Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Oil & Gas Journal announces a Webcast labeled Developing Digital in the Oilfield.

As described in the email text below, “This webcast will discuss what Digital means in energy, what leaders are doing and how it can create value for you.

Here is the text of the email that landed in my inbox …

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Oil & Gas Journal
New Webcast:
Developing Digital in the Oilfield
Premieres LIVE: February 12, 2019
3:00 PM EST / 2:00 PM CST / 12:00 PM PST /8:00 PM GMT
Free to Attend
Many leading oil & gas and utilities companies are pursuing digital transformation to drive operational excellence. Across exploration, refining, power generation and distribution, petrochemical and other energy sectors, leaders are focused on reducing costs, mitigating risks, maximizing return on assets and streamlining project management. This webcast will discuss what Digital means in energy, what leaders are doing and how it can create value for you.
Presenters:
Tommy Inglesby
Managing Director, Accenture
Martin Richards
Senior Director, OpenText
Sponsored by:
Webcast Description:
Many leading oil & gas and utilities companies are pursuing digital transformation to drive operational excellence. Across exploration, refining, power generation and distribution, petrochemical and other energy sectors, leaders are focused on reducing costs, mitigating risks, maximizing return on assets and streamlining project management.
Our research with the World Energy Council suggests the global energy industry loses $20 billion, or 5% of annual production, due to unscheduled downtime. A major contributory factor to unscheduled downtime is the inability to effectively use information on all aspects of operations. Implementing predictive maintenance is impossible when what's happening with the assets is unknown. Rather than operational information being the impediment, it must become the enabler.
Join us February 12, 2018 to learn what Digital means in energy, what leaders are doing and how it can create value for you.
Presented by:
Tommy Inglesby
Managing Director
Accenture
Tommy is a managing director in Accenture's Energy Industry Group. He currently leads the North America oilfield and equipment services (OFES) segment. Tommy has more than 20 years of oil and gas experience working in senior leadership roles in upstream operations and consulting focusing on growth strategy.
Martin Richards
Senior Director
OpenText
Martin is currently responsible for the Energy & Engineering Industry Strategy within OpenText. Based on his extensive experience in the industry and with content management solutions, Martin has worked with customers and lead the effort to design, develop, and deploy industry solutions aimed at managing documents and processes with the engineering functions of energy companies.
This event will be held February 12, 2019
3:00 PM EST / 2:00 PM CST / 12:00 PM PST / 8:00 PM GMT
Login will be available 15 minutes prior to the event time.
source: https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1228712&tp_key=5f0b2989cc&sti=em1&pwhid=fbb3b98234182a858d7452aaeb2352fd676b018996c245cce35cee6794d491dd653e34c791233f616b44fed7512e3d0b5711466d118a2f0bb813f6dc04631921
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TIP: Google® opentext for background on this Canadian software firm, which is one of the companies involved in the Webcast..

Of course, this is an obvious TIP, but in the hectic pace of professional life, it is easy to overlook the obvious.

Here is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article resulting from the Google® opentext search …

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OpenText Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management software. OpenText, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is Canada's largest software company as of 2014 and recognized as one of Canada's top 100 employers 2016 by Mediacorp Canada Inc. Wikipedia
Stock price: OTEX (NASDAQ) $35.27 +0.18 (+0.51%)
Jan 30, 4:00 PM EST - Disclaimer
Headquarters: Waterloo, Canada
CEO: Mark J. Barrenechea (Jan 2, 2012–)
Number of employees: 12,200 (as of Aug, 2018)
Subsidiaries: Hightail, Liaison Technologies, Inc., MORE
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenText
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Quest, the Series: Keys to the Kingdom-Keywords Are King (Part 4)

Choosing good keywords for your email alerts is, of course, paramount.

Here’s a tip that may help …

TIP: When you identify a company, institution, or author with research interests similar to your own, use the company, institution, or author as your keyword.

Here are three examples that work for me. You will find your own.

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Companies
Example: aramco

Institutions
Example: KAUST

Authors
Example: Chunshan Song

Monday, January 21, 2019

Foggy Bottom … of the Barrel: IRPC EurAsia Conference

IRPC EurAsia will be staged 5-7 June 2019, in Helsinki, Finland. One of the perks of attending the conference is a tour of Neste’s Kilpilahti refinery. The refinery has five production lines, including renewable diesel production and a modern SDA production line to utilize bottom oil.

Read the email (below) that landed in my inbox. And/or, visit this link for more info …
https://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2018/12/irpc-eurasia-attendees-will-get-exclusive-tour-of-largest-refinery-in-scandinavia

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The IRPC EurAsia Conference
Bottom oil utilization at Neste’s Kipilanti Refinery and Borealis' Petrochemical Plant
Attend IRPC EurAsia’s tour of Neste’s Kipilanti Refinery and Borealis' Petrochemical Plant
A tour of Neste’s Kilpilahti refinery, which is the largest refinery in Scandinavia, will take place on 7 June 2019. The refinery has five production lines (one in Naantali), including renewable diesel production and a modern SDA production line to utilize bottom oil.
Before the tour, Marko Pekkola, Vice President, Production, will provide background information on the Kilpilahti refinery, and Petri Lehmus, Vice President, Research and Development, will introduce Neste’s waste plastics utilization project in more detail. Spots are limited, so secure your place now to find out more about the Kilpilahti plant's energy-efficient, sustainable production.
Due to security processing at the refinery, you must register for IRPC EurAsia before 24 May to be eligible for the tour.  Please register for the tour by choosing Refinery Tour when registering.
Secure your spot, space is limited to 50 registrants!
Register for IRPC EurAsia
For 11 years, Hydrocarbon Processing’s International Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC) has been the leading downstream technology event. In 2019, IRPC EurAsia will be held in Helsinki, Finland, on 5–7 June.
The two-day conference and exhibition, followed by a refinery tour, will provide a high-level technical forum in which key players in the global petrochemical and refinery sector will meet to share knowledge and learn about best practices and the latest industry advances.
The IRPC conference program is compiled by an esteemed advisory board of hydrocarbon processing industry veterans.
Subjects covered will include:
•Impacts of IMO 2020
•Clean fuels/Biofuels/Alternative fuels
•Refinery/petrochemical integration
•Digitalization
•Energy efficiency
•Safety and the environment
•Emerging technologies
•Process/plant optimization
•Maintenance/reliability
•Process controls, instrumentation and automation
Questions about sponsorships or exhibiting?
Please contact your representative or Melissa Smith, Events Director, at Melissa.Smith@GulfEnergyInfo.com  or +1 (713) 520 4475.
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TIP: Google® Petri Lehmus
… and then …
TIP: Google® Scholar (https://scholar.google.com) Petri Lehmus

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"I am very excited about my upcoming position as Vice President of Research and Technology. Neste Oil has a long tradition of developing cleaner products and technologies, and it will be great to have the opportunity to continue this work and further develop the company's world-class research," says Petri Lehmus.
Neste Oil Corporation
Hanna Maula
Director, Corporate Communications
For further information:
Lars Peter Lindfors, Senior Vice President, Technology & Strategy, tel. +358 50 458 3605
Neste Oil in brief
Neste Oil Corporation is a refining and marketing company concentrating on low-emission, high-quality traffic fuels. The company produces a comprehensive range of major petroleum products and is the world's leading supplier of renewable diesel. The company had net sales of EUR 11.9 billion in 2010 and employs around 5,000 people. Neste Oil's share is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.

Neste Oil has been selected into the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and is also featured in the Ethibel Excellence investment register. The company is included in The Global 100 list of the world's most sustainable corporations. Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD) has ranked Neste Oil as the best performer in the oil & gas sector. Further information: www.nesteoil.com.
source: https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4WQIA_enUS542US545&biw=1366&bih=566&ei=OMBEXKyhBIuq_QaqzqrYBg&q=Petri+Lehmus&oq=Petri+Lehmus&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l4j0i30l4j0i8i30j0i30.91930.100354..108258...0.0..0.588.932.3-1j0j1......0....2j1..gws-wiz.......0i71.gKoJdFRzjPg

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