Bill Richardson Discusses Impact of New Technology on Oil and Gas Exploration
Monday March 18, 7:36 pm Eastern Time
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading energy industry executives and technology providers will meet Wednesday, March 20, at the SGI Energy Summit 2002 in Houston, Texas, to discuss collaborative visualization technologies driving a new era of oil and gas exploration. ``Visualizing the Future: The New Energy Industry'' focuses on the benefits of technology in reducing cost and increasing efficiency in oil and gas exploration.
The keynote speaker is former U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, currently a candidate for governor of New Mexico.
The summit focuses on the importance and positive impact of new visualization technologies that will define the next decade of oil and gas exploration and production. With such technologies:
-- An engineer on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico could drive a supercomputer in Houston to collaboratively illustrate a modified well path in real time to another engineer in a lab in another location
-- A researcher in Alaska could collect seismic data and view a processed visual image of it quickly on his laptop without having to return to a lab first
-- Scientists around the globe could collaborate on oil exploration projects to best determine how to most efficiently extract oil at a reduced impact to the environment
-- Companies have increased drilling success rates from 15 to 70 percent
What: SGI Energy Summit 2002, "Visualizing the Future: The New Energy Industry"
Who: Keynote speaker: Former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to lead a group of industry leaders, including SGI CEO Bob Bishop
When: Wednesday, March 20, 8:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Central
Where: Houston University Hilton, 4800 Calhoun St., Houston, Texas
Contacts: John Watson, SGI 650-933-1652, cell 650-245-5213; Brad Shewmake, Fleishman Hillard International Communications, 415-348-2620
*** Photo opportunities available
*** Interviews with speakers available upon request
*** B-roll available upon request
Agenda:
8:30 a.m. Bill Bartling, director, Global Energy Solutions, SGI: "The Changing Landscape of Technical Computing in the Energy Industry"
8:45 a.m. Bob Bishop, CEO and chairman, SGI: "Visualization and the Future of SGI"
9:00 a.m. Bill Richardson, former U.S. secretary of energy: "How Today's Technology Is Solving Tomorrow's Energy Problems"
9:25 a.m. Eric Frost, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2]
9:35 a.m. Geoff Dorn, executive director, BP Center for Visualization, University of Colorado at Boulder
9:50 a.m. Robert Heming, former general manager, Strategic Research, Chevron Petroleum Technology Company
10:10 a.m. Break
10:20 a.m. Video clips: visualization in other industries-TAACOM and BMW
10:30 a.m. Chris Henn, VP, Business Development, Obtree Technologies, Inc.
10:45 a.m. TBA
11:05 a.m. John Sherman, executive VP, Marketing, Landmark Graphics
11:20 a.m. Tom Myers, chief operating officer, TeraBurst Technologies, Inc.
11:30 a.m. Break
11:40 a.m. Luncheon
11:55 a.m. Luncheon panel discussion: "Next-Generation Visualization for the Oil and Gas Industry: How the Business Model Will Change"
Panelists: John Pohlman, consultant
Brad Reddersen, senior vice president, Visual Systems and Engineering Services, SGI
Geoff Dorn, BP Center for Visualization
Bill Richardson
Robert Heming, Chevron
Host: Eric Frost, Cal-(IT)2
12:45-
1:15 p.m. Brad Reddersen, SGI, demonstrations and technical discussion of Visual Area Networking
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