Petroweb Solutions Announcement

Petroweb Solutions Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has signed an Agreement with Atlas Interactive Limited (a leading global provider of e-Learning systems to the oil and gas industry) whereby all the core products (mainly DETAIL™ and SafetyRep™) including all the related Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are passed on to Atlas Interactive Limited.

This also means that the current Petroweb Solutions operations have moved to the Atlas head office at Offshore House (Bridge of Don), including all the staff and management. Please see our revised office location and directions at the 'Directions / Maps' section.

The effective date of this arrangement is 28/10/2004.

All current and future clients of Petroweb Solutions will now be served through the Atlas Interactive team, providing a more robust and secure future for our applications and support for our clients.

Offshore Europe 2003

Petroweb Solutions will be exhibiting for the first time at the Offshore Europe Oil Exhibition, which will be held from 02/09/2003 until 05/09/2003 at the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre.

The Petroweb stand will be one of 14 stands which are all part of the LOGIC e-Pavillion (stand no. 1093/4).

Managing Director Harry van der Vossen commented; "This is our first participation as exhibitors at the Aberdeen oil show and we have taken the opportunity to tie in some major events in the company. First of all, Offshore Europe will see our first public display of our new corporate brand, which involves a new logo, new colours and a new look. As the 'old' Petroweb Solutions brand was a variation on the original Petroweb brand, we felt it was important to demonstrate with our new image that we have taken a new direction and business focus".

The second major event we are delighted to announce is the release of our latest product SafetyRep™ which is a very sophisticated (web-based) Incident Reporting and Safety Management system. SafetyRep was developed in close cooperation with DONG A/S (Denmark) to suit their internal requirements for the reporting and processing of QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety and Environment) incidents. With the system now fully up and running in DONG, we are using Offshore Europe as a platform to launch this product.

Our now well established Lessons Learned Management system DETAIL™ will of course also feature prominently and we offer visitors a brief demonstration and if interested, an information packed CD-ROM which contains a screen-based video of a full introduction and system demonstration, which is as near a personal live demonstration as you can get.

We also have some nice corporate gifts for our visitors, so please do come along and pay us a visit at stand no. 1234



New Corporate Identity  back to top

Petroweb Solutions has been working with the New Media department of Iteras Ltd. on the re-branding of our company.

Harry van der Vossen, Managing Director of Petroweb Solutions said:

"Petroweb Solutions was in need of a corporate make-over to remove the legacy it had with Petroweb Ltd. The timing of Offshore Europe gave us a nice push to get this all established and with the professional input from Iteras, I believe we have now got a more corporate look for the company."



Wintershall Trial  back to top

Wintershall AG (Kassel, Germany) part of the giant BASF corporation, has started a local trial of the DETAIL Lessons Learned Management system for their North Sea operations, run by Wintershall Noordzee B.V. in The Hague.

The trial which commenced on the 1st September 2003 is expected to last until the end of this year, after which it will be decided if it should be rolled out across their global operations.

Harry van der Vossen, Managing Director of Petroweb Solutions added; "This is a quite interesting new prospect and differs from all our previous clients, in that our contact with Wintershall has mainly been through e-mail only. At some point it was decided to mail each of the Drilling Managers a copy of the DETAIL demonstration CD-ROM and as a result of the feedback, it was decided to run an extended trial in Holland. Up to that point, there had been no face to face presentations or meetings, which is quite unusual but proves the point that business can be done globally and remotely.

However, we did arrange for a meeting and further demonstration after the trial decision was made, to ensure that the people involved have a good understanding of the process and the full functionality. At that meeting it also become apparent that DETAIL was going to be a near perfect match for the process they had started internally using a mix of standard office tools. The advantage that DETAIL will bring to this situation is that the process is formalised, web-enabled and ultimately allowing key lessons to be shared across the organisation. It will also make the follow-up an close out of action items more streamlined, controlled and auditable.

We will work closely with Wintershall to ensure that the evaluation trial will be successful and hopefully lead to a further sale and global implementation in this company.



Contract With Venture  back to top

Petroweb Solutions is very pleased to announce that it has gained its 8th Client for its highly successful Lessons Learned Management system DETAIL™. Venture Production plc based in Aberdeen, Scotland recently completed a 2 month trial of the system and concluded that the product would provide them with the right framework and process to fulfil their corporate requirements for a knowledge capture system, which was deemed a critical success factor in their rapidly growing company.

With the intention to integrate the use of DETAIL in the well planning and operations process, Venture envisage major cost savings as a result.

Harry van der Vossen, Managing Director of Petroweb Solutions said:

" After some very positively received presentations and demonstrations of the product, it seemed that the best way forward for this particular client, was to set-up a live trial / evaluation period which would support some of their new drilling plans. DETAIL proved quickly that their engineers are prepared to use the system and would see real benefit in the support of their job. go through with all our customers to ensure that we do not force them to fit the DETAIL system, but that DETAIL is made to fit their requirements and situation. This will give the best change of success for the system, as the people who will use it, will have had a say in how it is ultimately going to work for them."