An Enterprise-Wide Approach to Implementing ‘Digital Oilfield'

Reece, Cindy; Hoefner, M.L.; Seetharam, R.V.; Killian, Keith Edward

doi:10.2118/112151-ms

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“…Information accessibility and speed of retrieval is another issue for an information integration framework. It is common for the project contractor in the AEC and Oil & Gas industries to share information and responsibilities with the owner and subcontractors (Schramm et al, 2010), while the project collaborators can often be geographically dispersed or located in remote areas (Reece et al, 2008). Engineering web portals provide a single secure point of access to the project data and provide significant productivity gains due to improved collaboration (Samdani and Till, 2007).…”

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A Web3D Enabled Information Integration Framework for Facility Management

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Dawood

et al. 2014

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Managing capital oil and gas and civil engineering facilities requires a large amount of heterogeneous information that is generated by different project stakeholders across the facility lifecycle phases and is stored in various databases and technical documents. The amount of information reaches its peak during the commissioning and handover phases when the project is handed over to the operator. The operational phase of facilities spans multiple decades and the way facilities are used and maintained have a huge impact on costs, environment, productivity, and health and safety. Thus, the client and the operator bear most of the additional costs associated with incomplete, incorrect or not immediately usable information.Web applications can provide quick and convenient access to information regardless of user location. However, the integration and delivery of engineering information, including 3D content, over the Web is still at its infancy and is affected by numerous technical (i.e. data and tools) and procedural (i.e. process and people) challenges. This paper addresses the technical issues and proposes a Web3D enabled information integration framework that delivers engineering information together with 3D content without any plug-ins. In the proposed framework, a class library defines the engineering data requirements and a semistructured database provides means to integrate heterogeneous technical asset information. This framework also enables separating the 3D model content into fragments, storing them together with the digital assets and delivering to the client browser on demand. Such framework partially alleviates the current limitations of the JavaScript based 3D content delivery such as application speed and latency. Hence, the proposed framework is particularly valuable to petroleum and civil engineering companies working with large amounts of data.

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A Web3D Enabled Information Integration Framework for Facility Management

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Dawood

et al. 2014

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“…Various integrated operations strategies [10,25] have been explored for enterprise information integration in the oil and gas industry [24,32]. Appropriate information architectures [9], collaborative [13] and decision environments [18] have also been found instrumental for such integration.…”

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Event-driven Information Integration for the Digital Oilfield

2012

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Several operations in the Exploration and Production (E&P) sector are event-driven in nature and are supported by specialized systems and applications. Narrow focus of applications results in application silos that restrict the information sharing across verticals, which is a critical requirement for coordinated cross-functional efforts. Effective response to events warrants due emphasis on an integration strategy that facilitates desired information flow across verticals. Event-driven methods can be used to make strategic asset management decisions across silos in real-time, thus reducing response time and costs while improving asset performance.Complex event processing is an emerging research area that involves detecting complex events, processing the events, deciding actions for each event and notifying the relevant personnel about the event. In the E&P sector, the adoption of CEP and messaging-based systems in conjunction with semantic methods can facilitate components of the oilfield to communicate in real-time across different software platforms. Such an approach helps not only in detecting complex events across various sources, but also in processing them and deciding the actions to be taken, with the help of a knowledge base -thereby reducing information overload.Consider a typical application scenario -a pump failure event in an oilfield, which should elicit response not only by the pump operator but also by the maintenance engineers, production managers, reservoir engineers and other involved personnel. A proactive event-driven system enables quick detection of the failure across heterogeneous data sources and takes corrective actions while notifying the appropriate personnel. This facilitates effective communication across the teams and software systems involved.We propose a semantic complex event processing architecture for the digital oilfield that facilitates enterprise information integration. We delineate an illustrative use case of such integration for production optimization. Value propositions of the proposed framework include efficient interaction patterns, reduction in data seeking efforts, faster response times, building of consistent best practices and management by exception.

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“…We are starting to realize the potential of the way we can collaborate and use information to make better investment and operational decisions. Many major operators and service providers in the exploration and production (E&P) industry have made similar progress with their own programs (Reece et al 2005;Murray et al 2006;Henriquez et al 2008;Reece et al 2008).But, much more remains to be done before we achieve the ultimate goal of transformation. As we try to forecast the future, it would be prudent to first look back on early industry expectations, to see how well we have done.…”

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The Future of Integrated Operations

Crompton

Gilman²

2011

SPE Economics &Amp; Management

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The concept of integrated operations (IO) has matured significantly over the past 8 years since the landmark study by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) in 2002. Many companies, including Chevron, now have established programs with demonstrated results delivered in multiple assets. With that track record, companies are now asking what is next and how can they build on this foundation for the future.Given what we have learned to date, how can we accelerate results and where can IO add the most value? What business and technology trends will emerge both to help and to hinder integrated workflow solutions over the next 5 to 10 years? This paper will address these questions by looking at the history of the Chevron i-field™ (i-field is a trademark of Chevron USA Incorporated in the US and in other countries) program to understand what has been accomplished, the promises realized, and the challenges uncovered in the journey. We will examine trends in the industry, to understand future opportunities and challenges more clearly.The paper will look at how different elements of IO can be deployed more effectively and how to address the challenges of delivering and sustaining the change within the current and future workforce. Delivering solutions is usually difficult, but sustaining and supporting them provide new levels of challenge. How do we ensure that IO becomes the way we work in the future instead of a passing technology fashion fad? Revisiting Expectations: History and Current State of Chevron's IO ProgramChevron's IO program (called i-field) is now in its eighth year. Much has been accomplished in that time. Chevron has begun to think differently about how to use digital technology and processes to change the way we operate key assets. We are starting to realize the potential of the way we can collaborate and use information to make better investment and operational decisions. Many major operators and service providers in the exploration and production (E&P) industry have made similar progress with their own programs (Reece et al. 2005;Murray et al. 2006;Henriquez et al. 2008;Reece et al. 2008).But, much more remains to be done before we achieve the ultimate goal of transformation. As we try to forecast the future, it would be prudent to first look back on early industry expectations, to see how well we have done.An early analysis of the potential of IO came from CERA in the form of a multiclient study on the Digital Oil Field of the Future (DOFF) (CERA 2002). They predicted DOFF challenges coming in the areas of technology development, demonstrating business case, workforce adoption, work-process redesign, data and application integration, and collaboration between service and E&P firms.In that early publication, CERA identified a number of ways in which DOFF could develop, with varying levels of impact to the industry. Three possible scenarios were put forward:1. Operating Efficiency: DOFF technology is used in an evolutionary manner to extend existing trends in lowering costs, increasing recovery, and ...

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An Enterprise-Wide Approach to Implementing ‘Digital Oilfield'

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

A Web3D Enabled Information Integration Framework for Facility Management

A Web3D Enabled Information Integration Framework for Facility Management

Event-driven Information Integration for the Digital Oilfield

The Future of Integrated Operations

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