ECIM is a foundation established with the purpose to strengthen the focus and competence within IM for professionals. One of the main tasks is fascilitating processes that will improve methodology measuring business value and identifying best IM practice for the E&P Industry.
ECIM was established in 2002. StatoilHydro, NPD and Schlumberger was the three main sponsors which also formed the Management Committe inclusive repreantatives from ConocoPhillips and Landmark. Initially ECIM was organized as a Project Group with formal and administrative support from the Norwegian Computer Association (Dataforeningen). In 2006 ECIM Project was organized as a formal and indenpendant foundation.
ECIM is primarily a fascilitator for processses, projects and tasks in order to improve and develop competence and best practice towards the E&P Industry. ECIM is an instrument for the industry to operationalize and manage Information Management processes and networking. A typical task executed and managed by a dedicated resource group within ECIM, was the development process and operationalization of the Information Management Study Program at the University of Stavanger.
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 2012 conference was again successful with more than 300 attendees from all over the world. More information will be soon be availabler on our conference pages.
10.04.2013: Workshop - Seismic data management (DM) Workflows
ECIM IME Workgroup held on april 10th. a workshop focusing on sesmic data management (DM) workflows on April 10th. at the NPD, Stavanger. For more information and registration please click here.
29.11.2012: Well data management formats and workflows.
More than 60 attendees joined ECIM IME workshop focusing on well data management with presenters from Geoservices, AGR, Schlumberger, Logtek and Statoil. Please find more details of the program here.
12.06.2012: License lifecycle.
ECIM IME Workgroup held a workshop focusing on license lifecycles from a DM perspective with presenters from Dong Energy, Statoil, ConocoPhillips, TGS and NPD. Please find more details of the program here.
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.
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).