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Mar 18, 2011

Business opportunities with subsurface data 

Conference in London April 20th - £300 

Latest industry thinking, methods and ideas which oil companies are using with subsurface data  

Combining seismic, well, electromagnetics data; using rock physics; statistical analysis techniques; moving reservoir models between applications; managing your software portfolio; high performance computing and storage 

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Digital Energy Journal news

Total selects Paradigm SKUA technology 

Total will use Paradigm SKUA as a stand-alone application alongside its existing geosciences processes.

INT Releases INTViewer 4.2 

INTViewer 4.2, the latest version of INT's data visualization application and development platform for seismic analysis has been released.

 

Emerson launches reservoir management software 

Emerson Process Management has launched the latest versions of its full reservoir simulation tool Roxar Tempest 6.7, and its history matching and uncertainty estimation software Roxar EnABLE 2.4.

 

EV secures £6 million investment 

Oil and gas remote camera technology specialist EV has secured more than £6 million investment.

 

Kongsberg eBird seismic streamer wins award 

Kongsberg Seatex has won an award for Design Excellence during the Norwegian Design Council's (NDC) Design Day, which took place in Oslo on Wednesday 16th March 2011.

 

Mirmorax acquires Roxar Oil-in-water product line 

Mirmorax AS, a start-up based in Norway, is to acquire the Oil-in-water (OiW) product line from Roxar Flow Measurement.

 


Blogs

David Bamford

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Tricky, tricky!

Not for the purpose of researching this blog but for an entirely different reason, I have been looking at how companies describe exploration prospects in their corporate presentations.

In many cases, you see an appeal to a tempting analogue - ten years ago it was "this prospect looks just like the Girassol field!" or more recently "this one looks just like the Tupi discovery, in Brasil!" or "just like the Mahogony discovery, in Ghana!" - more often than not accompanied by an...

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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.

DIGITAL ENERGY JOURNAL

 
Editor Karl Jeffery
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Technical editor Keith Forward keith@digitalenergyjournal.com
Sponsorship and advertising John Finder jfinder@onlymedia.co.uk

Beyond Macondo 

Free half day forum in London, May 17
Improving training, blow out protector communciations, quality control  

event outline     attendees list 

  

Making DOF infrastructure work 

conference in London, June 2, £300
Speakers from Dong, Oracle, HP  

 event outline     attendees list 

  

David Bamford's question of the week

 

Do you believe in Peak Oil, specifically the notion that in this decade, global oil production will peak and after that will be in progressive decline?

 What do you think?  

 

 

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Business opportunities with subsurface data 

 April 20, 2011- Hallam Conference Centre - £300 -

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
Hallam conference centre

 

Improving inventory management  

Tuesday, October 04, 2011 - Aberdeen Douglas Hotel - free

 

Exploring in the Arctic

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, The Geological Society

 

Onshore 3D seismic 

November 9 2011, Geological Society

Collaboration and the Digital Oilfield
November 30 2011  
Hallam conference centre


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