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		<title><![CDATA[Oil Services Firm Consolidates Servers, Simplifies IT With Branch Optimization Solution]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Exterran Holdings, Inc. Improves Uptime to 99.95% With Hosted Enterprise Resource Planning System]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1102023]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managing Risk With Project Portfolio Management in the Oil and Gas Industry During an Economic Downturn]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=992679]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SAS Geology, Geophysics and Reservoir Engineering (GGRE) Analytics for the Oil and Gas Industry: Analytic Insights to Mitigate Subsurface Uncertainty and Unconstrained Risk]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1140287]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oil and Gas Leader Poised to Reduce Costs, Increase Productivity With Operating System]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Groupe Genoyer Ensures 24/7 Information Access for Subsidiaries With Bi-Directional Replication]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1172593]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Newfield Exploration Streamlines for Growth With Sophisticated Data Warehouse]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1171211]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Effective Practices for Data Management in the Oil and Gas Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=990987]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Service Oriented Data Composition Architecture for Integrated Asset Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=288362]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[TFED Sells Lubricants With SAP Oil and Gas Secondary Distribution]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Santos Streamlines HR and Procurement on Shared Services Platform, on Track to Earn 47% Net Investment Returns]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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