Business News for the week of 12 July 2012

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Schlumberger's Jeff Spath named 2014 president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers

26 June 2012—The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) named Jeff Spath, vice president of industry affairs for Schlumberger Limited in Houston, as 2014 president. Spath will take office as president-elect of the 100,000-member international organization on 10 October 2012, at the close of SPE's Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Spath has a long history of involvement in SPE. His volunteer positions include service as a technical editor and associate editor on the Editorial Review Committee, the society's committee for peer-reviewed journals, during 1992–99. He served as technical director for management and information on the SPE Board of Directors during 2005–08, and an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 1999–2000. In 2011, he was named an SPE Distinguished Member.

 

EDAX launches new silicon drift detector and sample viewport for Rrbis micro-xrf analyzer

2 July 2012—EDAX introduced new detector and sample viewport options for its Orbis micro-XRF elemental analyzer system. The new detector is a thermoelectrically cooled 50 mm2 silicon drift detector (SDD) capable of high-resolution spectral acquisition at high count rates. EDAX also has introduced a sample viewport mounted into the chamber door of the Orbis analyzer. The large, X-ray safe window allows an analyst to verify general sample targeting among many small samples or among multiple sample trays. The new SDD detector is available immediately for new Orbis systems with a field upgrade kit planned for installed Orbis systems in the near future. The sample viewport is also currently available as an option on new Orbis systems and as a field upgrade on existing installations.

 

Petris Technology releases of PetrisWINDS Impetus 5.4.1

3 July 2012—Petris Technology released PetrisWINDS Impetus 5.4.1, a Recall Application.This release incorporates all key features of the former image display package but with preconfigured templates for many standard-imaging applications.In addition to enhanced visualization and improved picking, Impetus now offers more shortcuts and fewer button clicks to complete tasks.

 

Knowledge Reservoir appoints Sheldon Gorell to vice-president technology

5 July 2012—Knowledge Reservoirappointed Sheldon Gorell to the position of vice-president technology.

Gorell will lead Knowledge Reservoir in all aspects of its technology delivery to the market and will be responsible for both the subsurface and surface elements of the business. He joins the company from Halliburton where he held the title of chief technologist and subject matter expert.  He brings with him years of experience in numerical modeling, reservoir simulation, and reservoir engineering in general, after tenure with Western Atlas Software, Landmark Graphics, and Halliburton. Prior to Western Atlas Software, Gorell spent nine years with Shell Development Company as a senior research engineer. Gorell holds MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Stanford University.

 

CGGVeritas returns to Algeria with land seismic award

9 July 2012—CGGVeritas is set to resume land seismic acquisition operations in Algeria after the award of a 3D vibroseis survey by Groupement Timimoun (GTIM), a joint venture between Sonatrach, Total EP Algérie, and CEPSA. This award has been the result of an open call for tender process.

This survey, covering a total surface area of 2,240 km2 over the Timimoun block in the South of Algeria, has been commissioned as the first phase in the Timimoun unconventional gas field development plan. The CGGVeritas high-channel-count crew deployed for this project will use two high-end proprietary acquisition technologies, high-productivity vibroseis acquisition and EmphaSeis broadband vibroseis, to acquire the high-density, broadband data set required for detailed reservoir characterization. Recorded in a timeframe comparable to that of conventional data, the data set will also be processed in the field with a fast turnaround to ensure the results are delivered in time to determine the field's preliminary drilling plan.