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Jan 31, 2011
Advances in Seismic
Geological Society, London Jan 25th.
Speakers from Shell, PGS, Wireless Seismic, Vialogy
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Spectraseis relocates corporate functions to U.S.

Spectraseis has relocated a number of its major operations to the United States, while continuing to remain a global company with an established presence in Switzerland.

 

Broadpoint signs satcoms contract with V.Ships Offshore

Broadpoint has signed  new contracts with global shipping company V.Ships Offshore to provide Ku- and C-band satellite services for the company's worldwide operations.

 

NEOS GeoSolutions raises $60M

NEOS GeoSolutions has successfully closed a $60 million financing round attracting new investors Energy Capital Group and Bill Gates.

 

Athens Group doubles revenue in 2010

Athens Group, an independent provider of technology assurance services for Oil & Gas drilling and production systems, announced a 205% increase in year-over-year revenue for 2010.

 

Sercel TriggerFish 1.7 released

Sercel has released a new and enhanced version of TriggerFish, its real-time navigation and data acquisition system for flexible control over a distributed fleet of vessels during acquisition of transition zone, OBC, node and 2D streamer seismic surveys.

 

EMGS awarded $8.5M EM contract offshore Mozambique

Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has been awarded a contract worth USD $8.5 million by a repeat customer to acquire 3D EM data offshore Mozambique.

 

Schlumberger achieves Cisco managed services master certification

Schlumberger Global Connectivity Services (GCS) has achieved the Managed Services Master Certification from Cisco.

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Our industry's most important technologies?

I offer without too much comment the graphic below which is from Barclays Capital's review of the world oil & gas industry. It came out late last year and included this review of technologies, based on what their respondents said:
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From the latest DEJ magazine

Using inertial navigation to track people
How well can inertial navigation - measuring acceleration and orientation - be used to track people in areas where they can't get a GPS signal? We spoke to  Tessella's Dave Dungate

NSI Upstream - viewing your production from anywhere
NSI Upstream of Louisiana creates a means for companies to monitor and manage their production from anywhere, including on the internet, and has completed a large project for the 100kbopd Kikeh deepwater development in offshore Malaysia.

Managing your alarms
We've all heard stories about offshore drilling rigs and production platforms where people had so many alarms going off they kept them all disabled. What can be done about it? We spoke to Don Shafer, chief technology and chief safety officer at Houston consultancy Athens Group.

Data management important when choosing software - Paradigm
When choosing your geological and geophysical software, it is important to assess the capabilities of the data management infrastructure on which the software is built, says Paradigm's vice president of marketing Philip Neri

Fugro - new version of Seismic data management software
Fugro Data Management has released version 6.0 of its Trango Seismic data management software, with tools to track the history of data, and with integration with OpenSpirit.

SAS - statistical analysis to get better data
SAS, a US analytics software and services company, is working with many oil companies around the world using statistical analytics techniques to help them improve their data.

Schlumberger's new version of Merak Peep
Schlumberger has released a new version of Merak Peep, its software for economics, planning and reserves management in oil and gas.

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