Combining innovative
workflows and emerging
technologies in the digital
oilfield
IT Infrastructure for the Digital Oilfield
Finding Petroleum Conference
Hallam Conference Center, London, UK
Jim Green
CIO and GM, Technical Computing
Chevron Energy Technology Company
June 2, 2011
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Enterprise adoption depends on having the right
mix of these key ingredients
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Governance
Organizational
Capability
Flexible
Architecture
Innovative
Workflows
Bottom-line results
Bottom-line
Innovation where the work is and close knit
collaboration are critical success factors
Produced
fluids
Gas compression
Equipment
Gas lift
Production
Natural lift
Multiwell
Single-well
Injection
Value = f (people) * h (asset, R&D, information technology)
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A flexible architecture is required to efficiently move
solutions from one asset to another
Digital Oilfield
Solution
Workflows
Applications
Applications must send
and receive in standard
formats
IntegrationServices
Using web services to
access distributed
information
SoR
SoR
DataQuality
DataQuality
SoR
SoR
DataQuality
DataQuality
SoR
DataQuality
MasterData
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Stored in systems of
records with standard
data structures
With deliberate data
quality procedures
Using trusted master
data
4
Everyone needs to be thinking ahead as consumer
products and advances in other sectors (i.e.,
financials) enter into the sector
Consumer devices are coming adopt necessary
infrastructure tools and platforms
Plug and play, built with web components, intuitive and
safe to use
Based on web services, industry standard semantics such
as PRODML, WITSML, RESQML
Focus on data quality, rationalizing systems of records,
master data management
Workflow engines become more commonplace, routine
pieces within workflows become more transactional
Ability put compute resources wherever becomes more
accepted
New players, techniques entering the market to deal with
the volume
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Everyone in the organization has to pull in the same
direction to realize enterprise adoption
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You wont get far unless you work out the enterprise
governance
Functional Alignment
High Impact Workflows
Value within the Asset Portfolio
Lifecycle Management Plans
Portfolio Management
Roadmap
Deployment Timing
Organizational Capability
Business Unit Readiness
Roles and Responsibilities
Partner Engagements
Sourcing, Intellectual Property
Development, Deployment , Support Roles
Funding Model
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Questions and Answers
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