Product Enhancements

• Automotive

  Your feedback has contributed to action plans to improve the IHS Automotive suite of products. Please read about the following recent and upcoming product enhancements.

  Expanded Content

  As part of our commitment to offering new insight into the automotive marketplace, we have added two new products to our portfolio:

  • IHS Automotive Forecast Simulation Tool
    An optional add-on module to our Light Vehicles Sales Forecast, this tool enables OEMs and National Sales Companies (NSCs) to create what-if simulations to anticipate and plan for alternative futures. Clients use the tool to:
    • Analyze the implications of simulations and to improve communication between critical stakeholders
    • Reduce the risk of strategic investment decisions by simulating and testing different product strategies
    • Assess the impact of simulations on your product plans and your competitors' product plans
    • Respond quickly to management requests for alternate forecasts based on changing market conditions
  • IHS Automotive OEM Strategic Analytics
    With over 4,000 interactive charts, the service provides the most complete and consistent coverage with which to analyze the strategic outlook of the 12 largest OEMs through 2017. The depth and breadth of the integrated forecasts, methodology and commentary allow OEMs and suppliers to more confidently plan their portfolios, project financial performance and comprehensively benchmark against peers.

  Improved Interface

  On 20 March 2013 we launched a new version of IHS AutoInsight. The new version includes significant enhancements, many inspired by clients’ comments and suggestions. Improvements include:

  • New look and feel: Uncluttered layouts make it easier to read and navigate
  • Better performance: You no longer have to wait while large queries execute. You can continue your work and be notified when the query results are ready to download. This feature removes the size limit on downloads and eliminates time-out and try-later issues
  • MyBook: Create virtual books by selecting documents from the Insight tab. Books can be refreshed with updated forecasts and saved, shared and printed as PDFs
  • Color coding: Query results display actual and forecast vehicle volume in different colors for LV Sales and LV Production forecasts
  • Export Cycle Plan charts: Export the bar Cycle Plan charts to Excel with an accompanying data table. See changes to the underlying data reflected immediately on the chart itself
  • Query details: Query details now appear as a header in Excel exports
  • Dictionaries: All-new dictionaries in a dedicated section provide definitions for all attributes and their values
  • Improved maps: Plant locations are more visible, you can export maps with plant labels and access plants information directly from the map, including plant capacity
  • Tooltips: Move your pointer over an attribute to view its definition
  • Export Module: The Export Module is now available in queries

  Improved Usability

  On January 22, IHS Automotive added two new mnemonics, referred to as core mnemonics, to the Light Vehicle Production Forecast. This numerical identification will allow you to easily identify the vehicles added or deleted to or from the forecast, as well as enable you to follow a future vehicle throughout its evolution. The two new mnemonics are:

  • Mnemonic Core Vehicle Bodytype Plant (bodytype level—i.e., without door count)
  • Mnemonic Core Vehicle Bodystyle Plant (bodystyle level—i.e., with door count)

• Chemical

  Your feedback has contributed to action plans to improve the IHS Chemical product suite. Please read about the following recent and upcoming product enhancements.

  Improved Coverage of Chemical Markets, Companies and Regions

  IHS Chemical Research teams are now located in ten different countries providing extensive coverage of chemical market companies and trends across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. This includes two office locations in China, Shanghai and Beijing, reflecting the significant role China plays in the global chemical market.

  The Chemical Economics Handbook (CEH) and Specialty Chemicals Update Program (SCUP) have continued to expand global coverage in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia, while the China Report has increased the number of reports from 140 to 152. The Directory of Chemical Producers (DCP) has added 430 new companies to the China database.

  People Remain our Biggest Assets

  Our deep industry knowledge continues to set us apart. IHS Chemical maintains the best-of-the-best researchers and consultants on staff. Further strengthening our roster of industry-leading expertise, we are pleased to have added several well-known authorities on global chemical markets to the IHS Chemical family. These experts bring many technical backgrounds, further strengthening our coverage of specialty, inorganic and end-use markets, global plastics and polyolefins, and ethylene in North America and providing deeper knowledge of regional and global light olefins markets, and near-term or long-term aromatics feedstock analysis.

  In addition, author, publisher and patent-holder, Dr. Jeffrey S. Plotkin, has joined IHS Chemical to write and lead a series of expanded training and education programs on Industrial Organic Chemistry. 

  New Products Lead the Conversation

  New, time-sensitive market studies and special reports provide comprehensive analysis of high-profile topics in areas of key interest to the chemical industry. Recent examples include reports on The Influence of Shale Development on the Global Chemical Industry, 2012 China Coal Chemical, Renewable Commodity Plastics, Chemical Building Blocks from Renewables, and Russian Petrochemicals. Studies in progress include The Impact of Shale and Tight Oil on Refining & Petrochemical Industries and Brazilian Specialty Chemicals. 

  Unique to IHS, and new to IHS Chemical, are formats by which our content, research and expertise are delivered either on-demand, quarterly or annually via live interactive, customer-exclusive multi-client workshops and forums. 

  We have also launched a new Cost Curve program that provides client with an interactive tool that allows the data to be examined and parsed in many ways. Currently we have models available for ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, chlor-alkali and methanol. Models for EO/EG and parazylene are in development and will be available this summer. These models are being updated twice a year in conjunction with our updates to our long-term forecast updates.

  Shifting to Integrated Product Platforms and Delivery

  The World Analysis (WA) and World Petrochemicals (WP) have combined to offer 36 chemical market studies that include more plant capacities, more supply and demand data including online Excel graphs, more historical data, and a robust forecast period out ten years.

  The CMAI and Harriman Chemsult Chlor-alkali, Soda Ash and Vinyls reports were merged into IHS Chemical Market Advisory Services. These new services offer expanded coverage, more insight and analyses of current market conditions and forecasts of future trends, access to an online database to retrieve our most current forecast for production costs and prices, as well as access to consultants through our inquiry services.

  IHS Chemical Week is now available on iPad app as well as via digital edition and business daily along with live updates 24/7 on chemweek.com

  IHS Chemical Company Analysis is being upgraded to a more user-friendly format.

  A new series of quarterly webcasts provide ongoing insights from experts and enable convenient, in-depth discussions on pressing topics of high relevance online, either at your desktop or from your smart device. 

  We continue to partner with our customers by hosting client advisory sessions in preparation for delivery of IHS Chemical content via the new IHS Connect platform.

• Defense & Security (IHS Jane’s)

  Your feedback has contributed to action plans to improve the IHS Jane’s product suite. Please read about the following recent and upcoming product enhancements.

  Jane's 2.0

  IHS launched Jane's 2.0, the new online platform for all IHS Defence & Security products.

  • The new platform offers increased functionality as well as an updated look and feel, with new dashboards and interfaces to enable enhanced access to IHS defines and security news, insight and analysis content. The launch represents the start of an iterative roll-out that will see additional enhancements brought online as part of a series of planned releases.
  • For more information visit the IHS Jane’s 2.0 Platform webpage.

  Realigned Defense Equipment & Technology products

  IHS Jane's Defence Equipment & Technology reference products have been realigned to meet more closely the needs of customers.

  • Products are now arranged into Air & Space, Land, Sea, Platforms, Weapons and C4ISR & Mission Systems subject areas, and are available in new subject-based modules that provide the most comprehensive view of platform and system technical and specifications details available.
  • For more information visit IHS Jane's Defence Equipment & Technology Solutions webpage.

  IHS Jane's Navigating the Emerging Markets

  IHS has expanded its range of Navigating the Emerging Markets reports within the IHS Jane's Defence Industry and Markets Intelligence Centre.

  • With 20 reports now available and more than 30 in production (scheduled to go online during early 2013), JDIM users now receive exclusive access to detailed analysis of the key factors that A&D businesses need to understand in order to identify new opportunities and operate effectively in the world's emerging and high growth potential defence markets
  • For more information visit the IHS Jane’s 2.0 Platform webpage.

  IHS Jane's Defense Insight Report

  IHS Jane's Defence Insight Reports are new subject-based quarterly reports exclusive to IHS Defence Module customers.

  • These reports draw together into one place news and analysis from across the IHS Defence portfolio to provide summaries of the most important recent global defence themes and keep IHS customers up to date with key issues, trends and development.

• Economics & Country Risk (IHS Global Insight)

  Your feedback has contributed to action plans to improve the Economic & Country Risk (IHS Global Insight) products. Please see the following recent and upcoming product enhancements to this suite of products.

  New Online Market and Business Intelligence Platform

  IHS Connect, our new online business platform, was introduced to Country Intelligence subscribers

  IHS Connect offers faster, smarter access to IHS information and insight. Features include:

  • Integrated content and data with visualization and analysis tools
  • Intuitive navigation menu options
  • Single search for time series data and text-based content
  • Ability to visualize data in dynamic charts that are compatible with PowerPoint (native object) and Excel
  • New scenario tool lets you leverage our Global Scenario and World Industry models to easily run your own economic scenarios
  • Ability to save, share and automatically refresh research
  • Accessible via iPad

  New Acquisition: Exclusive Analysis

  Exclusive Analysis brings additional expertise in political and violent risk assessments

  The recent acquisition of Exclusive Analysis complements our existing political and security risk analysis product portfolio with new corporate asset and personnel risk management solutions. These offerings, along with our existing country intelligence, deliver a complete risk product suite that incorporates robust geospatial capability.

  Recent Service Enhancements

  US Economic Service Features Updates to the Model and Content

  The US macroeconomic model was updated to include new concepts, re-estimated equations and revised weights. Content was enhanced to be more concise, with the addition of summary tables for the baseline, optimistic, and pessimistic scenarios and the introduction of succinct thought pieces in the US Financial Weekly report. The frequency of special reports has also been increased to cover a range of topics including fiscal policy, monetary policy, trade, and consumer markets.

  Canadian Economic Service Features Updates to the Model

  The Canadian Macroeconomic Model was modified following the benchmark revision to the National Income Accounts. This allows for improvements to the short- and long-term macro forecasts as well as the provincial forecast, in that Canadian economic data can be comparable internationally and utilizes the latest methodologies.

  Consumer Markets Services Expands Content and Coverage

  The US Consumer Markets Service offers more robust analysis and forecast coverage with the addition of a monthly executive summary, PowerPoint presentation, detailed analysis of retail trends, and significant enhancements to data and forecast coverage. The Global Consumer Markets Service has also added quarterly PowerPoint presentations, improved forecast frequency from semi-annual to quarterly updates, additional concept coverage, and methodological improvements.

  Word Industry Service Features Expanded Content and Coverage in Industry Reports

  Enhancements to the industry reports include expanded coverage to offer reports on all 95 industries; the addition of a new Expert View section for several key industry reports that offer additional insights on forecast highlights, supply, demand, and prices; and an expanded focus for 21 industry reports from US to global coverage.

  Risk Dashboards Now Available for Country Risk Analyst

  Country Risk Analyst now features a set of Country Risk Excel Dashboards that are updateable on-the-fly, or by scheduling. Clients may also customize their risk views.

  New Monthly Newsletter for Country Intelligence Subscribers

  The Political Risk and Trade Credit Newsletter is now published on a monthly basis providing clients an easy to digest summary of key political, economic and security-related events in frontier and emerging markets.

  World Trade Service Improves Time Series Coverage

  The World Trade Service improved top-level quarterly historical data and forecasts for major trade routes by increasing coverage from 12 quarterly time series to 80 quarterly time series. In addition, coverage was extended with the addition of 6 new countries and 12 new commodities.

  Global Construction Service Enhancements

  The Global Construction Service now includes more frequent updates for short-term total construction spend in 36 countries; additional 1-year, 5-year, and overall risk scores, and the availability of data in multiple currencies.

  Pricing & Purchasing Expands Steel Coverage in Japan, Turkey, and East Asia

  The Pricing & Purchasing regional Steel forecast coverage has been expanded to cover Hot-Rolled Steel (Japan), Steel Merchant Bar (East Asia), Cold-Rolled Steel Sheet (Turkey), and others. Current Pricing & Purchasing subscribers can access complete release notes here.

  Pricing & Purchasing Expands Commodity Coverage to Include Gold, Alumina, and Others

  The Pricing & Purchasing forecast coverage has been expanded to include the following commodities: Gold (Global), Alumina (Global), Industrial Ball Valves (US), Welding and Soldering Equipment (US), and others. Current Pricing & Purchasing subscribers can access complete release notes here.

• Energy Insight (IHS CERA)

  Your feedback has contributed to action plans to improve the Energy Insight (IHS CERA) suite of products summarized below.

  Oil Market Services and other Downstream Research

  We've launched the IHS CERA Oil, NGLs and Petrochemical Feedstock Market Advisory Services, or Oil Market Services for short.

  • The new Oil Market Services combine the best of IHS CERA and Purvin & Gertz, offering coverage of global trends and dynamics in a modular format that better enables members to tailor their subscriptions for the specific market and geographic coverage they need.
  • Every module, from crude oil to petrochemical feedstocks, now provides more analytical deliverables, insight and data to inform and enhance decision making on both short- and long-term market issues.
  • A recent in-depth research highlight from this service, issued in March 2013, is the Private Report, America’s Great Oil Revival: Reshaping the Global Market, covering the implications of the stunning revival of US oil production driven by tight oil.
  • We also released Multiclient Studies on two critical oil market topics:
    • The North American NGL Industry: Risks and Rewards in the Midstream Sector
    • Striking a Balance: North American Crude Oil Logistics and Pricing Amid Rising Supply

  Latin America Gas & Power and Latin America Upstream

  We've launched reorganized services including new Latin America research. We now provide integrated regional coverage from Mexico to Chile with new research reports and increased report frequency.

  Gas and Power

  • Clients will now receive longer (10-year) horizon outlooks for gas and power supply, demand and prices for key countries and detailed coverage and analysis of power auctions.
  • We now include detailed coverage of competitive costs of generation technologies across the region with a closer look at hydro development and cost evolution.
  • New market fundamental reports now cover converging areas such as renewable energy.

  Upstream 

  • Clients will now receive longer oil and natural gas production capacity outlooks (up to 2035).
  • We now include a quarterly report on the main drivers of crude and natural gas production and our view on future hydrocarbon production and regional crude oil prices.
  • We also include detailed coverage and analysis of bidding rounds across the region.
  • We highlight in detail, upstream business opportunities in the region. This analysis unites IHS expertise from subsurface- to market-analysis and strategy development.

  Member Events - Expansive Coverage, Innovative New Forums

  • The inaugural IHS Forum was held in November 2012, representing an expansion of the member event concept for IHS customers.
    • IHS Forums enable both deep coverage of energy market topics in a format carrying forward the best of the CERA-style Roundtables and Workshops, plus keynote addresses and additional sessions featuring IHS research that covers macroeconomic, geopolitical, automotive and chemical trends.
    • More than 750 delegates attended the first IHS Forum. Future IHS Forums will be held in five venues across the world during 2013.
  • The 32nd IHS CERAWeek was held in Houston earlier this month and was attended by more than 2,200 energy decision-makers. More than 95 separate sessions provided a deep and wide-ranging view of geopolitics, markets and perspectives on the "New Map of Energy."
  • A record number of CERA advisory service members attended one or more of the 65 research webcasts last year. We anticipate hosting more than 80 member webcasts during 2013.

• Energy Insight (IHS Herold)

  Your feedback has contributed to action plans to improve the Energy Insight (IHS Herold) suite of products, including new features and more frequent research reports, that are summarized below.

  Company Play Analysis

  We identified and increased the number of Company Play Analyses for 2013 both in North America and internationally.

  • Nine Company Play Analyses have been published since our last Customer Survey in October: Myanmar, Mississippi Lime, Marcellus Shale, Tullow and the Guyana Block, British Columbia Horn River, Mozambique Update, Tullow/Africa Oil Update, Indonesia Update, Oasis Petroleum Bakken Update.

  Enhanced Analysis and More Frequent Reports

  • Analysts' comments have been added to the Herold Headliner, which now provides same-day analyst insights attached to prominent news stories. This makes news more relevant and meaningful.
  • Since we began tracking December 1, we have added nearly 100 analyst insights, including comments on year-end financials, company transactions, well results, and above-ground risk events.
  • We have successfully transitioned to quarterly and semi-annual Valuation Reports which provide more timely valuation analysis.  We are on track to provide twice the number of Valuation Reports in March as compared to the same month last year.

  Faster Searching

  • We created a new M&A Quick Search feature to allow you to quickly access M&A trends to over 36 types of plays, as well as selection by keyword and geographic criteria.

• Energy Technical

  Your feedback has contributed to action plans to improve our Energy Technical products. Please see the following recent and upcoming product enhancements to this suite of products.

  Kingdom Product Enhancements

  Kingdom 8.8 offers new geoscience workflow enhancements to streamline your everyday activities, from data loading and interpretation to velocity modeling and rapid depth conversion.

  • Dynamic Depth Conversion - Facilitates easy construction, maintenance and display of time data in the depth domain. This system will automatically integrate associated horizons and well tops into a grid based velocity model providing extremely efficient and accurate interpretation workflows.
  • Designed for Interpreters - As horizons or well tops are interpreted, the model is easily refreshed to reflect the most recent changes or additions and all of the displays are immediately updated to reflect the new information.
  • Reduce cycle time – The traditional cumbersome process of building a velocity model and converting the seismic volumes, horizons and faults to depth is no longer needed. The new and easy to use methodology builds the model and dynamically converts the time data on the fly to depth; what used to take hours or sometimes days, now takes minutes or seconds.

  Kingdom Direct Connect to Global E&P Information

  • Last year, we introduced Direct Connect to enable direct online access to IHS US well and production data, completely eliminating the manual data import process while also ensuring that Kingdom will always have the most current information from IHS. We are now happy to extend that same benefit to customers of IHS international well information sourced from over 120 countries around the world.

  GeoSyn integration with Kingdom has begun. This first step in the integration with Kingdom includes:

  • The ability to launch GeoSyn from within Kingdom to simplify your interpretation workflows
  • Streamlined synthetics generation for quicker more accurate results
  • Tight integration with seismic interpretation for more confident decision making

  IHS AccuMap and AccuLogs Enhancements

  AccuMap Enhancements

  Shaped by industry feedback, IHS AccuMap®, the Canadian energy industry’s premier exploration and production mapping solution, is being developed to be a more flexible and powerful interpretation solution in Microsoft™ .NET technology. Starting March 2013, the new AccuMap is now undergoing user experience sessions and is on an extensive beta period to ensure the current development serves customers first. 

  AccuLogs Enhancements

  With our release in July 2012, AccuLogs gives you the ability to use Digital Logs (LAS files) alongside your raster logs. Users can now import proprietary LAS files or connect directly to the IHS Information Hub™ to download subscription digital logs.

  IHS Oil & Gas Pipeline Network Database released

  Released in February 2013 in partnership with GDM, Canadian energy professionals can now manage regulatory compliance and determine asset integrity through the IHS Oil & Gas Pipeline Network Database.

  US Information Updates at a glance

  We’ve made improvements to our US Information.

  Updates from 2012:

  • Well Information – Three new data attributes derived from the production data file have been added to the well data file, tying the two data types together. These attributes include Current Operator, Current Well Type and Current Producing Status. Elevation enhancements used with information from our US Log database has also resulted in over 5,500 wells being updated.
  • Production Information - We continue to build out our new Production Accumulation System which is allowing us to deliver Production Data to you in a timelier manner.
  • Horizontal Data - To date we have updated approximately 88,000 wells with these critical attributes and will be populating them for all new horizontal wells added to the Well data:
    • Total horizontal displacement length
    • Lateral hole length
    • Maximum deviation angle
    • Build-up radius
    • Primary geologic formation

  New Content for the US

  • Drilling and Completions Benchmarking - As capital costs increase, a complete understanding of drilling and completions performance is critical for operators to improve drilling and completion performance while reducing costly non-productive time. Drilling and Completions Benchmarking for Gulf of Mexico Offshore and US Completions Onshore provides clients with benchmarking tools that aggregate and normalize key performance indicators for new well drills and completions.
  • US Land Data – IHS now offers subscribers the ability to subscribe to US Land databases containing millions of Federal and State Land Records. Fee or private oil and gas lease data is also available for the Bakken play of North Dakota and the Niobrara play of NE Colorado and SE Wyoming. With this database, customers can query, report, map, download and analyze land use and ownership information.
  • US Oil & Gas Pipeline and Facilities Data - The United States pipeline data is now accessible in Enerdeq Browser to subscribers, and both pipeline and facility data can be delivered in standard spatial layer delivery formats. The pipeline data can be viewed in tandem with the IHS US Well and Production data.
  • Major Industrial Plant Database - The Major Industrial Plant Database (MIPD) provides key data on the energy consumption profile including natural gas and oil use by type for over 17,000 US plants with contact details.

  Data Quality Enhancements

  • Play names and types - While still very much a work in progress that will continue to evolve based on customer and expert feedback, our play names and types project has seen us add play names to nearly 200,000 wells in the Rocky Mountains, Appalachians, Michigan and Illinois. Along with those names, we have also categorized those plays into the following play types that include:
    • Tight oil
    • Tight gas
    • Shale gas
    • Shale oil
    • Coalbed Methane
    • Rejuvenated play—horizontal drilling
  • Texas Survey Name Standardization
  • IHS undertook an effort to standardize over 90% of Texas Survey names. Over 1,000 records were extensively researched and we have reduced 884 unique names to 437 unique standardized condensed names.
  • IHS Enerdeq® Browser and IHS Energy Web Services now provide extended functionality that allow users to more rapidly query, report and export US Well and US Production entities based on play type and play name.

  New Release of IHS Offset Drilling Data, Rig Activity and Permits

  The new release of IHS Offset Drilling Data, Rig Activity and Permits offers an improved user interface and mapping capabilities, as well as clearer alignment with IHS Enerdeq® Browser regions.

  Improved User Interface and Mapping Capabilities

  • The improved user interface will make it easier than ever to perform searches by drastically reducing the number of mouse clicks needed to find information.
  • This release also includes a new map service that makes it easier for users to create maps.

  Clearer Alignment with Enerdeq Browser Regions

  • With the new release, IHS is converting former Divestco regions to the same BOE regions that other subscriptions use, making more data available in the same manner.

  New Features for SubPUMP 9.8

  SubPUMP 9.8 offers new features that include integration capabilities, calculation validation, and equipment updates.

  • Capability to integrate SubPUMP automatically - Integration of SubPUMP allow users to run SubPUMP from another application, such as ESP monitoring tool and generate reports automatically. It also includes XML based outputs that will allow users to build customize reports to fit their particular needs.
  • Dogleg severity calculation for installation validation - The dogleg severity determines whether an ESP system would be able to fit into this deviated wellbore. SubPUMP will calculate the severity angle based on the wellbore profile to make sure ESP equipment can fit into the wellbore. Each vendor has a maximum dogleg severity angle recommendation for their ESP equipment. Engineers are encouraged to contact the vendors to get this data BEFORE finalizing the ESP design and selection.
  • Enhanced ability to import 3rd party ESP equipment data using excel based template.
  • SubPUMP now has an option to allow engineers to select three seal chambers for the ESP system configuration that include bearing capacity, operating and maximum thrust loads and power consumption values.

  QUE$TOR Cost Updates released in September 2012

  In this latest release of QUE$TOR, the regional cost databases have been updated to incorporate current unit rates, exchange rates and man-hour costs for all regions to reflect third quarter 2012 prices. To keep QUE$TOR up to date, the cost analytics team, in conjunction with other IHS cost teams, closely tracks the various market fluctuations that impact costs within the oil and gas market and consequently the QUE$TOR program.

  With each release of QUE$TOR we endeavor to enhance the product in terms of:

  • Breadth of scope, to enable users to estimate more systems
  • Flexibility, to give users the ability to more completely model the field development they are interested in estimating
  • Accuracy, to provide more details on engineering and more accurate data upon which to base estimates

  Enhancements in the latest version of QUE$TOR includes:

  • OPEX
    • Dynamic OPEX calculation, QUE$TOR will now automatically update OPEX with any changes made to the field development while maintaining any user defined changes
    • Changes you make to OPEX will appear in the locked values report
    • Molecular sieve dehydration consumables broken out into a separate section
    • Facility to unlock all values and restore OPEX to its original state
    • Spare rows for entering user defined CO2 emissions
  • Subsea
    • Installation calculations are improved and are calculated in more detail
    • Editing of flying leads attached to an item of equipment is now possible
    • Input report, including subsea schematic graphic, can be exported to Excel
  • Offshore drilling components
    • Subsea floater categories are now based upon their water depth capability
  • Pipelines and subsea flowlines
    • Lay rate data has been reviewed and extrapolated to deeper waters and larger diameters to give more realistic lay spread durations
  • Infrastructure
    • Terrain can be set independently for each road or rail line
    • Three user defined roads and rail lines allow for extra flexibility
  • Drilling facilities on topsides
    • Option added for a permanently installed self-contained workover rig
    • There are now additional inputs to improve calculation of the dry and operating rig weight

  Enerdeq Browser Enhancement

  Enerdeq Browser now includes New Information

  The latest release of IHS Enerdeq® Browser offers US information subscribers the ability to subscribe to newly defined US Land Data in the form of state and fee information. Also, clients who subscribe to our Pipeline Facilities information will now be able to access that information through Enerdeq.

  In January, we announced that the Enerdeq Browser 2.2 was providing US information subscribers with access federal land data through the new US Land database.

  Now, with the release of Enerdeq Browser 2.3, we are providing even more information—this time state and fee lease data. With access to this information, customers can view the most complete picture of the current land lease situation, and see how that information relates to IHS oil and gas information in their areas of interest.

  Also available with this Enerdeq Browser upgrade is information on pipeline facilities, which can be accessed by clients who subscribe to the information via the Browser Map feature. Now, a more complete picture of this data along with the broad suite of pipelines information is available for use in your workflows.

  Mobile Applications for Rig and Permit Activity

  Subscribers to our online rig and permit activity products can now to track rig and permit activity with IHS Activity Tracker™ mobile app on the Apple Store. This new app allows subscribers to learn basic information about current well activities, operators and drilling contractors in the field.

  This app will let users:

  • Track rig and permit activity in the United States and to learn basic information about current well activities, the operators, and the drilling contractors.
  • Use a phone to track new permit trends, rig activity, and new completions information across North America.
  • Access driving directions to well locations and view enough well detail to help them quickly understand what is going on in their area of interest.

  IHS EDIN Enhancements

  We continue to improve EDIN by adding new content and additional functionality. Recent enhancements to EDIN have added the capability to analyze Unconventional Plays and have extended the Midstream content into North America.

  Unconventional Plays

  Access to Unconventional Plays has been added to the Basins subscription. Now within EDIN you can search for Unconventional Plays with specific characteristics, generate detailed play monitors and map the results.

  A range of information is available for each play, including:

  • Geological and tectonic settings
  • Resource – Both in place and recoverable
  • Reserves – Discovered (roll up from Field database)
  • Essential data (Top depth, Thickness, TOC, Vitrinite Reflectance, Temperature and Hydrogen Index)
  • A concise summary and analysis of exploration activity. This is continually monitored and any relevant updates will drive changes through the database
  • Details of rights holders
  • High level commentary on economics and regulatory information and analysis

  The coverage of Unconventional Plays is being extended with the initial focus upon high-potential plays and will be rolled out on a regional basis throughout 2013.

  Major Industrial Plant Database

  Additional information from the Major Industrial Plant Database (MIPD) has been added to the Midstream Industrial Plant subject within EDIN. The MIPD adds critical information for the North American market that enables gas marketers to identify potential gas customers by size and energy consumption profile within the gas supply infrastructure. The MIPD provides users with access to a number of additional reports for the industrial plants :

  • Plant Energy and Contact Summary
  • Pipelines within 20 miles
  • Distribution Company (LDC) Access
  • Boiler Details

  North American Pipelines

  A new Midstream subject, North American Pipelines, has been added to EDIN enabling you to search for and to map pipelines in the North American market. The US Pipeline access has become a critical factor to the profitability of exploration and production projects in the United States, and in particular, high profile concerns to unconventional oil and gas resource development. Many new oil and gas plays are in remote areas historically with limited local market requirements. Thus the distance to the transport network and which markets can be accessed via this network are often make-or-break project variables.

  GeoMagnetic Anomaly Raster Map Layer

  A new raster map layer showing GeoMagnetic Anomalies has been added to the Geology layers. This map content is included within the subscription to the Basin Database and enables users to gain insight into the subsurface structure and composition of the Earth’s crust. Over continental areas, magnetic anomalies give information on the geologic, tectonic and geothermal evolution of the crust and lithosphere.

  Other recent enhancements include:

  • Support for Microsoft Excel 2010.
  • Support for Google Chrome.
  • Locations of Petrodata Offshore Rigs (and links to RigPoint).
  • Minor enhancements to the spatial export email notifications.
  • The ability to share saved maps with your colleagues.
  • A Complexity attribute has been added to Refinery reports.
  • Regasification Capacity Rights are now also shown in million metric tons per year.
  • A Wind Turbine report has been added to the reports available for the Electric Plant subject area providing details such as the status; manufacturer/model; total number of turbines and also details of rotor diameter and speeds.
  • A new map layer, River-Lake Areas, has been added to the Cultural map layers providing polygon filled context for the location of worldwide major water features.
  • The following attributes have been added to the spatial exports for contracts: Resource Type; Unconventional Type 1/2; Award Type.
  • Contract duration within LNG and Pipeline contracts now allows for fractions of a year.
  • The following attributes have been added to the LNG Liquefaction Plant Capacity Details report: Number of Tanks; Storage Capacity Cubic M.
  • The following attributes have been added to the Pipeline Capacities and Pipeline Section Overview reports: Reported Capacity Gas BscmY; Estimate Capacity Gas BscmY.
  • The attribute Pipeline Type has been added to the spatial exports of Pipelines.

• Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability

  The following customer-driven product improvements have been implemented. For more information on these updates, please log on to the EHS&S Customer Network for detailed release notes.

  Compliance Suite v4.44 and Compliance Messenger 2.0

  Enhancements have been made to the following Compliance Suite and Compliance Messenger features:

  • Overall system and database improvements
  • Enhancements to Refrigerant Management Module
  • Overall Compliance Messenger improvements
  • Safety Compliance Messenger
  • Training Compliance Messenger 

  Comply Plus v3.2

  Enhancements have been made to the following Comply Plus features:

  • GHS-US Enhancements
  • Manufacturer Contact Information
  • Regulatory List Updates
  • Tier II Regulatory Update

  Essential Suite v7.5

  Enhancements have been made to the following Essential Suite Modules:

  • Air Module
  • Audit Module
  • Compliance Manager Module
  • Data Importer Module
  • Incident Module
  • Industrial Hygiene Module
  • Task Module
  • Waste Module
  • Worker Order Manager Module
  • Admin and Security

  IMPACT v6.0 

  Enhancements have been made to the following IMPACT areas:

  • Assessments
  • Action item
  • Consequences
  • KPI measures
  • Hierarchy control
  • Change log

  opsInfo® v9.2 

  Enhancements have been made to the following opsInfo features:

  • opsInfo Connect
  • Multiple technology enhancements
  • Improved report definitions
  • Class management

  Product Compliance Suite (Intelligent Authoring) v4.3.2

  Enhancements have been made to the following Intelligent Authoring features:

  • Thailand GHS Update 
  • German TRGS 510 

  Stature® v4.3

  Enhancements have been made to the following Stature areas:

  • Stature Risk Management (SRM)
  • Templates Stature Off-line Client (SOC)
  • Study Metadata

  For more information on these product updates, please log on to EHS&S Customer Network (ECN) for detailed release notes.

• Maritime

  Your feedback has contributed to action plans to improve our Maritime (IHS Fairplay) product suite. Please read about the following recent and upcoming product enhancements.

  Ports and Terminals 2013 – 2014 Guide and CD

  The 2013 – 2014 IHS Ports and Terminals Guide and CD – available in October. Some of the key improvements we have made to the Ports Guide Printed Edition since 2010 include:

  • Geo-referencing of all berths in over 120 major world ports, with CD having Google Earth zooming capability to port area or individual berths
  • 173 new and developing ports
  • Improved coverage of Chinese and SE Asian ports
  • Up-to-date details of port developments
  • Additional lists of port facilities, annual traffic figures, largest vessel size permitted and Marpol details for every port in the book
  • Improved indexing for finding Sub ports and Alternative names
  • 170 new tanker terminals and 360 new tanker berths, with over 2,000 tanker berths updated
  • Addition of dry cargo terminals and berths onto the CD
  • Latest details of LNG bunker and Cold Ironing facilities
  • New font and clearer page layout

  Data Enhancements

  • Some of the highlights of the last six months include sustaining high quality data across our ship registration, class and ownership arenas with correctness measuring 96%.
  • Response rates to IMO Company Number Requests remain between 99-100% each month and our feedback response to ownership queries sits at 95% within 48 hours and 83% within 24 hours.
  • Time taken from receipt of data to output in products is 93% over 48 hours and 78% over 24 hours.
  • We have started to target additional P & I data sources last month (August) as we look to expand on the 15 now scrutinized. We are confident in our data meeting correctness, currency and completeness standards across 59% of the targeted fleet, an 8% increase on the 2011 figure.
  • In addition to the above measures continuing to remain high, research and audit initiatives are underway to further improve upon the Group Beneficial Owner data currently held and the AIS Port Zoning initiative started in April, which has seen in excess of a 1,000 updates so far.

  Recent Releases

  2012-13 Register of Ships and List of Ship-owners now available

  • Published since 1764 and widely recognized as the premier source of reference, the Register of Ships provides information on the world fleet of all seagoing, self-propelled merchant ships of 100 GT and above. A subscription includes access to Shipfinder Online until end of July 2013.
  • The List of Shipowners and Managers complements the Register of Ships by providing details of shipowners and managers and their respective fleets. A subscription includes access to Shipowners Online until end of July 2013.

  Sea-Web Directory

  • Sea-web Directory ensures you have access to the very latest maritime company information including over 178,000 companies details and 52,000 contact names. More

• Renewable Energy

  Your feedback has contributed to action plans to improve the former Emerging Energy Research suite of products summarized below.

  Restructured Renewable Energy Advisory Services

  IHS has restructured our suite of Emerging Energy Research Advisory services to better align our market expertise with the needs of our clients and developments in evolving renewable energy markets.

  • Through our North America Renewable Power and Europe Renewable Power Advisory services we are providing more analysis across renewable power technologies. These services address topics such as development trends, the competitive landscape, and policy issues to help clients better understand regional trends in renewable power development and procurement in these distinct regions.
    
  • Through our Global Wind Power Advisory we are providing clients with more analysis of key issues impacting the global wind supply chain, including demand, technological developments, supply chain trends and competitive strategies of wind turbine and component manufacturers.

  Increased Focus on Emerging Markets

  Based on clients' requests for more information on opportunities outside North America and Europe, we have launched a new Emerging Renewable Power Markets Advisory. This service focuses on the potential and opportunity for renewable energy development in Latin America, Asia Pacific, Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa.

  Renewable Energy Webcast Series

  Clients of our renewable energy advisory services continue to participate in our Analyst Briefing webcast series examining key issues in renewable energy markets. Webcast topics have included operations and maintenance of Wind Turbines, European biopower markets, and offshore wind market challenges.  Listen to the most recent EER webcast on opportunities in emerging solar PV markets.