CGGVeritas 20,000 Sercel channel, 1,500 sq mile survey in Pennsylvania
CGGVeritas reports that it is doing a 1,500 square mile 3D seismic survey in Pennsylvania, USA, using 20,000 Sercel UNITE channels. The project is for a number of different clients (multi-client).
17 May 2012

Spectraseis gets 28x faster processing on NVIDIA GPUs
Spectraseis of Houston reports that it can do elastic wave-equation imaging 28 times faster using NVIDIA graphical processing units, compared to using conventional microchips.
17 May 2012

Divestco to use Paradigm software
Divestco, one of the largest geoservices companies in Canada, is going to use Paradigm's seismic processing, imaging and characterisation suite, as its primary platform.
17 May 2012

Petrosys' "dbMap/Web" gets PPDM gold compliance
Subsurface mapping software company Petrosys reports that its "dbMap/Web" data management solution has been assessed to be in "gold compliance" with the Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM) version 3.8 standard.
17 May 2012

Paradigm - compute seismic attributes faster using new microchips
Oil and gas software company Paradigm has made it possible to compute seismic trace attributes faster, with the second update release of its Paradigm 2011 application suite.
17 May 2012

Reservoir Group core open day in Guildford, May 24th
Kirk Geophysics, one of the companies in the Reservoir Group, is hosting an open day on May 24th at its Core Centre in Guildford, near London.
17 May 2012

EIC oil and gas supply chain event Manchester Nov 2012
The Energy Industries Council (EIC), a UK oil and gas suppliers trade association, is running its 10th International Supply Chain Event & Conference in Manchester, UK, on November 27-28.
17 May 2012

PointCross - drilling and seismic data repositories
PointCross, a company based in California which develops structures for storing oil and gas data on the cloud, has launched a "drilling data server and repository", for storing drilling data on the cloud.
17 May 2012

Petris launches plug-in to Petrel
Oil and gas software company Petris has launched a plug-in for its PetrisWINDS Enterprise software to Schlumberger's Petrel subsurface software.
17 May 2012

Ikon Science sponsors AAPG Imperial Barrel Award
Geoscience technology company Ikon Science has sponsored the 2012 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) "Imperial Barrel Award", where students are asked to look at data from somewhere in the world.
17 May 2012

Wipro - managing complex IT systems
IT service giant Wipro is helping oil and gas companies put together and manage complex oil and gas IT systems, including for hydrocarbon accounting and production modelling, following its acquisition of SAIC's oil and gas IT practise last year
11 May 2012

BP - dynamic modeling mature fields production
BP is implementing software to dynamically model production from mature fields, which can help work out ways to improve production. By Patrick Calvert, BP, and Peter Griffiths, BP
11 May 2012