The Geological Products and Services division of TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (TGS) announced today that it has commenced a new multi-client interpretive study of offshore Brazil utilizing the company’s proprietary Facies Map Browser (FMB) application. The FMB allows explorationists to visualize the distribution of and relationship between the various elements of a petroleum system within a depositional...
The Geological Products and Services division of TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (TGS) announced that it has commenced a new multi-client interpretive study of offshore Brazil utilizing the company’s proprietary Facies Map Browser (FMB) application. The FMB allows explorationists to visualize the distribution of and relationship between the various elements of a petroleum system within a depositional...
World Oil® magazine announced the thirteen winners of the 2008 World Oil Awards at the seventh annual black-tie gala dinner last night in Houston, Texas. The event, attended by close to 350 industry leaders, benefited two universities that offer programs leading to careers in the petroleum industry. Frank Springett of National Oilwell Varco won the inaugural Next Generation Committee Award for his...
The Homeland Security Department is testing a data-mining program that would try to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans, such as flight and hotel reservations. The program, similar to a Pentagon program Congress killed in 2003 over concerns about civil liberties, could take effect as early as next year. But researchers testing the system are likely to already...
Visual Mining(TM), the premier provider of on-demand graphical reporting, visual analytics, and performance dashboard solutions, and Maxager Technology, a provider of enterprise profit optimization software, today announced that Maxager Technology has deployed Sales Executive(TM) for increased access to critical intelligence they need to make better informed business decisions with respect to marketing...
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic intelligence solutions, today announced that the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is using MetaCarta’s geOdrive solution to provide map-based search of the organization’s eLibrary. SPE is a not-for-profit professional association whose members are engaged in energy resources development and production. Serving more than 69,000...
ESI Group, (ESIN FR0004110310) announces PAM-TUBE 2G, a new product suite in the stamping simulation solution line, tailored made for tube bending and hydroforming processes. PAM-TUBE 2G, supporting all the stages from design to product manufacturing, is an intuitive software package, where the user is guided through the different steps of the process. In response to market demand, this software offers...
Octaga said that it has been selected by Shell to develop 3D real-time solutions for its Ormen Lange project. Shell is taking over as operator for Ormen Lange, Norway’s biggest gas production field, by October 2007. The Anglo-Dutch major will operate the land-based process plant at Nyhamna, located in Aukra municipality on the Norway’s northwest coast. In such a large and complex processing...