Arctic Web is a geoportal were you can search, view and download vital information for the Norwegian Continental Shelf.  By combining data from multiple public sources, the user can obtain important information through one interface, and be ensured that the data is continuously updated.  Information can be retrieved by traditional search or through a map interface.  It is very easy to download data to your own GIS applications or other applications.

More than 100 relevant data themes from 14 different public data owners are made available through Arctic Web, and a number of additional data from various sources will be made available in the near future.  Arctic Web currently include public data from Norway,  but our vision is to include the other arctic petroleum provinces as well.  Anyone who are involved in petroleum related activities would benefit from ArcticWeb, and you will find information about:

• All petroleum activities, including geological information, seismic, drilling, well information, production etc.
• Key information about all operators and license holders.
• Important environmental data, such as spawning areas, protected areas, corals, seabirds etc.
• Ice and meteorological information.
• Emergency response resources.
• Relevant reports, publications, hearings and notifications.

Example: Map combining petroleum related information with spawning areas, aquaculture locations and protected areas.

Arctic Web is very easy to use.  Anyone can view Arctic Web by visiting www.arcticweb.com.  All non-commercial users can also receive premium features like downloading data, by signing up for a free non-commercial user account.

Arctic Web has been financed through a Joint Industry Project (JIP) with 6 major oil companies in Norway.  We are now delighted to invite other operators and license holders in Norway to participate in the Joint Industry Project.  JIP members will enjoy full access to Arctic Web as well as all downloading capabilities.  JIP participation will ensure that additional data themes are being included, which is beneficial for all of us.   Please contact Kjell-Are Vassmyr (kav@aconawellpro.com),
telephone  + 47 982 42 281 for terms and conditions.

Arctic Web will also soon have a module for commercial data, where companies can offer their data and services to the Arctic Web user community.

Visit Us at ONS
Don’t miss the opportunity to get an Arctic Web demonstration at ONS.  We will be delighted to meet you at Hall H, Stand 836-5 (XPLORE NORTH).  If you don’t have the opportunity to be there, please do not hesitate to contact me for additional information anytime.

The GIS team at Kadme provides GIS services, tools and training to the upstream oil and gas industry. We are looking for GIS Consultants who will be responsible to the support and joint development of Kadme’s GIS services portfolio.

Based on your skills and experience, your main responsibilities might include:

• Provision of onsite and remote technical support to clients on common GIS platforms ( ArcGIS, PostGIS, etc) including:
  - Establishing GIS workflows for geoscientists
  - Converting data to and from GIS applications
  - GIS analysis, geoprocessing and georeferencing
  - Installation & customisation of GIS software ( desktop and server-based)
• Assistance in the marketing of Kadme’s GIS services
• Preparation and delivery of training courses
• Maintenance and enhancement of Kadme’s GIS data products

The ideal candidates will:

• Show an enthusiastic approach to problem solving and supporting clients
• Possess strong skills working with GIS products
• Preferably have experience in the use of one or more of the following technologies: FME, Python, Java, .NET, Visual Basic

What Kadme has to offer:

• Excellent career opportunities in one of the fastest growing technology companies in Norway
• An international, fun and dynamic work environment
• A very competitive compensation package
• Lots of good an varied hard work

Interested candidates should email their resume to jobs@kadme.com

BARCELONA, Spain – June 16, 2010 – KADME (www.kadme.com), a leading supplier of information access solutions for the oil & gas industry has joined the OpenSpirit Partner Program to extend the reach of their flagship product Whereoil Enterprise into OpenSpirit-enabled data sources. This move will allow Kadme to further enhance the value of its Whereoil Enterprise offering, by covering a broader range of data sources for their customers and enabling advanced data transfer workflows. The increasing number of OpenSpirit customers will be able to further leverage their investment by adopting the advanced search capabilities of Whereoil Enterprise to find information anytime, anywhere, in any form or format.

“Whereoil Enterprise allows our customers to find and manage all their data, structured or unstructured, wherever they are, from one, easy-to-use interface,” says Gianluca Monachese, Kadme’s founder and Director of Business Development. “The partnership with OpenSpirit is an important step, supported by our customers, to further increase the reach of Whereoil Enterprise into the ever-growing number of data sources covered by OpenSpirit”.

“We are pleased to have Kadme join the OpenSpirit Business Partner family,” says Brian Boulmay, Director of Business Partners. “This relationship will extend workflow possibilities for OpenSpirit customers by providing enterprise search capabilities that will plug into their existing OpenSpirit infrastructures. In addition to adding OpenSpirit data sources to Whereoil, users will have the added benefit of Interoperability events, allowing them to broadcast data from the search results out to any OpenSpirit-enabled application. This capability will greatly enhance the workflows and streamline access to information for users”.

Both Kadme and OpenSpirit are participating in the 72nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.

We are pleased to announce that Mr. Manpreet Singh Monga is joining Kadme, effective 1st June, as Service Delivery Manager.

Manpreet joins Kadme from IBM, where he was responsible for overall service delivery and performance at Statoil in Stavanger. As part of his IT industry experience in Service Delivery, Manpreet has been managing client relationships and projects in India, the United Kingdom and Norway. His responsibilities have included Project management, ITIL compliances and ICT SOAX compliance.

Manpreet has a Master degree in Computer Applications from IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) New Delhi, India and is currently pursuing an MBA with specialization in Operations Management. He is a certified ITIL V3.0 professional.

In Kadme, Manpreet will manage the performance of services to clients and ensure that the Service Levels are achieved.
He will also be responsible for the service desk and application support, managing Kadme’s Support and Services team.

We welcome Manpreet to the ever growing team at Kadme and look forward to his contribution to further improve the quantity and quality of the services we deliver to our customers.

From 14-17 June 2010, the 72nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2010 will take place in Barcelona, Spain. Kadme will be present on this spectacular event. Please visit our booth 1024.

About the event
Barcelona ‘10 is the world’s largest geoscience event. This event will include a high-profile technical programme and Exhibition covering the latest developments, with expected 6,000 delegates from five continents. At the exhibition floor over 300 companies will be representing the sector.

Visit us at booth 1024. It will be an excellent opportunity to catch up. Our staff will be ready to answer any questions you might have about our Whereoil technology and our other products and services.

Opening hours of the exhibition:
Monday 14 June    18.45 – 20.30 hrs    Icebreaker Reception
Tuesday 15 June    10.00 – 18.30 hrs
Wednesday 16 June    10.00 – 18.30 hrs
Thursday 11 June    10.00 – 17.00 hrs

For more information about the event, please visit the EAGE website, www.eage.org.

We look forward to meeting you in Barcelona

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (www.tcs.com) has been selected as the winner of a tender issued by an Oil & Gas company in Nordics for the development of a portal that will allow the company’s users to quickly find G&G information stored across the various datastores.

Kadme’s Whereoil Enterprise will be deployed as part of the project, allowing users to easily find information across their interpretation projects (Openworks, Petrel, etc.) and Corporate databases. TCS and Kadme will work together to integrate the Whereoil deployment with a GIS portal based on ESRI’s ArcGIS Server, that TCS will deploy as part of the system.

Stavanger, Norway – 21st February 2010

Kadme AS is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Kjell-Arne Bjerkhaug as the new Managing Director, effective 1st March 2010.

Mr. Bjerkhaug joins Kadme from Geograf, where he served as Managing Director. Before that he was VP of Sales and Marketing of CGGVeritas/Seabed.

“It is a real honor to have Kjell-Arne as our new Managing Director” commented Gianluca Monachese, company founder and previous Managing Director. “Kjell-Arne is well known in the industry for his professionalism and ethics. He is a stamp of quality for everybody who works with him: employees, customers, suppliers and competitors alike”.

Mr. Bjerkhaug has many years experience with Seismic data processing, having covered Senior roles with Geco (later Geco-Prakla), where he was also the first to process seismic 3D data in Norway in 1979. In his period with Geco-Prakla he was for four years in charge of several business lines in the Far East/Middle East and Australia.

In 1994 he was appointed Managing Director for PetroData AS, implementing the first multi-client National DataBank for Petroleum data and operating part of the National Petroleum Dataset for Norway (DISKOS). Mr. Bjerkhaug was also Managing Director for Schlumberger Infocenter Norge AS (SINAS), the company that operated the DISKOS data repository in Norway from 2003 to 2008.

Mr Bjerkhaug has substantial national and international experience in providing services to the global E&P community.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of ECIM (the Expert Center for Information Management), a foundation established by the industry to promote Information Management profession, competence and best practices within the E&P Industry.

Gianluca Monachese will be Director of Business Development in the new Kadme organization lead by Kjell Arne Bjerkhaug.

Stavanger, 20th February 2010

Kadme has achieved its best results ever in 2009, not suffering at all from the recession triggered by the financial crisis.
The revenue growth was an impressive 71% over the year before, reaching 18,699,250 NOK. This was due mostly to an exceptional increase (236%) in sales of our Whereoil technology, including the services delivered for its customization for systems like the National Data Repository of Colombia and the ArcticWeb portal.

Profit after tax (and after the bonus) was 2,639,362 NOK, compared to 220,928 NOK the year before.

“This exceptional growth is the result of the passionate dedication of our employees to the development and delivery of our software and services”, commented Gianluca Monachese, founder and Managing Director of Kadme. “That is why we gave out a bonus corresponding to 15% of the profit, distributed equally among all employees”.

Kadme’s Whereoil technology is now a recognized alternative in the market, especially appreciated by oil companies and organizations that want to obtain a comprehensive overview of all the information at their disposal within one unique, user-friendly interface.

“We now need to scale up and reinforce the organization with more exceptional individuals, to guarantee an even bigger growth in the years to come.” continues Mr. Monachese. “We are starting this process by hiring a new Managing Director, a Service Delivery Manager and a few more Software Engineers”.

We are looking for full-time Software Engineers to further strengthen our Research & Development Team and continue the growth trend of last year (231% more revenue from software in 2009).

Qualifications:

• Core Java – The candidate should have solid understanding of core Java concepts and Design Patterns
• Java Enterprise – The candidate should have good understanding of Java EE technologies
• Testing Framework – The candidate should be familiar with the principles behind test driven development and have hands on experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit.
• Database Skills – The candidate should be proficient with SQL, able to write and analyse complex queries and aggregate functions.
• Web frameworks – Prior experience using open source web frameworks link Struts, JSF, Wicket, GWT is a plus
• Good understanding and prior experience using Spring Framework is a plus
• OR Mapping tools – Prior experience using OR tools such as Hibernate is a plus

Personal skills:

• Good communication skills in English are mandatory
• Solution oriented
• High work capacity
• Be able to work standalone as well as part of a bigger team

The job location is Stavanger, Norway. Only candidates with a current valid residence and work permit for Norway will be considered. Interested candidates should email their resume to jobs@kadme.com

TROMSØ, January 28th, 2010:
The newly developed geoportal, ArcticWeb, provides an unprecedented wealth of information on Norwegian Arctic waters and the Norwegian continental shelf. Access to ArcticWeb will now be made available to non-commercial actors for free.

The intention behind ArcticWeb was to collect all information about Norwegian Arctic waters in one portal, but this has now been extended to include the Norwegian continental shelf. Previously, this information was scattered between several different institutions.
– Our aim with ArcticWeb is that professionals through the geoportal shall get access to all public information available in one place. This will make planning processes related to petroleum activities simpler, smoother and better, says project manager Kjell-Are Vassmyr from Acona Wellpro, the company behind the portal along with IT-specialists Kadme og Akvaplan Niva.

Free access
The geoportal ArcticWeb will be an indispensable tool for all commercial bodies with activities on the Norwegian continental soil and in Arctic waters, particularly the petroleum industry and maritime businesses. Access to ArcticWeb will now be granted free of charge to a host of non-commercial organizations, including academic institutions, local authorities and public data owners.
– ArcticWeb will be developed further in the years to come. By opening up access like this, we will receive valuable feedback on issues like usability and information access. In addition, we hope that the portal will enable these organizations to undertake vital research, teaching activities and other scientific work, adds Vassmyr.

Global interest
To date, ArcticWeb covers Norwegian waters, although the interest has been global. The portal was recently presented at a conference in Alaska, and the US has already shown interest. The vision for ArcticWeb is to be able to provide information access over international arctic waters.

For further information:

About ArcticWeb
ArcticWeb is a web-based geoportal developed by Acona Wellpro (www.aconawellpro.com) in collaboration with IT specialists Kadme (www.kadme.com) in Stavanger and Akvaplan Niva (www.akvaplan-niva.no) in Tromsø. The development of ArcticWeb is funded by The Research Council of Norway, Statoil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, ENI Norge, Lundin and BG Group. ArcticWeb enables users to obtain all relevant information about Norwegian waters, presented in multiple formats such as tables, cards, etc.
For further information: www.arcticweb.com