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Ten years ago KADME AS was formed in Stavanger, Norway. The company has transformed from its early days as a consulting firm into an innovative, cutting-edge provider of information software and solutions to the oil and gas industry. We are celebrating this milestone during a exciting transitional phase of the company, and invite you to read more about our journey in our press release.

Thank you to our customers, partners, resellers and of course our employees for your contributions to making KADME the international company it has become today. Please see our press release detailing the past ten years, as well as the outlook going forward, for more information.

KADME Celebrates Ten Years (PDF)

KADME AS Celebrates Ten Years
Bringing innovation to information management in the oil & gas industry

Stavanger, Norway, 20 February 2012 – This month KADME celebrates its ten-year anniversary. A company that started with the objective of using modern web technologies to manage geoscience data is today a recognized leader in the provision of information management solutions to the oil and gas industry.

Whereoil, the software platform developed by KADME, has evolved into a robust and flexible solution for many information management challenges in the E&P domain, providing simple access to information from a multitude of sources.

During its first five years, KADME concentrated on consulting and completing major projects for DISKOS (the Norwegian National Data Repository) operators. Founder and Director of Business Development Gianluca Monachese, looking back at the company’s first ten years, said, “It’s been an incredible journey thus far, from that first consulting job in Pakistan to transitioning into the international organization we are today.”

Based on KADME’s consulting experience, Mr. Monachese recognized the need to inject modern internet technologies into the information management sphere of the oil and gas industry. “Our vision of becoming the most innovative provider of information management solutions to the oil and gas industry wasn’t taken seriously by many people,” Mr. Monachese explained. “But today most people agree that KADME has achieved that goal with a software platform that solves many information management issues, from those of the small oil company with ten employees to those of the biggest National Data Repositories.”

Using its knowledge and data management expertise, KADME breathed new life into information management for the oil and gas industry, which, thanks in part to the impact of Whereoil and the vision that drove its development, is now modernizing in line with internet technologies. Vasily Borisov, KADME Director of Technology, fondly recalled the three years he spent developing Whereoil. “We had the freedom to believe in something, like Whereoil, and bring it to life,” he said. “We took the principle, created the prototype, and then commercialized it into a meaningful innovation. You can’t do that in just any company.”

KADME also prides itself on being a great place to work and is globally-minded, employing a diverse and talented international staff. Board Member and Project Manager Synnøve Vea believes KADME may hold the record among companies in Stavanger for having the highest nationalities-to-employees ratio. “In the beginning it was difficult to find local Norwegians to fill our openings,” she said. “Now we can be proud of our success recruiting internationally.”

Today, sales and services connected to Whereoil provide the largest source of KADME’s revenue. Managing Director Kjell-Arne Bjerkhaug sees the company continuing to challenge the big players in the market by being a preferred vendor of innovative solutions in information management. “Our target for the future is to keep up with this vision and to further grow the company through continuous development of our products, people and international partnerships.”

KADME’s software and solutions are deployed around the world, and agreements with new partners in recent years have solidified this global reach. In 2011, KADME signed reseller and partnership agreements with companies in South America, Asia and Australia. In 2012, KADME will expand sales in North America and renew its focus on the Nordic region. “KADME foresees a period of significant growth over the next five years,” Mr. Bjerkhaug said, “and will continue to expand geographically and take our technology platform into other industries.”

About KADME

KADME is a leading provider of Information Management software and services to the oil and gas industry. Inspired by current Internet technologies, we deliver modern software solutions for enterprise search and retrieval, knowledge management and workflow integration. Our flagship product is Whereoil, a platform to interrogate, monitor, analyze and display data from a range of data sources specifically in the oil and gas context. We have a proven track record in the planning, deployment and management of information systems up to the scale of multi-terabyte National Data Repositories. KADME has received three Gazelle Awards and the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 award.

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 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 we have signed a reseller agreement with Orogenic Resources Sdn Bhd. Orogenic Resources is a company within the Orogenic Group of Companies.They have several business activities within the E&P industry, and Information Management Services is one of their key business activities. Orogenic has gained exclusivity for selling Whereoil in Malaysia and two other Southeast Asian countries, and will cover the rest of the region on a non-exclusive basis.

For more information, please view our press release:

KADME AS expanding sales to Southeast Asia (PDF).

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We are pleased to officially announce that the Norwegian Oil Museum will be launching the Interactive Petroleum Map, developed by KADME, next week. Please follow this link to view the press release.

Navigable in both Norwegian and English, users can visualize and explore vast amounts of topical data with this new map. For example, the image below shows maritime boundaries between Norway and other North Sea countries, blocks, fields, pipelines and land installations. This data is overlayed on a Google map. It can be zoomed in on, clicked on for more information, and layers can be added and removed by selecting or deselecting layers.

Visit www.petroleummap.no and try the map for yourself!

The KADME crawlers are training to compete in the Trailtrekker 2011, taking place 4-5 June 2011 in the UK. The team will walk 100 KM in 30 hours. The official press release is here: KADME Crawlers Competing in Trailtrekker 2011 (PDF)

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We recently announced our collaboration with Statoil to develop the GeoTracker system to monitor and track well reporting. To view the official press release, please use the following link:

Statoil Chooses KADME (PDF).