Schlumberger Water Services - Spring 2010 Enews

Sustainable and Reliable Groundwater Supply
The 7^th Annual International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR7)October 9-13, 2010, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION NOW OPEN -

If sustainable and reliable groundwater supply is important for you, ISMAR7 is a must-attend conference as it is devoted entirely to the art of managing aquifer recharge. Located in Abu Dhabi, UAE -- an area with pressing water needs and scarce surface water -- you will gain incredible perspectives, new insights, and concentrated learning opportunities. Visit ismar7.org to learn more. More than 250 Abstracts received and in review!

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Professional Water Quality Reports in minutes, not hours!
AquaChem v.2010.1 Release

In a preliminary test by UK Environment Agency¹, AquaChem demonstrated a 90% reduction in the time required to calculate Mann-Kendall trends for 200 parameters at 3000 wells.

AquaChem v.2010.1 Benefits:

Improve Efficiency: New batch processing mode quickly creates time series plots and water-quality trends for tens or hundreds of wells, with the click of a button.
Improve Performance: Many plot and diagram enhancements including new Stacked Bar Charts to display temporal changes of the ion balance of major ions.
Improve Quality of Reports and Presentations: New export to GoogleEarth^TM format provides effective means of presenting and communicating results with your clients.
Increase Confidence: Improved handling of duplicate samples allows you to quickly and confidently find data anomalies.
Meet Regulatory Standards: Compare heavy metal concentrations to U.S. EPA Hardness-Dependent Standards, and report sample exceedences with confidence. The new Alert Levels Test will provide an early warning indicator of sites with concentrations that exceed background levels - something not possible with the use of guideline criteria alone.

“We expect a considerable saving in both cost and time from our use of the revamped trend analysis in AquaChem 2010. We need to carry out an annual check on trends in our groundwater chemical sampling network; the first time we did this, it took several weeks to check for trends across all sites and all chemicals. Now that AquaChem has the ability to perform batch trend analysis, we expect to be able to repeat this analysis literally overnight!” U.K. Environment Agency

Professionals use AquaChem to:

Analyze and report aqueous geochemistry of municipal groundwater supply wells
Report analytical lab results of samples from contaminated sites
Manage water quality data from sanitary landfill sites
Identify mineralization trends for mining exploration
Report water quality guideline exceedences

Join us for a live demonstration

	Book your webinar and learn about AquaChem 2010.1 today

Download a AquaChem Technology Sheet | AquaChem web page | AquaChem Trial Download

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Improved groundwater datalogger: more compact with improved performance and durability

The new CTD-Diver* is a multi-parameter datalogger ideal for groundwater monitoring applications in water resources, industry, and mining. Designed for corrosive and high salinity conditions, environmental professionals rely on CTD-Diver to get accurate results.

New CTD-Diver offers the following benefits:

Improved Performance: A ceramic housing and sensor allows CTD-Diver to withstand corrosive, high salinity conditions.
More Applications: CTD-Diver has a new compact housing ideal for small diameter wells, and increases the conductivity range to 0-120 mS/cm.
Improved Quality: CTD-Diver has earned CE marking for European Union standards, and has also received a CE Design Award, following a series of extensive field and laboratory tests.
More Measurements: The expanded non-volatile memory will store up to 48000 measurements of water level, temperature, and conductivity. The battery life has an increased capacity of 2 million readings, which translates to long-term uninterrupted service.
Improved Accuracy: Typical accuracy is improved to ±1% of reading, with a minimum accuracy of 10 μS/cm. CTD-Divers are now calibrated to operate in temperatures of 0 °C to +50 °C.

CTD-Diver is integrated with field data acquisition accessories and easy-to-use desktop software, and is part of the Diver-Suite* of dataloggers and Diver-NETZ* wireless groundwater monitoring system.

Request a quote for the CTD-Diver | CTD Diver Technology Sheet
Diver-Suite Brochure (Metric Units) | Diver-Suite Brochure (U.S. Imperial Units)

Download our software and instrumentation catalog

To purchase or learn more, contact us at 519-746-1798, sws-diver@slb.com, or find your local distributor.

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Batch Processing for Mann-Kendall Trends streamlines water quality analysis

Stacked Bar Chart shows temporal changes in ion balance - ideal for QA/QC

Enhanced Durov plot with pH and TDS - a powerful alternative to Piper Diagram

Time Series Plots with Hydrographs - correlate chemical and physical parameters

Acquire and analyze CTD-Diver data in the field using Diver-Pocket* software

Compensate and plot CTD-Diver data in the office, using Diver-Office* software

CTD-Diver is part of the Diver-Suite* of groundwater dataloggers

Thank you PDAC (and if we missed you)

Record-breaking attendance and global mining reach

We like to thank the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) for their incredible event held on March 7-10 in Toronto. Your global reach and record-breaking attendance of 22,000 people to your 78^th event contributed to our highly successful hospitality event that was enjoyed by 85 of our clients, surpassing previous year’s participation. We are proud to be continuing our support for PDAC at a high level each year and to have sponsored the Australasia themed International Luncheon.

If you were unable to meet with us at this event, and have water challenges at your mine site, please ask us about our full ranges of water management solutions for mines. Contact one of our global offices, click here.

Visit www.water.slb.com

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Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)

Visit us at these upcoming events & workshops:

Event	Date	Location
Mineral Processing Division Meeting (MPD)	Apr 22-24,2010	Colorado Springs, Colorado
World Geothermal Congress	April 25-30, 2010	Bali, Indonesia
CHINA EPTEE+CWS	Apr 27-29, 2010	Shanghai, China
WaterTech 2010	May 9-12, 2010	Abu Dhabi, UAE
GeoCanada 2010	May 10-14, 2010	Calgary, Canada
Florida Water Resource Conference	May 16-18, 2010	Orlando, Florida
Geological Society of Nevada Symposium	May 16-19, 2010	Reno, Nevada
Concentrated Solar Power Summit (CSP)	June 24-25, 2010	San Francisco, California
American Water Works Association Annual Conference & Exposition (AWWA ACE)	Jun 20-24, 2010	Chicago, Illinois
Singapore International Water Week	Jun 28-Jul 2, 2010	Singapore
Rocky Mountain Energy Epicenter Conference	July 7-9, 2010	Denver, Colorado
American Membrane Technology Association Annual Conference & Exposition (AMTA)	July 12-15, 2010	San Diego, California
Florida chamber Environmental Network, 24^th annual Environmental Permitting Summer School	July 21-23, 2010	Marco Island, Florida
Petroleum Association of Wyoming (PAW) Annual Conference	Aug 17-18, 2010	Casper, Wyoming
IWA World Water Congress	Sep 19-24, 2010	Montreal, Canada
The 7^th International Symposium of Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR7)	Oct 09-13,2010	Abu Dhabi, UAE

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American Membrane Technology Association Annual Conference & Exposition

WaterTech 2010, Abu Dhabi

Florida Water Resources Conference

Schlumberger Water Services Training Course Series

The Schlumberger Water Services Training Services Division has been offering a range of educational courses for the past 17 years. Our courses have been designed to reduce the confusion typically associated with technical topics, and include hands-on learning using the world’s most sophisticated software programs. Participants of our courses gain practical insight into a variety of environmental issues, and learn cost-effective techniques to achieve project objectives.

Upcoming SWS Training Courses

Course	Location	Date
(VMOD 2) Applied Flow and Transport Modeling	Madrid, Spain	April 20-23, 2010
	Moscow, Russia	April 27-30, 2010
	São Paulo, Brazil	May 18-21, 2010
	Paris, France	June 01-04, 2010
	Rome, Italy	July 06-09, 2010
	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Aug 17-20, 2010
(VMOD 1) An Introduction to Groundwater Modeling	Waterloo, Canada	Sep 28-Oct 1, 2010
(IACM) Integrated Aquifer Characterization & Groundwater Modeling	Belo Horizonte	Aug 16-20, 2010
	Lima, Peru	Sep 14-17, 2010
(HGA 1) An Introduction to Environmental Data Management	Monterrey, Mexico	Aug 10-12, 2010
	Delft, the Netherlands	Sep 14-16, 2010
	Waterloo, Ontario	Sep 21-23, 2010
(WQDM) Water Quality Data Management and Modeling	Lima, Peru	Oct 19-21, 2010
(FEM) Finite Element Groundwater Modeling	Denver, CO, USA	June 01-04, 2010

SWS Training Course Series | Course Schedule | Contact Us

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Sharing a Common SQL Server Database for Convenient Environmental Data Management

Did you know that you can directly link your Hydro GeoAnalyst station data with AquaChem for in-depth water quality analysis? This feature allows you to analyze water quality data in AquaChem and to launch the program directly from Hydro GeoAnalyst by selecting stations (or a station group) from your project, and then Water Quality Analysis from the Tools menu, and AquaChem will launch, with the selected stations.

Setting up an ODBC Connection for Hydro GeoAnalyst:

AquaChem and Hydro GeoAnalyst can communicate using an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) connection which can be created From Administrative Tools. After launching the ODBC Data Source Administrator you can add a new SQL Server Data Source as shown below.

After selecting “Finish”, in the Create a New Data Source to SQL Server, specify a Name, description and server for your Data Source. The server will be [host name]\[database] as indicated below:

Follow the prompts to complete the setup.

Preparing Hydro GeoAnalyst to link with AquaChem:

In order to use the AquaChem (Water Quality Analysis) feature within Hydro GeoAnalyst, you must first have AquaChem installed on the local machine, and specify within Hydro GeoAnalyst where the application and project files are located as shown below:

Settings/User Preferences/General:

Linking AquaChem’s database to Hydro GeoAnalyst

Once the ODBC has been created and Hydro GeoAnalyst configured, you will be able to link the HGA database to the AquaChem interface.

1) Launch AquaChem
2) Create a new empty AquaChem database.
3) From the main menu, select File \ Remote Database \ Link to Remote Database. The Link Tables window will appear and allow you to select the ODBC Data Source that you created previously, allowing you to link to tables from the remote database.

Once the database is selected, its corresponding server information will be shown in the Server and Database field.

Now that you have established the link between the two programs close AquaChem.

Advanced Water Quality Analysis in Hydro GeoAnalyst

With your Hydro GeoAnalyst project open select the station(s) or station group that you wish to conduct the Water Quality Analysis on. With your selection active, go to Tools/Water Quality Analysis this will launch AquaChem.

If you have highlighted specific stations, AquaChem will be filtered to display only the selected stations, whereas, if a station group is selected, all stations within that group will be visible when AquaChem has launched.

You can now perform your analysis and create plots within AquaChem using the data from your Hydro GeoAnalyst stations.

Among the plots available within AquaChem, AquaChem 2010.1 now includes an improved Durov plot to show two additional parameters, e.g., pH, EC, TDS, on the same plot.

AquaChem 2010.1 also includes a new Stacked Bar chart option, which allows anions/cations to be plotted side by side to provide an estimate of ion balance.

Please keep in mind that the following operations must be performed in HGA:

Creating or modifying parameters
Importing data
Creating new samples or modifying sample information
Creating new stations or modifying station information.

When paired with Hydro GeoAnalyst, AquaChem provides an efficient and comprehensive selection of analysis, calculation, modeling, and graphing tools for your water quality and groundwater sampling data.

Visit the Hydro GeoAnalyst website for more details

Please contact your local distributor

*Shapefiles and ArcGIS Engine are registered marks of ESRI. SQL Server, Access, ExcelTM are registered marks of Microsoft. Google Earth^TM is a registered mark of Google.
1: Testimonial from UK Environment Agency Staff

See what people say about SWS:

“I have utilized Hydro GeoBuilder for two different projects. I am liking Hydro GeoBuilder because of its dual functionality (i.e. creating both Finite Difference and Finite Element meshes). It was easy to maneuver through the GUI. It is really nice to be able to build the conceptual model in 3D and then import it into the groundwater flow model. It makes modeling so much easier. Great job SWS!”
Robert Maric

“Thanks a million for your patience and help. With your input we got things running in a knick of time. Pass my thanks on the rest of the tech support team as well. They were most helpful at various stages of getting the software up and running.”
Rick Devlin

“A big thank you to {SWS Technical Support} for their friendly, prompt and accurate support yesterday and today. You guys saved my bacon, and I can't thank you enough!”
Isabelle

“Thanks for the excellent service. I am very pleased with the assistance received. Following the instructions given the project opened with out any problems.”
Lorna Jaramillo Nieves

“Our consulting firm manages large amounts of Environmental Data and we have found that HGA has become a valuable data management solution by saving us both time and money while ensuring the integrity and security of our data.”
Rob Maric

“Loved the training and software! I will be recommending it to my boss. I only wish I had it sooner.”
Rick Salness, P.G.

“The uninstall/re-install was successful in remediating the problem. We appreciate the prompt response and support. Thank you.”
Walter E. Kaeck

“Thank you so much for all your help. I appreciate your efforts to recover my project.”
Ryan Dunbar

“Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. What a professional staff! You guys are great. Look forward to doing more business with you.”
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