Total E&P Wins 2005 BE Award

Geospatial Index to E&P Documents Named Top Project in 'Geospatial: Managed Environment' Category

Exton, Pa. � Sept. 28, 2005 � Total E&P Nederland B.V., a leading oil exploration and product company, has won a 2005 BE Award for its Geospatial Index to E&P Documents project in the Netherlands. The award category was �Geospatial: Managed Environment.�

The BE Awards of Excellence, which are selected by an independent jury of industry experts and presented at an evening ceremony during the annual BE Conference (www.be.org), honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world�s infrastructure. These projects set benchmarks for their industries, and showcase the imagination and technical mastery of the organizations that created them.

The goal of Total E&P�s project was to make all of its geoscience study files automatically searchable by spatial location. It accomplished this using Bentley ProjectWise Geospatial Management, which easily handles the geoscience division�s ESRI ArcGIS MXD files and MicroStation drawings.

�With ProjectWise Geospatial Management,� said Total E&P project manager Huub Streng, �we have easy access to tens of thousands of files and documents that are connected to a geographical location.� The files and documents contain the results of geological studies done to locate new oil and gas reservoirs, plan the development of new wells, and optimize the production of existing oil and gas fields.

Past studies can help with new projects, but finding those that are relevant wasn�t always easy. Before implementing ProjectWise, this could only be accomplished through manual searches among tens of thousands of documents and more than 20,000 graphics files stored in the technical archives and drawing offices. The searches were extremely time-consuming, and there were no guarantees that every relevant study would be found.

Now, with the help of Bentley ProjectWise Geospatial Management, geoscientists can quickly conduct a search using an intuitive Web application in Internet Explorer. No additional client software is required. Entering a few keywords and clicking on a map is all it takes to find and review information of interest.

Reviewing the search results can take place on the fly, and whatever data proves useful in a study can be retrieved in a very short period of time. Moreover, this approach ensures that all relevant studies are located, minimizing redundant work.

For more information on Total E&P Nederland�s winning project and all of the other 2005 BE Award projects, visit www.be.org/2005beawardwinners. 

For more information on the Bentley products used in this project, visit www.bentley.com/en-US/Markets/Geospatial

About Total E&P Nederland

Total E&P Nederland B.V. has been engaged since 1964 in the exploration and production of natural gas in the Netherlands and the Dutch sector of the North Sea. Its main offices are in The Hague and operational activities are coordinated from Den Helder. Care for health, safety, and the environment is an integral part of company policy.

The organization, which has almost 300 employees, is the second largest producer of gas in the Netherlands. It is part of the international Total Group, whose headquarters are in Paris. For more information, visit www.total.nl

About the BE Conference

The BE Conference, which consistently scores a 99 percent attendee satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley users and their managers offering professional training, technology updates, keynotes, and best practice sharing. At these sessions, attendees better themselves, better their organizations, and better the ways they can improve the world�s infrastructure.

To pre-register for BE Conference 2006, being held May 21-25 in Charlotte, N.C., go to www.be.org/preregister

About Bentley

Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world�s infrastructure. The company�s comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With 2004 revenues exceeding $300 million, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Design 500 and major owner-operators.

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