ECIM'2009 - 14th. to 16th. September in Haugesund

Picture the following: An applications portfolio comprising a large number of tools from a wide variety of vendors, many performing the same function, and all with proprietary storage formats. A massive number of project files generated from these applications stored across shared drives, workstations and laptops. Requests coming from influential users who recommend two totally different applications for the very same purpose, and you stuck in the middle.
It?s a picture that will likely be familiar to many....

The converse of this situation: Agreement on as few different standard tools as reasonable that, using common data standards, support a well understood workflow.  And there lies the real problem ? what is the workflow? Ask any geoscientist and you will receive the same frustrating answer: It depends. It depends on the data, it depends on the people doing the work, it depends on the time and money available, and it depends on who you ask in the first place.

A means to communicate workflows is critical to building understanding across disciplines and to enable the design of an efficient applications and data system to support them.

The presentation will propose a flexible component based approach to describe workflows that allows for better communication between geoscientists and IT. The presentation will be followed by a (no doubt lively) discussion.

The paper will describe the implementation of a sophisticated Information Management System aimed at supporting the processes related to project planning & control, interface management and change management for the Goliat project, operated by Eni Norge. The system has been developed on top of Eni?s Project Management System, named SIGEP, and it has been configured to fit the internal workflows and procedures that have been designed for the Goliat project. The system provides a framework where all project information (schedule, progress, costs, changes, interface issues, etc) can be cross referenced with each other, as well as to the main project control structures (Work Breakdown Structure, Product Breakdown Structure), therefore enforcing a consistent view of the project status from different perspectives. Moreover, the integrations of the system with SAP, Primavera and the Intergraph engineering database will be described.

Short Bio:

Marco Piantanida (Eni E&P) is a knowledge owner and technical leader within the Business Application Development group of Eni E&P in Milan, Italy. He holds an Electronic Engineering degree with ?Politecnico di Milano? and a Master degree in Information Technology. He gained the PMP (Project Management Professional) certification in 2005. He joined Eni E&P in 1992, and had been working for ten years on projects related to Expert Systems, Neural Networks and advanced algorithms for the E&P world. Since 2002, he has been working as project manager and architecture designer for technical web portals and collaboration tools. He has been in charge of the development of the IT framework supporting the processes of E&P Field Development, Exploration, Operation & Production, and Innovation Projects. He has been author of many technical papers in Oil & Gas conferences, as well as session chairman.

At RWE Dea´s E&P business the E&P Archive management provides users with descriptive information about data types, data stores and order procedures in order to support the business.
eSearch, the physical asset management system at RWE Dea, is used in Germany, Egypt and Libya. eSearch is a cataloguing and ordering system that is used to store descriptive information (metadata) on physical items that are stored in our storage facilities.
It provides finding data, inserting data, amending data, copying data, deleting data, loading data and exporting data. eSearch software technology allows users to index, search for, and order physical assets distributed across multiple repositories.

Four main groups of data types are administrated within the RWE Dea configured System:

- Well data ? reports, paper logs, well seismic, ?
- Seismic data ? reports, poststack, prestack, navigation, ?
- General data ? field studies, analysies, reports, maps, ?
- Software data (minor important data container) ? special backups, software, ?

About 266,000 metadata records for 234,000 physical items are registered in 5 different storage locations for the instance located in Hamburg.

The presentation will include a description of the design and data structure of the eSearch data management tool. The main functions and procedures of the system will be shown. The duration of the presentation will be approximately 15 to 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion and will touch the following topics:

Data model - Search and order workflows - Technical specifications

First speaker:
Sabine Strohbach, E&P Archive Administration, RWE Dea AG / GeoSupportCenter

Secondary speaker:
Andreas Butzke, Geophysicist, Head of Geodatabases, RWE Dea AG / GeoSupportCenter

Short Bio: 

Sabine Strohbach is responsible for E&P Archive Administration at RWE Dea Operations in the Hamburg main office. Her E&P Data Management career started just two years ago after finishing her business administration graduate. She is now responsible for coordinating all RWE Dea storage locations for physical items.

[Andreas Butzke, Geophysicist, is head of the Department Geo Databases with more than 15 years of experience in E&P Data management.]
 

The Diskos database has recently been successfully transferred to a new operator. The focus in Diskos is now to improve the quality of data stored in the database and to fill in gaps in legacy data sets. The NPD is in the progress of updating reporting requirements for upstream data, this will have significant consequences for Diskos. Planning for a software upgrade to PetroBank R5000 is underway which will include the implementation of new search technology.

Short Bio:

Eric Toogood has a B.Sc in Library and Information Science from the Norwegian School of Library and Information Science and a Higher National Diploma in Applied Biology from Leicester Polytechnic, U.K. Eric worked for a number of years in medical research at the University of Oslo before moving into information management (IM). Eric has over 25 years IM experience from the oil and gas industry working in Det Norske Veritas, Norsk Hydro and ABB before joining the NPD in 1987. Eric has worked in various managerial positions relating to document and information management and has participated in various IM initiatives in the Norwegian oil industry in collaboration with the Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF).
Eric is currently the Manager of DISKOS, a joint industry initiative for the reporting and custodianship of petroleum data (seismic, well and production data) from the Norwegian Continental Shelf on behalf of the Norwegian Authorities and the oil companies active in Norway.
 

Smaller E&P organisations tend to operate with ad-hoc or informal information management systems. Without a practical strategy for information management these systems can mean, as the organisation grows, information is duplicated many times, becomes increasingly difficult to share, and leads to work being recreated when it cannot be found, but more importantly decisions being made with out of date or incomplete data.

Based on a recent case study, this presentation describes how Venture have helped our clients implement information management systems that capture and share information and that satisfies the users and the organisation?s needs as it grows. Users see the information clustered the way they like it, but the organisation has control over where it is saved and who has access to it.
 

Short Bio:

David is a Project Manager & Business Analyst with extensive experience in working with organisations advising them in all aspects of Information Management, from strategy to implementation.David?s most recent project for a UK E&P Company involved delivering a roadmap and recommendations, subsequently adopted, for improved information management across client?s organisation in support of rapid growth. Solutions implementation of the roadmap is now underway.
 

 Short Bio of Fredrik Grimsby:

Fredrik Grimsby is currently employed as IS Project Manager at Seadrill?s corporate organization in Norway. Prior to joining Seadrill in 2006, he worked as a consultant with implementation of document and content management solutions at ExxonMobil. Fredrik holds a Master degree in Information Systems.

Short Bio:

Rune Espelid is Leading Advisor on Information management in StatoilHydro.
He has ten years of experience with BI, including data warehousing, performance management, and business BI strategies.
His professional background includes ten years of computer science research in IBM, and Christian Michelsen Research. He holds a Master degree in Computer Science.
 

We can all think of information and knowledge systems in our various companies that are not as well adopted as their owners would hope – due to real or perceived barriers. We all know that users need encouragements to adopt new systems. At ECIM 2007 we investigated ‘which’ barriers and encouragements were considered greatest. In 2008 we investigated ‘who’ would have the action of removing barriers or offering encouragements. But just what are those actions? Join this workshop to find out! You don’t need to have attended the previous workshops in 2007 & 2008 - join us in 2009 and get the value of 3 workshops in one!

Short Bio: 

David has worked in the oil industry since 1985 working firstly for oil companies and then the oilfield services industry, joining Schlumberger in 1997, where he has focused on Knowledge and Information Management in three different ways. Internally, firstly as an Internal Practitioner, secondly as Leader of the Schlumberger Eureka Knowledge Interchange Community, (Eureka is the Schlumberger Technical Communities of Practice Program) and thirdly, with an external focus, helping Schlumberger clients enable their own Knowledge and Information Management initiatives. David truly believes that people fail technology more often than technology fails people – so it’s fitting that once again ECIM are focusing on ‘Human Capital’

In a small Company you might have people with broad experience – including a lot of expectations to Information Management. It is a challenge to agree upon how to handle this, and keep track of the growing amount of Documentation. What kind of resources do you need and where do you begin?

Short Bio:

Bente has worked in the Oil & Gas Industry since 1998. She has had long-term assignments for Manpower at ExxonMobil (SPC Project and Ringhorne Project), and at StatoilHydro(Snøhvit Project). She has also had a couple of smaller assignments for other Companies. Since 2007 she has worked for Island Offshore Subsea. During this period she has worked mainly with Document Control. Bente has experienced the difference between working as a Consultant for a big Company compared to being an employee in a small Company.

We all know the building stones of an IT implementation project. But that?s not where the real challenges lies! My presentation will focus on the hidden areas that cause the biggest problems. But focus on people, decisions, objectives, coordination, expectation management and project management. The word ?understand? plays a key role! The workshop will address key success factors and try to develop these with the participants.

Short Bio:

With many large IT projects behind me, all projects with large amount of end users, has taught me a great deal of what the key elements to succeed are.
From a background in a multinational company (SAS) I have worked my way through operation, administration via projects to several management positions. The past 10 years has been spent as consultant, program manager for large IT projects and executive positions at advanced software companies. For the moment partner at Composing A/S, consultants with focus on Performance Management and Execution.
 

The Upstream business allegedly faces a demographic crisis potentially leading to a crippling skills shortage. Yet little is done to drive up productivity and efficiency in the resources upon whom we all depend. In this presentation, we will examine the current challenges in team working dynamics and then outline our thinking as to how the industry can adopt new approaches that will:
- Build effective team relationships
- Free up employee time for useful work (or play)
- Capture hidden knowledge and information
- Apply consistent, robust and flexible processes
- Use contemporary consumer publishing techniques
 

Short Bio:

Jamie is a software technology professional working in the upstream oil and gas business. He has over 15 years of experience as a developer, architect and manager working on major projects for a variety of clients and delivering products that are widely used in the industry including PetroBank MDS.

David is a leading consultant in upstream information management and designed the infrastructure for some of the world?s largest National Data Repositories.

Jamie and David are co-founders (together with Ugur Algan) of FUSE Information Management, a software company whose flagship product is XStreamline - a customer proven web based E&P team productivity tool.
 

The presentation provides details of content, delivery modes, entry requirements, progression routes, awards, for courses currently provided by the Department of Information Management. It provides an opportunity for workshop participants to identify their own education and CPD needs, and to discuss how these may be addressed in future.

Short Bio:

Simon Burnett is a senior lecturer and research coordinator for the department of information management in Aberdeen Business School. Prior to working at RGU, he worked in the oil and gas industry developing web-based information and knowledge systems.

Short bio:

Stephen Ashley is the Information Management Domain Leader at Schlumberger Information Solutions. Stephen has held various roles during his 26-year career within the Oil and Gas industry including field operations, operations management, project management and technical consulting. He has extensive experience in the areas of seismic operations, seismic processing, IT and Information Management.

Master Data Governance Process Initiation with the implications that this have implied. A workshop to discuss how to change an organization mindset from being stove pipe oriented to cross functional oriented.

Short Abstract - Jesper Wahl Poulsen:

Jesper have worked in the Energy sector since 1999, the first 7 years as an statistician and senior analyst working with Market Opening issues and recent years as a process consultant. The entire period the work expertise has been Data Management and data QC/QA for use for statistical and analytical purposes. During the last 3 years this has been supplemented by working with Process Management and Change Management. Recently these skills have been brought together to strengthen the discipline of Master Data Management in our business unit.  A focal point for Jesper has always been how to bring people and technology together and to have the technology support the people rather than vice versa.
 

Short abstract - Ulla Savoretti:

Ulla is an Enterprise Architect with 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Ulla has been working in different industries such as Banking, Transportation and now Energy. Her area of expertise is within the Information Management having evangelised the importance of common terminology and understanding of the business data and processes across an organisation. Ulla has set up data governance processes, principles and data councils in a global organisation. Furthermore, She has defined the Corporate Data Models to support e.g. application development, data warehousing, canonical forms within the SOA environment.

Current developments in GIS data processing and data management, makes data available to end users through centralised GIS server software. Centralised storage of data improves data integrity, simplifies data management and gives the end user fast and easy access to GIS data. StatoilHydro is currently implementing a server solution that will enable users to access the data via a range of client applications; i.e. heavy to medium level GIS desktop applications, globe viewers and Web applications. By using OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) service standards, a range of service capabilities can be offered to clients.

In the main database we run an index database concept, i.e. footprints of available data sets. These footprints store metadata information which is used by the users to retrieve the actual data, most of which is stored in the corporate GIS datastore. This database is configured with a fixed schema that accommodates new data being appended to existing feature classes and tables. The coordinates are transformed to WGS84, but the method and parameters used to transform the data from the original coordinate reference system (datum and projection) is documented through an EPSG code assigned to each feature in the database.
 

Short Bio:

Odd A. is Cand.real. magmatic petrology, Univ. of Oslo, 1981. Research fellow UiO, 1980-1984. 1984-1999 Saga Petroleum, 2000-2007 Norsk Hydro, 2007 – present StatoilHydro. Has worked with GIS since 1989.

The information produced by all our systems, analysis, workflows and ingenuity must be easily discoverable and ready to put into use, in any context. Like waypoints on a map, the information must be visible, easy to navigate by, and make sure that we reach our targets. This will only be achieved with a plan for how the information resources will be presented to the organization.

This presentation will focus on why a map is the perfect index to find, discover, browse and distribute the vast information of your databases and favorite online resources. We?ll look into different strategies for building portals, and how ArcGIS Server, together with open standards for data sharing, can be used in this context.

Lastly, with all these high quality data available at your fingertips, we?ll show how you can make exciting web applications aiming to bring your data to life and reach a broader audience. This will make sure that the data will be sought for by the entire organization and fund the further expansion of the corporate data store.
 

Short Bio: 

Inge Anundskås has been with Geodata AS for almost 8 years working with GIS and the ESRI product suite. As a Technical Advisor an important part of his job description is to monitor the trends and developments in the GIS and IT business.

E&P companies invest considerable time and money deploying content specific information silos around wells, seismic, documents, and even spatial data. Often these systems and the data they contain are only readily accessible to a select few specialists and are usually not integrated across critical company workflows.

OpenSpirit works to remove these barriers and allow users to leverage these investments across the organization. With OpenSpirit technology you can enable access to your disparate systems and data, in the context of your business workflows, putting GIS information into the hands of the G&G user, or visualizing G&G information in the context of a full-function GIS.

Join us as we explore an example workflow from data manager to end user, across several industry technologies and workflow scenarios. Discover the efficiency and flexibility of using OpenSpirit solutions to integrate systems and maximize the return of your technology investments.
 

Short Bio:

Brian Boulmay has over ten years experience in the upstream GIS industry with a diverse background across Shell E&P, ESRI, and OpenSpirit. He has spent most of his career working with technology planning, integration workflows and data management challenges. Brian holds a B.S. in Geography/GIS, an M.S. in Geographic Science, an MBA and GISP and CMS GIS/LIS certifications.

Reducing the amount of time devoted to finding, retrieving, and verifying geographically relevant datasets, documents, and other resources is a recognized industry need. We use the term metadata to refer to that which is useful to consistently characterize geographically relevant resources. Our objective is to enable the energy community to adopt standard approaches to such metadata ? specifying, assigning, and using ? covering internal and external data exchanges and leveraging relevant technologies and trends.

Initially, this initiative will focus on geographically relevant resources that have coordinate-based location references, while later the focus will expand to place-name location references. The facilitator and custodian of this initiative is Energistics. Active participants and interested parties are being sought. Progress will be made incrementally over time. Data management principles will be applied to ensure flexibility and reliability.
 

Short Bio:

Alan is deeply involved in the planning and execution of Energistics (and previously POSC) standards activities covering data and information standards for the E&P geoscience and subsurface engineering business areas. In the past several years, he has been the primary coordinator and facilitator for the Data Management, Geology, Drilling, and Production Special Interest Groups and the associated industry standards including WITSML, PRODML, PWLS, and the Global Unique Well Identifier standards and services. Prior to joining POSC, Alan was engaged by Gulf and Chevron for twelve years where he was responsible for managing software standards, methodology, and software engineering tool groups. Alan holds an MS degree in Computer Science and a BA degree in Mathematics from Cornell University. He is a member of the SPE, SEG, ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. He has served for ten years on the Governing Board of The Open Group, including four years as Chairman.

In this presentation CMR will talk about some of the technologies behind the vessel tracking system and how different features and data types can be used.
In Shell the AIS system is being used in emergency preparedness, logistics and operations. The presentation will show different ways of using the AIS data in Shell. A live demo will be conducted.
 

Short Bio:

Kjell Røang is a software professional working as a Business developer at CMR Computing. He has a Computer Science degree from ETH in Zurich and his main interest is in web based mapping systems. He is a strong believer in web mapping standards and work mainly in the maritime sector.

Kjell Gundersen is currently Geo Information Management Norway team lead in Shell with background in data management, IT and Geodesy.
Has been working with Shell since 1993 and with data management and GIS since 1995. He holds a degree in telecom and economics
 

GIS has long been used as a powerful data integration and basemapping tool within the E&P industry. However, few companies have leveraged its extensive spatial analysis capabilities.

This workshop session will look at how spatial analysis functionality in GIS can be used to enhance traditional Exploration workflows and provide new insights in to play fairway mapping, acreage analysis and opportunity ranking. It will also review some of the challenges that arise from using GIS in this way.

Participants are encouraged to share their experiences in using GIS in the Exploration process, and how they have overcome any obstacles they have faced.
 

Short Bio:

Gareth Smith is Managing Director of Exprodat Consulting. Prior to Exprodat, Gareth worked for Landmark Graphics as a technical consultant, and for Sun Oil as a Geologist. Gareth has worked in the E&P industry for over 20 years.

With new work processes being implemented at a record pace, real-time drilling data is becoming more and more used throughout the industry. But how do we resolve the data-management challenge introduced by these new work processes? And how do we organize in order to ensure that we enable an important key feature of Integrated Operations: Quality decisions onshore funded on the best datasets available at any given time.

This presentation will show how we are approaching these challenges in StatoilHydro, touching on the following key factors:
- which new data management challenges are introduced by real-time drilling data, and how do we approach these challenges?
- how to organize in order to make real-time data available for all drilling operations.
- how to ensure quality deliverables all the way from the down hole sensors to the end-users?.in real-time!

The descriptions and solution proposals given in this presentation is based on experiences from having provided centralized real-time services to StatoilHydro?s assets since 2002.
 

Short Bio:

Thomas Halland has worked in Statoil/StatoilHydro?s IT subsurface sector since 1996. He has experience from many datamangement projects (Slegge, Score, EPDS). When StatoilHydro established a new department (Real Time Services) focusing on real-time drilling data he was offered the position as department manager. He is currently working as operational manager in StatoilHydro?s Real Time Centre, responsible for streaming of real-time drilling data for all of StatoilHydro?s drilling operations.

This presentation shows why the windows platform can open many doors to the Integrated Operation vision, which is enabled by connectivity, collaborative technologies and multi-discipline work flows.
There is many challenges connecting corporate G&G and drilling data base, in one visualization platform. Live well planning session require specific preparedness and coordination on different operating systems, disciplines and hardware.
 

Short Bio:

Nour-Eddine Lahlah was graduated as State Engineer in Thermal Mechanical Engineering, from Annaba University ? Algeria in 1993. Been in the petroleum industry since 1996 in different field and engineering positions within Schlumberger and Halliburton. Worked especially on reservoir information operations ? Downhole and surface testing, multi-phase metering - and Drilling &Completion: Drill- Stem Testing, expandable liner hangers and completion.
Consultancy experience included: Sonatrach Algeria with the Production Optimization Team - POT ? and actually with ConocoPhillips Norway.
 

This presentation explores how two different Exploration & Production (E&P) companies introduced automated data quality solutions to enhance drilling decisions and data management. Especially in the current economic climate, many drilling decisions are bets based on the best available data at the time. Multi-million dollar mistakes can be made if data used is incomplete, inaccurate, or inconsistent.

Our case study E&P companies realized that they are more than engineering operations ? they are in fact asset management companies, where data is one of their most valuable assets. Since their drilling performance is predicated on accurate data, it was vital to ensure that the data gathered from different sources and disciplines is of the very highest quality and integrity.

A fundamental first step taken by the case study E&P?s was to perform ?data quality profiling? to identify any and all possible data issues. This was followed by a disciplined approach to correct the defects by deploying automation, wherever possible. Learn how data quality solutions, along with a repeatable methodology, can help improve trust and confidence in the data as it pertains to drilling decisions.
 

Short Bio:

Paul Gregory has over twenty years experience in dealing with data quality and digital data issues in many sectors all over North America and the U.K. In the Oil & Gas sector, he has successfully led data quality initiatives for numerous Exploration and Producing companies. He is active in the standards community and was a former member of the Board of Directors for the Public Petroleum Data Model association (PPDM) and a member of the International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ).

Paul has spoken at numerous energy data conferences in North America and the U.K. He has published many white papers related to data quality in the energy sector.
 

On high volume drilling operations, data collection for offset well analysis can take a large portion of the time required for well design and planning.

Most of this data can be found in Daily Operations Reports (DOR), but, when reports are kept only on paper copies, pdf files or traditional, single well daily operations report applications, the effort to recover, filter and organize the data makes a dent in the ability of the Drilling Engineer in charge of the Well Design and Planning to properly use the data in a timely fashion. The alternatives, use less wells as offsets or take longer to plan each well.

Schlumberger IPM Drilling Operations is realizing measurable time and money savings through the implementation of a central Information Management solution for DORs that collects, stores and present DOR data from multiple worldwide locations in tailored set of reports and charts, allowing for a streamlined, standardized offset analysis process.
 

Short Bio:

Bachelors in Computers Engineering, working for Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) since 1998 as Team Member, Team Leader, Technical Leader, Deployment Engineer and Product Analyst for Information Management solutions for different domains including Reserves, Production and Drilling Operations.

As a Deployment Engineer and later Product Analyst for Drilling Information Management solutions at the headquarters office in Houston, participated from 2004 to 2007 in the deployment of the Daily Operation Reports and Information Management solution for Schlumberger IPM.

Since 2008 to the present, in charge of Business Development and support of Drilling Software for the North Sea market for SIS.
 

E&P operators, commercial data vendors, software providers and regulatory agencies have different definitions of a ?well?, the components of a well, and the relationships between them. These different definitions hamper industry?s ability to exchange and integrate data smoothly and to establish consistent workflows.

The PPDM membership funded a project to develop baseline definitions for the principal components of a well and to illustrate the relationships between these over the lifecycle of typical well configurations. The baseline was then used to perform an in-depth comparison against the component definitions adopted by key industry data providers in the US and Canada. This comparison is being extended into Australia, and comparisons to European agencies are planned. Comparisons illustrate the challenges and potential pitfalls associated with integrating data from multiple sources without a common understanding of the components and terms involved.

This paper will describe the project approach and will present the results in the form of an interactive online application that can be used by industry for establishing common understanding as well as for educational purposes.
 

Short Bio:

Trudy Curtis (CEO, CIO PPDM Association)
Trudy has nearly thirty years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry. Ms Curtis has worked internationally in technical and strategic projects to develop corporate knowledge and information management architectures and integrated technical environments. Trudy is currently serving as CIO and CEO for the PPDM Association. Trudy received a BSc. from the University of Calgary in 1978.
 

StatoilHydro recently acquired PetrelRE (Petrel Reservoir Engineering) as a central software application in pre- and post processing for reservoir simulation using the Eclipse simulators. The role PetrelRE with respect to Petrel as it has been known thus far is that PetrelRE is a module in a software system that spans from Geophysics, through Geology, to Reservoir Engineering and simulation. PetrelRE replaces a range of same vendor (Schlumberger Information Solutions) applications previously used for these tasks, and is also an alternative for other suppliers of tools in the relevant workflows in reservoir simulation.
PetrelRE is primarily a data handling and management application, but has a role in several important computational tasks also. Implementation of a new tool in the interface between the reservoir simulator, official databases and other applications in the overall reservoir modelling workflow brings several challenges. We examine and discuss the following aspects of using PetrelRE in a modelling and simulation environment in StatoilHydro:

• Single vs multi user projects
• External data requirements, links to official databases
• Internal data management requirements, single and multiple realisations
• Compatibility issues, import and conversion of pre-PetrelRE simulation projects to PetrelRE
• Archiving of official model versions
• Use of PetrelRE as a launch pad for reservoir simulation on the grid computing system
• Dynamic linking of PetrelRE to other applications and vica versa. Plug-ins.

Short Bio:

Hafsteinn has 31 years experience in the oil industry, from both the service/supply and operator sector. He has worked in Norway and internationally in petrophysics, production and reservoir engineering, in both managerial and technical positions,. For the last 18 years he has been in StatoilHydro, formerly Statoil. He is currently Leading Advisor, Reservoir Management in the sector for Petroleum Engineering and Improved Oil Recovery.

The Exploration & Appraisal wellfile consists of definitive electronic content held in structured databases and electronic documents. Its also consists of hardcopy and physical items such as core. Whilst some of this material has to be provided to the government, some of the interpreted information needs to be managed for the medium term by the operator. As well as managing the content, activities need to be performed such as reporting to partners, governments and internal loading/indexing and value-add activities.

Typically some well information comes in to a central services group, other well information is sent directly to the team. There is often a separate flow for 'documents' as opposed to 'data'. How do you check all of this, on dozens (even hundreds) of wells drilled each year in different locations?

Many companies use spreadsheets to track all these activities. Whilst this can be fit for purpose, there are situations where a more sophisticated approach is required, that combines an electronic checklist, with context. The purpose of the electronic checklist is not to instruct detailed procedures for naming standards and processes, simply to check they have been done and provide the link to the information or audit trail.

For a global function like Exploration, management are under pressure to sign off business assurance letters that all their 'records' are being managed effectively. They also want common processes in all locations and streamlined, efficient processes for their data & information. They are increasingly benefiting from using 'document dashboards' that view the results of these checklists. Some companies have identified the 'Top20 documents' in this area they want to track. This makes it simple and transparent for Exploration staff (and Information Managers acting on their behalf) to see whether all the records they are responsible for have been collected and safeguarded for the future.

This avoids several pitfalls:
? Not relying simply on the 'heroic' best efforts of individuals, not a systematic approach
? empty well folders in an electronic document system, where there is ambiguity of whether the item is missing (or was never created),
? well database metrics (that only focus on a subset of the subsurface wellfile and look for loading quality issues as opposed to whether any work products are missing) and the
? traditional wellfile library or corporate data management services or 'facilities', where what is given is normally well managed - but they are not given everything and have no way of knowing. People often only know a key piece of information is missing, when they need it in a hurry, often months or years later.

The presentation will provide a case study based on the global application of a more sophisticated approach to the management of their subsurface exploration & appraisal wellfile
 

Short Bio:

Dave Camden is a director and information management specialist with Flare Solutions with over 30 years? experience in the oil industry. He worked in the service sector with Schlumberger and was Petroleum Engineering manager at British Gas before starting up Flare in 1998 with industry colleagues. In Flare, Dave has run multiple consulting engagements around information strategy development and the integration of information publishing within E&P workflows. He was involved with standards development around well logs with Energistics (formerly known as POSC) which was closely associated with similar work done for the Norwegian national repository. Dave?s particular interest is the development and deployment of E&P metadata naming standards to support cross-disciplinary knowledge sharing.

In a joint project StatoilHydro and Landmark aim in improving tools that support the entire workflow going from early-phase frontier basin evaluation to late-phase prospect maturation. Generally, exploration tools are supported by multi-vendors and problems arise from poor data integration and a low degree of usability associated with the tools. As a consequence, much workload are put on data search, preparation, interpretation and QC, all of which we think can be eased by better seismic workstation tools and data management solutions. We believe that data management is best solved by a tight integration between the database and the end-user application. The most significant improvements in this project include: (1) more data type support from OpenWorks, (2) GIS integration, (3) use of meta-data for data search and information sharing and versioning of project data, (3) map I/O, (4) improved GUI for data access/browsing and (5) workflow catalogue and documentation.
The overall DM vision for StatoilHydro is to enable work process that is independent of physical location. Solutions are discussed but need further focus, such as overall performance, stand-alone desktop option, load/save on demand and support of remote session/data sharing.
 

Short Bio:

Øyvind Steen graduated a Ph.d. degree in Geology from the University of Oslo. He started in Statoil in 1997 working as an operation geologists until 1999 when he joined the R&D group for increased oil recovery and later, for exploration. Øyvind has experience from a wide range of exploration methods including seismic interpretation, structural modeling, gravity-magnetics interpretation and GIS mapping and modeling. The recent years he has been leading StatoilHydro?s effort to develop tools to support exploration workflows in a joint project with Landmark.

The importance of knowing how to get access to of data on NCS.

Short Bio: 

Manager of OGT since 2001. Educated Engineer. Worked in the oil industry since 1982. Offshore and abroad experience. Mainly within reservoir testing, impetration, simulations and reservoir/exploration data management.

There are many challenges facing the IT, database & knowledge management teams within the oil & gas industry today including:

• Reducing data management costs
• Managing high volumes of data
• Maintaining data from multiple sources
• Meeting the demands for access to information from a changing workforce
• Proving timely access to accurate & up-to-date information

The volume of data available today to oil & gas companies presents a significant challenge. How does your organisation transform raw data into information & knowledge to enable the business to make effective, profitable decisions? How does the data manager ensure that the data is maintained, up-to-date & presented to the user in a timely manner so that they, in turn, can make profitable decisions?

This challenge is not just restricted to the data available internally- the internet has made a number of data types readily available at almost no cost. It falls to the data manager to blend information from a number of sources ? government, public & proprietary to provide the company?s decision makers with a single view of the information. Which data source can be trusted? How do you keep the data up-to-date? How do you ensure that everyone is using the right information?

At the same time the there are tremendous changes to the profile of the workforce ? particularly in the oil & gas industry. Judging by the membership of the industry?s professional bodies, the average age of the employees in the industry is rising & there are significant risks associated with the ?big crew change?. These experienced people are taking with them years of knowledge about where to go to find reliable data. As these experienced people are replaced by generation ?google?, they expect information to be presented to them in new & interactive ways. Equally as new blood is brought into the industry, the knowledge within the business developed over many years can be eroded. New people simply may not know where to go to get the information they desperately need to make effective decisions.

So are Web Services the answer? Can Web Services be the ?Babel Fish? for today?s fast moving businesses in the oil & gas sector ? helping to translate the noise of large volumes & multiple sources of data into information & knowledge? Advances in integration technology such as Service Oriented Architecture & web services can provide techniques to address these challenges in new ways.

Web Services enable data to be integrated into the users? workflow ? making it more efficient & easier for them to find the data they need to make decisions. The user does not need to know what type of data is available nor where it is stored ? they simply enter the criteria that they are looking for (such as the well or basin name).

Web Services can reduce the time & effort that you currently spend managing data & information. The use of outsourcing - particularly for IT resources ? is prevalent throughout the industry as a way of controlling costs. Web Services enable your data information users to access the most up-to-date information without the requirement for expensive data warehousing ? the user can simple ?mash-up? the data as they need it.

In addressing this topic, the presentation will cover ?

• what is meant by web-services
• the benefits of accessing data on demand from the source
• the role of standards in interoperability & integration
• how to reduce the time spent managing data
• managing costs & increasing flexibility through information hosting
• challenges of a distributed data management architecture

The presentation will be illustrated with real life examples from Pioneer, Petra Direct Connect & Google Earth.

Short Bio: 

Phil has an extensive, 15 year, track record both as a user & Product Manager of GIS technologies. He joined IHS at the start of 2007 and has Product Management responsibility for several international solutions (including IRIS21, Probe, EDIN/EDIN-GIS). Phil is also responsible for taking the new IHS Enerdeq platform to market.

Prior to joining IHS, Phil spent 7 years at MapInfo where, as well as having Product Management responsibility, he was also responsible for the definition of the EMEA industry focused marketing strategy.

 

CDA operates the Well DataStore and the Seismic DataStore in the UK. Participation in both is entirely voluntary and must be justified by CDA on the basis of the business benefits available.
CDA has recently made a successful case which convinced operators on the UKCS to participate in the establishment of a new common store for seismic post-stack data. Developing the business case was done at the same time as a tendering exercise for the provision of the ?Seismic DataStore? services. The final business case that was made is equally applicable to CDA?s long-established Well DataStore and this presentation describes how the case was made and its principal components.
 

Short Bio:

Richard Salway has been working in well data management for over 20 years with Hays, Enterprise Oil and for the last 7 years with CDA. His current role as Service Manager of the CDA Well DataStore places him at the interface between the user community and the DataStore service provider helping to ensure that this successful partnership can continue to grow and develop.

EPICenter = E&P Information Center
E&P data volume has increased rapidly in the last years. In addition, data formats are permanently undergoing technological changes. Increasing data quantities as well as technical progress will even accelerate.
At RWE Dea´s E&P business the E&P Informationcenter improves data management. The EPICenter at RWE Dea provides users with descriptive information about business processes, application systems, data types and data stores, processing rules and data management rules in order to support the business.
EPICenter is a depository of all Data Management related documents and information. This metadata system includes datatypes, datastorages, application systems, business processes and data management rules. It is a browser-based application which is integrated in the intranet of all RWE Dea´s operating companies (OpCo) and the language is English.
EPICenter is a user tool to provide the user with a quick answer to all Data Management related questions, like
- Where do I find (the storage location of) well checkshot data?
- What is meant with ?PVT Model? (Definition)?
- Who is the validator of log data?
- Show me the quality specification of SEGY data?
- What rules apply to processing well core data?
- What data types are stored in the Well DB?
- What applications use Base Maps?
 

Short Bio:

Dorothea Geers is responsible for the documentation and the information management within the Geo Support Center at RWE Dea in Hamburg. Her job history as documentary in geoscience at RWE Dea started in December 2008.

She has miscellaneous experiences as information manager, as medical documentary in the pharmaceutical industry and also in the field of document management and digital archiving.

Andreas Butzke, Geophysicist, is head of the Department Geo Databases with more than 15 years of experience in E&P Data management.
 

The value of Integrated Operations in the NCS is estimated at 300NOK but our Information Management efforts remain predominately focused on managing large and complex data structures such as Seismic cubes and well logs. The community of E&P data managers are proud of the how well we protect and preserve massive volumes of data and often quote how many Petabytes of data we manage. In the emerging age of Integrated Operations our data challenge is increasing frequency of measurements and mass adoption of real-time sensors. In this exciting future, data managers will be judged on how well our organizations utilize the explosion in data to measurably improve the performance their O&G assets. The E&P Data Manager profession must quickly evolve from custodians of data to a new breed of engineer that possesses a blend computer science skills with the understanding reservoir behavior and production operations. These Digital Petroleum Engineers are the conduit between the instrumentation and process control systems and the automated decision support systems. Not only ensuring that data is trustworthy and reliably delivered but providing leadership in overcoming the resistance to work process changes that often undermine technology adoption.

This presentation will highlight the benefits of shifting the direction of data management toward data-driven decision support and challenge the E&P data management profession to embrace the technology change and become the backbone of Integrated Operations value generation.
 

Short Bio:

My career spans 27 years in the E&P industry with Schlumberger and BP focused on applying software technology and methodology in the fields of petroleum geology, geophysics, and production. In particular, the use of database and visualization technology combined with processes improvements to optimize the flow of technical data and information within an organization.

My professional career in Upstream Oil and Gas spans the globe with assignemnts in Aberdeen, London, San Francisco, Houston, Jakarta, and Stavanger. Working as both a technical consultant and a senior management. I am recognized as an Advisor level in Schlumberger?s technical comunity in the field of Information Management.
 

Establishing reliable and accurate data, available in a timely manner is critical to improve E&P operational workflows and performance. This can be done through optimizing the flow of information, and improving the quality of the technical data at all stages of a projects life cycle. In addition, it is key that all parties, both directly and indirectly involved can take advantage of any and all information pertinent to ongoing operations.
Having optimized the flow of data and ensured that the quality of the information can be relied upon, a challenge still lies in how to tie the information into daily decisions made by engineers and management. This presentation is an example of how this was achieved for one of our clients who wanted to improve their control of operations related information, to improve their confidence in making decisions in relation to the production of their fields.
 

Short Bio:

MA. Fausto Alvarez studied Geophysics at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and then received a bachelor degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Universidad Tecnologica de Mexico and his Master in Administration from Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in conjunction with the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid, Spain.

MA. Fausto Alvarez has been involved in several process improvement and data management projects for several clients since late 90s, the projects have included the design, planning, development and implementation of several solutions for O&G and manufacturing companies.
During the last 6.5 years he has been involved mainly in the implementation and execution of data management projects for O&G companies; as a part time professor teaching courses in Operations Research and Operations Management and as a regular lecturer for SOMMAC (Mexican Association of Maintenance). Since late 2008 he has been appointed Business Development Manager for East Asia.
 

The presentation will focus on activities the last year, approved standards, new group for maintaining the standards, the progress in the drilling reporting initiative, how data will be organized in Licenseweb and how data are sent to NPD. There will also be examples of structure and the the security setting for reports in LW.

Short Bio:

Ann-Christin Schill has a BA in Librarianship and has acquired more than 30 years experience in IM in the oil & gas industry. She has been employed by Saga Petroleum and Hydro and is now user responsible for LicenseWeb in StatoilHydro. She has been Chairman of the LicenseWeb UserForum from 2004 until the end of 2008 and a member of the EPIM steering committee from 2008 November.

Jan I Riveland work as a senior consultant in Tieto and has been has involved with LicenseWeb, daily and monthly production reporting project and PRODML since it started. He has more than 25 years experience from the Oil & Gas industry.

To a great extent, production work processes are well defined and focus on a relatively small number of types of data. Recent operational trends are challenging traditional work processes and bringing a more diverse collection of types of data and types of analytical algorithms into the picture.

Many of the new trends are being driven forward by the various energy company ?future field? programs. Beginning in 2005, an industry standards initiative called PRODML was started by several energy companies with Energistics taking on custodian and facilitation responsibilities. Three dozen member companies have been contributing resources to the PRODML Standards initiative, including more than a dozen implementation pilot activities and formal releases of both web services and data exchange (XML Schema) standards.

Current PRODML Standards activities are focused on promoting adoption and deployment of proven capabilities and on identifying key critical work processes to concentrate on over the next 2 to 3 years.
 

Short Bio:

Alan is deeply involved in the planning and execution of Energistics (and previously POSC) standards activities covering data and information standards for the E&P geoscience and subsurface engineering business areas. In the past several years, he has been the primary coordinator and facilitator for the Data Management, Geology, Drilling, and Production Special Interest Groups and the associated industry standards including WITSML, PRODML, PWLS, and the Global Unique Well Identifier standards and services. Prior to joining POSC, Alan was engaged by Gulf and Chevron for twelve years where he was responsible for managing software standards, methodology, and software engineering tool groups. Alan holds an MS degree in Computer Science and a BA degree in Mathematics from Cornell University. He is a member of the SPE, SEG, ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. He has served for ten years on the Governing Board of The Open Group, including four years as Chairman.

The Data Management Rollout project follows on from the 2008 NaviPro Information Architecture project.
The presentation will focus on the rollout of Data Management procedures to the Field organizations. There are some special organizational challenges that twill be discussed:
• Discipline Advisors will capture DM procedures in procedural guidelines and governing documentation
• The field organization will be responsible for data quality and will execute the DM procedures
• There will be a Central Project Data Manager role to facilitate the capture of process documentation, and review with local Project Data Managers
• The local Project Data Managers will work in integrated field organization to carry out DM procedures, and ensure that procedures are being followed by other members of the Production Team. The PDM will be the central clearing house for raw and interpreted official data.
The PDM will also capture the extra DM work related to introduction of new software, and associated data cleanup/migration.
During an initial period, the PDM role will be supported from central project resources.
 

Short Bio:

Jan Åge Pedersen has worked in the IT/E&P business for +30 years, for E&P companies, Software and Services Providers and Contracting. Jan Åge was responsible for the Data Architecture and Database of the Discos PetroBank and Slegge solutions.
He has worked in the data management domain in Norway, Maidenhead, Houston and Aberdeen, and is now back in Stavanger. His last assignment was with SAIC as Principal Solutions Architect on contract to the BP global Data Management project. He is currently working for Tieto on contract to Statoil Hydro as Project Manager / Information Architect as part of the NaviPro II program for the Production Optimization business area.
 

Short Bio:

System architect for PetroBank MDS. Worked with development of the MDS database since 1997 - first in IBM, then PGS Data Management and now Landmark. Began the MDS career by developing the foundation for the Production Module.
Previously worked with Statoil (1987 ? 1997). Worked with process control systems and production data acquisition on Statfjord and Sleipner.
 

This workshop session will explore the different type of consumers of production related data, from geologists to petroleum/reservoir/production/process engineers, asset managers, reserves, commercial & hydrocarbon accounting team, IT, Well/Completions engineers, etc. Where do they get the data from and what do they typically do with it.
How are things really working in real-life whether in an operator or a license partner context? Are Norwegian standardization efforts on daily and monthly reporting (DPR/NPR), or data exchange (ProdML) helping out those communities? Can any good practices be shared amongst participants?
Please note that this session is a workshop where input and open discussion from participants is expected. You are welcome to contact the facilitator of this session prior to the event to discuss particular topics of interest.
A summary of input and discussions will be made available to participants as an outcome of the session, which is anticipated to highlight that the production data value chain is wider than we may think, and that there are many areas where we can today leverage more value out of the production data available to us, and others where the industry will need to put in more efforts to become more efficient.
 

Short Bio:

Nicolas Valayé is currently Segment Sales Manager for Production working in Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS). Nicolas is part of the North Sea Production team which delivers and supports the entire Avocet software suite from the SIS Production portfolio. Nicolas joined SIS in 1998 as a software engineer and has worked in several product development teams from the Information Management and Web Solutions segments in Houston and Stavanger Technology Centers.
He joined the North Sea Production team in Stavanger in August 2006. Nicolas holds a Master in Computer Science from ENSIMAG, France.
 

Production Data Management Solution (PDMS) Applications are built using Halliburton- Landmark platform: DecisionSpace for Production (DSP). A description of the DSP Platform including a more detail description of a PDMS Solution Application built for one of Halliburton-Landmark customers will be done.

Short Bio:

Mario Toro - Originally from Chile graduated as MSc in Electrical Engineering in Chile and then graduated as MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Initial experience phase with Schlumberger as logging engineer mainly in the North Sea and Continental Europe. Then a second experience phase as Technical and Operations manager of Edinburgh Petroleum Services (EPS) Production Optimization business line. Joined Halliburton Landmark in 2006 and become Business Development Manager for the Halliburton DecisionSpace for Production Technology covering the Region Europe in particular Scandinavia.

The E&P professional is constantly searching for data or documents that will enable him/her to make better and more informed decisions, as well as reduce the time and risk inherent in the decision analysis process. In order to find the right information, she/he has to take into consideration not only documents but also structured data stored in project or corporate databases.
While classical search engines allow searching on keywords (and for some of the most advanced to expand it semantically), Petrel Data in Context brings all these dimensions together in the petro-technical desktop (Petrel), providing users broad access to the richest possible information delivered in the context of the users workflow. Our approach is a contextual lens using dimensions of relevance to quickly focus in on relevant data in the users? frame of reference, providing gems out of the massive amount of available information.
This presentation will explore the three pillars of Petrel Data in Context (#1 Combining multiple dimensions of relevance, #2 Providing complete awareness across data and documents, #3 Delivering relevant data in the users? frame of reference and bringing it into play as quickly and easily as possible.
 

Short Bio:

Todd is the Product Champion for Petrel Data in Context since July 2009 for Schlumberger Information Solutions. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Alberta in Canada and has been with SLB since 1991. Todd has held a number of roles within SIS including leading data management deployments in Germany, Norway, and Venezuela, then returning to Canada in 2000 where he held roles in product development and SIS service management. Most recently Todd was the technical data and integration project lead for a client?s worldwide Petrel deployment program.

The Petrel Lifecycle Guide is an online tool with a user friendly front-end that ensures easy access to the company standards and workflows for Petrel.
The tool describes the lifecycle of each data object from the time it enters the corporate repository until project end.
Petrel projects lifecycle best practises is also included.
The online toolcontains agreed procedures, naming conventions, standards and workflows collated into a company standard.
It gives an organized and systemized overview of the total Petrel data structure.
This online tool can very easlily be customized to incorporate other data repositories and databases, and additional workflows to move data between these.
 

Short Bio:

Sissel Wetteland is a Service manager for Schlumbergers Managed hosted Services ? IM team. Her experience comes from 18 years of data management in the industry, with the last 3 years of focus on Petrel.

In today’s world of petroleum exploration and production, optimizing discovery and recovery of resources requires collaboration between different workgroups, areas of expertise, and physical locations. Data (facts, modeling results, and conclusions) reached in one step of the petroleum process becomes input into the next step, growing along the way into the knowledge used for decision making.
Now, more than ever, it has become important to know and retain the facts and assumptions used to make the decisions. Now, it is important to know how and why decisions have been reached. Now, it is important that all data be shared and not reside in isolated clumps. Data needs to be available and used across any such silos in order to produce the optimum decisions.
One of Petrel’s strengths has been its integration across disciplines – its joining across fields in geosciences and engineering. But Petrel has been limited to one user of a project’s data at a time. Project sizes have been limited to the storage capacity of a single system. Petrel is not open and does not easily share its information with other applications.
Petrel DBX will help solve these issues.
Petrel DBX will store and transfer data from Petrel into a Seabed database. Seabed can contain large amounts of data. For example, CDA Limited, in the North Sea, stores more than 8 million curves of UKCS digital well log data in Seabed; the CDA datastore is one of the world’s largest collections of log data. Petrel DBX allows a Basin Exploration Team, a Field Development Team, and a Reservoir Enhancement Study to all use the same data; allowing results from one team to feed as input into the other teams. The processing history developed along the way can stay with the data, so there will be no problem discovering the source and quality of the information. Knowledge is shared, resulting in a process synergy difficult to achieve before now.
Maintainability, quality control, and ease of access to data are recognized as important differentiators in a company’s success. Petrel enables the transformation of data into intelligence. Petrel DBX provides the transformation from intelligence into the centralized corporate memory. No longer will data need to be scattered in difficult-to-manage files spread over the corporate information system; instead, the data can be centralized, stored, and made easily available to all.

Short Bio:

Todd is the Product Champion for Petrel Data in Context since July 2009 for Schlumberger Information Solutions. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Alberta in Canada and has been with SLB since 1991. Todd has held a number of roles within SIS including leading data management deployments in Germany, Norway, and Venezuela, then returning to Canada in 2000 where he held roles in product development and SIS service management. Most recently Todd was the technical data and integration project lead for a client?s worldwide Petrel deployment program.

Training is a vital aspect of our industry. When a company invests in new software or new functionalities within it, they need to train their users for long term performance.

Schlumberger Information Solutions not only creates the software but also provides a variety of training options, including public and private training both in Schlumberger facilities and the clients? site. The contents of the classes are most often predefined and fixed by edited manuals and last between 2 to 5 days.

Our customers are looking more and more for flexibility and customized training. They want to keep this training time to a minimum but still be trained on specific aspects of the software that will fit the need for the realization of their projects.

The Petrel training menu is composed of: the main training modules available classified by domain (geology, geophysics) with:
- Expertise level required
- Time allocation for completion
- The standard training class the module is from

The content of each of the modules from the menu is stored centrally and is composed of:
- A set of slides and a training data set associated with each module
- Presentations and demo

Our customers are looking more and more for flexibility during their training programs.
The Petrel Training Menu helps them to improve time management at different levels:

- They have the possibility to easily select the modules they want to train their staff for the specific need of their company.

- They have full control of the time allocation to their training sessions

This is particularly valuable to
- Our smallest clients,
- Clients investing in technologies, with several licences but invest less in training.
They are able to have training covering specific and relevant workflow to their business.

In addition the users will be more confident using Petrel and some of its advanced modules and be more efficient in their daily tasks.

The monitoring of the different areas of interests of our clients is an essential tool to get a better understanding of our clients needs. It also helps make Schlumberger services more pro-active

This training menu promotes the full range of capacity of Petrel and develop more training opportunities.

For the trainer, the communication with the client is easier, and the needs of the customer is better understood. It lead to better service quality and an increase in customer satisfaction: SIS staff spends quality time with client at client?s location.

The preparation time for the tailor-made classes also decrease because the presentations and data sets is ready to use for the training.

Another direct consequence of the flexibility of the training session is an increased loyalty which will influence their future licensing purchase.

Conclusion
The Petrel Training Menu helps to develop the market for short session training, and is a good alternative to standard training by allowing more flexibility and choice to the clients who want more control over time management and training content.
 

Short Bio:

Alan Cleeton is Data Management Consultant working for Schlumberger Information Solutions based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Alan has worked in the Data Management domain for the last 12 years in Project Manager and Business Development roles and has worked on many different projects globally, based in the Middle East and Far East before returning to Aberdeen. He started his career as Seismic Data Processing Engineer before becoming a Systems Analyst in the IT domain and worked for both service and oil companies before joining Schlumberger. He graduated with a BSc. in Mathematics in 1982.
 

An industry leading seismic to simulation software application's original design required the data manager to deal with any information relating to coordinate reference systems (CRS). Which meant that the application was essentially coordinate system unaware, this limited the ability of the software to perform coordinate conversion and allowed for potential inconsistencies if the data was not managed properly.

In an effort to provide a more consistent and functional seismic to simulation software application that was better suited for an internally managed CRS systems; our development team implemented a geospatial aware application. Retrofitting this into an existing application introduced a number of technical challenges. By overcoming these challenges the seismic to simulation software application provides the industry with geospatial support with the newest technology, capable of coordinate conversion of data position for implementing and with a the best possible understanding of future industry needs.
 

Short Bio:

For the last few years I have been working on the development of Petrel, my current project focuses on building a solid infrastructure for the applications future.

Collaborative visual environments (CVE) are great places for getting teams of experts in front of live models. But how does this benefit the business? How can we ensure the team have all the relevant data available?

In this paper you will see practical examples of how CVEs can be used and how to measure the value they deliver - to many different business groups and how to address some of the issues related to providing the team with the right data, with the right quality at the right time in the CVE.
 

Short Bio:

Lawrence has worked in the oil industry since 1996 when he joined Schlumberger GeoQuest as a marketing geoscientist. With extensive Information Management experience since working for several operating companies (such as Wintershall, Hess and PetroCanada) Lawrence is back with Schlumberger focussing on IM process improvement and collaborative visualisation centers. He is the leader of the Collaboration Special Interest Group within Schlumberger?s Eureka Community (Eureka is the Schlumberger Technical Communities of Practice Program).

Since 2006 Schlumberger Information Solutions have managed the CDA Well DataStore, the UKCS national data repository for well data. In August 2009 CDA was extended to include, for the first time, Post Stack seismic data.

Schlumberger Information Solutions was awarded the contract to manage the Seismic DataStore, with a solution based on Schlumberger?s industry leading Prosource Seismic software to store and manage the data, together with a web delivered DecisionPoint interface.

The Schlumberger solution has been designed to enable a step-change in the quality and availability of UKCS seismic data; delivering high-quality data in hours/days rather than weeks/months.

Users now have access through a single web based interface for UKCS well and seismic information. The intuitive user interface enables companies to manage all aspects of their seismic data online with the direct access and download of the data by entitled users.
 

Short Bio:

Paul Coles is currently the Operations Manager for Schlumberger Information Solutions and is responsible the IM Managed Services delivered from Schlumberger?s European Service Centre in Aberdeen

Paul acted as the Project Manager for the successful delivery of both the CDA Well and CDA Seismic DataStore Implementation Projects. He is also currently working to the deliver solutions based on the same technology as a replacement for the current DEAL Portal in the UK and to provide a new global Online Data Room solution for IndigoPool.

Paul has previously held a number of Project Management and Services Delivery roles during 12 years with Schlumberger Information Solutions. Prior to joining Schlumberger Paul held Data Management positions with BP Exploration and Deminex Oil and Gas.
 

The roll out of Landmark?s R5000 products to DISKOS members is well under way. This is your opportunity to keep up to date with what?s new, and what?s coming up round the corner. Product news included will cover PetroBank MDS, PetroBank Explorer and PowerExplorer.

Short Bio:

Max Greengrass is the Product Architect for Landmark's PetroBank MDS and PetroBank Explorer solutions, working with a large and globally distributed product development team. He has over 19 years experience of software development for the oil and gas industry, including two and a half years spent with IBM, and joined Landmark in 2001 through the acquisition of PGS Data Management. Max holds an MA degree in Natural Science from Cambridge University, and is based at the Landmark offices in Leatherhead, UK.

Prestack Seismic data is not just for reprocessing. Prestack Seismic can be used in many ways from quality control to interpretation and fluid analysis. Current and future uses of Prestack Seismic will be discussed along with the role of data management in making data available for the end-users.

Short Bio:

John Norman has been working for 15 years with transcription and management of seismic data in Norway. He is currently the Seismic Team Lead in Landmark Data Operations group responsible for operating the Diskos PetroBank and other PetroBank related services.

A look at the tools and workflows used to transfer, merge and clean data during the collation of data from Geoframe, Petrel and OpenWorks into OpenWorks. Demonstrations of the tools will be given.

Short Bio:

Landmark’s Data Management suite of software provide a rich and robust set of features to read spatial data stores from Landmark applications and write data to shape files or SDE geo-databases. Landmark will show how we can help solve some of the challenges regarding spatial data in the E&P sector leveraging the PowerHub Infrastructure, OpenWorks Connect Module and PowerExplorer Spatializer to achieve the result. With the backdrop of all the spatial data available from DISKOS we will focus the presentation on project oriented data like 2D and 3D navigation outlines compared to the live trace outlines for the same 2D and 3D surveys.

The presentation is held by Bjørn Thorsen, Landmark Software and Service Manager, Scandinavia. Bjørn has been working in our industry for more then 20 years.

vSpace is the unified global brand for Landmark's Digital Infrastructure Managed Services including all on-line data and application hosting service offerings. The vSpace service portfolio has options for all sizes of organisation, from international oil majors to individual consultants.

Short Bio:

Ola Saugen is Senior IT Consultant working for Landmark Software and Services based in Oslo, Norway. For the last six years Ola has worked in the G&G application hosting domain.

Wendy Rose Aga is a Managing Consultant working for Landmark Software and Services in Stavanger, Norway. For the past 2 ½ years, Wendy has been working as Service Delivery Manager for the G&G Application Hosting customers and some of Landmark’s Petrobank customers.