Making smart fields smarter
- Roger Murray, head of visual modeling with BP, presented a report from a Society of Petroleum Engineers forum called “making our smart fields smarter” held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in September 2005, where executives from companies including BP, Shell, Chevron, Total, SLB, Weatherford, Baker Hughes, Helix-RDS were “effectively locked in one place for a week” to try to find ways to progress intelligent oilfield technology. >>more

Communications

OilCamp management buyout
- North Sea satellite communications service provider OilCamp, originally founded by Norwegian state oil company Telenor, has been acquired by its management team, CEO Bjørn Munthe and sales and marketing director Tom Rune Espedal, supported by Petroleum Networks Holding. >>more

Software

"We predicted hydrocarbons" - CompuPrint
- US company CompuPrint, which looks for oil using data from satellites combined with traditional techniques, reports that its first US exploration effort, in LaSalle County, Texas, was successful. >>more

Epsis develops visualisation tools for Chevron
- Epsis, a Norwegian company which offers web tools to gather together oil and gas information, is working with Chevron North America to create a prototype data visualisation environment, incorporating its Epsis Real Time Assistant (ERA) tool. >>more

Premier Oil uses KingdomWeb
- Exprodat consulting has announced that oil company Premier Oil will be licensing its KingdomWeb browser, to enable it to access seismic / geological data interpreted using Kingdom PC software, without having to use or understand Kingdom software. >>more

Petris new borehole processing software
- US oil and gas software company Petris has launched PetrisWINDS Recall 5.1, a new version of its borehole database and processing software suite. >>more

Siemens oil field performance management software
- IndX Software, part of Siemens, has launched a role-based upstream operations performance management system, which delivers specific information tailored to the needs of specific individuals so they can make the decisions they have to make quickly. >>more

Control / Automation

Saudi Aramco commits to technology
- At a Washington energy technology conference sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in early May, Muhammad M. Al-Saggaf, chief geophysicist of Aramco, said that Aramco would quadruple its investment in oil exploration over the next five years, according to reports on US wire service Greenwire. >>more

Shell commissions largest ocean currents study in Brazil
- Shell has awarded Fugro Geosolutions (Brazil) has what is believed to be the largest contract for a 'metocean' (ocean weather) study ever commissioned by the oil and gas industry, for a water area around Brazil. >>more

Events:

Future Fields 2006 - Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 13-14. Digital Energy Journal is a media partner. Speakers from Chevron (regional IT director), Shell (principal workflow consultant) , Conoco Phillips (onshore drilling centre head). >>more

Intelligent Wells Asia 2006 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 29-30. Digital Energy Journal is a media partner. Subscribers to Digital Energy Journal magazine or e-mail newsletter receive a 10 per cent booking discount. >>more

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