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Feb 25, 2011

Subsurface data and the digital oilfield

One day Finding Petroleum conference - April 20 - London

Bring together geophysics, data tools and IT to improve production

Is subsurface data integration a route to improving production?  

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Digital Energy Journal news

Better interfaces might have prevented Macondo - Chevron VP 

"It is apparent that the Deepwater Horizon crew had information they needed to know [to prevent disaster] and took no action," said David Payne, Chevron's vice president of drilling, speaking at the GE Oil and Gas Annual Meeting in Florence on January 31st.

 

Expro Meters announces ActiveSONAR sales success 

Expro Meters has manufactured and shipped its 100th ActiveSONAR flow surveillance system as it continues to grow its UK customer base.

 

Sercel sells 10,000 DSUs to Comesa 

CGGVeritas' equipment subsidiary Sercel has been awarded a contract by Compania Mexicana de Exploraciones S.A. de C.V. (Comesa) for the purchase of 10,000 digital sensor units (DSU).

 

IQPC Aberdeen knowledge management conference 

R&M Energy selects Stratos for SCADA over satellite 

Stratos Global has been selected by R&M Energy Systems (R&M) to deploy a global SCADA network based on Inmarsat's BGAN mobile broadband satellite service.

 

Palantir fiscal guides for oil producing countries available 

The free resource for E&P companies and their financial advisors contains guides to oil and gas fiscal terms for 46 countries from Algeria to Yemen.

 

Knowledge Reservoir forms alliance with Quest Offshore 

Knowledge Reservoir and Quest Offshore Resources have formed an alliance to provide joint consulting services and integrated reservoir, production, facilities, and costing data solutions to the upstream industry.

CGGVeritas marine joint ventures in Russia and INdonesia
CGGVeritas and JSC Geotech Holding (Geotech) have signed a term sheet to create a joint venture to operate 2D and 3D marine seismic vessels, primarily in Russian and CIS waters.

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For several hundred years, the world of books, newspapers, radio and TV was based on a "Filter then Publish" model - professional publishers and editors decided what was suitable for readers, listeners and viewers to read, hear and see, letting through only that which they judged to be interesting, somewhat factually correct and so on. Likewise, learned journals used a 'peer review' process which had the same effect.

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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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Technologies for mature fields

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In-well automation tools; using fibre-optics in wells; strengthening wellboress; screening EOR technology w profitability of EOR projects
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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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