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Mar 25, 2011

 Business opportunities with subsurface data 

 Conference in London April 20th - £300 

 Bringing together the expertise of the g+g departments with the expertise of IT departments, to find ways to improve   production

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Digital Energy Journal news

DNV Macondo BOP report - drill pipe at an awkward angle

DNV has released its final report into what went wrong with the Blow Out Preventer above the Macondo well - it was drill pipe not being cut properly, due to being at an awkward angle when the rams tried to cut it.

Marlink secures contract renewal with Fugro-Geoteam 

Marlink, the global provider of maritime satellite communications, has recently extended its contract with seismic vessel operator Fugro-Geoteam for a further five years.

 

Shell, Spinlock and KROHNE deliver multiphase flowmeter 

Shell and KROHNE have signed an agreement to commercialise a new multiphase flowmeter for oil and gas field installations based on magnetic resonance technology.

 

AVEVA announces contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries 

AVEVA has signed a 'significant' new contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI).

 

ARKeX awarded Saudi Aramco Survey in the Red Sea 

ARKeX, the provider of geophysical imaging services, has begun a BlueQube Marine gravity gradiometry survey in the Red Sea.

 

Schlumberger introduces quartz gauges for HPTP measurement 

Schlumberger has introduced its Signature quartz gauges for well testing operations.

 

Flow-Cal releases FLOWCAL Enterprise 8 

FLOWCAL Enterprise version 8 incorporates liquid measurement and gas measurement in a single consolidated system. 

 

New Century Software expands management team 

New Century Software has announced the addition of two industry experts to its management team.

 

University of Aberdeen opens seisLAB 

In a new partnership with industry, the University of Aberdeen has opened a new seisLAB laboratory using seismic surveys and data collected by the energy industry.

 

Paradigm showcases new geophysical applications 

Paradigm will preview new exploration and development technologies and workflows that will be included in its upcoming 2011 release, at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Annual Convention and Exhibition in Houston, April 10 - 13.
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David Bamford

David Bamford added a blog post

Why would anybody believe in "Peak Oil"?

Who of you believes in "Peak Oil" i.e. specifically the notion that almost certainly in this decade the all-time oil production peak will occur and thereafter we will be in continuous decline?

A couple of questions:

  1. Of all the oil that has been discovered in the world, roughly what % has been produced? The answer is ~10%!
  2. What is the global average recovery factor for fields...
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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

 
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Technical editor Keith Forward keith@digitalenergyjournal.com
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Doug Gibson on Mar 16 2011
Featured video: Doug Gibson, CEO of Fotech Solutions Ltd, speaking at the Mar 16 Finding Petroleum London forum about how fibre optics in your wells can act as listening devices and tell you much more about what is going on

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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