How can drilling data be improved? Trondheim conference
A conference session at the Integrated Operations conference in Trondheim (Sept 28-29) looked at how the data in drilling can be improved.
Are you competent in collaboration rooms?
Grete Rindahl of Norwegian Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) has been researching how well people are using collaboration rooms - and what constitutes competent behaviour
Lessons from medicine and military
The oil and gas industry might be able to learn a lot from how medicine and military use integrated operations, and have some expertise to share, said speakers at the Trondheim IO Conference
Developments at Kongsberg, Shell, Petrobras, Saudi Aramco
The Trondheim Integrated Operations conference on Sept 28-29 included new ideas from Kongsberg, Shell, Petrobras and Saudi Aramco about how to get the most out of integrated operations
Innocentive - crowdsourcing ideas
US company InnoCentive is helping oil and gas companies find solutions to technical problems - by posting them on the web - but it takes skill and organisation to get the right result. VP sales Jon Fredrickson explained how it works at the Trondheim Integrated Operations conference
Using object databases for seismic data
Object databases can provide much faster results than relational databases, when you are trying to look for complex patterns and relationships within the data, as two major seismic companies have found out
GeoGraphix - software for independent oil and gas companies
GeoGraphix, a brand of interpretation software geared towards the needs of independent oil and gas companies (particularly working on land), is no longer part of Halliburton's Landmark software and services portfolio.
Do you challenge your colleagues enough?
One of the signs of a successful collaborative environment is that people feel comfortable challenging each other says Jim Kochan of Vitesse Solutions, knowledge management consultant to Conoco Phillips
If you want to get people interested in the digital oilfield, you've got to get them interested in the technical details - something people normally dislike, writes Dutch Holland
Software for oil industry real estate
Many oil and gas companies could benefit from a more structured approach to facilities and real estate management, writes Phil Wales, CEO of Houston-based eBusiness Strategies (www.ebiz-strategy.com)
Using 4D Process simulations to mitigate risk
EOS Solutions and Norisol are providing oil and gas companies with 4D process simulations to optimize their operations and planning, to help mitigating risk.
NSI Upstream - your production on the web
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
