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Mar 11, 2011

Technologies for mature fields

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New ways to keep mature fields productive; Choosing a viable EOR method; Strengthening well bores when drilling in depleted reservoirs; Robotic autonomous tools in the well; Fibre optic sensing devices

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Digital Energy Journal news

Statoil Chooses KADME's Whereoil for GeoTracker System 

KADME's Whereoil data search software will be used to power Statoil's GeoTracker system, helping Statoil report data to regulatory authorities worldwide.

 

Camcon Oil selects Ultra CEMS 

Ultra Electronics, Manufacturing & Card Systems (Ultra CEMS), a leading contract electronics manufacturer of high reliability products, has been selected by Camcon Oil to manufacture a its APOLLO artificial gas lifting system.

 

Shell extends Honeywell UniSim contract 

Honeywell has announced a contract extension to provide its UniSim Design process simulation software to Shell Exploration & Production (E&P) through 2015.

 

 Dolphin Geophysical selects Sercel 

Sercel has been awarded a contract by Dolphin Geophysical for the purchase of Nautilus and Sentinel systems to equip its first high-capacity 3D seismic vessel, Polar Duke.

   

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"The best place to find oil is in an oil field!"

In a petroleum province such as the North Sea, which is very mature in exploration terms, in my opinion it would be better for companies to stop 'wildcat' exploring and focus on enhancing production in and around existing oil & gas fields.

Forties Field in the North Sea is perhaps the best example of a mature field being kept going by innovative petrotechnical folk, armed with the right technologies.

Broadly speaking, we can divide the technologies that can help other...

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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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Business opportunities with subsurface data

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New ways to work with subsurface data to help you improve production and get an advantage on competitors

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Technologies to 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
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Onshore 3D seismic 

November 9 2011, Geological Society

Collaboration and the Digital Oilfield
November 30 2011  
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David Bamford's question of the week

 

The best city for oil and gas events

 

All of our Finding Petroleum events so far have been in London. Should we expand our program to other cities? If so, which ones - Aberdeen, Stavangar, Dubai...?

 

 What do you think? 

 

 


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