Landmark Software & Services has acquired the assets of finite element reservoir modeling technology provider Object Reservoir.
Unmanned maritime system software specialist SeeByte has opened an office in San Diego.
CodaOctopus and its Dutch agent Nautikaris recently provided positioning and survey services to Deep BV for the installation of a power cable at the Thornton Bank wind farm off the Belgian coast. It was the first time the Echoscope had been…
Apax Partners in conjunction with JMI Equity have agreed to acquire oil & gas focused software vendor Paradigm for around $1 billion in an all-cash transaction. Simmons & Co International advised Apax.
Andrew McBarnet offers this kaleidoscope of impressions from a major gathering of the geoscience community.At the end of any big industry event like last month's annual conference and exhibition of the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE) in Copenhagen…
With the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season well under way, Weather Research Center's Jill Haslings discusses key learnings from the super storms of the past decade and how the Freeman/Hasling Damage Potential Scale can help the oil industry better understand the threat from the Gulf hurricanes to come…
Schlumberger has acquired Gedco, a Calgary-based provider of integrated geophysical survey design software and services. Gedco, which becomes part of the WesternGeco business unit, developed the OMNI 3D seismic survey design and modeling system and the VISTA 2D/3D seismic data processing package.
Dolphin Geophysical has purchased the entire stock of US seismic processing software specialist Open Geophysical. OGI’s newly developed software is already being used on Dolphin’s Polar Duchess for real time quality control of acquired data and in the company’s new London processing centre.
Subsea 7 is considering a potential future spinoff and listing of common shares in Veripos, its wholly-owned indirect subsidiary supplying GNSS positioning solutions for the offshore oil & gas industry.
Schlumberger has entered into an agreement with Altor Fund II to acquire SPT Group, a privately owned Norwegian software company specializing in dynamic modeling for multiphase flow and reservoir engineering applications.
Bergen companies know a thing or two about using intelligent sensors to optimize well productivity. One of the leaders in this field is ClampOn, which, as its name does more than suggest, specialises in sensors of the nonintrusive variety. Since it was founded in 1994…
Point cloud collection speeds of up to 30,000 points per second and a range of 150m can be achieved with Topcon Positioning Systems’ new GLS-1500 laser scanner. When the unit’s built-in 2.0 megapixel digital camera is connected to a PC and used with Topcon’s ScanMaster software…
ROV and AUV software developer SeeByte and manufacturer Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) have teamed up to develop advanced control algorithms for ROV systems. The collaboration will build on SMD’s experience with its Distributed Vehicle Control…
Frode Sedberg (pictured) has joined Emerson Process Management as regional manager for its Roxar Software Solutions (RSS) division, based in Rio de Janeiro. He was with Odin Petroleum for eight years in various reservoir engineering roles.
Reservoir complexity and an emphasis on asset integrity have encouraged developers to refine visualization technology for oil & gas applications. OE shares details of a handful of new products that have come across our desk in recent weeks.The…