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Petrel

The end of the Summer will bring support to the ESRI catalogue. This useful development improves the precision of how geographical data is represented in Whereoil Map or through your ArcSD. The transformation mechanism will be improved. We provide support for Petrel plugin through version 2010-2.

Whereoil Map

Due to major customer demand, we are developing a new feature for Whereoil Map to remove un-selected items from the map. This allows you to fine-tune your search results, presenting you with only the information you want to view within multiple layers. You will find new buttons in the main toolbar and in the layer bar for global (all selected layers-nonselected applies to features) and local hiding of non-selections.

Currently you can hide unselected items within a single layer. This new release will allow users to hide unselected items in all displayed layers. This will eliminate all unselected items making the map easier to understand by showing only selected items. Extract features of interest from a layer and only display those items.

The KADME quarterly eNewsletter recently went out to our clients, friends and colleagues. We’d like to send it to you, too – please subscribe! In case you missed our last mailing, which covers Quarter 2 (Q2) 2011 and upcoming events, you can view a copy of it here: Summer News from KADME. Be sure to follow the links for the full story on each of the news items.

Attention Whereoil Users!

Whereoil users who want access to the latest updates, tutorials, and news, should sign up for the Whereoil eNewsletter. We will be in touch just as often as we need to, but no more than once per month. Recipients of our regular newsletter will of course continue to receive updates on Whereoil as part of the usual content, but without the same depth and frequency. The first newsletter will be emailed at the end of the summer.

The E&P Data and Information Management Conference (ECIM) and user meeting 2011 will be held 12-14 September at the Rica Martim Hotel in Haugesund, Norway. As our clients and colleagues can attest, this annual event has emerged to be the most substantial conference and meeting place in Europe for IM professionals.

The ECIM’2011 Conference and User Meeting will focus on the following topics:

• Enterprise Information Management (EIM)
• GIS
• Drilling, Production and Reservoir DM
• Exploration & Development
• Collaboration & Standardization
• Vendor and Services

The workstream programme has now been published, and KADME has been selected to present two papers.

First, we are co-presenting a paper and case study with our client, Statoil, in the Drilling, Production and Reservoir Data Management workshop session, moderated by Christine McKay of Mærsk Oil. The presentation, entitled, “Getting things done. Automated data tracking from Rig to Resource“, will be co-presented by Anders Bager, Project Data Manager at Statoil, and Dr. Vasily Borisov, Director of Technology at KADME. They will tantalize the audience with a presentation of new developments Statoil is making automating the business rules of data flows to create visibility and enable control. This is the premier presentation of the GeoTracker project KADME is developing for Statoil. Anders and Vasily are including a demonstration of GeoTracker in the workshop!

For the Vendors and Services workstream, Vasily Borisov is presenting: “Whereoil: Much more than the Oil & Gas Search Engine“. Dr. Borisov will explain how the Whereoil technology can help you find, submit and report the data you need. We will present new Whereoil projects, developments and use cases.

But before the conference begins there should be time for some socialization and fun. Which is why we are hosting an afternoon cruise from Haugesund to the lovely island of Røvær on Monday, 12 September prior to the opening of the ECIM. The Røværfjord boat will depart from Rica Maritim Hotel at 13:00 and return at 17:00. Join us at 12:30 to board the boat, grab a drink, and meet other conference participants. There will be refreshments both on board and at Røvær. Register soon, as places are limited to the first 80 people to sign up through their ECIM registration!

The workstream programme is available here: ECIM Programme. For more information or to register, please visit www.ECIM.no

Whereoil customers will be receiving new features with their next software upgrade. We are rolling out updates for Whereoil Search, Whereoil Edit, and Whereoil Map, scheduled for deployment this Autumn. With the current Search and Edit releases, you will find a new calendar feature, breadcrumbs for easy filtering of search results, and newly remodeled authorization services. Most upgrades are automatic, except where noted.

Whereoil Search :

Whereoil has been updated to include new features such as a calendar button, breadcrumbs, and remodelled authorization services.

The Calendar feature will be accessible directly from the main toolbar.

New Calendar Feature: Now users can create calendars directly in Whereoil! This feature will allow you to create calendars based on your own criteria or data sets. You may want your calendar to include reporting deadlines, or raw data releases – it’s up to you!

In our last newsletter we invited all users to download the release calendar we created that allows you to view upcoming seismic and well release dates for the 2011 calendar year. That calendar was a hit, especially with Whereoil users. Now it’s even easier for you to create and view calendars within Whereoil!

The Calendar tab will be located on the main toolbar (see picture). This is an automatic update you will receive during your next Whereoil upgrade.

The new breadcrumbs feature. Here we searched for “troll” and narrowed down our view to block 31/3 by clicking on that feature. This left us with the two desired search results.

New Breadcrumbs (chain filter) Feature: Ever been searching for something and wanted to reduce the results based on certain filters? Well now you can. We’ve added breadcrumbs (chain filter) to create an even more intuitive search experience. Breadcrumbs allow you to build up queries and filter the results based on fields or any other value/property you want to use to narrow down your results. This is an automatic feature you will receive during your next upgrade.

Authorization Services: We have remodeled the authorization services in both Whereoil Search and Whereoil Edit. How will this help you? It allows a more fine-tuned level of control for authentication. Your active directories are modeled for user functionality, which are in turn mapped so that these relationships are externalized in the authorization services. The result is that certain information is available for particular groups or individuals, helping you stay organized and see the data important to your group or task.

This is not an automatic upgrade, as we require information to be supplied from you before the upgrade can be installed. Please contact support for more information.

And for our super technical friends, we are pleased to inform you that Whereoil now works on top of the H store! The RDF persists inside the H store which gives better performance and scalability. Click here to learn all about the H store!

Other Updates :

For our users that want to see under the hood. Here are a few of the things we’re tinkering with right now.

Saved queries: You can already save search results, but future development will allow you to save queries (such as often-used wellbores) and use these saved queries as a criteria for notifications.

Notifications: are deliverable as RSS or email.

License2Share: We now have a connector for LicenseWeb’s successor, License2Share, providing subscribers with Whereoil integration. Use Whereoil to search, access and retrieve your documents, as well as to view categorized results.

We’ll be posting details about upcoming releases of Whereoil Map and Petrel when they are scheduled for general release.

KADME recently exhibited at the EAGE Conference in Vienna, Austria.

Gianluca Monachese, Director of Business Development, presented KADME’s Whereoil connector for OpenSpirit at the OpenSpirit/TIBCO stand. His presentation, “Whereoil/OpenSpirit Integration in a Major Information Access Project“, details our work developing a crawler enabling our client to use Whereoil to access their data via OpenSpirit. More information on this project is on our news article on the OpenSpirit connector.

KADME’s Director of Technology, Vasily Borisov, presented our Petrel Plugin at the SLB Ocean Store with the presentation, “Whereoil for Petrel: Confident in 2000 Projects“. Read on to find out more about how KADME’s Petrel plugin can give you a full overview of your Petrel data in seconds!

On 14 April KADME signed a reseller agreement with IPM in Colombia. Whereoil will be sold by IPM to customers throughout Latin America and the Carribbean.

IPM is a Colombian firm engaged in project management consulting in a number of countries in the region. IPM will be introducing Whereoil to companies in Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, as well as firms located in other Central and South American countries.

Since 2009 Whereoil has been powering the National Data Repository of Colombia, EPIS on behalf of the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH). This successful collaboration has resulted in a steep reduction of EPIS’ operating costs, increased value of the country’s E&P data, and is better serving the information management needs of the oil and gas industry operating in Colombia, as well as the regulatory needs of the country.

More information on KADME’s work for EPIS is available on our National Data Repository page.

View the IPM reseller press release. (PDF).

To learn more about IPM, please visit their website www.ipmconsulting.net

We are pleased to welcome Alan MacDonald to KADME as our salesmanager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Alan joins us from Enigma Data Solutions, and is based in Buckinghamshire,  UK.  He has previously worked for Xerox, Oracle and Computer Associates and ran his own consultancy company for 6 years.

Alan has been involved in Data Management within Oil E&P for a number of years.  His particular desire is that software should be fit for purpose and provide business value and that there should be a good working agreement between supplier and client.  His focus is on the commercial benefit a client gains from a solution and how readily it can be deployed within an organisation.

Alan trained as a metallurgist then moved from his native Glasgow to London to read for a BA in Theology.  He speaks passable English, kindergarten Swedish, schoolboy French and has a vague memory of New Testament Greek.

Away from the office Alan likes rolling his own cigarettes, supporting Glasgow Rangers, reading anything from a rail timetable to Proust, cooking spicy food and taking his children to, variously, ballet, rugby and riding. You are welcome to contact Alan by email or phone. Details are available here. Welcome Alan!

We are pleased to officially announce KADME has signed a reseller agreement with the Australian firm Ovation SpectrumData. This agreement enables us to expand our sales of Whereoil into the South Pacific region, as well as increase the usage of Whereoil in integrated systems environments.

For more information, please read the Press Release (PDF).

We are pleased to announce that an article co-authored by Gianluca Monachese, Director of Business Development, and Dr. Vasily Borisov, Director of Technology, has been published in the first issue of Offshore Technlogy.

The article, ”Are we really missing exploration data?“, explores the challenges of efficiently accessing all of the data an oil and gas company generates. We explain how we met this challenge for one of our multinational oil company clients in enabling our Whereoil Enterprise software to integrate and search their data. This case-study explanation explains how our client is using Whereoil as an enterprise search engine, and also using it to render an overview of their interpretation data and associated work processes.

To find out more, please visit the Offshore Technology’s current issue.

The Stavanger Aftenbladet, the Norwegian daily newspaper covering the oil and gas capital of Norway, is permanently featuring the KADME-built petroleum map on the Energy section of their website. The map, developed for the Norwegian Oil Museum and launched the 26th of May, integrates relevant public data sources with articles from the Museum’s own database. Users can view offshore Norwegian infrastructure and click to zoom, find more information, and visualize how the different North Sea energy resources are related.

To view the map via the newspaper’s website, please visit the Stavanger Aftenbladet’s website or click on the image below.

For more information on the map, please read the press release.