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Feb 18, 2011

 

New technologies for mature fields

Geological Society, London March 16 - free Finding Petroleum forum
In-well automation tools; using fibre-optics in wells as listening devices; strengthening wellbores in older fields; figuring out which EOR technology will help on which of your wells, a financial analyst's view of profitability of EOR projects to date.
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Digital Energy Journal news

GE Oil & Gas opens manufacturing facility in UK

GE Oil & Gas has officially opened both its new Hyperbaric Testing Hall and a newly refurbished Electrical & Electronics Assembly Plant in Nailsea, United Kingdom.

 

GE to acquire John Wood Group well support division

GE Oil & Gas has entered into an agreement to acquire the Well Support division of John Wood Group for approximately $2.8 billion.

 

Blueback Reservoir releases project tracker Petrel plug-in

Blueback Reservoir, a technology company specializing in Ocean plug-ins and 3D geomodeling services, has announced the release of the Blueback Project Tracker plug-in for Petrel.

 

Statoil awards Petris borehole data management contract

Statoil has selected Petris borehole data management technology as part of automated workflows and integrate petrophysical data across various applications.

 

E.ON Ruhrgas selects Infotechnics logging system

Infotechnics have been selected by E.ON Ruhrgas to supply their operational reporting and logging system Opralog.

 

Schlumberger research quantifies value of data management

Senior managers in oil and gas companies estimate that between a quarter and a third of the total value generated each year from their exploration and production (E&P) activities can be attributed to the effective management of data in helping them to better understand subsurface geology.

 

dGB Earth Sciences partners with Surface and Subsurface Resources

dGB Earth Sciences has launched a new service, 'Building a Depositional Framework,' in collaboration with Surface and Subsurface Resources (SSR), a company specialising in the stratigraphic interpretation of wireline log data.

Blogs

David Bamford

David Bamford added a blog post

Do we have standards?

Just recently, I have been reading a couple of "codes of ethics" for scientists and engineers - you can find a few if you google it - especially the bits that relate to public statements concerning work we have done.

Why have I been doing this? Because in studying some pronouncements from some oil & gas companies, I have been reminded of a quotation I have used a couple of times:

"I despise exaggeration - 'tain't American or scientific."
(from The Captive)

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From the latest DEJ magazine

Helping drillers and geophysicists talk

The most common tool for sharing information between drilling and geophysics teams is still PowerPoint, says Jane Wheelwright of Dynamic Graphics Ltd.

 

Oracle - helping you answer critical business questions

Imagine having a software tool, running on your iPad, which can predict the impact of what a well intervention will have on the overall business, not just the feasibility of doing the work. This is what Oracle is trying to enable, says the company's oil and gas industry lead Hossam Farid

 

DOF: devil is in the details

The key to getting a digital oilfield project working is detailed planning, says Julian Pickering, director of Digital Oilfield Solutions Ltd

 

Using neural networks for seismic interpretation

Dr. Tom Smith, founder and former president of seismic interpretation software company Seismic Micro Technology (SMT) has launched Geophysical Insights to help oil and gas companies better understand seismic response data.  The new company is currently researching and applying Unsupervised Neural Networks, which have shown strong promise in initial test cases.

 

ShipServ: finding the best suppliers

Maritime and offshore e-marketplace ShipServ has developed tools to help marine purchasers learn more about suppliers they are considering doing business with

 

Plans for Offshore Europe

Attendees to Aberdeen's Offshore Europe event in September 6-8 this year can expect discussions on North Sea taxation, reducing CO2 from oil and gas operations, new risk profiles and transparency of risk, says Samir Brikho, CEO of engineering giant AMEC and chairman of the conference

 

Shell - new technology for onshore seismic

Shell is developing two new technologies for onshore seismic - a new lightweight, low noise wireless sensor together with HP, and a fibre optic recording system, ideal for permanent monitoring, together with PGS

 

Drillers need better data - Kongsberg

Torbjørn Forthun, Managing Director of Kongsberg Drilling Management Solutions, believes that drilling contractors need access to better data- and then they need to use it.

 

Energistics - more information in public domain means better collaboration

Energistics' goal for 2011 is to expand collaboration opportunities for standards development , said COO Jerry Hubbard

 

Epsis: Effective collaborative work processes by sharing information, not by mov

You don't have to wait for comprehensive systems for sharing data to start effective collaboration; you may start with building effective collaborative work processes by combining and sharing information, suggests Jan-Erik Nordtvedt, CEO of Epsis of Norway

 

Microsoft - making computing environment simpler

Microsoft has a mission to help oil and gas companies make their computing architecture simpler, and put it together in a standard way

 

Data recorders on platforms

Oilteams, an oil and gas software company in Milan, believes that there could be a business providing marine style voyage data recorders, or 'black boxes' for offshore oil and gas operations, to continually recordwhat is going on, including sound recordings (to record what people said to each other) and instrumentation data.

 

Oracle - helping you answer critical business questions

Imagine having a software tool, running on your iPad, which can predict the impact of what a well intervention will have on the overall business, not just the feasibility of doing the work. This is what Oracle is trying to enable, says the company's oil and gas industry lead Hossam Farid

Helping drillers and geophysicists talk

The most common tool for sharing information between drilling and geophysics teams is still PowerPoint, says Jane Wheelwright of Dynamic Graphics Ltd.

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Digital Oilfield - subsurface data

 April 20, 2011- Hallam Conference Centre - £300 - speakers from OMV and BP - early booking price £200 with code dej200 - valid until Feb 28  
Technologies to potentially help avoid another Macondo
May 17, 2011, Geological Society

Digital Oilfield - IT infrastructure
June 2 2011, Hallam conference centre 

Unconventionals exploration technology 

Sept 20, Geological Society

Digital Oilfield and people
October 20 2011
Hallam conference centre

  

Onshore 3D seismic 

November 9 2011, Geological Society

Collaboration and the Digital Oilfield
November 30 2011  
Hallam conference centre

David Bamford's question of the week

 

Where will the next technology 'breakthrough' be seen?

 

I'm looking for a 2011 breakthrough in wireless onshore seismic acquisition: it will transform onshore exploration.

 

But what do you think?

 

 


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