

Epsis has signed reseller agreements with the FotoPhono and AVC Media Enterprises for sales of the Epsis TeamBox in the Norwegian and UK markets, respectively—www.epsis.no.

Premier Oil has purchased Exprodat’s Team-GIS KBridge and Team-GIS Directory extensions to ESRI’s ArcGIS Desktop. The software provides browsing bi-directional data transfer between SMT’s Kingdom Suite and ESRI’s ArcMap—www.exprodat.co.uk.

Gazprom has signed a multi-year software licensing deal with Paradigm covering seismic processing, interpretation, reservoir characterization and modeling. Paradigm will also provide training to Gazprom users—www.pdgm.com.

PII Pipeline Solutions, a GE Oil & Gas and Al Shaheen joint venture is to supply GE’s PipeView Integrity pipeline data monitoring and management package to DBNGP of Perth, Australia, operator of the 1,400-kilometer Dampier-to-Bunbury pipeline—www.ge.com/oilandgas.

Sunoco has contracted with IBM for a wide range of managed business process services and application support services. IBM’s global operations centers will provide application enhancement, maintenance, finance and indirect procurement services, leveraging IBM’s experience with ‘hundreds of client engagements including many with oil and gas companies’—www.ibm.com/services.

Object Reservoir has started work on a ‘collaborative exploitation project’ investigation of the NE Pennsylvania Marcellus shale, leveraging its ‘Resolve’ finite element modeling and shale knowledge base. Participants include East Resources, EOG Resources, EXCO Resources (with JV partner BG Group), and Ultra Resources—www.objectreservoir.com.

Upstream communications solutions provider RigNet has signed an agreement with Stratos Global to become an authorized distributor of Inmarsat and Iridium mobile satellite services including Fleet Broadband and BGAN, and Iridium’s 9555 handheld phones and OpenPort Global IP data service—www.rignet.com.

Theta Oilfield Services and eLynx Technologies have signed an agreement under which eLynx will integrate Theta’s rod pump optimization and SCADA software, XSPOC, with eLynx’s web-based SCADA application, SCADALynx—www.elynx.com.

Venture Information Management has been awarded a contract by CDA (Common Data Access Ltd) to conduct a study into the possibilities of a collaborative approach to managing Production Data across the Oil and Gas UK community—www.ventureim.com.

WellPoint Systems has been chosen as the provider of back-office IT solutions for Midland, Texas-based Legacy Reserves, LP—www.wellpointsystems.com.

The UK’s Oil Spill Advisory Group (OSPRAG) has awarded a contract to assess subsea capping and containment options for the UK continental shelf (UKCS) to Wood Group Kennywww.woodgroup.com.

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