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Oil Company Improves Branch Office Infrastructure With Server Virtualization

whitepaper Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) runs an oil pipeline system that extends between Kazakhstan and Russia's Black Sea coast. CPC is expanding rapidly and needs to upgrade its IT infrastructure to support business growth.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Leading Oil Company Ensures Availability of Critical IT Systems

whitepaper The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) manages a 1,510-kilometre, U.S.billion pipeline that connects oil fields in Kazakhstan with a new sea terminal in Russia. To operate effectively, the company relies on IT systems that monitor 24-hour production...

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

Croatia-Based Oil Firm Enhances Operations, Achieves 100 Per Cent Accurate Retail Data

whitepaper INA is a leading oil and gas provider in Croatia. Established in 1964, the company employs more than 15,000 people at its regional offices, and gas and retail stores. Until 2006, INA business and marketing teams relied on the sales data provided by...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Russian Oil Group Increases Employee Productivity With Troubleshooting Solution

whitepaper 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...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

IT Provider Answers Market Demand, Cuts Time-to-Market With Focused Collaboration

whitepaper To meet market demand for Microsoft technology by energy companies, Stonebridge built one of its existing Oil and Gas (O&G) industry solutions solely on Microsoft technologies. Through close collaboration with Microsoft industry experts and with...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies: How Top Process Industry Performers Take Radically Different Actions

whitepaper Companies in Process Industries (including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, oil & gas, pulp & paper, and health & beauty aides) have had to cope with rising manufacturing and logistics costs over the past few years.

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - Data Center Stored Cooling Solution

whitepaper It provides a turnkey solution that is designed to be maintenance-free, requiring only an "oil change" to replace the phase change material once every 25 years. IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - data center stored...

Tags: infrastructure management

[05 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: British Petroleum

whitepaper It is responsible for a complex mix of assets that includes eight deep-water oil production and drilling platforms that feed thousands of miles of pipelines and more than 100 fuel terminals and offices.

Tags: satellite communications

[04 May 2008]

silicon.com Classics: The best of Google Earth

News The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive from the last decade is a photo tour of the best of Google Earth - from burning oil fields, to topless sunbathers and Area 51.

Tags: google earth

[22 Apr 2008]

Caption Competition: Take that!

Photo The winning caption, from reader Kenneth Wilkinson, was: "Your dinner's in the dog, the pots need washing and I`m off out for a pint of oil. This competition is now closed. Photo credit: Georgia Institute of Technology

[11 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and HotspotDetection for Homeland Security: Disaster Management: Oil Spill Detection, Monitoring, and Prioritization

whitepaper Damage produced by marine oil spills includes soiled beaches, bird and mammal mortality, destruction of fisheries, impaired recreational facilities, and catastrophic impairment to entire ecosystems. The scan statistic hotspot delineation and poset...

Tags: network security, detection, oil, marine

[10 Apr 2008]

Wireless Data Capture Solution Improves Profits and Reduces Oil Production Costs

whitepaper Striving to increase production volumes, oil field operators manually gather data on a daily basis for equipment performance and fluid production from low-producing wells. But the remoteness of many wells and the lengthy, manual processes involved...

Tags: .net, field, production, operators

[10 Apr 2008]

Pason Systems Strikes Oil

whitepaper Pason Systems Inc.is an industrial technology company based in Calgary Canada. Pason's products and services include data acquisition, well site reporting software, remote communications and Internet information management tools.

Tags: outsourcing, canada, matter, acquisition

[10 Apr 2008]

HP Integrity Server Supercomputing Cluster and Schlumberger ECLIPSE Reservoir Simulation Software Help ADMA-OPCO Locate and Exploit Petroleum Resources Quickly and Cost-Effectively

whitepaper Few industries rely more heavily on technology than oil and gas exploration. To explore new resources and exploit existing ones, petroleum companies use reservoir simulation technologies to help determine the most favorable and cost-effective ways...

Tags: linux - open source, exploit, gas, oil

[10 Apr 2008]

Kuwait Petroleum Moves Innovatively With SCO UNIX Servers

whitepaper It was the first oil company to introduce unleaded gasoline into Europe, and was also first to develop "fast fuel" unmanned automats, offering the convenience of paying for gas along with groceries by credit card at the checkout.

Tags: linux - open source, fuel, sco unix, develop

[10 Apr 2008]

A Leading Oil and Gas Company Implements a Service Oriented Architecture Solution for Use in LNG Supply Trading and Marketing

whitepaper The customer is the gas division of a leading oil & gas major, involved globally in the entire petroleum value chain. The primary business need is to design and develop a quality database for LNG for use in storing information about global LNG...

Tags: infrastructure management, supply, gas, develop

[04 Apr 2008]

Ventura Foods Readies Operations for Rapid Growth

whitepaper Ventura Foods LLC is a one-stop supplier that provides a full range of edible oil-based products to customers in the food industry. Ventura needed an integrated IT infrastructure that could support all of the transactions and communications that...

Tags: infrastructure management, range, modules, peoplesoft

[04 Apr 2008]

Shell accused of keeping staff in dark over job losses

News Shell has been accused of keeping IT staff in the dark over their future following the oil giant's £4bn outsourcing deals. EDS will be the operational integrator for the outsourcing contracts, with approximately 1,500 Shell IT staff and contractors...

Tags: outsourcing, shell, ito

[03 Apr 2008]

The Connected Oilfield

whitepaper The oil and gas industry relies on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to meet its business goals. The industry recognizes that to manage future oil and gas developments and the effective production of existing reserves, it will be...

Tags: infrastructure management

[03 Apr 2008]

High-Performance Computing Goes Mainstream in E&P

whitepaper The oil and gas industry has used the unique capabilities provided by supercomputing for over three decades, when it took buildings to house the hardware and months to completely iterate through a project's dataset.

Tags: high performance computing

[03 Apr 2008]

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