Global mapping guru Petrosys will boost the penetration of its oil and gas exploration software in India after signing an agency agreement with major regional petroleum sector supplier Reservoil.

Reservoil, a leading organization operating in the Indian upstream petroleum industry, markets a range of petroleum software technologies and equipment to clients throughout the region.

Petrosys, which promotes its software with the tagline “the Mapping Guru”, is an international leader in providing software systems to the global petroleum Exploration and Production (E&P) industry.

Driven by the record high price of oil, India is increasingly a focus for oil and gas exploration.

Reservoil’s Dr. Sharma said Petrosys provided a versatile, easy to use and innovative mapping and surface modeling tool for E&P workflow. “We are excited about the value the Petrosys software solution will bring to the organizations of India to effectively meet the complex challenges of exploring and developing oil and gas resources,” he said.

Business magazine Australian Anthill is calling for young South Australian entrepreneurs to wave the State's piping shrike flag in nominations for its annual 30under30 competition.

Anthill publisher James Tuckerman said South Australian nominations for the 30under30 awards have been few and far between since applications opened in February. Ironically, SA produced the 2007 winner for Anthill's Cool Company Award, Rising Sun Research.

Mr. Tuckerman has called on South Australians to nominate an SA entrepreneur for this new national awards program before the April 7 closing date. Nominees must be under 30 years of age on June 1, 2008. They can work for their own company or work for someone else. They just need to demonstrate that they have an entrepreneurial mindset.

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National broadband innovator Internode has won a prestigious ATUG telecommunications industry award for its Australia-first WiMAX broadband project in the Yorke Peninsula region of South Australia.

This week, at the annual ATUG (Australian Telecommunications User Group) awards ceremony in Sydney, Internode got the gong for the Best Regional Communications Solution. The ATUG Excellence Award recognised Internode's outstanding achievements in innovation and services to end users through its deployment of Australia's first region-wide, wireless broadband service using the WiMAX standard.

In a major extension of its reach, Internode has launched its first "Naked ADSL2+" service at 350 exchanges nationally, delivering high speed ADSL2+ broadband over a dial tone-free phone line.

Through a network agreement with Optus Wholesale, Internode will offer Naked ADSL2+ from $59.95 a month including a NodePhone1* telephone service. Since customers can save money by no longer paying for a third party phone line rental fee (typically $30 per month), this prices the Naked ADSL2+ service at a nett cost of as little as $29.95 per month - or less, if low cost call charges are included.

Broadband equipment maker Billion is named as Australia's most popular modem brand for the second year running in the 2007 Australian Broadband Survey, held by tech-savvy site Whirlpool.

Billion devices were used by 23.7 per cent of the nearly 18,000 people * who responded to the online survey, which was conducted over four weeks from December 31, 2007, to February 1, 2008.

Whereas last year, Billion was a narrow winner in the Broadband Survey hardware category, this year's result made it a clear winner - with nearly twice the penetration of the second-placed brand, D-Link, which was used by just 12.2 per cent of survey respondents.

Six Billion broadband modems were included among the 19 devices listed by the Australian Broadband Survey, which is published at http://whirlpool.net.au/survey/2007/.

Billion's Australian distributor PC Range is following up the Broadband Survey success with a Billion roadshow in Melbourne and Sydney for resellers, service providers and system integrators.

PC Range managing director Raaj Menon said the events were intended to capitalise on the success that the Billion brand was achieving in Australia. "Customers walk into stores to ask for Billion by name because of its good reputation," he said.