Publications

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American Oil and Gas Reporter - November 2009 Oil and Gas Computing Edition
Arrays Provide Key Reservoir Insights

Technology Adoption in Upstream - The Pace Picks Up - May 2008
Energy Insights Technology Assessment Research Paper
(property of Energy Insights.  Please contact Jill Feblowitz at jfeblowitz@energy-insights.com to purchase a copy)

Energy Insights Exploration and Production - Geology and Geophysics Software - May 2007
Energy Upstream Strategies
(property of Energy Insights.  Please contact Jill Feblowitz at jfeblowitz@energy-insights.com to purchase a copy)

SPE Intelligent Oilfield Conference, Amsterdam - April 2006
Virtual Electronic Connectivity in the Future v2 (PowerPoint Presentation File)
Virtual Electronic Connectivity in the Future v2 (pdf)

World Energy Source, World Energy Monthly Review - June 2006
The Next El Dorado - Geology and Petroleum Potential of Israel and the Levant Tectonic Province

World Energy - February 2006
I See Buried Things

Journal of Petroleum Technology - August 2005
The Balance Between Lowering Cost and Increasing Capability - Management Discussion

San Francisco Chronicle – August 2005 (interview)
SGI to help in subterranean search for bin Laden
Old technique used to find oil, gas deposits to be updated for military applications

Offshore Magazine - in press
SEISMIC TECHNOLOGY - Data technology revolution in the making

Business Week - July 25 2005 (interview)
Referenced in article "Sonar Can Search Underground, Too" - article on the use of subsurface geophysics for detecting shallow targets in military applications

Business Week - July 11 2005 (interview)
Referenced in article "Tapping Gushers Beneath The Gushers" - article on the use of technologies for improved exploration success and reservoir recovery

Harts E&P June 2005
Exploration Technology: New tools for Sherlock

Invited Oral Paper - IPv6 Coalition Summit - May 2005, Reston Virginia
IPv6: Opportunities for the Energy Industry - Awash in Data But Still Nowhere Near Enough

Invited Oral Paper - CSEG Convention Forum - May 2005
Reducing IT Cost While Grasping New Capabilities - Impacts of Important New Computing Architectures on Data Processing, Visualization, Data Access and Long Range Collaboration

CSEG Recorder - Management Opinion Question
Expert Opinion Forum

New Technology Magazine, February 2005
Advanced Visualization Systems Quicker, Can Handle Larger Data Sets

American Oil and Gas Reporter - January 2005 Tech Review Edition
Real, Virtual Worlds Fuse in Reality Business Computing

Upstream CIO - November 2004
Affordable, Linux-Based Visual Computing System Introduced

Channel 11 KNTV San Francisco
Report on the use of SGI technologies for oil and gas exploration

Upstream CIO, November 2004
Demonstration of Largest Volume of Seismic Ever Visualized

Hart's E&P September 2004
Increasing the Expert Bandwidth

(related video presentation) - click on Landmark GeoProbe video link

Hart's E&P September 2004
Prism is Advanced Linux Visualization Solution

Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysics - The Recorder September 2004
Extending the Collaborative Visualization Environment to Remote Operations Centers: Media Fusion, Sensor Networks, Real Time Data and Balanced Infrastructure

Business Briefing: Exploration & Production: The Oil and Gas Review 2004
Statoil's New Onshore Support Center

 CIS Oil and Gas Magazine 2004
Centered in Reality (translated to Russian)

Upstream CIO - March 2004
Sophisticated Imaging Technologies become Increasingly Economical

Hart’s E&P - January 2004
Visualization Trends in Oil and Gas

Hart's E&P - December 2003
Emerging technologies: Over the rainbow

Offshore Magazine - December 2003
Virtual consolidation – adapting in real time

Hart’s Daily (SEG) - October 2003
 -    Scalable, Commodity and Open-Source Powered High Productivity Computing For Oil and Gas
-          Network Enables Remote Collaboration
-          Storage: the key to success In meeting oil and gas challenges

sgi.com - October 2003
Less is More ... until it's Less

Journal of Petroleum Technology,  October 2003
The Catalyst to Virtualization: Virtual Consolidation

First Break, August 2003
Next generation computing challenges for prestack depth migration and reservoir simulation

Offshore, April 2003
SEISMIC TECHNOLOGY : Data technology revolution in the making

Supercomputing Online, April 2003
SGI's Energy Summit: An Interview with Bill Bartling

American Oil and Gas Reporter, January 2003
Computing Capabilities Key To Managing Business Trends

Offshore/Beyond the Horizon, January 2003
Moving Towards Fully Populated Models and Long-Distance Collaboration

AAPG Explorer
Research Leads to Virtual Immersion : Data Becoming "Us" instead of "It"

American Oil and Gas Reporter, December 2002
The Driving Trends in Oil & Gas Computing, Visualization and Technology: Challenges for the Next Decade

Offshore, December 2002
Managing Resources and Optimizing Productivity through Modern Information Technology Solutions

Grid Today, October 2002
SGI's Visual Area Networking Solution Adds Punch to the Grid

The Leading Edge, September 2002
Visual area networking: Tools for exploration and enterprise computing

Energy Summit, August 2002
KNTV News Coverage

Energy Summit, August 2002
W. Bartling presentation

Energy Summit, August 2002
Composite presentation

Hart's E&P, September 2002
Computing Technologies enable Remote Collaboration

Journal of Petroleum Technology, June 2002
The Consolidating Oil Business: Technological Solutions to Managing Expanding Diversity and Geographic Breadth

Offshore/Beyond the Horizon, April 2002
Moving toward fully populated models, long-distance collaboration

American Oil and Gas Reporter, January 2002
Trends Driving Advancements in High Performance Computing, Visualization

Bartling, William A.,  1990
A  History of the Tectonic Development of California, in Kiekhefer, R. M. ed., The October 17, 1989 Earthquake; Geology and Impacts, Northern California Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, pg. 1-6.

Swenson, G. A., Bartling, W. A., Steer, B. L. , Abbott, P. L.,  1983
Sandstone Petrology, Point Loma and Cabrillo Formations, in P. L. Abbott ed., Upper Cretaceous Depositional Systems Southern California-Northern Baja California: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section Field Trip guidebook (T. H. Nilsen and W. A. Bartling leaders).

Bartling, William A. and Abbott,  Patrick L., 1983
Upper Cretaceous Sedimentation and Tectonics with Reference to the Eocene, San Miguel Island, and San Diego, California, in D. K. Laru and R. J. Steele eds., Cenozoic Marine Sedimentation, Pacific Margin, U. S. A.:  Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section symposium volume.

Bartling, W. A., Kies, R. P. , and Abbott, P. L.,  1981
 Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, northwestern San Diego County, in P. L. Abbott and S. O'Dunn, eds., Geologic Investigations of the Coastal Plain, San Diego County, California:  San Diego Assoc. Geol.  Guidebook, pg. 97-107.