daily oil & gas technology news http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:07:05 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/images/dejnewlogosmall.jpg http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com Digital Energy Journal news http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=1195 Shell and HP are collaborating to develop a new seismic sensor technology which could make it feasible to do seismic surveys with over a million channels Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=1194 In a test of almost 500 geological interpreters, conducted by the University of Glasgow, only 21 per cent could correctly identify a geological structure of an inversion from the seismic image, said Dr Alan Gibbs, director of Glasgow based Midland Valley Exploration, speaking at the Jan 20-21 Exploration, Technology and Business conference in London. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=1182 This magazine always has plenty of articles about technology which vendors would like oil companies to use. What happens if we look at it from the other side – what technology oil companies, large and small, will actually need? Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=1183 Since South East Brazil used to be attached to what is now Angola, you might expect the geologies in both to be similar. Neil McMahon, senior analyst with Bernstein Research gave his views at the recent Finding Petroleum forum (Oct 20) about the potential Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=1184 After acquisition of Energy Africa in 2005 and Harman Resources in 2006, Tullow Oil has had groundbreaking exploration success in the Albert Rift in western Uganda, there are however a number of challenges going forward, such as how to deal with 36-39 degrees C pore point oil 1200km from the nearest coast, said Tullow geoscientist Paul Burden, speaking at the Oct 20 Finding Petroleum London forum Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=1185 Reservoir simulation software can easily give people a false sense of confidence while it takes them up a blind alley, says Luiz Amado, senior reservoir engineer with Petrobras America. It is very important to have reservoir engineering training Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=1186 Moscow based oilfield services company Integra has an interesting business model - applying Western exploration technology in difficult parts of the world, including Siberia and Kazakhstan Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=1187 The Oracle oil and gas OpenWorld event brought together representatives of oil and gas standards bodies PPDM, Energistics and the RFID consortium, to see how the different standards fit together Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=1188 PGS has developed a new streamer technology using particle velocity sensors as well as conventional pressure sensors, which promises to greatly improve seismic image resolution, Tom Ziegler told the Finding Petroleum conference Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00 http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=1189 Oil services giant Weatherford recently embarked on a project to try to reduce the amount of capital it has tied up in inventory (storage). Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:00