ECIM - Expert Center for Information Management

ECIM, Expert Center for Information Mangement, is a non-profit organisation, established by the industry to promote Data Management / Information Management Profession, competence and Best Practices within E&P Industry.

IM Education Workgroup

This work Group has focus on establishing a Study Program for IM professionals in cooperations with University of Stavanger. The study Program will represent a possibility for employees working within IM / DM business to formalize their competence. The first module started up early 2008 and second module is starting up early 2009. For further information please study the different documents and projects at this web-site, or you may contact any person in the contactlist.

Annual IM Conference and User Meeting, Haugesund

ECIM is hosting an annual international user meeting and conference, which has become the most important forum and meeting place in Europe for IM professionals. More than 300 participants joined the last conference held in September 2009. The conference is famous for its workshops and "Best Practise" presentations. The conference days are busy, the atmosphere is relaxing at the very nice hotel and conference fascilities in Haugesund, a medium small town located just north of Stavanger.
The conference and workshops are focusing on; Production Data Management, GIS, Enterprise Information Management, Exploration Data Management, Impact of Human Capital and behaviour, and dedicated sessions for vendors and service-companies.

IM Benchmark

One of ECIM's main objective is to establish methodology for measuring the business value from Information Management processes and investments. A significant part of the project is a R&D project performed by the University in Stavanger, and IRIS, to develop optimized Key Performance Indicators involving the interaction between people, information management and technology and business value for the E&P IM processes.

Very satisfied with the 2011 ECIM Conference in Haugesund

Registration for the 2011 edition of Norway's Expert Center for Information Management (ECIM) E&P information management conference in Haugesund reached over 320 attendees, making ECIM the largest upstream data conference in Europe. International (non-Norwegian) participants made up 40% of the attendees.

ECIM recommend RGU's MSc in Information Management

ECIM has been looking into alternative providers for an MSc program in Information Management, and has found what we believe to be a good program with Robert Gordon University, based in Aberdeen UK.

ECIM Benchmark project

A R&D project within benchmarking methodology has been initialized involving University of Stavanger and IRIS. A small group of oil companies has been invited to join the pilot phase of the project (R&D) including a test benchmark process.

New members appointed for the IM Education Work Group

The main objective for the Education Work Group is to formalize competence processes and education program for professionals. The leader of the group is Elisabeth Hegle from Winterhall.

ECIM' Calendar

June 12 (NEW DATE): Introduction to the licence lifecycle.

ECIM IME Workgroup invites to a workshop focusing on licence lifecycles. Date is not confirmed. Invitation will be sent out when date and program is settled.

September 10-12: ECIM2012 E&P IM Conference and User Meeting in Haugesund.

ECIM E&P Annual Conference and User Meeting held in Haugesund has become the most important conference for petroleum data management and information management in the E&P industry. The 2011 conference was again successful with more than 300 satisfied attendees representing over 100 companies and 21 countries. Please find more info about the 2012 conference here.

Previous held meetings

29.02.2012: ECIM Forum Information Meeting

Experiences and needs for formal education for DM/IM Professionals. Dr. Alan MacLennan, the course leader for the MSc in Information Management at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen (UK) presented the structure and content of their IM course.

16.06.2011: ECIM Forum Workshop focusing on GIS in a DM perspective.

GIS from a Data Management perspective.

15.05.2011: ECIM Forum Workshop: Managing R5000 data in OpenWorks.

R5000 data mangement.

Tips and suggestions..

Please mail us if you have any tips or suggestions to relevant and interesting topics, speakers, 'Best Practices', activities or projects that you believe would be of interest for the ECIM Network. You may call +47 91615866 or send us an e-mail (post@ecim.no).