ArcticWeb is an initiative originated as a Joint Industry Project by a consortium of oil companies operating in Norway. The initial stages of the project were financed by Demo2000. A good overview of the project and its status was given by AconaCMG, the company managing the project, in this presentation given at the “Norway-US Arctic Petroleum Technology Workshop” held in Tromsø on 21st Jan 2009.

Kadme’s Whereoil has been selected as the technology that will make this happen. Information is extracted by Whereoil from a vast number of web resources of the organizations (at the moment only Norwegian ones) that are responsible to publish data and information regarding the Arctic areas. Those include the Norwegian Geological Survey, the Meteorological Institute, the NPD and many others. Users in oil companies will be able to use the ArcticWeb portal to search, from one single interface, for all the environmental design basis data they need.
The development of the beta version is under way and it has received good feedback so far from the test users in the steering committee. The release of the beta version is scheduled for April.

An article (in Norwegian) about the ArcticWeb project has been published in Teknisk Ukeblad.