Oil & Gas

Reaction Design Debuts New Combustion Simulation Tool

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:02:50 GMT

Reaction Design announced the release of its newest combustion simulation software tool, CHEMKIN-PRO, for modeling and analyzing combustion efficiency in gasoline, diesel and emerging alternative fuel engines.

EMGS Adds More IBRIX Fusion Software

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:02:34 GMT

IBRIX Inc. announced that Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has purchased additional IBRIX Fusion file serving software to support its newest compute cluster, named Aurora, located in Trondheim, Norway.

Noran Engineering to Demo Petroleum Engineering Simulations

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:02:27 GMT

Noran Engineering, Inc. will be hosting a booth to demonstrate new capabilities in its NEi Nastran software at the Society for Petroleum Engineers Offshore Technology Conference, May 5-8 in Houston, Texas.

Microsoft Survey Reveals HPC Needs in Oil & Gas

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:02:16 GMT

Faced with an aging work force and a critical need to increase productivity, the oil and gas industry reports that access to high performance computing capability is required now more than ever, according to a new survey released this week by Microsoft Corp. at the Microsoft Global Energy Forum 2008.

Panasas Storage Boosts Seismic Application Performance

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:00:26 GMT

Panasas, Inc. announced that Fugro N.V. has boosted its seismic application performance by 5X since implementing Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage.

Acceleware Launches Seismic Product Offering

Mon, 05 May 2008 18:59:54 GMT

Acceleware Corp. announced the launch of its seismic data acceleration solution that provides a multi-fold performance increase to reduce lengthy processing times and deliver faster results to make drilling decisions for the oil and gas industry.

Petrobras Relies on ANSYS Simulation Technology

Mon, 05 May 2008 18:59:01 GMT

SOUTHPOINTE, Pa., Jan. 7 -- ANSYS, Inc., a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)...

IEEE Spectrum Awards Breakthrough Seismic Imaging Project

Mon, 05 May 2008 18:58:58 GMT

Repsol YPF, a Spanish energy company, was recently honored as a 2008 technology "winner" by the editors of IEEE Spectrum, for the Repsol YPF's Kaleidoscope Project. The project is a partnership of geophysicists, computer scientists and organizations, which has developed advanced computerized techniques that usher in the next generation of seismic imaging technology used for oil and gas exploration.

IEEE Spectrum Awards Breakthrough Seismic Imaging Project

Mon, 05 May 2008 18:58:57 GMT

New geophysical supercomputing technology enables more reliable, less expensive oil exploration in Gulf of Mexico

HOUSTON, Jan. 3 -- Repsol YPF, a globally integrated energy company based in Spain,...

Bergen Oilfield Services Selects Paradigm Software for Seismic Data Processing

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:03:31 GMT

Paradigm announced that Bergen Oilfield Services has selected Paradigm software for use in its North Sea exploration projects.