CGGVeritas's Hampson-Russell Software & Services division has sold full commercial rights of its GLI3D refraction statics software to Houston-based GeoTomo.

Honeywell has formed a Libyan company, Honeywell Libya Technical Engineering Joint Stock Company, together with its joint venture partner Rida Technical Services.

RokDoc-Well Tie 1.0 has been developed at the request of Ikon’s customers to simplify the task of tying wells and seismic data.

We interviewed David Latin, VP of E&P technology at BP, and executive co-chairman of SPE Intelligent Energy 2010, about what he expects from the event Utrecht, The Netherlands from March 23-25th

Knowledge Reservoir, a leading geosciences and engineering consulting company, has appointed Larry Denver to the position of President of the company.

The new ENERGYSYS Production Reporting Application is a web-based service designed to make production reporting accessible and affordable for all sizes of oil and gas operations.

Statoil has chosen Ikon Science to implement a number of Statoil’s internal applications within the RokDoc environment.

Palisade Corporation has released its DecisonTools Suite software in five foreign languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Japanese.

WesternGeco's UniQ integrated point-receiver land seismic system has set a new industry record for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) in acquiring data from 80,000 live digital point-receiver channels at a two-millisecond sample interval.

Advanced Supply Chain International (ASCI) and BP Exploration (Alaska) (BPXA) have signed a new contract for supply chain management services.

Spectrum has upgraded its seismic data processing technology with Tsunami's 3D anisotropic Kirchhoff Pre-Stack Depth Migration (PSDM) and 3D Grid Tomography model building software.

Schlumberger has acquired Nexus Geosciences, a Houston-based provider of integrated seismic software and services for imaging, modeling and interpretation.

Expro has won an Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) ‘Spotlight on New Technology’ award for its innovative FlowCAT™ Wireless Safety Valve System.

Global oil & gas technology company qedi is set to exceed its growth target in 2010 after winning seven new contracts totalling £5.5 million in January.

Subsea UK and OPITO – The Oil & Gas Academy are working together to develop a series of subsea modules within the Academy’s successful Petroleum Open Learning (POL) programme.

At International Petroleum Week 2010, HP and Shell announced a collaboration to develop a wireless sensing system to acquire extremely high-resolution seismic data on land.

Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies (KOGT) has won its first contract for its latest 3D visualisation technology, SIM Reservoir.

Fugro General Robotics Limited (FGRL), has launched DeepTouch its next-generation, ROV pilot training simulator which can also speed up the evaluation of subsea engineering designs.

ION Geophysical Corporation's seismic imaging subsidiary, GX Technology (GXT), has been awarded a multi-year contract with PEMEX.

Fugro-Jason has released EarthModel FT 4.1, the latest version of its geologic modeling software, completing the transition of the FT technology into the Jason Geoscience Workbench family of products.

Merrick Systems has launched its Software as a Service (SaaS) technology solution, based on the company’s production software suite.

The international online job board for the oil and gas industry, OilCareers has opened its first office in North America and has embarked on an international candidate attraction programme, to increase its users from the current total of 640,000.

Paradigm has introduced the Paradigm Academic Software Program, which will provide institutions with access to its E&P software.

Invensys Operations Management has contracted with Chevron to provide its Wonderware IntelaTrac mobile workforce and decision-support system.

Palantir Solutions, which provides economic / planning consultancy and software to the oil and gas community, has formed an alliance with Fekete Associates Inc., which provides reservoir engineering software and services.

Shell and HP are collaborating to develop a new seismic sensor technology which could make it feasible to do seismic surveys with over a million channels

In a test of almost 500 geological interpreters, conducted by the University of Glasgow, only 21 per cent could correctly identify a geological structure of an inversion from the seismic image, said Dr Alan Gibbs, director of Glasgow based Midland Valley Exploration, speaking at the Jan 20-21 Exploration, Technology and Business conference in London.

Virginia (US) company Reality Mobile has won $6.5m venture capital investment from Energy Ventures, Chevron Technology Partners and the Dobson Partnership to empower remote workers in the energy industry with access to video, data and expertise at the push of a button

Unlike many “re-engineering”, or “slash and burn” industry initiatives, the digital oilfield promises to empower people and improve their working lives. But it only works if people take people management seriously – not discounting it as ‘soft stuff’ which will take care of itself, writes Dutch Holland

GE Oil & Gas has opened new facilities in the UK for refurbishing control systems and remote monitoring & diagnostics of subsea equipment

Calgary oil and gas data management company Zedi helped a oil and gas operator in Southeast Alberta (Canada) to get a much better understanding of how to optimise production on its 2,500 shallow gas wells – using a fleet of portable flow measurement systems.

Oil services giant Weatherford recently embarked on a project to try to reduce the amount of capital it has tied up in inventory (storage).

PGS has developed a new streamer technology using particle velocity sensors as well as conventional pressure sensors, which promises to greatly improve seismic image resolution, Tom Ziegler told the Finding Petroleum conference

The Oracle oil and gas OpenWorld event brought together representatives of oil and gas standards bodies PPDM, Energistics and the RFID consortium, to see how the different standards fit together

Moscow based oilfield services company Integra has an interesting business model - applying Western exploration technology in difficult parts of the world, including Siberia and Kazakhstan

Reservoir simulation software can easily give people a false sense of confidence while it takes them up a blind alley, says Luiz Amado, senior reservoir engineer with Petrobras America. It is very important to have reservoir engineering training

After acquisition of Energy Africa in 2005 and Harman Resources in 2006, Tullow Oil has had groundbreaking exploration success in the Albert Rift in western Uganda, there are however a number of challenges going forward, such as how to deal with 36-39 degrees C pore point oil 1200km from the nearest coast, said Tullow geoscientist Paul Burden, speaking at the Oct 20 Finding Petroleum London forum

Since South East Brazil used to be attached to what is now Angola, you might expect the geologies in both to be similar. Neil McMahon, senior analyst with Bernstein Research gave his views at the recent Finding Petroleum forum (Oct 20) about the potential

This magazine always has plenty of articles about technology which vendors would like oil companies to use. What happens if we look at it from the other side – what technology oil companies, large and small, will actually need?

Mobile computing specialist Mobexx has launched a complete oil and gas mobile workforce system including tracking systems.