ECIM - Expert Center for Information Management

ECIM, Expert Center for Information Mangement, is a non-profit foundation, 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.

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.

Information & Knowledge Management Courses at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

RGU offers three Postgraduate courses of study in Information Management, Information and Library Studies and Knowledge Management leading to Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert), Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) and Masters degree (MSc) qualifications. (Picture: Simon Burnett, Senior Lecturer, RGU)

Workshop: Data Quality Management

ECIM Forum invites you to a Data Quality Management Workshop June 16th. in Aberdeen, UK. ECIM has an intension to arrange a few workshops on annual basis, focusing on spesifc themes. A previous workshop was held in Stavanger in March, focusing on "Managing Petrel Projects - Alternative Approaches".

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ECIM2010 E&P IM Conference and User Meeting in Haugesund.

The ECIM'2010 conference and user meeting scheduled for September 13-15 is now open for registration. Plenum and Workstream Program details will be continously updated. We still have a few open slot in our in the lobby area for for vendor profiling.

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. Last year 2009, we had some fantastic three days together with more than 300 attendees representing over 100 companies and 18 countries.

We appreciate hearing your opinion.

Please mail us if you have any tips or suggestions to relevant topics, activities or projects that you believe would be of interest for the ECIM Network, or for the next year conference 13-15. September 2010.

Call +47 91615866 or send us an email using post@ecim.no.

ECIM Haugesund User Meeting and Conference 2009

The 2009 ECIM User Meeting and Conference in Haugesund was again a successful event

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New Students graduated from Information Management Study Program at UIS

On November 12th. a graduation Ceremony was held at University of Stavanger for the students having finished the Module - Managing Information and Knowledge - which is one out of three modules in the Information Management Study Program for IM Professionals at University of Stavanger.

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