The new Ryder Scott FTP (File Transfer Protocol) site is now available to clients to speed up the transmission (upload) and receipt (download) of reservoir and economic data over the Internet.

To request a log-on identification and password, so you can access the FTP server, call computer-group representatives Bob Ambrocik at 713-651-9191, ext. 251 or Jim Brown at ext. 235. They can also be reached at their respective e-mail addresses, Bob_Ambrocik@RyderScott.com or Jim_Brown@RyderScott.com. Also, the engineer in charge of your project can place the request for you.

The password protection is part of the permissions system on the file server that restricts access to confidential directories and files as well as the ability to read, delete or alter files. Typically, clients transfer seismic data, log data (such as a LAS file), production data in Excel, economic data in Aries or a variety of other data in analog and digital file formats.

Those same types of data can be posted by Ryder Scott to a password-protected archive on the FTP server for access by the client. Typically the data files are compressed. A user opens the files by unzipping with a decompression program such as Winzip.

Internet network providers discourage transferring 2-megabyte or larger e-mail attachments over a client-server environment because it slows down user traffic and connectivity. Also, many companies have internal policies regarding the maximum file sizes that they can handle for e-mail exchanges.