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- Oil Services Firm Consolidates Servers, Simplifies IT With Branch Optimization Solution
- 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 its Wide Area Network WAN and the productivity impact on field...
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Exterran Holdings, Inc. Improves Uptime to 99.95% With Hosted Enterprise Resource Planning System
- Exterran Holdings, Inc. wanted to unify information across the new global organization created by the merger of Hanover Compressor Company and Universal Compression Holdings, Inc., under scrutiny of investors and senior management and facilitate customer retention and improve employee efficiency. The challenge was to ensure system scalability and flexibility to...
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Managing Risk With Project Portfolio Management in the Oil and Gas Industry During an Economic Downturn
- Companies in the oil and gas industry must invest heavily to further exploration, production, and refining, yet they face growing challenges. The recent past has seen historic revenue and profit growth at the major oil and gas companies, but they now face an unprecedented economic backdrop. With decreased global demand...
- White papers 2009-03-01
- SAS Geology, Geophysics and Reservoir Engineering (GGRE) Analytics for the Oil and Gas Industry: Analytic Insights to Mitigate Subsurface Uncertainty and Unconstrained Risk
- 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. SAS Analytics offer predictive and descriptive modeling, forecasting and spatial analysis that incorporates variograms, kriging and simulation to better comprehend the reservoir....
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Oil and Gas Leader Poised to Reduce Costs, Increase Productivity With Operating System
- PEMEX is the world's third-largest producer of crude oil. It is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico, and has 300 other locations throughout the country. PEMEX wanted to better support its growing workforce, while still reducing costs. It is upgrading its 40,000 computers to the Windows Vista operating system. As a...
- Case studies 2009-01-30
- Groupe Genoyer Ensures 24/7 Information Access for Subsidiaries With Bi-Directional Replication
- Groupe Genoyer is a leading industrial and commercial operator for large international oil, gas, and hydraulics projects, and the world leading supplier of oil and gas industry piping equipment. The group operates eight production sites and 29 sales offices across the globe. It needed to ensure the continuity of enterprise...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Newfield Exploration Streamlines for Growth With Sophisticated Data Warehouse
- Founded in 1989, Newfield Exploration has emerged as one of the fastest-growing oil and gas exploration and production companies in the U.S., earning a reputation as a savvy operator with a talent for controlling costs and seizing high-margin opportunities. After re-implementing the core database and applications, Spicer's team built an...
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Effective Practices for Data Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
- Effective information and data management also known as information lifecycle management consists of managing data from its creation to when it is no longer needed. In the upstream oil and gas industry, this involves actually managing the ever-increasing volume of data that oil and gas enterprises generate, while also managing...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- A Service Oriented Data Composition Architecture for Integrated Asset Management
- The goal of an Integrated Asset Management IAM framework for the oil and gas industry is twofold. From the end users' perspective, it should offer a single, easy-to-use user interface for specifying and executing a variety of workflows from reservoir simulations to economic evaluation. Service Oriented Architecture SOA is a...
- White papers 2006-04-13
- TFED Sells Lubricants With SAP Oil and Gas Secondary Distribution
- Many companies are looking for a solution to improve customer service and simultaneously cut costs. The German TotalFinaElf lubricants division - TFED today TOTAL has already found one. The integrated solution made up of SAP CRM, SAP IS Oil & Gas and SAP Oil and Gas Secondary Distribution facilitates faster...
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- Santos Streamlines HR and Procurement on Shared Services Platform, on Track to Earn 47% Net Investment Returns
- With the oil and gas sector in the midst of a global boom, there are few companies better positioned in the market than Australia's Santos Ltd. In an effort to maximize value from emerging opportunities, Santos launched a strategic initiative designed to reduce operating costs while simultaneously increasing the effectiveness...
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- Flipping Fantastic
- Getting the most out of Flip video cameras The picture above a still from a Flip video is of my venerable old three chip Sony VX1000 video camera, Frezzi light and associated 10 pound battery belt. In the foreground is a Flip video...
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
- Liquid Defense 1.03 (Mac)
- Liquid defense is a unique puzzle game where you must eliminate all of the incoming water, gas, and oil. Each of the levels is carefully designed to require innovative solutions while managing limited resources. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply
- Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Green building boom
- Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%
- Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- House due for its health reform vote tomorrow
- the American patriots will rise againand defeat the socialist bill.All real Americans are outraged about ObamaCare and the Congress should listen to them.Only the GOP healthcare bill is the one we can afford and will improve the healthcare.Not going to passPeople do not want this socialist fiasco.RE: House due for...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Copenhagen countdown
- "climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-25
- Global warming promises more hunger, more innovation
- Hopefully not a repeatThe idea of GM foods is found most abhorrent in the nations with some of the worst food problems? Also, did anyone notice that the FPRI report indicates that more than 50% of the world's agricultural green house emissions are generated by the primitive natural agriculture...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?
- Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
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