We are exhibiting at the PNEC 16th International Conference on Petroleum Data Integration in Houston, Texas, May 15-17, 2012. Stop by booth #9 to meet us!

The PNEC is the Largest World Meeting and Exhibit for E&P Petroleum Data and Information Management. It’s a great place to meet others working in the upstream petroleum data and information management.

We will be available the day prior to the PNEC for those wanting private meetings and demonstrations, and throughout the conference as well. Please contact Kjell-Arne Bjerkhaug, Gianluca Monachese or Gunnar Ekmann to set-up a meeting time.

Hope to see you in Texas!

The latest issue is Spring News 2012. Thanks for your interest and support – we look forward to your feedback!

Easter Schedule:

April 4 – From 12:30 PM
April 5 – Closed
April 6 – Closed
April 9- Closed

Calendar Features:

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You can do a lot more with calendars now. It’s easy to set-up a calendar based on your own data, as well as share that data. Which lets you to stay up-to-date with the information you use the most.

How to create a calendar: When you click on the calendar tab, choose the “Edit Calendars” button. The screen (see image to the left) will appear, which allows you to create calendars with the data you connect to with Whereoil.

Advanced options allow you to save your calendar for future use (so it becomes a default calendar), constrain your search using boolean search operators, and for very clever users, create a future release calendar (with “virtual dates” that apply to certain searches, acting as a “release calendar”) for the data you care about.

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Creating a Release Calendar: In the Advanced Features section, you have an option to create dates in the future. Take advantage of this option by adding a fixed number of months to the time stamp when creating your calendar. This makes it possible to create a calendar of future events based on events in the past.

Imagine you want to know when you need to report a well-bore. You can take the approximate completion date of the well-bore, add six months, and create a future event in your calendar reminding you of tasks that need completion. What other future events can you create and add to your calendar? Share it with us! Questions? Contact Support – we are here for you!

Upcoming Features:Share calendars with other Whereoil users that have compatible entitlements.

Adriana enjoys working with technology, and looks forward to focusing on customer relationships in the oil industry. She is representing KADME in our ongoing maintenance of the EPIS National Data Repository, which will further strengthen KADME’s relationship and the level of support we provide to the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH).

When she is not working for KADME, Adriana works in academia, lecturing on operations, logistics and innovation at Rosario University in Bogotá and Barna Business School in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She is the educational counselor for undergraduate programs at MIT, and was the President of the Colombian MIT-Harvard Club.

Adriana holds a B.Sc. in computer engineering from EAFIT University in Medellín and a Master of Science in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA).

Contact Adriana

Service Delivery Manager, KADME

Effective 16 April, Eivind Rønnevik will take over the responsibility for the Service Delivery Group at KADME. The current Service Delivery manager, Manpreet Monga, will take up a new role in KADME’s growing consulting business. These changes confirm an increasing focus on excellent delivery of solutions and services to our clients, while at the same time strengthening our project management offerings.

Eivind comes from a technical background, and has been working as a Java developer for the past seven years. His main focus has been on web applications and frameworks like JSF, ExtJs and Spring. As part of this development work, Eivind has been closely involved in the development of the Whereoil Search Engine, and was the lead developer on Statoil’s very successful GeoTracker well-log data project last year. He earned his Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Norges Informasjonsteknologiske Høgskole (NITH).

Developing KADME’s relationships with our customers is one of Eivind’s top priorities in this new role. He will endeavor to create further synergies between KADME’s Development and Service Delivery Team, providing the cornerstone in representing our high-level of quality services.

When Eivind is not busy coding and working with customers, he spends time working out and playing in a Stavanger-based brass band. He is a native Norwegian, speaks English fluently, and has studied French. Despite being a super smart guy, he’s approachable, funny, and respectful. We are sure our customers will enjoy working with Eivind as much as we do!

You can reach him via email at Eivind @ kadme.com.

In Whereoil Search, you will find extensive coverage from NPD, with more data types, an expanded amount of well-bore-related data and more field production data.

We have tagged Business Agreement Areas (BAA) and Licenses are with Operator and Stakeholder names so you can search for an oil company’s name and find all BAA and Licenses the company is involved with and send those results to to be visualized on the Whereoil map. For fixed facilities, the end-of-designed lifetime is calculated and available in the calendar feature. There are many new well-bore related classes: Mud, Casings, Cores, etc… which are selectable by parameter (e.g “open hole”) and can be sent to the Whereoil map. We have also added a “last modified” tab in Search, so you can more easily track the most recent changes in the NPD assets and data.

Introducing the new NPD2 Connector in Whereoil

There are also NPD2 updates for the Whereoil Map for spatialized data. Production licenses have been divided into active and inactive data types. Business area agreements and 22nd round information are available. The new well-bore related classes can be sent to the map from Search.

Update frequency: NPD FactPages 2 will be updated bi-weekly, and NPD news is updated on a daily basis. You can check the date they were last updated in the “NPD Sync” column to be sure you are viewing the most updated data.

Want a preview? Visit ArcticWeb to access all of this cool data with the Whereoil NPD2 connector- for free!

We are growing and adding a Support Engineer to our Stavanger office. As part of the Service Delivery team, you will be responsible for installing, supporting and maintaining the Whereoil Platform, both onsite and remotely for our Nordic and International clients.

Experience:

2-3 years experience in a support engineer role.

Required Skills:

• Linux/ UNIX administration and operations experience.
• The ability to implement solutions on test systems and production.
• Experience with software packaging.
• Scripting language experience such as Bash.
• Networking knowledge.
• Database Skills- SQL knowledge.
• Knowledge of JBoss application servers.

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of Tomcat application servers.
• Windows Server Administration.
• Knowledge of LDAP.
• ITIL Knowledge.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s /Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.

Personal qualities:

• You are service-minded and customer focused.
• You strive for continuous improvements, simplifications and engage in proactive problem solving.
• You have well-developed analytical skills.
• You are always learning and work well in a team environment.
• You are comfortable working in the English language. Other languages, especially Spanish, are a big plus!

We offer:

KADME offers excellent career opportunities in a growing international work environment, and a competitive compensation package including a stock purchase plan. If you’re interested in this position we’d really like to hear from you – please email us your CV/resumé today in care of jobs@kadme.com

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.

This year we are pleased to announce that KADME will be supporting the NDR 11 as a silver sponsor. We look forward to meeting the national data repository community again this year for the sharing of best practices.

Registration for the NDR 11  is available on the Energistics Website.

To learn more about our work for EPIS in Colombia, read our one-pager Case Study: Colombia (EPIS).

To learn more about KADME’s “unboxed” approach to NDRs, visit our webpage on National Data Repositories.