Field of the Future business transformation
BP started its ‘Field of the Future’ project in 2003 and the business process transformation activities were begun in 2004. The goal was to “demonstrate measurable value delivery from the optimisation technology and establish the requirements for sustainability of the technology,” the company says. >>more

Communications

Schlumberger and BT oil and gas comms alliance
Schlumberger has formed an alliance with ex-UK state telecom company BT to provide communications services for upstream oil and gas industry.>>more

Software

Intervera updates data cleansing tool
Intervera Data Solutions of Calgary has launched its DataVera Clean software data cleansing tool, intended to make the data cleaning process repeatable and verifiablea>>more

Access geoLOGIC’s data using OpenSpirit
Oil and gas software companies geoLOGIC and OpenSpirit have made a deal so that oil and gas companies can access data from the geoLOGIC data centre (gDC) through OpenSprit. >>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

Siemens automation for Sevan Drilling
Siemens has signed a Eur 39m deal to deliver electrical, automation, telecom and control systems, as well as dynamic positioning systems, to a new drilling rig being built by Sevan Drilling of Singapore>>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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