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Oil companies explore new technology
News An ocean-based oil rig doesn't exactly conjure images of the World Wide Web, yet old economy companies in the oil and natural gas industry are increasingly breaking from their stodgy image and going high-tech.
[January 2, 2001, 13:38]
Oil Services Firm Consolidates Servers, Simplifies IT With Branch Optimization Solution
White Papers Expro is a leading provider of oil-and-gas services and products. As the company expanded to 150 offices in 50 countries, its branch servers multiplied. Expro decided to centralize servers but needed to address the challenge of increased traffic on...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Oil Company Fuels Business Application Availability With Virtualization Solution
White Papers INA is a Croatian oil company. Its IT staff did not have efficient tools for testing and upgrading software, which slowed deployment to the production environment. Staff also had problems accessing information from an aging file server.
[November 7, 2008, 0:01]
Oil Company Simplifies IT Administration, Saves Money With Switch to Microsoft
White Papers Kerr-McGee operates oil and natural gas fields onshore in the U.S.the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, and China's Bohai Bay. The company's Applications Delivery group, part of the IT department, understands the benefits of deploying software from one...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
HP Server Cluster Meets the High Demands of Oil Exploration Simulations
White Papers Total is the fourth largest oil and gas company in the world and its researchers at Total E&P UK in Scotland are constantly seeking and evaluating new fields in the North Sea. Computer simulation plays a key role but these simulations have huge...
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
P2 Energy Solutions Offers Seamless Technology Based on Microsoft .NET Framework to Oil and Gas Customers
White Papers P2 Energy Solutions, a leading provider of development, exploration, management and production solutions for the global oil and gas industry, announced it is delivering its new fully-integrated Enterprise Land solution using the Microsoft .NET...
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
Data protection snake oil?
Blog In the wake of the HMRC data loss fiasco, it appears that some data protection snake oil could be being hawked. Consumers are being warned by Pinsent Masons solicitors to steer clear of packs being sold by some companies that claim to help the...
[February 13, 2008, 15:25]
IBM drills Linux into oil industry
News IBM has signed a deal with Landmark Graphics to build Linux supercomputers and PCs for oil and gas companies, the companies will announce Friday. Landmark Graphics, a subsidiary of petroleum industry support company Halliburton, provides software...
[May 24, 2002, 9:00]
ESNAAD Simplifies Financial Management for Diverse Oil Industry Services
White Papers ESNAAD is primarily a services company catering to the oil and gas industry. The result of a merger between Abu Dhabi Drilling Chemicals and Products Ltd.and National Marine Services Co. The challenge was to automate financial management processes...
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
News Burst: Oil price fears hit tech stocks
News Markets fear oil supplies could be disrupted by the tensions in the Middle East. Share prices took a hammering Thursday, reacting to increased tension in the Middle East and profit warnings from major high-tech companies.
[October 13, 2000, 8:12]
UPDATE: Oil price fears hit tech stocks
News Markets fear that oil supplies could be disrupted by the worsening political situation in the Middle East. Share prices took a hammering Thursday, in reaction to increased tension in the Middle East, shortly after profit warnings from major high...
[October 13, 2000, 10:18]
Romania National Oil Corporation ARPECHIM Pitesti Subsidiary
White Papers Dealing every year with over 750 million $ and 7000 employees, ARPECHIM operates now with a rafiney of 3,5 million tons of oil/year as well as a big petrochemical complex involved into a large revamping program and capacity increasing.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
techTrader: World CallNet's background of oil, telly
News General American Royalty, on the other hand, had until only recently -- July 1998 -- been involved primarily in the acquisition of royalty interests in oil and gas wells. Curiously, this followed a parallel move by US-based Zapata, a former oil...
[October 28, 1999, 7:13]
Russian Oil Group Increases Employee Productivity With Troubleshooting Solution
White Papers It discovered 45 oil fields with 2.6 billion tonnes of oil, and it has more than 1,000 employees. Khantymansiyskneftegazgeologiya is one of the most established geology companies in Russia. Khantymansiyskneftegazgeologiya employees were...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Fix noisy computer fans with a drop of oil
Talkback I was looking through cooling fan adverts to replace two noisy fans and came across this item on how to oil them. I was a little cynical at first but decided to try it which was a very simple job with the instructions supplied and guess what ?
[April 13, 2005, 14:27]
SharePoint 2007 and Oil and Energy Domain
White Papers SharePoint includes many features which can help the Oil and Gas Industry. SharePoint is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
Leading Oil Company Streamlines IT Management and Ensures Business Continuity
White Papers Surgutneftegas conducts exploration work, constructs and develops oil and gas fields, and produces oil and petrochemical products. To support its complex operations, the company historically operated a large, geographically distributed IT...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
News Burst: Linux helps in search for oil
News A Linux-based supercomputer will be used by energy company Conoco to help search for oil beneath the earth's surface at a fraction of conventional computing costs. The supercomputer uses a network of low cost single and dual processor Linux...
[August 31, 2000, 14:00]
Linux helps in search for oil
News A Linux-based supercomputer will be used by energy company Conoco to help search for oil beneath the earth's surface at a fraction of conventional computing costs. Conoco needs this massive computing power because its oil exploration work depends...
[September 1, 2000, 9:59]
Exclusive: Oil giant buys Linux supercomputer
News Western GeCo, the UK-based oil industry services giant recently formed from the merger of Schlumberger's Geco-Prakla and Baker Hughes' Western Geophysical, is to adopt a Linux-based supercomputer cluster for operations like ocean floor surveys...
[July 4, 2001, 17:13]
