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Why the key to saving big bucks is right under your nose
News Such an approach has helped the oil refiner Valero to dramatically reduce its CO2 emissions and cut each of its plants' annual energy bills by between $2m and $5m - putting it on course to knock $100m from the cost of... [12 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Recent crisis situations prompted by oil markets, technology development, human greed and ignorance have spanned the 1970s through to today, and all have resulted in similar consequences and total confusion. [29 Oct 2009]
Microsoft is learning to share - but not soon enough?
Comment At the moment, social and content applications are like oil and water - and it's going to be difficult for any single company to act as an emulsifier. Workers need to share data from many sources - but, says David... [20 Oct 2009]
Maxol: Oil Firm Grows Business While Trimming Servers by 80 Percent
White Paper Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 OS featuring Hyper-V helps oil and petroleum company, Maxol, reduce server costs and curb server growth rates. [15 Oct 2009]
John Chambers
AS Profile As one Agenda Setters judge put it, the Cisco chief has achieved "the classic impossibility of 're-routing the oil tanker' while rebuilding it in the process". Cisco CEO John Chambers is no stranger to the Agenda Setters... [08 Oct 2009]
The Early Warning Project on Predictive Maintenance: Advance Warning and Problem Avoidance in Complex Industrial Processe
White Paper Complex, capital-intensive industries (such as oil and gas, chemical, steel, paper, aerospace, the military) as well as high-value, long service-life product manufacturers face a pressing demand to minimize unplanned... [02 Oct 2009]
Geocap Replaces FLEXlm With SafeNet Sentinel RMS
White Paper Founded in 1998, Geocap AS has more than a decade of experience in providing software and services for the oil and gas industry as well as international maritime institutions. Geocap required a licensing solution for the... [01 Oct 2009]
Enigma Data Solutions Replaces Macrovision's FlexLM With SafeNet Sentinel RMS
White Paper Its pedigree is in producing data management software for the oil, gas and petrochemical market, where managing large complex volumes of data has been demanded for many years. Enigma Data Solutions Ltd.is a leading... [01 Oct 2009]
PKWARE Case Study: D-Cubed Media Conversions
White Paper D-Cubed Media Conversions (D3MC) is a consulting firm with over 120 years of IT experience providing data and document conversion services to a global customer base in various industries including: government, banking, insurance,... [30 Sep 2009]
Alberta Department of Energy Improves Forecasting
White Paper A $5 barrel of oil equivalent variation in price equates to a royalty revenue fluctuation of US$695 million. Energy commodity price volatility and production variability in the Province of Alberta can cause wide swings... [19 Sep 2009]
Tracking Systems Performance at China's Leading Steel Corporation
White Paper It provides products for the automotive industry, oil and gas, shipbuilding, food and beverages, household appliances, and even high temperature alloys for rocket engines. Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation (SBGC) has a... [19 Sep 2009]
SAS Geology, Geophysics and Reservoir Engineering (GGRE) Analytics for the Oil and Gas Industry: Analytic Insights to Mitigate Subsurface Uncertainty and Unconstrained Risk
White Paper SAS Analytics provide potential answers to questions related to risk and uncertainty; endorse reserves information; and ensure that exploitation plans are adhered to in accordance to predefined targets. [16 Sep 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News The Open Book Alliance's brief compares Google's Book Search settlement to a modern-day version of the cartel involving John Rockefeller's Standard Oil and the railroad industry, which eventually led to the Sherman Act's... [09 Sep 2009]
Apple tablet, Windows 7, Nokia mini laptop, 3D printers and future mobiles
Photo Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created the fish to perform tasks such as monitoring oil and gas pipelines and keeping track of underwater pollution levels. The driverless ULTra will take... [02 Sep 2009]
An Study on Data Mining Methods for Short-Term Forecasting of the Extra Virgin Olive Oil Price in the Spanish Market
White Paper This paper presents the adaptation of an evolutionary cooperative competitive RBFN learning algorithm, CO2RBFN, for short-term forecasting of extra virgin olive oil price. The olive oil time series has... [29 Aug 2009]
