Bogota’, Colombia, 11th August 2008.

Kadme has signed a contract with the ANH, the Hydrocarbon National Agency of Colombia, for the development of a new front-end for the EPIS data repository.

EPIS is the Colombian Petroleum Data Bank in charge of administrating the technical E&P data of the country, being the unique official repository.
It has more than 1.450.000 units of digital data, plus 820.000 physical units.
It provides storage, custody and data delivery services to geoscientists and potential investors to carry out research and hydrocarbon exploratory investment projects in Colombia.

The data repository was put in place when the national oil company Ecopetrol was in charge of the administration of the oil and gas activities of the country.
The creation of the ANH in 2003 by the Colombian Minister of Mines and Energy initiated a transformation of Colombia into a country more attractive to national and foreign investors in the oil and gas sector. Between 2009 and 2015, Colombia expects to receive more than $16 billion in mining and energy investments, according to finance minister Oscar Zuluaga (http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article167193.ece). To be able to meet this goal, the EPIS data repository is envisaged to become the primary vehicle for the country to promote exploration opportunities and attracting investments from oil and gas companies.

As part of the contract, Kadme will deploy and customise its WhereOil software to provide a modern, fast and easy-to-use system that will allow current operators and potential new investors to search and order E&P information available in the country. The new system is scheduled to be in production in September-October 2009.

The ECIM 2008 E&P Data and Information Management Conference and User Meeting will be held in Rica Maritim Hotel, starting Monday afternoon 15 September until Wednesday 17 early afternoon. The Conference attracts more than 250 participants, and has emerged to be the most substantial conference in Europe of its kind for all Information Management professionals in the Oil & Gas industry.

Kadme will be part of 3 workshops, where we will present our WhereOil technology and a new web-based GIS application centered around ESRI’s ArcGIS Server.

Tuesday 16th. September – Workshop F: Vendors and Services
12:30 |  DISKOS, LicenseWeb and more – all in one place
Gianluca Monachese, Managing Director, Kadme
DISKOS and LicenseWeb content, your corporate data plus the vast amount of public data easily accessed from one and the same place: WhereOil(TM) Enterprise.

Wednesday 17th. September – Workshop B2: Human Capital in IM
08:30 |  Whereoil: Search and Enterprise Information Integration for Subsurface
Vasily Borisov, Director, Kadme
We show in practice how Search and Enterprise Information Integration can be applied to the subsurface information.

Wednesday 17th. September – Workshop D: IM GIS
08:30 | An ArcGIS 9.2 Server application to bring GIS closer to the users
Anders Flodmark, Kadme
Techniques used at Total E&P Norge for compiling an extensive GIS dataset. A web-based GIS system that is, at the same time, a replacement for desktop GIS and a knowledge management tool.

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