The Intellog Blog

Intellog Inc., developer of web-based search, data management and collaboration tools for petroleum producers, is pleased to announce the recent closing of its initial round of outside venture investment. Related to this, Intellog is also pleased to announce industry veteran Timothy J. O’Rourke has joined the Board, and been appointed Chair.

"We are delighted to have augmented our financial resources so we can aggressively pursue our development plans" said Terence C. Gannon, Founder and President of Intellog, "but we are also equally delighted to have Tim join our Board. His vast petroleum exploration and production experience, coupled with a professional relationship stretching back nearly two decades, make him an ideal addition to our team.” Gannon went onto say “We are now in a position to accelerate the development of our Onramp and Roundabout products knowing we are on a firm financial footing.”

Intellog Inc. (www.intellog.com) is a Calgary-based company founded in 2008 specializing in industry-specific search, data management and collaboration tools. For further information, contact Terence Gannon [by leaving a comment below].

In the ongoing effort to position Intellog products to best meet our customers’ requirements, the landing page for Roundabout – our secure and simple well data management solution – has been revised, simplified and hopefully clarified.  The original text had positioned Roundabout primarily as an application for the sharing of data.   That it certainly does, but turns out our customers were telling us that their initial concern was the management of their own data, with sharing of that data of secondary interest.

Intellog is currently offering a very limited number of early adopters the opportunity to participate in the private beta of Roundabout. If you are interested in this unique offer, or if just need more information, please contact us.

Check out the new page at http://www.intellog.com/Roundabout, and as always, feel free to comment below, and provide us your feedback.

In Ken Auletta’s recent book Googled: The End of the World as We Know It (full review to follow) the author talks about a Silicon Valley figure by the name of Bill Campbell, the Chairman of Intuit.  He’s also the so-called ‘secret coach’ of the Google triumvirate of Brin, Page and Schmidt.  In Auletta’s book, there is a reference to an article from Fortune magazine called The Secret Coach, by Jennifer Reingold.   In turn, both the book and the article mention the only known interview with this very private individual, appearing in the The McKinsey Quarterly, called Coaching Innovation: An Interview with Intuit’s Bill Campbell.  The latter provides some of the specific ideas Bill has with respect to building and maintaining innovative development teams.  Both of these articles are well worth reading. 

Effectively immediately, the ERCB’s December 2009 Well Licenses Issued (ST1, sample), Drilling Activity (ST49, sample), and Pipeline Approval & Disposition Daily List (ST96, sample) have been added to the Onramp search engine.  These reports, along with every ST1, ST49 and ST96 issued since 2001 (over 9600 documents) have been indexed so they can instantly be retrieved by simple keyword search.   Click here to start.

If you have suggestions for other data you would like to see added to Onramp, or any other feedback, please leave a comment below, or contact us.  We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support in 2009, and wish you all the best of health, happiness and prosperity in 2010.