September 9, 2008
Dagfinn Gunnarshaug attends, as a special guest of Fred Kavli, the full four days of Kavli Prize celebrations in Trondheim and Oslo. Erik Rolland joins in the awards ceremony and program in Oslo, and Knut I. Oxnevad participates in the special ceremony for the winners of the Kavli Astrophysics Prize at the Vitenfabrikken in Sandnes. More about: The Kavli Prize Awards Ceremony.

May 29, 2008
Bengt H. Skogvold attends the "Orkangerkonferansen" (the Orkanger Conference). He'll meet with executives from smaller and larger oil and gas companies and contractors operating in the important mid to northern parts of Norway.

May 22, 2008
Dr. Knut I. Oxnevad participates at the official, by invitation only, opening of the exciting science center, Vitenfabrikken , in Sandnes, Norway. The Minister of Research and Higher Education Tora Aasland and the recepients of the prestigious Abel Award, John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits, together do the official ribbon cutting.

May 7-8, 2008
Dagfinn Gunnarshaug attends the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Houston, Texas for discussions with central players in the oil and gas industry.

April 10-12, 2008
Dr. Knut I. Oxnevad gives a special talk as an invited speaker at the Maieutic Parataxis part of the COFES 2008 held at Scottsdale, Arizona. His talk was titled: "Future: Working in Real-Time". COFES stands for Congress on the Future of Engineering Software.

March 10, 2008
SIMTANO AS moves into new and larger offices in the exciting and innovative environment of iPark, next to the University of Stavanger. With this move, SIMTANO AS will also get closer to Forus, where most of the larger oil and gas companies are located. Our new visiting address is: SIMTANO AS Prof. Olav Hanssensvei 7A, 3rd floor, 4068 Stavanger.

January 17, 2008
As part of SIMTANO's educational outreach efforts, Dr. Knut I. Oxnevad, talks to 4th graders at Sandved Barneskole, Sandnes, Norwa about where and how we may find life on Mars.

January 13, 2008
Norm Ohren joins the SIMTANO Team.

January 10, 2008
SIMTANO, Inc, joins the Thousand Oaks - Westlake Village Chamber of commerce (http://www.towlvchamber.org/index.htm).

December 14, 2007
In November, management decided to restructure the SIMTANO, AS organization, to include only on-call, part time consultants. The only exception to this rule is B. H.Skogvold at the Trondheim office. This decision was approved by the Board on December 14. The reorganization was done to put SIMTANO in an even better position to serve its customers with the best experts at all times.

December 13, 2007

SIMTANO is featured in the special Christmas edition of KAPITAL. KAPITAL is regarded as the premier finance, business, and economics magazine in Norway. The magazine a must read for senior execitives of corporate Norway. Click here for the full article in Norwegian and here for the full article in English.

October 25, 2007
SIMTANO is featured in the October, 2007 (32) issue of the premier Norwegian technology publication, Teknisk Ukeblad ("Technology Weekly"). Teknisk Ukeblad is read by engineers and executives in the oil and gas, energy, and construction industries. Click here to read the full article.

September 1, 2007:
Per Kristiansen of Krummrich Engineering (http://kecorp.us/) partners up with the SIMTANO Team

September 1, 2007
Bengt H. Skogvold joins the SIMTANO team. He'll be based in Trondheim.

August 1, 2007
Dagfinn Gunnarshaug will attend a "Norwegian Conference about Energy " in Haugesund, Norway on August 7th. He will meet executives from the energy companies including oil/gas companies.

July 15, 2007
Dagfinn Gunnarshaug will attend a maritime conference in Haugesund, Norway, (2nd year attending) on August 8th and 9th. Executives from the off shore industries will attend - this conference is becoming a very important one within the oil/offshore industry on the Western part of Norway.

June 29, 2007
SIMTANO signs on as official sponsor for Wave Vidmar and his Ocean Row Solo North Atlantic expeditions.

June 14, 2007
Knut I. Oxnevad is invited to speak about concurrent design at the Procensus Business Center Networking Lunch, Stavanger, Norway. Numerous executives from the oil and gas industry and the city of Stavanger attend.

June 12, 2007
Dagfinn Gunnarshaug gives an interview about SIMTANO at the National Broadcast Corporation of Norway (NRK) in Haugesund, Norway

April 25, 2007
Knut I. Oxnevad is appointed to the board of the Norsk Forening for Automatisering (NFA).

April 17, 2007
Statoil’s internal paper about some of the projects supported by SIMTANO: "Nye samarbeidsformer i DVM", published in "TAMPEN DVM nyhetsbrev", Utgave 02

April 1, 2007
Dagfinn Gunnarshaug, attends the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston April 1-3, 2007. He meets with executives of the larger oil and gas companies, and mayors of important cities, from an oil and gas perspective, along the Norwegian Coast.

March 20, 2007
Consultancy Contract between Statoil ASA and SIMTANO INC is renewed for another 18 months.

December 15, 2006
Knut I. Oxnevad is the invited speaker at Statoil's monthly Friday Forum. These talks are open to all Statoil employees and contractors either via physical presence or via video. Title of talk: "Concurrent Design." The IB Center, Forus, Stavanger, Norway.

September 13, 2006
Knut I. Oxnevad gives a talk titled "NASA Technology Applied to Oil and Gas" at the Norwegain Petroleum Society (NPF)'s prestigious Intelligent Fields and Integrated Operation Conference, Stavanger, Norway.