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December 2010

SAP HANA CEP 'breakthrough'
Digital Rock
10 years total face time for world wide web.oilit.com visitors in 2010!
Panorama Technologies—en route to a Fermi compages
Oil IT Journal Interview—Jim Pritchett, Petris Technology
Volume Review—Data analysis with open source tools
Industry at big
Oil and gas IT scrutinized by mainstream media
GeoBrowse 4 takes E&P workflow to the 'deject'
Software, hardware brusk takes
Energistics 2010 Fellow member Encounter, Houston
SMi Energy Data Storage 2010
Blue Marble User Group
PPDM AGM and Fellow member See, Calgary
Folks, facts, orgs ...
Washed Deals
Calsep PVTsim User Group
Training efficacy questioned at OPITO condom come across
Consortium Corner
Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments
Standards Stuff
Going, going, greenish...
Laser browse information blends with 3D CAD for PDO's nugget models.
API Security Conference hears from FBI security guru
AuraPortal BPMS platform for Chilean ENAP
On-Ramp Wireless Partners with Koncar
Liander to trail TNO's pipeline sensors
Aveva rolls-out Microsoft Windows Communications Foundation

SAP HANA CEP 'quantum'

A hardware/software combo, the High Performance Analytic Appliance, heralds a 'back to the future' move from loosely coupled web-services to 'big iron' systems with terabytes of memory.

In a webcast this month, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka unveiled the latest buzz-cum-breakthrough to striking the business intelligence scene, 'in-memory' processing of loftier volume data streams a.k.a. complex effect processing. SAP's High-Performance Analytic Appliance 'HANA' is a hardware and software combo that can scale from a few hundred to 1,000 plus cores and beyond, enabling 'massive parallelism for enterprise applications.'

According to Sikka, the showtime HANA-enabled applications have demonstrated the 'disruptive' nature of the new technology and the 'unprecedented' speed of in-memory computing. HANA has likewise shown-up the 'latency' of clients' current IT systems. HANA promises to wipe out layers of IT complication and goes beyond real time to be a foundation for SAP's next generation applications in planning, forecasting and 'big data.'

Delivered on a loftier end cluster from suppliers such as IBM and HP, HANA exposes terabytes of retentivity for compute-intense tasks. SAP claims HANA pilots accept shown a 1,000 fold speedup for mutual business organization scenarios. CEP is of course not new, Microsoft, OSIsoft and others have offerings in this infinite (OITJ May 2009). Moreover, HANA's big iron appliance-based arroyo is not limited to SAP. Oracle, Teradata and Netezza accept similar offerings.

An SAP TechED presentation before this year featured an application that presages HANA usage in the oil and gas vertical. The SAP Oil & Gas Dashboard is currently congenital on a NetWeaver, BusinessObjects and Sybase stack. A demo showed existent time data streaming from Norwegian oil rigs where effectually 600,000 sensor events are recorded per infinitesimal. 'Very low' bandwidth betwixt the rigs and the central office mandated that high volume processing was performed offshore, in existent time, with the SAP circuitous upshot processing (CEP) stack. The solution has allowed Statoil to drill-down through summary field-level data to pinpoint an underperforming well and fix compressor problems in a timely manner.

Under the hood, SAP'due south CEP development environment was configured to track and monitor significant real-fourth dimension events. Today, this can take a lot of 'painful programming,' in SAP's 'NetWeaver' web services-based surround along with the 'EventInsight' CEP enterprise portal component.

The HANA concept, as Sikka states, does indeed audio disruptive, heralding a possible retreat from 'loosely coupled' sluggish spider web services-based enterprise systems to hardwired systems with gigabyte per second processing bandwidth. In fact, if HANA is one-half as skillful as information technology sounds, those most 'disrupted' may be SAP's current business concern intelligence customers—just it will exist in a good cause! More from www.sap.com.

Digital Rock

Shell signs multiyear R&D agreement with Schlumberger targeting reservoir monitoring for EOR and pore-scale clastics modeling.

Shell has signed an R&D cooperation deal with Schlumberger covering ii research projects investigating reservoir surveillance for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects and a 'digital rock' (DR) project covering fine grain numerical modeling of the pore space. Gerald Schotman, Purple Dutch Shell CTO described the 'multiyear' agreement as marking 'another step in our engineering strategy of delivering energy solutions through open innovation. The cooperation will enable us to continuously improve recovery factors and at the aforementioned time lowering unit costs.'
The deal volition see Schlumberger'south formation evaluation and reservoir characterization know-how combined with Shell's subsurface laboratory and reservoir expertise. The game plan is to develop new tools for field information acquisition, better numerical models and 'enhanced field development methods.' DR targets pore calibration investigations of sandstone and carbonate reservoirs, building on contempo developments in scanning technology, fluid dynamics, modeling, and loftier-performance calculating. The research will be conducted in the Us, United kingdom, Russia, Oman and the Netherlands. More from world wide web.slb.com.

X years full face fourth dimension for world wide web.oilit.com visitors in 2010!

Editor Neil McNaughton reports on a successful year for Oil IT Journal and its website oilit.com which saw nearly half a million 'visitors' spend an boilerplate of ten minutes on the site. News from publisher The Data Room on changes in the Technology Watch service. And a big thanks to our sponsors.

Late once more! It smarts to be producing a 2010 issue in the early days of 2011. At least I am not writing about the previous millennium as I am sure I did in 2000. In our defense I would point out that later 16 years of publishing, a week belatedly isn't too bad. Also every bit a rather literal person, I experience there is an argument to be made for a 'December' issue relating what happened in December. Although this approach is clearly not taken by many magazines that already have their February or even March issues on the news stands!

2010 website stats for www.oilit.com

Publishing belatedly does requite me the opportunity of providing definitive stats for the www.oilit.com website for the past twelvemonth (see higher up). The stats are provided by our Isp'southward Urchin 5 monitor and are raw, unaudited numbers. They include visits from robots too as real people. Simply taking them at confront value, we had almost half a 1000000 visitors in the year for just over iii million hits. But the stat I find well-nigh gratifying is the x minute average length of session. Taken literally, that means that a full of v million minutes were spent on the site. Humanity, including its robot forms, spent collectively well-nigh ten years reading Oil Information technology Periodical online during 2010!

As many of you know, Oil Information technology Journal's publisher, The Data Room, has been producing Technology Lookout man reports from major tradeshows and conferences for the terminal decade or so. We take elected to discontinue the Engineering science Watch service in its present form as of year terminate 2010. Oil Information technology Journal and its successful www.oilit.com companion website are unaffected by the modify. As indeed are our conference attendances. We have a full program planned for 2011 and volition be bringing yous our usual concise reports from all the major events. In fact we are planning to re-invent the Technology Sentry study service afterward this twelvemonth with a slimmed-down, more 'sustainable' edition highlighting major happenings and engineering science. If you would similar to receive more on this service which will re-launch mid yr, please send an email to tw@oilit.com.

Looking over the website with a caste of self-satisfaction made me realize that we omitted to thank our 2010/2011 sponsors this year. They are as follows…

Exprodat Consulting

geoLOGIC Systems

Georex

IDS

LMKR

Neuralog

OFS Portal

OSIsoft

Paradigm

Petris

Petrosys

Teradata

Belated thanks to these great companies who have demonstrated their commitment to the oil and gas software business organisation with a generous contribution to our running costs, helping to keep the million-plus word public domain archive on stream and make that 10 minutes average reading fourth dimension worthwhile. More from www.oilit.com.

Panorama Technologies—en road to a Fermi compages

NVIDIA Tesla GPUs bring 6x speedup to seismic imaging bazaar.

Houston-based seismic imaging bazaar Panorama Technologies reports a six fold speed upwards using Nvidia's Tesla GPUs over CPU-only hardware. Panorama'south 'Merlin' seismic acquisition design besides simulated a 12 2nd, broad azimuth shot over a 16 sq. km. block in 12 minutes on using a single Tesla lath. Panorama likewise uses Teslas for imaging with its Marvell lawmaking base. CEO Chris Bednar told Oil IT Journal, '$250,000 worth of hardware can turn around a 30,000 shot deepwater wide azimuth survey in a couple of weeks.' Code was ported to the Tesla at the compiler level. While CUDA and OpenCL are supposed to hide the complexity of the GPU, 'optimization is ever hard work.' 25% percent of Panorama's compute capacity is now GPU-based. This will double as more Tesla GPUs based on the Fermi architecture are installed. More from www.oilit.com/links/1012_8.

Oil IT Periodical Interview—Jim Pritchett, Petris Technology

Petris CEO Jim Pritchett and product manager Greg Palmer talk of the blueprint choices and technology backside the new Operations Direction Suite. Target customers? Users of Excel spreadsheets!

Hard on the heels of Petris' release of its new Operations Management Suite, Oil It Periodical chatted with CEO Jim Pritchett and project director Greg Palmer about how the new tool was designed.

JP—We acquired the original Operations Center (OpsCenter) when nosotros bought Product Access back in 2007. Ops-Center is a drilling and production database built on Microsoft Access. It was a functional production just its scope was express to Us units of measure and an English interface. Information technology was non saleable internationally. But it was unique in the marketplace as the only integrated drilling and product arrangement. OpsCenter has effectually 45 corporate clients today. We undertook a major revamp and re-wrote the whole affair with .Internet, ported the database to SQL Server and made it linguistic communication and currency independent. This took 2 years!

Why now?

JP—Today's application market is dominated by Halliburton's TOW,¹ which is a great product but one that we believe is nearing the end of its life. We believe the market is ready for a new toolset. Also many, perhaps near, potential customers however use spreadsheets for drilling and production. There is a huge potential value to a company in weaning its engineers from the spreadsheet.

What main technologies take yous selected?

JP—Forth with the Microsoft stack I merely described, nosotros have deployed an extended 'superset' of the PPDM data model. Nosotros likewise enable users to define their own workflows using engineering nosotros adult in our PetrisWinds Enterprise product. Users can for instance connect to SCADA for RT data, PetrisWinds Analytics compares real time data with costs in the ERP system.

How do your clients make sense out of RT data?

JP—Really we use WITSML objects which provide summary data for, say, 24 hours of drilling parameters. Information technology is not raw SCADA tag data.

How did y'all conform to international reporting requirements?

JP—Reporting is a washed bargain for Due north America. Internationalization can be done in the framework leveraging the new units of measure functionality and Microsoft's SQL Server Reporting Services.

GP—We see an evolving market with the global search for shale gas, HPHT^two and harder to find stuff. Operators are driving better data access. Running operations from an Excel spreadsheet is inaccurate and fault decumbent. Users demand integration and amend data management. There is a push for more collaboration around an open solution. One that works across drilling and production and through planning, execution, operations at both well and nugget levels.

Where did you lot extend PPDM?

GP—The main extensions business organisation AFE workflows and field modules. We besides plan to offer API admission existent soon at present. The offering is bachelor in house or hosted by our partner data center SunGuard. More from www.petris.com.

¹ The Oilfield Workstation.

² High pressure, high temperature.

Book Review—Information analysis with open source tools

A new volume from O'Reilly Media provides insight into statistics—targeting the 'chance surface area' of using statistical concepts with 'a limited understanding of what they really mean.'

Philipp Janert'southward new volume¹ 'Data analysis with open source tools,' (DA) described as a 'easily-on guide for programmers and data scientists' is more that. Janert sets-out to address two common information analysis 'risk areas.' One is the employ of statistical concepts 'with a limited understanding of what they really mean.' The other is the deployment of 'complicated, expensive black box solutions' used in the place of a 'unproblematic, transparent approach.'

Ane scene setting anecdote involved a client whose It department recommended a cluster-based neural cyberspace to clarify production defect information. The solution Janert institute was rather more economical—a one line calculation—not fifty-fifty a lawmaking! Janert offers some useful advice on educating the client—observing that 'few clients are in a skilful position to ask meaningful questions.' This inevitably means that the statistician needs to be cognizant of the client'south business and terminology.

This volume offers a deep approach to real world tasks. At that place is much more than text than code. Janert's contention that 'statistics is usually equated with a college grade that fabricated no sense at all' will chime with many. His promise to 'explain what statistics really is' should excite. He too provides insight into computational bug. For instance the value of the sine and cosine role for large values of ten eventually degenerates to a random number as the limit of a float'due south resolution nears.

While the thrust of DA is solving business organization (rather than scientific) problems, Janert is a polymath who is interested in his subject. This is conveyed particularly in the chapter on classical statistics which includes exposés on significance, pattern of experiment and a fascinating section on the Bayesian and frequentist approaches that are pretty a propos to the seismic imaging folks as we learned last calendar month during the SEG'south Albert Tarantola memorial.

Also of interest to the oil and gas community is the department on financial analysis with clear explanations of internet present value, hazard assay and opportunity costs.

Janert's tools of selection are Python (with NumPy and SciPy) and Unix. On which topic, Janert curiously saves some unequivocal advice for page 494, 'Piece of work on Unix—I mean it. Unix was developed for precisely the kind of advertizement-hoc programming […] that encourages yous to devise solutions.'

Information technology is hard to mistake this book except perchance that at nearly 500 pages, information technology is too short! The couple of pages on Map/Reduce, for example, autumn style short of Janert's pedagogical aims. Simply quibbles apart, DA gets a double thumbs up from this reviewer.

^ane O'Reilly, ISBN 9780596802356.

Industry at big

Upstream outlook good for you. Statoil gets dressing down from regulator. U.s.a. moots LNG consign.

A report from IHS Herold—the Oilfield Services Sector Review sees 'a healthier outlook' for 2011 despite the Gulf of United mexican states drilling moratorium. The recovery is driven by 'rising oil prices, unconventional drilling in North America and multiple opportunities offshore worldwide.' The review compares financial data from major service companies including Bakery Hughes, Halliburton and Schlumberger. More from world wide web.ihs.com.

An inspect by the Norwegian Petroleum Condom Potency (PSA) of Statoil'southward 34/10-C-06A well highlights the 'increasing risk' of drilling in the Gullfaks area, with its abnormal pressure level régime. Post-obit a series of well command incidents, the well was plugged and temporarily abased in July 2010. The audit found 'serious deficiencies' in well planning. Not-conformances were identified in the areas of risk direction, knowledge of and compliance with governing documents, documentation of controlling processes and planning of managed force per unit area drilling operations. Well planning 'made insufficient use of experience from earlier wells, such as well incidents, pressure measurements and general knowledge in the area.' More from world wide web.npd.no.

Following the huge success of not-conventional gas production in the The states, Cheniere Energy Partners has engaged SG Americas Securities to propose on the development of liquefaction facilities at its Sabine Laissez passer LNG last. Meanwhile, ConocoPhillips received the first LNG shipment from its Qatargas three projection delivered to Canaport terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. More from www.cheniere.com.

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative reports that Cameroon, Gabon, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria are 'close to compliance' with EITI'due south transparency rules. Indonesia and Togo take signed every bit candidates. To appointment, 33 countries take 'started to implement' EITI transparency standards. More from world wide web.eiti.org.

The news 'silly season' was opened this month with an oil price forecast from Seismic Micro Technology. Respondents to SMT'due south 'Geoscientist View of the Future' survey wait the oil price to 'close in on $100 per barrel in 2011, and move towards $150 by 2015.' Perchance more reliably, 41% reported increased exploration expenditure during 2010 (16% saw a pass up). Spend was especially high for organizations engaged in unconventional exploration. Microseismics was ranked as meridian new technology for 2011. More from world wide web.seismicmicro.com.

Oil and gas IT scrutinized by mainstream media

Guardian and Compterworld UK spotlight oil software bug in US and UK.

Leo King, writing in Computerworld UK¹ reports that National Oilwell Varco refused to provide admission to its proprietary 'HiTech' application claiming this could 'mislead' regime investigators. Investigator Fred Bartlit wrote to the Oil Spill Commission lament of 'a roadblock' in the investigation claiming November was 'generally uncooperative, either in the form of refusal or delay.'

Access to the bundle is required to permit investigators to recreate the surveillance data available to the Deepwater Horizon'south crew in the hours prior to the explosion. Investigators notation BP has already provided data, and cementing contractor Halliburton is 'in talks to provide key algorithms for data conversion.' November responded claiming 'manufacturing guesses equally to what was displayed on the rig'south computers runs a serious gamble of producing a misleading picture of what actually happened.' Computerworld also reported that a slide prepared past investigators was displayed briefly on the OSC website indicating that BP had ignored the 'communication' of Halliburton'south cement modeling software in an attempt to salvage time.

A posting² on the UK Guardian paper's website, citing 'confidential correspondence' obtained by the newspaper, described the furnishings of an oil spill computer modeling exercise performed by Chevron on the W of Shetlands Lagavulin prospect.

The study investigated the effects of a 'worst-case' scenario of a 77,000 bopd spill lasting 14 days. The following day Computerworld'due south redoubtable Leo King added to the story^three with the information that the Microsoft Windows-based Oil Spill Data System from BMT Argoss crashed repeatedly during modeling, limiting the run time to the 14 day fourth dimension frame. In an electronic mail to the Offshore Inspectorate Chevron said it was working 'at the boundaries of modeling adequacy'.

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³ www.oilit.com/links/1012_05

GeoBrowse 4 takes E&P workflow to the 'cloud'

Geotrace Data Integration Services adds Amazon/Eucalyptus cloud option and new ArcGIS front end.

Geotrace's Information Integration Services unit (a.k.a. Tigress) has appear GeoBrowse iv.0, a major update to its map-based E&P data browser. The new release includes an optional ArcGIS forepart end (legacy GeoBrowse is MapObjects based), data links to several new interpretation systems and a new deployment model that separates front and back function functions for enhanced It integration. A secure 'cloud' implementation is also at present available leveraging either Amazon's EC2 or an enterprise private cloud based on the open source cloud solution from Eucalyptus Systems.

GeoBrowse 4 also makes extensive apply of saved sessions and macros to automate information loading workflows with templates for (e.g.) daily production data. Tigress general manager Stephen Shorey told Oil IT Journal, 'Usability and integration with existing systems may be quondam sentiments just they remain key to our philosophy. Users don't want to replace existing data repositories. We offering support and customization services to amend data usability and security. And a solution for specialist and not-specialists alike – i that works as an exploration aid rather than just another work period tool.' More than from sshorey@geotrace.com.

Software, hardware short takes

Exprodat, Wilson Urdaneta, Reality Mobile, Hampson-Russell, Merrick Systems, HDD Rotary, Senergy, Kalido, Transzap, P2ES, Caesar Systems, Quorum, Expertune, Emerson, ERDAS, Expro.

Release 202 of Exprodat 's Team-GIS KBridge adds licensing flexibility to the SMT Kingdom to ESRI ArcMap data link – www.oilit.com/links1012_10.

Wilson Urdaneta has just released a beta of 'eXtendedSU' his new SeismicUn*x GUI – www.oilit.com/links/1012_11.

Reality Mobile 's RealityVision 3.0 video collaboration software now supports Android assuasive users of smartphones from Motorola, Samsung and HTC to contribute to the platform. A Screencast feature lets users turn their computer screen into a live video feed – world wide web.oilit.com/links/1012_13.

Hampson-Russell Suite Version ix sees a major functional rationalization and introduces pre-divers workflows. A demo video using the Colony sand dataset from Alberta is bachelor from www.oilit.com/links/1012_12.

Merrick Systems and HDD Rotary Sales have demonstrated that Merrick'due south High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) Diamond RFID Tag survives 'hardbanding,' a protection applied drill pipe for use in abrasive formations – www.merricksystems.com.

V4.0 of Senergy Software'due south Interactive Petrophysics (IP) adds an image log processing and assay module providing workflows for processing and interpreting wireline and LWD image logs leveraging patented engineering – www.senergyworld.com.

Kalido'due south Data Governance Director offers data policy direction via a centralized policy layer spanning business process, systems and data. A snip at $200,000 - www.kalido.com.

Transzap/Oildex Spendworks four claims speedier admission to operational data and enhancements derived from a usability written report conducted with Spendworks. More from www.transzap.com.

P2 Energy Solutions' has re-jigged Excalibur V7's State and Gas Processing modules leveraging UniData's SystemBuilder user interface evolution environs – www.p2es.com.

Five eight.three of Caesar Systems' PetroVR upstream decision support tool adds functionality in sensitivity tools, scenario builder and validation –

www.caesarsystems.com.

Quorum Business concern Solutions' Pipeline Transaction Manager now includes revisions to the NAESB i.9 standard – world wide web.qbsol.com.

V10 of ExperTune's PlantTriage at present offers real-time trending of process variables on a smart phone giving users access to control-room information while out in the plant. Users can browse reports and dashboards to pinpoint musical instrument and valve issues or tuning issues – world wide web.planttriage.com.

Emerson Process Management's Raptor tank gauging system includes instrumentation and inventory management software. Emerson as well reports that it has achieved Achilles certification for its Smart Wireless Gateway. Achilles provides contained benchmarks to assessing network security and infrastructure resilience – www.emerson.com.

ERDAS 2011 includes global localization capability, support for Bing Maps imagery and map data, and a new product, ERDAS Engine, an application accelerator for ERDAS IMAGINE and LPS – www.erdas.com.

Expro 'due south HawkEye 4 downhole photographic camera enables an operator to command the lighthead and switch views. A 'turbo' mode ups the frame charge per unit to 30 fps. Images are stored in the photographic camera and transmitted by batch to the surface. The higher rates are used to place fluid type and entry location – world wide web.exprogroup.com.

Energistics 2010 Member Encounter, Houston

ProdML moves towards EnergyML convergence with SAM and GDA. ResqML V1.0 nears release.

Energistics' 2010 Annual Member Meeting was held in Houston last month. President & CEO Randy Clark kicked-off the proceedings noting the add-on of 20 new member companies including new members in People's republic of china, Russian federation and Republic of indonesia. Energistics' standards endeavour revolves around the trinity of Witsml, Prodml and the emerging Resqml standards for, respectively, drilling, production and reservoir description. Reporting from a Witsml run into held before in the month, Jerry Hubbard noted the extension of the standard to include a 'StimJob' object for fracturing reporting, a new error model object and 'tightened' schemas for better interoperability.

Prodml V2.ane is scheduled for release during Q2 2011 and includes extensions for wireline germination testing, facility reporting and meliorate documentation. Prodml is beingness adapted to comply with the new 'Energyml' standard, an overarching protocol that is ready to subsume all Energistics modeling efforts.

Also new is the Prodml shared asset model (SAM), designed to assist maintain a hierarchical arrangement of assets spanning dissimilar geographies, organizations and operations. SAM will provide a cross reference of asset identifiers and a directory of services to recollect XML data objects via the Generic Data Admission (GDA) protocol, one of the first Energyml components that provides a single 'CRUD¹'-style service for all data types. Implemented in Prodml, GDA supports all Witsml and Resqml documents.

Energyml is both an installable XML object and a specification for 'supportability and interoperability'.

Energyml will be leveraged across all Energistics schemas, services and technical architectures. Energyml is scheduled for release in February 2011. A possible migration from Energistics electric current Soap to 'Restful' bindings is under evaluation.

Resqml V1.0 is on track for a publication appointment around year cease 2010 and will include most functionality of the older Rescue standard. These include handling of large data models through the hierarchical information format (HDF5), traceability and georeferencing.

For 2011 Energistics is to expand its website and collaboration centre and plans to work with members and standards organizations to 'identify synergies and potential avenues for collaboration.' More from world wide web.energistics.org.

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SMi Energy Data Storage 2010

Isilon's OneFS bests open source. Wipro'due south upstream storage reference architecture. NetApp, EMC, Isilon, Panasas slug it out over storage efficiencies. Neil Brown says 'switch off the lights.' For Volantice, it's really about data management. Quotium, Spectra Logic 'in praise of tape.'

The countdown SMi Energy Data Storage conference held in London final calendar month was interesting in that solution providers hailed from both upstream oil and gas and utilities. Only there was a dearth of finish user presentations and something of an backlog of sales pitches—albeit of a fairly educational nature. More than on SMi Conferences from www.smi-online.co.uk.

Volantice's Ugur Algan set the scene with a general introduction to E&P data types and the niceties of managing entitlements, documents, GIS and legacy media. Information volumes continue to rise vertiginously. Algan recently came across a unmarried survey of 100TB – and this volition be 4D, repeat acquisition. Complicating bug for the upstream data manager include replication, archive and backup, 'data merely multiplies!' Storage infrastructure is just a small part of the story. The hereafter will run across high chapters everything, a likely movement to the cloud and better data management with software for de-dupe and replication. But Algan insisted, 'The result goes beyond storage, the real problem is data management.' More than from www.volantice.com.

Neil Brown (DeMontfort Academy, UK) has been investigating how 'intelligent' corporations are with their energy utilisation. Not very it seems. Nosotros generate lots of energy that is thrown away equally tin can exist seen from a nighttime visit to London's Canary Wharf business center where most offices remain afire with lite. Also, around 30-forty% of PCs never go switched off. For a large corporation, it easily pays to for a dedicated person to go around switching PCs off—or you can become the cleaners to do it. Justifying such action requires 'longtitudinal' free energy data to pinpoint issues. You tin can use water meter information every bit proxy for edifice occupancy and compare with energy use. Smart meters also ran… More than from www.oilit.com/links/1012_6.

Andy McDonald described how Isilon is addressing the 'petabyte problem.' Isilon claims traction in energy with over 50 large customers. Seismic processing is a target market as is interpretation and visualization. Isilon's claims to fame include low sysadmin overhead, commodity components and its own software, in detail the proprietary OneFS file system. McDonald warns confronting using less performant open source file systems. OneFS exposes a file arrangement 'like a 10 petabyte USB fundamental!' Free energy clients include Kelman and Spectrum Energy. More than from world wide web.isilon.com¹.

Sajjad Khazipura described how Wipro has leveraged its experience building data centers for its upstream clients noting that 'for every dollar spent on information, $8 is spent on storage.' Wipro's upstream storage reference architecture (WUSRA) is described as a 'business process enlightened storage application.' WUSRA 'understands' seismic processing environments like Omega and ProMax and software including OpenWorks R5000, Petrel, Eclipse and VIP. WUSRA is designed 'to assure data access across the workflow.'

To accost proliferating data volumes (growing at 70-lxxx% per year!) customers are asking for a 'step alter.' Wipro's answer is tiering, starting with the high performance storage for the cluster and moving out to lower cost solutions—ultimately to the cloud. The deject is at present a 'viable option' co-ordinate to Wipro which is working with partner Microsoft to leverage its 'Azure' solution—although Wipro claims to exist supplier agnostic. The idea is to 'combine business procedure outsourcing with infrastructure optimization.' The user only sees a portal. More from world wide web.wipro.com.

NetApp's Peter Ferri showed off a telling slide of upstream storage clients for its unified approach to multi (storage) vendor data management. The advent of 64 bit Microsoft Windows desktop platforms with the CPU and graphics horsepower necessary to drive data intensive interpretation and modeling applications is impacting networking and storage needs. NetApp's latest concept is the 'Petrotechnical Cloud,' consolidating resources and offering users sparse customer-based access to 2nd and 3D visualization. More than from www.netapp.com.

Simon Mitchell (Spectra Logic) put in a stalwart defense of record storage noting that while storage demands explode, '70% of all capacity is misused' as in inert, allocated not used, orphaned etc. Tape is now reliable, very loftier density and has a smaller footprint than disk. The Ultrium LTO roadmap scales out to 13TB/tape and a 470MB/s information rates (both uncompressed). More from www.spectralogic.com.

John Bong outlined EMC's attempt to take hold of upward with NetApp in the upstream. NetApp had successfully 'wiped out' HP—what could EMC exercise? Client surveys determined hurting points such equally 'cumbersome' applications that run slow, exploding real fourth dimension data volumes and storage growth. EMC's answer is 'fully automatic storage tiering' and multi path file share. This has cut BP'south storage costs past 20% and is used past BG Grouping in an 'aggressive global expansion.' EMC'south technology powers Schlumberger's new data profiling service that optimizes Petrel, GeoFrame and other upstream information management. More from www.emc.com.

Panasas' Derek Burke showed off another bluish chip customer list including BP, Statoil, ConocoPhillips and Aramco. Prestack depth migration testing with Paradigm has shown Panasas' Parallel NFS to be '2.5 times faster' than vanilla NFS. Similar results are claimed for Landmark's ProMax. More than from www.panasas.com.

Some other 'in praise of tape' presentation came from Quotium'due south Fernando Moreira. Record is 'light-green,' loftier performance and offers good lifetime if properly managed. Quotium's StorSentry runs in parallel to an archival application, collecting quality and operation data and advising on bulldoze and tape changes. Tape is withal the most toll constructive solution for archives of over a petabyte. For long term storage and compliance, 'tape remains the but selection.' Equally chapters reaches 10TB/tape, real time tape monitoring is critical. More from www.quotium.com.

ⁱ Presently after the event, Isilon was acquired by EMC.

This article is abstract of a longer Engineering Study produced by Oil IT Periodical's publisher, The Data Room. More than from www.oilit.com/tech.

Blueish Marble User Group

Trounce's geodetic framework. Noel Zinn (Hydrometrics) on earth-centered, earth-fixed scheme.

Martin Rayson described how Blueish Marble's Geographic Calculator has been leveraged within Shell'southward geodetic framework (SGF). The SGF was initiated to bring order to geodetic parameter usage across Trounce'south application portfolio. Applications tend to use different coordinate transformations and units of measure with trivial indication of authority. A primal geodetic database has been established to feed reliable information to applications and enforce naming conventions. This, the Shell Geodetic Parameter Registry (SGPR) , is a proprietary version of the European Petroleum Survey Group'south (EPSG) database. SGPR was developed for Trounce past Galdos Systems in 2009.

Beat's set-up presupposes that vendor applications are capable of consuming such information in an automated fashion which is not always the example. In such cases, manual information population is required. This is the state of affairs for many Due east&P apps including R5000, ArcGIS, PowerExplorer and others. Others, notably Blue Marble'southward geoCalculator permit for 'hardwired' automated population from the registry.

For the geodetics purist, Noel Zinn of Hydrometrics (Zinn was previously in ExxonMobil's survey section) described an earth-centered globe-fixed (ECEF) scheme for geodetically rigorous, 3D visualization, powered by Bluish Marble'south Geographic Calculator. ECEF schemes locate points on the earth'southward surface (or anywhere else) with Cartesian coordinates, fugitive the baloney of map projections – and so long as you have a 3D visualization system. The appearance of 'Globe' GIS systems such as ArcGlobe and Google Earth has brought increased attention to ECEF schemes – although neither of these deploy such. It is in geoscience visualization that the ECEF scheme comes into its ain – especially equally we effort to accomplish 'plate to pore calibration' visibility.

Zinn proposes a 'revolutionary' pace that uses an ECEF coordinate system to bring a 3D Earth into the visualization environment, maintaining geodetic rigor and eliminating projection distortion. At which signal, 'Each prospect tin be worked locally, all projects fit together globally and are suitable for both local and regional studies.' More from this interesting presentation from www.hydrometronics.com and from www.bluemarble.com.

PPDM AGM and Fellow member Run across, Calgary

TGS-Nopec on well data quality. Noah Consulting on merging geotechnical and financial information. OpenSpirit's PPDM information link. DAMA/PPDM tie the knot. Infosys compares manufacture MDM solutions.

Jim Stolle (TGS-Nopec) advocates capturing well data quality, a.k.a. 'goodness' somehow in the PPDM information model - particularly with regard to spatial data. Co-ordinate to Stolle, the reality is that between 10 and 20% of the wellbores are missing from all industry sources. Frequently missing are airplane pilot holes, wellbores to alternate targets and some redrills. Stolle suggests adding quality fields to the data model to indicate inadequate or absent documentation for wellbore definition. Stolle followed up past describing a string of geodetic 'howlers' including a database of surveys from 'around the world' which were actually all from the Barnett Shale area where survey reporting is notoriously unstandardized and inconsistent.

Paul Haines (Noah Consulting) outlined how geotechnical data in a PPDM data store can be composite with financial data from enterprise resource planning applications such as SAP. Many frequently asked questions (past management) tin can be rather hard to answer with electric current concern systems – e.g. 'Have we decreased piece of work orders or improved work order turnarounds?' or again, 'Have we decreased unplanned downtime or optimized maintenance procedures based on market conditions?' And in both cases, 'What is the fiscal impact?' Such questions are hard because accounting has a different world from operations – in fact, 'We may also be speaking different languages.'

Brian Boulmay (Tibco OpenSpirit) described how the OpenSpirit reference value catalog is used to add together 'out of the box' conversion of units and coordinates to a multi vendor environment – including PPDM thanks to the new PPDM data connector. OpenSpirit supplies a lot of the extra 'stuff' that is required to brand PPDM work with applications, GIS and information in full general.

Deborah Henderson from the Information Management International (DAMA) organization outlined the benefits from the recent alliance between DAMA and the PPDM Clan. These include complementing skill sets and mutualising member services to meet users' information and data direction needs. Members now benefit from reciprocal membership.

Rama Manne's (Infosys) talk on main data direction for E&P included a detailed comparison of solutions from Oracle, Informatica, Landmark, Schlumberger and Petris. Oracle MDM provides stiff data integration and a congenital-in business rules engine and strong reporting only it lacks Eastward&P specificity particularly in terms of its information quality engine. Informatica MDM shares these weaknesses but offers stiff ETL capability and good integration with BPM/workflow solutions. Manne went on to compare Landmark'southward PowerHub/CDS combo, Schlumberger'southward Seabed and Petris' OMS in rather more detail than we have space for (although we have to study that Petris' OMS got a tick for PPDM compliance). More on Infosys in oil and gas from world wide web.oilit.com/links/1012_9.

These and other presentations are bachelor for download on www.ppdm.org.

Folks, facts, orgs ...

AGA, GE, AspenTech, GITA, Hampson-Russell, Helmerich & Payne, HTC, IDS, IFP, Ikon, CDA, PCA, TechInvestLab, Morgan Keegan, Midland Valley, Ryder Scott, Shell, Teradata, Terraspark, Weatherford, Wunderlich Securities, Hyperdynamics, Matrix, Wireless Seismic.

Dave McCurdy has been named president and CEO of the American Gas Association, succeeding Dave Parker.

Andrew Way is VP services for GE Oil & Gas.

AspenTech has appointed John Hague Senior VP and Physician for MENA.

Bob Austin is president of the Geospatial Information and Technology Clan (GITA). Libby Hanna and Dana Forest have also joined the staff.

CGGVeritas has appointed Ron Smaniotto US Sales Managing director at its Hampson-Russell Software and Services division.

John Lindsay has been named Executive VP and COO of Helmerich and Payne.

Maryanne Maldonado has been promoted to VP and Md of 'free energy acceleration' at the Houston Engineering Heart.

Gary Kohrt has joined Iconics as VP Marketing.

IDS has appointed Shannon Cameron as sales executive for North America.

French Petroleum Institute (now 'IFP Energies Nouvelles') president Olivier Appert has been re-elected VP of the European Zero Emissions Platform, an industry grouping for the development of Carbon Capture Storage in Europe.

Ikon Science has joined CDA as Associate Member. Richard Swarbrick has been appointed to the company board and is now global director geopressure. Swarbrick founded GeoPressure Engineering, caused by Ikon in 2006.

POSC Caesar Association has TechInvestLab equally a new member.

Roger Read has joined Morgan Keegan every bit a senior disinterestedness inquiry analyst post-obit the oil services industry. He was formerly with Natixis Bleichroeder in Houston.

Gareth Johnson and Steven Clellend accept re-joined Midland Valley.

John Hanko has rejoined Ryder Scott every bit a geologist. Marylena Garcia has joined the visitor as a petroleum engineer. She hails from Conoco Phillips.

Shell has appointed Dirk Smit, VP of exploration technologies as primary scientist for geophysics, John Karanikas, chief subsurface engineer in anarchistic oil as chief scientist for reservoir engineering science and Vianney Koelman, team leader of in-well technology equally chief scientist for petrophysics.

Duncan Irving has joined Teradata as EMEA manufacture consultant for oil and gas. He was previously at the University of Manchester.

TerraSpark Geosciences has appointed Karen Sherlock director of production management. Sherlock hails from BHP Billiton.

Weatherford International has promoted Peter Fontana to Senior VP and COO. Fontana was previously with The Western Company of North America.

John Cusick is now Senior VP, free energy sector disinterestedness enquiry with Wunderlich Securities. Cusick was previously with Oppenheimer & Co.

Ray Leonard, president and CEO of Hyperdynamics Corp., has been named to the University of Arizona's Geosciences Informational Board for a five-year term.

Matrix Service Co. has promoted Kevin Cavanah to VP finance and CFO.

Jim Sledzik, President of Energy Ventures and formerly of WesternGeco, is to join Wireless Seismic'due south lath of directors and Gary Jones is chairman of the board.

Done Deals

Atos Origin, Siemens, Coreworx, Golden Triangle Angelnet, EMC, Isilon, Energy Ventures, Chesapeake, Wireless Seismic, Fugro, Riise, GE, Wellstream, Geovariances, Tenzing, Halliburton/KBR, Idox Group, McLaren Software, Platts, Bentek, United Communications Group, Siemens.

Atos Origin has acquired Siemens' IT Solutions and Services unit for €850 1000000. The combined operations' 78,500 employees should generate €eight.vii billion revenues worldwide for 2010.

Acorn Free energy has sold its Coreworx unit to its employees and private investors including Golden Triangle Angelnet.

EMC Corp. has acquired Isilon Systems, now a partition of EMC'south Information Infrastructure Products concern. Isilon founder, president and CEO Sujal Patel reports to EMC's Pat Gelsinger.

GE is to acquire Wellstream Holdings for $1.3 billion cash.

Energy Ventures has partnered with Chesapeake Energy in a $19.v meg investment in Wireless Seismic.

Fugro is to acquire Riise Underwater Engineering which will exist renamed Fugro-RUE.

Geovariances has acquired the Australian geostatistical resource evaluation and consulting company Tenzing, setting upwardly a Geovariances office in Brisbane.

Halliburton has paid the Nigerian Government $32.5 million in regard to improper payments of government officials by old subsidiary KBR.

Idox Group has caused McLaren Software.

McGraw-Hill's Platts unit of measurement is to purchase energy market analyst Bentek Free energy. Platts is also acquiring the Oil Toll Information Service from United Communications Group.

Siemens has received authorisation to engage in banking operations. Siemens Bank will support sales at the company's operating units with loans and guarantees.

Calsep PVTsim User Group

Statoil on multi-phase meter data unification. Calsep outlines new 'Nova' PVTsim edition.

A Statoil presentation at the Calsep¹ User Group coming together this month described how the company is unifying its multi-phase meter allocation solutions. Multi-phase meters are used to determine gas oil and h2o catamenia rates upstream from the separator but their use requires a significant calibration effort. This is achieved through simulation of phase densities and book conversion factors. Statoil had iii dissimilar MPM solutions working on different fields and decided to unify these under a single PVTsim-based DLL² with different entry points for each field. The DLL was developed as a VBA.NET plug-in to Excel. Statoil's unified MPM solution is now being tested and has been extended to use on some other field. The DLL has also been used to run PVTsim under command from Honeywell's UniSim.

Calsep has embarked on a major revamp to ots PVT³sim flagship. The new PVTsim 'Nova' release is beingness developed to assure continuity for PVTsim. PVTsim allows reservoir engineers, period balls specialists and process engineers 'to combine reliable fluid characterization procedures with robust and efficient regression algorithms to match fluid properties and experimental data.' Data is then available for use on reservoir, pipeline and procedure simulators. Originally released in 1988, PVTsim is the PVT engine inside SPT Group's 'Olga' dynamic catamenia simulator.

Nova adds new functionalities and models and will be easier to maintain and extend with new database content cheers to a code rewrite by 'professional' programmers and modern tools. Nova targets enhanced oil recovery, flow assurance and new thermodynamic models. An 'open structure' improves database communication and links from 3rd party software. Nova also allows clients to add their own algorithms, simplifies reporting with links to Excel and Word and adds industry standards reporting and compliance.

For more than User Grouping presentations including a menses assurance and wax deposition study on an offshore Norwegian field, on hydrate inhibitors and on the evolution of an equation of land model for an gas injection EOR project on KOC's Sabriya field, visit www.calsep.com.

¹ Calculation of SEParation processes.

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Training efficacy questioned at OPITO safe come across

Dean of Aberdeen Business School advocates mutual, global oil industry safety standard.

Prof. Rita Marcella, Dean of the Aberdeen Business School, speaking at the Opito^ane safety and competency conference last calendar month, stated that the prime commuter behind health, safe and emergency response training was the risk of a major blow. Marcella questioned the efficacy of much of today's training. Anecdotal evidence suggests that training standards are not e'er loftier and there is a demand for greater personal responsibleness for training, more realistic ER simulation and improved safety leadership. There are meaning differences in the quality of training delivered around the world. To fix this, Marcella advocates a common, global standard to provide 'consistency across all international locations, resulting in improved quality of preparation and more capable emergency response personnel. Such a standard would be a benchmark for organizations to assess requirements of jobs and resource. The problem though is not a lack of HSE standards, rather that at that place are too many that bear upon an oil and gas visitor. Marcella believes that by working with the standards bodies, with industry and government, a global standards framework is doable. This would ultimately benefit all with ameliorate workforce mobility, reduced training costs and the assurance of best-practice emergency response from amend standards and information and technology sharing at times of crisis. More from www.opito.com.

^ane Opito is an employer and trade marriage led organization providing skills, training and workforce development to the oil and gas industry.

Consortium Corner

HARC on low impact drilling. Object Reservoir on Marcellus shale JIP.

The Houston Avant-garde Research Eye (HARC) is seeking participants in an initiative to promote technologies for 'low-impact' oil and gas drilling. The environmentally friendly drilling (EFD) systems scorecard sets out to minimize the impact of drilling in sensitive areas.

EFD program manager Rich Haut said, 'The goal is a common methodology that can exist used across the The states to document the ecology and societal tradeoffs associated with energy development. Land owners, regulators and the general public can use the scorecard to considerately appraise operators' functioning. Operators tin can compare their own operations with industry best practices.' More from www.harc.edu.

Object Reservoir reports that Chesapeake, Southwestern, Seneca and Talisman take joined its Marcellus Shale articulation industry project, bringing the number of partners to 10. The JIP sets out to found best practices for shale well spacing and stimulation and remains open up to new members for a express fourth dimension. More from www.objectreservoir.com.

Sales, contracts, partnerships and deployments

Virtalis, Epsis, Allegro Evolution, CGGVeritas, Technip, CNL Software, MatrikonOPC, Cortex, Powervision, Emerson, FMC, Halliburton, Hyperion Systems, KSS Fuels, WhiteStar Corp., LandWorks, Leica Geosystems, IPOS, Metrisys, Sercel, Paragon Geophysical.

Virtalis is to supply a supply a Highly Immersive Visualization Surroundings (HIVE) to the University of the Western Greatcoat, South Africa. Funding for the unit of measurement is provided by the University and BP. More from world wide web.virtalis.com.

Epsis is to deliver a organisation for monitoring drilling operations to Petrolia for its drilling operations in Africa. More from www.epsis.no.

Allegro Development Corp.'due south Allegro viii platform has been selected past National Grid to manage its power, natural gas, LNG, liquids and renewables trading operations in the US. More from www.allegrodev.com.

CGGVeritas has created a joint venture with Petrovietnam Technical Services Corp.(PTSC) for 2D and 3D marine seismic operations in Vietnam. More than from www.cggveritas.com.

Chevron Indonesia has awarded the contract for its Gendalo-Gehem natural gas development to Technip Indonesia, Worley Parsons Indonesia and Singgar Mulia.

CNL Software is the latest company to bring together MatrikonOPC 'due south Global Partner Network. CNL will integrate Matrikon'south range of OPC Servers into its IPSecurityCenter – a software-based command system integration platform. More from world wide web.cnlsofware.com and www.matrikonopc.com.

Cortex Business Solutions and Powervision take signed a new hub project with a 'mid-sized natural gas-focused Canadian energy corporation based in Calgary' to implement the Powervision Workflow Management software and automate eighty% of each company's invoicing process by on-boarding the hub's suppliers onto the Cortex Trading Partner Network. More from www.cortex.net and www.powervision.com.

Petrobras has selected Emerson Process Management to provide procedure automation technologies and services for the Petrochemical Circuitous of Rio de Janeiro (Comperj) in Brazil. More from www.emerson.com.

FMC Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with Petrobras to develop future subsea technology solutions for its oil and gas projects offshore Brazil, for both pre-table salt and mature oil and gas fields. FMC has too signed an agreement with Norske Shell for the manufacture and supply of subsea product equipment for the Ormen Lange development project in the N Bounding main for approximately $95 million, and won a $75 one thousand thousand contract with Statoil for the Vigdis Due north-Due east development. More from world wide web.fmctechnologies.com.

Halliburton has been awarded a contract by ConocoPhillips for directional drilling, logging-while-drilling (LWD) and surface data logging (SDL) services to assistance develop the high temperature Jasmine discovery in the central N Sea. More than from www.halliburton.com.

Hyperion Systems Engineering has delivered a Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit of measurement operator training simulator to Preem Petroleum's Lysekil refinery in Sweden. More than from www.hyperion.com.

Hess has selected a suite of products and services from KSS Fuels to provide day-to-solar day fuel cost management and optimization. Hess will utilize PriceNet'due south pricing functioning direction and KSS Fuels consulting services. More from www.kssfuels.com.

WhiteStar Corp has named LandWorks as a reseller of the WhiteStar Exploration Cube product line. LandWorks will bundle the WhiteStar map products with its LandWorks GIS software. More than from www.whitestar.com.

High accuracy GPS service provider Leica SmartNet Bulgaria has launched a partnership with IPOS to operate a control center and Metrisys (a Leica Geosystems distributor) for user support. More from www.leica-geosystems.com.

Sercel has sold a Unite cablevision-gratuitous acquisition system to Paragon Geophysical Services. The telemetry-based Unite organisation is used for big-channel-count surveys in challenging environments. By year end 2010, a total of iv,000 channels volition have been delivered. More than from world wide web.sercel.com.

Standards Stuff

PHMSA leverages PODS. Open Group rolls-out spider web ontology guide. Oasis defends 'de jure.'

The United states Pipeline and Chancy Materials Condom Assistants (PHMSA) has completed the migration of the 510,917-mile national pipeline mapping system (NPMS) to a database based on the Pipeline Open Information Standards organization'southward data model, PODS. Using PODS ways that the PHMSA can now track attributes in a 'piping-centric' fashion and view changes to a pipe segment throughout fourth dimension. Operator performance tin can exist separated from pipeline performance and changes in submissions identified. The results can be viewed on www.npms.phmsa.dot.gov.

The Open Group has appear a service-oriented ontology standard (SOOS) leveraging the W3C's Web Ontology Language (OWL). SOOS targets business organization users and developers with a 90 page how-to guide for SOA and OWL deployment. More from www.theopengroup.org.

Laurent Liscia, Executive Director of the Oasis standards body, in his 2010 roundup reflects on 'pushback' from the 'de jure' European Standards Organization with regard to the validity of manufacture-led consortia such as Oasis. Fortunately, Oasis' 'indefatigable affairs' has meant that the organization is now regarded by the European Committee in the same light the W3C and IETF and it is expected that upcoming procurement legislation will reflect such esteem, allowing Oasis standards to be referenced in public procurement. More than from world wide web.oasis.org.

Going, going, light-green...

ExxonMobil, RasGas capture CO2. CSLF notes calibration of problem. CSC's carbon managed service.

ExxonMobil has expanded its LaBarge, Wyoming, carbon capture facility which at present has a 365 million cu. ft./24-hour interval capacity – equivalent to taking i.five million cars off the road. CO2 is captured from natural gas production and made available for enhanced oil recovery and other industrial users.

Qatari RasGas has deployed emission reduction engineering science supplied by GE at its Ras Laffan LNG Complex. GE's dry low NOx (DLN) combustion technology is being used to reduce gas turbine emissions. RasGas Physician Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi said, 'This retrofit on six gas turbines has halved NOx emissions. We are at present plumbing fixtures of the rest of our gas turbines in compliance with the State environmental regulations.' More from www.ge.com.

A report from the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) indicates 'significant' international progress on 'advancing' carbon capture and storage (CCS). However challenges remain, notably the 'sheer scale' of creating a CO2 manual arrangement in populated areas. There are 32 active or completed CCS projects and 'significant' investment in engineering. More from world wide web.cslforum.org.

Computer Science Corp. (CSC) has launched a 'carbon managed service' based on SAP's 'carbon impact on-demand' solution. The service helps companies develop a 'proactive and profitable' carbon direction procedure, capturing emissions and establishing an accurate and auditable carbon footprint. CSC also helps develop mitigation strategies. Carbon managed service is component of CSC's compliance and sustainability portfolio delivered from CSC's 'trusted cloud'. More from world wide web.csc.com.

Laser scan data blends with 3D CAD for PDO'south asset models.

Petroleum Development Oman leverages technology from VRcontext and Z&F.

Petroleum Development Oman, a joint venture between the government of Sultanate of oman, Beat out, Total and Partex, is to use engineering science from United kingdom-based Z+F UK and VRcontext of Belgium to ensure that its 3D CAD asset models are aligned with current 'every bit-is' plant data. Current plant data captured by on-site laser scan surveys is processed with Z&F's LFM Server prior to integration with VRcontext's 'Walkinside' virtual reality 3D model.

On-site laser scan surveys generate massive datasets that need to exist reconciled with 3D CAD from engineering contractors. The Walkinside-LFM Server is used to blend 'point deject' data with the 3D CAD model and highlight 'clashes' of proposed found revamps. Pipes can then exist re-routed effectually obstacles. Saving of 'tens of millions' of dollars are claimed in project execution by preventing or minimizing unnecessary rework, on-site reassembly, and past avoiding associated establish close-downs and lost revenues from asset operation.

The Walkinside-LFM Server lets engineers adjust the displayed resolution of the 3D point-cloud in real time to optimize data integration. New 3D CAD models can be generated from the indicate clouds using Z&F's LFM Modeler and used as the starting point of new projects. The new CAD models support PDO's transition from 2D to 3D design. Walkinside allows multiple stakeholders to work from the same time-stamped reference model that will evolve throughout the life time of the facility. More than from www.zf-uk.com and www.vrcontext.com.

API Security Conference hears from FBI security guru

Disgruntled employees, duff networks, economic espionage, viruses, worms—and no quick set!

Attendees at the 2010 American Petroleum Found Information Security Conference held in Houston last month heard from a succession of It security vendors aptitude on putting the fear of, if non God, then of the hacker, terrorist, disgruntled and/or careless employee and other sources of It insecurity into them. While the need for a security crackdown is emerging, the contend is also opening-up to embrace the emerging field of social networking inside the organization—bringing a boatload of new potential security risks.

Kevin Cearlock of the FBI'south Houston partition reported that the focus of foreign intelligence has shifted from war machine secrets to critical technology and economic information. While Mainland china is the nearly aggressive country conducting espionage against US interests, political and military machine 'allies' are as active in engineering/economic collection as the US' traditional adversaries.

Economical espionage tradecraft works through visitors, merchandise delegations, joint ventures and traditional espionage techniques such as intercepts, subconscious cameras, 'dumpster diving' and coincidental 'overhear.' The oil and gas industry is at take a chance of assault and at that place is no magical appliance or software that can guarantee protection. Many networks are misconfigured, easing penetration.

Anti-virus alerts, intrusion detection systems (IDS), network logs analysis all help just no anti virus programme has every signature, IDS rules are usually too relaxed and administrators are inundated with false positives. Logging is usually turned off and anyway, logs are rarely checked.

A big chance comes from the innocent user, a potential victim of phishing, malicious websites, trojans and awarding vulnerabilities such every bit SQL injection, buffer overflows and unpatched web servers. Both foreign intel services and economical adversaries may try to gain a foothold in critical infrastructure for strategic and tactical war machine advantage. Others may exist trying to 'exfiltrate' bid information and other information on the quantity, value and locations of oil discoveries, news briefings, internal reports, concern information.

Mitigation revolves effectually user sensation and a good agreement of your network and traffic. Penetration tests tin can expose vulnerabilities. Networks should exist segmented isolate sensitive servers which should be monitored closely with a 'crown jewels' policy. Stiff passwords and two-factor authentication is a must and unnecessary services and accounts should be removed. More than from www.api.org.

AuraPortal BPMS platform for Chilean ENAP

Business organization process management toolset to automate fuel logistics.

Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP), Republic of chile'southward national oil visitor, has selected AuraPortal'south business process management suite (BPMS) to support its fuel refining and distribution business organization throughout Chile. ENAP operates three refineries with a total chapters of 230,000 barrels per day and a network of oil and gas pipelines.

AuraPortal deployment was undertaken by partner BPMConsultancy, whose Physician Jaime Krumel said, 'ENAP volition brainstorm with the automation of its logistics management process of sea fuel transport, and targets improved direction of the unabridged operating cycle of fuel transportation, in both national littoral trade and imports-exports.' The ENAP sale follows-on from a success with Mexico's Pemex NOC (OITJ May 2010), an AuraPortal user since 2006.

Through its Sipetrol unit, created in 1990, ENAP now has operations in Republic of peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Yemen, Iran and Egypt. More from world wide web.auraportal.com.

On-Ramp Wireless Partners with Koncar

Croatian engineering contractor to offering wireless pipeline condition monitoring.

San Diego-headquartered On-Ramp Wireless has teamed with Croatia-based Koncar INEM on a pilot project to deliver a broad-area wireless condition monitoring solution. Koncar volition embed On-Ramp'south Ultra-Link Processing (ULP) engineering science into its pipeline monitoring offer. On-Ramp'south ULP system combines a pressure level sensor with a Modbus gateway and claims a significant improvement in range over current technologies. ULP networks already cover large industrial campuses with 'minimal infrastructure.' Pressure sensors can be monitored upwards to x km distant from wireless access points.

Koncar INEM CEO �eljko Tuk�a said, 'We are one of the showtime companies to deploy ULP technology for condition monitoring. We look forward to at-calibration commitment to the oil and gas and other process industries trying to accost remote operations and amend prophylactic.'

On-Ramp'south ULP claims extended battery life and ATEX-certification for operation in explosive environments.

On-Ramp CEO Joaquin Silva added, 'This airplane pilot project is a first for our technology – delivering monitoring performance at low cost. We have already broken the adaptation barrier for wireless device monitoring and condition monitoring is a cardinal adjacent step for our company.'

Operating in united nations-licensed spectrum, ULP uses betoken processing to identify weak signals in high noise environments. More from world wide web.onrampwireless.com and www.oilit.com/links/1012_2.

Liander to trail TNO'southward pipeline sensors

STOOP-IJknet combines sensor information with geological models in condition monitoring solution.

Netherlands-based operator Liander has commissioned the TNO R&D organization to develop a sensor network for status monitoring of its gas pipelines. Pprogram managing director John Weda explained, 'We are constantly seeking new solutions to manage our gas and electricity networks and predict where bug might ascend. In the coming decades nosotros program to replace gas pipelines that are less resistant to subsidence. Sensor information and calculator models will improve prediction and assist prioritize intervention.'

TNO'south 'STOOP-IJknetⁱ' will extend Liander's current systems and risk models. TNO's previous feel with sensor monitoring of dykes and viaducts has shown that information technology is important to monitor not simply the pipes themselves but also the ground in which they are buried. The network monitors settlement, vibrations and groundwater motility. These all feed into computer models forth with materials, corrosion and geological information. Liander is currently working with TNO on a proof of concept test. Operators Deltares and Kiwa Gas Technology are likewise involved in the IJknet project.

TNO project atomic number 82 Wim van der Poel added, 'Our knowledge of It, predictive models, fracture mechanics, adventure management, sensor technology and geology is highly applicable in this context. All the pipelines are subject to risks. By measuring in real fourth dimension and processing the data straightaway, we believe we can make very authentic predictions.' More from world wide web.tno.nl.

ⁱ STOOP is both the Dutch acronym for 'Sensor engineering applied to clandestine pipeline infrastructures' and a reference to TNO researcher Ben Stoop who died concluding yr.

Aveva rolls-out Microsoft Windows Communications Foundation

Global engineering workflows enabled by secure exchange of engineering science data.

Engineering blueprint and data management specialist Aveva is to offer its clients the selection of Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) as a component of its Aveva Global workshare and collaboration surround. WCF volition be leveraged to enable global interaction betwixt partners, suppliers and contractors. The Foundation is claimed to improve project manageability, reduce cost and run a risk and shorten timescales.

The WCF protocol provides a secure platform data substitution and can be configured to a client'due south individual security requirements. WCF provides security options such equally authentication, encryption and a choice of suitable transport mechanisms to assure project information is shared securely.

Aveva'south Thierry Vermeersch said, 'Effective collaboration is dependent on keeping the system agile, by transmitting just changes rather than full datasets. This mandates an equally agile security strategy, that is flexible enough to encounter the changing needs of the customers' evolving environments. We take listened to our customers and included the flexible security of WCF into Aveva Global.' More than from www.aveva.com and www.microsoft.com.

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