TNO has successfully completed a pilot assessment of its production optimizer for Kuwait Oil Company covering two sector models of the Minagish field. The study showed a potential reduction of 15% in water injection and scope for increased production. TNO has also signed a four year frame agreement with Statoil for consultancy and R&D services.
Addison, Texas-based Murex has chosen the Allegro 8 platform to manage its petroleum trading and distribution operations.
Suncor Energy has implemented Aveva Net to support data management at a new bitumen processing project in Alberta. The tool provides tag data validation and the identification of maintenance-significant tags and key attributes for uploaded to Suncor’s SAP production and maintenance system.
Cameron and Schlumberger have created OneSubsea, a 60/40 joint venture to manufacture and develop products, systems and services for the subsea oil and gas market. Cameron contributes its existing subsea division and receives $600 million from Schlumberger. Schlumberger will contribute various of its businesses. The JV will be managed by Cameron.
Cloud-based spend optimization solutions provider, Coupa Software, has joined the OFS Portal community.
Energy Software has announced a new partnership with Center Technologies, a Houston-based IT company specializing in enterprise consulting and cloud computing services.
Teledyne Cormon, Glamox, Harris Norge, Den Norske Høytalerfabrikk, Wärtsilä Oil & Gas Systems, and Faroe Petroleum Norge have signed with Norway’s EqHub.
FEI has delivered a QEMSCAN WellSite analysis system to Kirk Petrophysics, providing onsite analysis of drill cores.
The Society of Economic Geologists has contributed some 15,000 maps to Elsevier’s Geofacets service.
Samsung Heavy Industries has selected Intergraph SmartMarine 3D for its offshore division.
KBR has been selected as BP’s preferred engineering and project management service provider for select stage activities on its ‘Project 20KTM’ program.
Petrofac has been awarded two engineering, procurement and construction packages for Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery and terminal project, with a combined value of $1.4 billion.
Lundin Norway is to implement a range of Aveva’s tools on its first operated oilfields in the North Sea.
Rolta has entered into a strategic partnership with SAP to deliver its business intelligence technology as a component of Rolta OneView enterprise suite.
IFS has signed a contract with ‘a major North American offshore oil and gas drilling company’ to implement IFS Applications as its enterprise asset management system. The suite will be delivered by IFS North America as a hosted service.
Cougar Drilling Solutions has adopted Paradigm’s Sysdrill software as its preferred solution for well planning and directional drilling.
GE unit Wayne has announced the first installation of its Wayne Vista CNG ‘pay-at-the-pump’ dispenser.
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