This conference is designed for people from the IT department (and related domains), and human factors / training departments (and related domains), who would like to keep up to speed with the latest technology and ideas to help people work better with their computer systems.
In order to improve safety, production, efficiency and ultimate recovery, people need to have the best possible information in a way they can work with.
That means they can easily access the information they need, they don't have too much information than they can absorb, they have IT tools they can easily use and collaborate with, and they can practise what they will need to do.
This conference gathers together the best ideas from the oil industry, software companies and academia to help make this happen.
“My theory [on why Macondo happened] is that the interface [providing information about drilling operations] was too complex" - David Payne, Chevron’s vice president of drilling, speaking at the GE Oil and Gas Annual Meeting in Florence on January 312011.
TOPICS COVERED
Tools to help improve decision making during drilling operations (ConocoPhillips/Computas)
Improving collaborative working environment layouts - so they are not designed around the hardware (Halliburton Landmark)
Advances in using drilling simulators for training, using simulaators to test new technology, design procedures and study hazards - experience with Statoil, using wired drill pipe telemetry for kick detection (International Research Institute of Stavanger)
Using life-size drilling simulators the entire drilling team can work with (eDrilling Solutions / SINTEF)
Designing your integrated operations system (IFE)
Safety benefits of moving planning decisions onshore (Cap Gemini)
A better understanding of live drilling data (Verdande)
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John Aurlien holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology, and has over 20 years of experience from the Oil & Gas industry. In his current role as Sr. Integrated Operations Engineer, Mr. Aurlien is responsible for the implementation of Integrated Operations in the Eldfisk II project.
Conoco Phillips
ConocoPhillips is an international, integrated energy company. As of Dec. 31, 2010, it is the third-largest U.S. integrated energy company, based on market capitalization, as well as proved reserves and production of oil and natural gas, and the largest refiner in the United States. ConocoPhillips is the seventh-largest holder of proved reserves and the fourth-largest refiner worldwide, of nongovernment-controlled companies.
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Sigve Hamilton Aspelund is a QHSE engineer, petroleum engineer, IT communication expert and scientist.
Before working at Ocean Rig he was Analyzing Business Consultant at Aspelund Consulting & Energy Offshore Development.
Personal profile: Adaptation accomplished realist, outstanding organizational skills and business sense, desire to achieve concrete results toward perfectionism, prefer hard work, ultimate realist, possess practical properties combined with highly developed intelligence, sees quickly new opportunities and use this to his own benefit, hard working, fair, very independent, convinced that morality is more important than anything else, resourceful, action-oriented person, eager to expand own knowledge, expect to reach targets, responsible, industrious, resolute and energetic, natural leader and has a natural talent as a presenter
Ocean Rig
Ocean Rig owns and operates Leiv Eiriksson and Eirik Raude, two of the world's largest and most modern drilling rigs, built for ultra deep water and extreme weather conditions
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Talk Description.
Challenges in drilling operations, today and in the near future
How has IO improved the situation, what are the remaining gaps
The role of information technology in supporting IO processes
The CODIO solution for collaboration and decision making |
Roar Fjellheim is a director of business development at Computas. He is educated at NTNU (control engineering) and worked at CERN and Det Norske Veritas before co-founding Computas in 1985. Current responsibilities include managing the Integrated Operations service area, business development and project management. He is also an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of Oslo.
Mike Herbert is the Integrated Operations Advisor for ConocoPhillips in Norway. Main responsibilities include the planning and implementation of the ODC (Onshore Drilling Centre) concept, and other Integrated Operation (IO) processes.
He currently manages all Drilling IO R&D projects within ConocoPhillips Norway, and is involved in several IO strategies and initiatives for the Company.
He started his career with Sperry Sun in 1980 as a Field engineer. He has worked in several positions within the Company including several Field positions including that of a Directional Driller. In 1995 he started as a Directional Drilling Co-ordinator. In 2000 he joined Phillips Petroleum Company Norway as a Senior Specialist Drilling Engineer.
Mike has lead one of the work groups of the OLF‘s Integrated Work Processes within Integrated Operations on the NCS. He has been involved with, OG21, where he led the IO Technology Target area group, Petromaks and other similar National strategies and initiatives.
He also is a keen explorer and likes cold places, and in 2009 he successfully spent 4 weeks on a Russian expedition to Antarctica. Now that was an integrated operation!
Mr Herbert holds a Degree in Oceanography, Maritime Science, and Engineering
ConocoPhillips / Computas
ConocoPhillips uses its pioneering spirit to responsibly deliver energy to the world. This purpose transcends all of ConocoPhillips' operations. The company conducts its business to return maximum value to shareholders while utilizing a wealth of knowledge and resources from its employees and acting responsibly in all communities in which it operates.
Computas is a Norwegian information technology company providing services and solutions for business process management and collaboration. Core services include software development, system architecture and integration, project management and consulting. The company employs 200 highly skilled engineers, and has served large customers with business critical solutions for more than 25 years.
In the oil & gas industry, Computas delivers smart work processes solutions for Integrated Operations. The solutions help people understand data and make better and faster decisions for improved safety and performance. Key technologies include work processes, decision support, semantic technology, collaboration solutions, and data and system integration.
The CODIO solution presented at the People and the Digital Oilfield conference is collaboration system for drilling operations. It supports onshore/offshore team work and joint decision making, ranging from informal exploration of decision alternatives to running formal decision models based on mathematical analysis.
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Talk Description.
Companies have struggled for the last twenty years or more adopting new technologies to improve how they work and the results they achieve. Thousands of hardware and software solutions have been introduced, installed, trained and implemented over this time period, with varying degrees of success and failure. While many factors are identified that contribute to success or failure of productivity improvements projects, we will focus our discussion on areas that are usually missed or ignored when implementing change.
Our nature is to dislike change. Change causes stress, uncertainty, and usually results in immeasurable costs, both to the individual and the organization.
Input + Process = Output. This is the definition of work. This is the basic scientific formula of life. We cannot change results if we continue to work the same way.
We only use about 20-30% of the technology available. This is called our “comfort zone”. The basic set of functionality that we use day in and day out to get our jobs done.
Knowledge management is the key to process improvement. Our industry is facing 50-70% of the talent that found the first trillion barrels leaving in the next 10-15 years.
RESULTS, OBSERVATIONS, CONCLUSIONS: At Halliburton, our design efforts focus on the desired results to achieve new collaborative working environment layouts. In the early days of technology adoption, facilities were designed around the hardware as the heart of the process, we will discuss alternatives.
APPLICATIONS: The concept of designing around workflow and personnel attributes to achieve desired results is nothing new. Architects have practiced function over form for years, but this has not always translated into easily defined changes in our workplace. We will discuss the importance of design, ergonomics and human-machine-interfaces (HMI) with regard to successfully implementing change.
TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTIONS: Far too often our focus is on short-term budget goals, not results, and our industry fails to capture real benefits from process improvement opportunities. By focusing on results, we are able to consider all elements of change that could contribute to the process goals.
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Since joining Landmark Software & Services, Charles McFarland has developed a global team responsible for designing and delivering new ways of working that help customers achieve improved productivity and operating results. To date, he has managed the design and delivery of new visualization, collaboration and real time operating centers in India, Turkey, Angola, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Malaysia, Russia, the UK and the United States, all the while focusing on effective process change management. Combined with other Halliburton and Landmark offerings, Charles can design and deliver unique solutions tailored to addressing the vital operational situations encountered by any E&P company, regardless of size.
Charles is a certified public accountant and a certified information technology professional. He has published articles in the Houston Business Journal and the Journal of Petroleum Technology, and he speaks at conferences worldwide about the real challenges of achieving better performance through new collaborative work environments
Landmark Software and Services (Halliburton)
For more than 25 years, Landmark has been providing solutions to E&P challenges through the continuous development and enhancement of our leading high-science software and technology services. With over 350 patent filings since 2001, we recognize that solving your challenges of today, and those of tomorrow, requires constant innovation around everything we do.
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Sven Inge is Project Manager for the Intellectus Training Simulator. Sven Inge has been working with Drilling control and information systems for the last 15 years. He has for the last 5 years been working as a Project Manager for the eDrilling and Intellectus concept. Sven Inge has a Master degree in Cybernetics from the University in Stavanger.
eDrilling Solutions
eDrilling Solutions develops immersive drilling simulator tools which can be used to train the entire team who are about to drill a specific well, and also to support real time operations and better understand what is happening downhole.
eDrilling Solutions of Sandnes (near Stavanger) together with partners has developed a full size immersive drilling simulator, which Statoil is using for 100 days a year to train all of the people who will be involved in its drilling projects.
Statoil has signed a frame agreement to use the centre for 100 days a year.
Although Statoil does not directly employ drillers (it contracts its drilling to drilling companies), it will take the drilling personnel from its drilling companies to the training centre.
Entire drilling teams can train at once. People in different roles, even at different companies, can practise how they will work together and drill (rehearse) their response in specific disaster scenarios. Roles can include the driller, assistant driller, toolpusher, company man, drilling supervisor and subcontractors.
You can train using a simulation of the actual well to be drilled, including a simulation of the topside equipment to be used, drilling through the subsurface, using the oil companies’ existing subsurface model.
An instructor can set up scenarios for people to train on, where different things go wrong, and people have to work out what to do. For example, the instructor can introduce a ‘weak zone’ for the drillers to drill through, or a kick (rush of hydrocarbons into the well).
The centre has so many bookings, the company is planning to build another one in Bergen.
Statoil tendered for a company to build the system in early 2010 – before the Deepwater Horizon disaster happened. Statoil chose the system because it had the best downhole model of all drilling systems evaluated, says Rolv Rommetveit, managing director of eDrilling Solutions.
The simulator can also be used to support real time drilling, comparing what is actually happening with the model of what ought to be happening, to see if anything is going wrong.
The company eDrilling Solutions was formed 2 years ago, commercialising research and development work from SINTEF with the Integrated Drilling Simulator IDS as the core technology.
SINTEF first started developing a downhole drilling simulation model in 2004 working with ConocoPhillips and others.
eDrilling is 40 per cent owned by Norwegian research organisation SINTEF, 40 per cent owned by Axon Energy Products, and 20 per cent by others.
Before being managing director of eDrilling Solutions, Rolv Rommetveit was research director of SINTEF Petroleum Research.
Downhole and topsides
The simulator brings together separate simulator software components for downhole and topsides.
The “Intellectus” downhole model can model the downhole drilling process including dynamic effects. It takes into account factors such as temperature and pressure changes downhole, drillbit and drillstring inertia, acceleration and retardation.
You can see what the weight on bit and rate of penetration is likely to be; and get an idea about other things, including tripping operations (analysing surge and swab); connections; operations with different fluids; how well your apparatus (mud, rig, choke, well) can control wells; through tubing rotary drilling; managed pressure drilling. “Intellectus” can be used by itself as a downhole well training simulator.
The “hiDRILL” software supplied by Oiltec is a model of the topside – you can model the drillers’ chair (with touch machine interface); a 3D projection of the drill floor; drill pipe handling, tripping operations; drill floor operations; operating the BOP and choke; mud handling; top drive; operating the draw works; CCTV; alarm management.
“eDrilling” is a real time decision support system built over the simulators. It models the drilling processes in real time, so it can diagnose the actual drilling state.
The real time data has an initial quality check, then is fed into diagnostic model, which can inform the user things like “you have a problem with cuttings build up in the annulus.”
It can gather data using any kind of data interface – including OPC and WITSML.
SINTEF
SINTEF, which owns 40 per cent of eDrilling, is Norway’s largest independent R&D Institute with around 2100 employees with international top level expertise in science and technology.
SINTEF has developed the Integrated Drilling Simulator IDS through JIP’s with leading O&G operators. IDS forms the main technological basis for eDrilling and is utilized in the Intellectus training simulator.
Axon Energy Products
Axon Energy Products, which owns 40 per cent of eDrilling, is a company formed in mid 2010, previously called Hitec Products Drilling. It is majority owned by HitecVision, the largest venture capital company in Norway.
It provides a range of oilfield equipment, including coiled tubing units, control systems, rig packages, drilling cabins, pump units, as well as also selling simulator software developed by Oiltec Solutions. Oiltec has developed the “hiDRILL” software for the topside rig equipment.
Axon offers rig design services and well intervention products. The company has around 200 people spread between Stavanger and Houston.
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Alf Ove Braseth works with oil and nuclear information design, and made most of IFE's Integrated Operations (IO) map design
Norway Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)
IFE is an international research institute for energy and nuclear technology. IFE’s mandate is to undertake research and development, on an ideal basis and for the benefit of society, within the energy and petroleum sector, and to carry out assignments in the field of nuclear technology for the nation. The Institute strives for a more climate friendly energy system based on renewable and CO2-free energy sources.
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Panel Discussion
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Talk Description.
how it is easier for people to work with digital oilfield tools if most planning decisions are made onshore |
Andreea Ene specializes in organizational and work process change strategy, business information management and business process management. She works for Capgemini, and is the leader for the Upstream Advisory group based out of Stavanger. She is fluent in English, French, Norwegian and Romanian. She was previously Chemicals and Petroleum Nordic Leader with IBM Global Business Services; VP sales and marketing with Epsis and business development manager for production solutions with Landmark Graphics. She has a Phd in applied mathematics to fluid mechanics.
Capgemini
With over 90,000 employees, Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and local professional services.
Headquartered in Paris, Capgemini's regional operations include North America, Northern Europe & Asia Pacific and Central & Southern Europe.
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Talk Description.
Today, real-time data from drilling rigs are typically available in centralized locations and integrated operations centers. However, this data still needs to be manually monitored and interpreted by highly skilled staff. In this presentation, Frode Sørmo will talk about the approaches Verdande Technology has taken in applying artificial intelligence, case-based reasoning and other data-driven methods to recognize symptoms and predict problems in real-time during drilling operations. This allows operators to have a computer system that automatically monitors operations and notifies users of approaching problems and provides links to relevant experience. This allows staff to more effectively monitor operations, focus their attention on those wells were problems are likely to develop and share experience between people and teams. Several real-world case studies where the DrillEdge product has been used and predicted problems will be shown.
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Frode Sørmo has worked at Verdande Technology AS since 2006, and has since 2008 been the Chief Technology Officer of the company. He is educated at NTNU, and holds a PhD in computer science specializing in artificial intelligence and case-based reasoning from NTNU.
Verdande Technology
Verdande Technology AS develops products that use the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) methodology. Verdande Technology is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, with regional offices in Houston, Texas and Abu Dhabi, UAE. The company remains privately funded by Statoil Venture, ProVenture Seed AS, and Investinor.
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Talk Description.
Virtual Rig is a drilling simulation environment which gives a realistic response from the well to actions from drilling machineries, drill-string and drilling fluid. Drilling incidents like component failures, mechanical restrictions, formation fluid influx and hydraulic restrictions are simulated in a realistic fashion and are a result of the actions applied to the well (non-determinism). The drillers are working in a familiar environment since the simulator is adapted to the drilling workstation of both NOV (IRIS) and Aker Solutions MH (iPORT at Aker Solutions).
The purposes of the virtual simulator environment are:
• Training of drilling personnel
• Commissioning of new drilling technology before implementation at the rig site
• Build new work procedures to adapt to new drilling technology
• Study the potential hazard in a complex drilling operation
The environment has been operational since 2009 and has been used in multiple instances and different contexts like:
• Training of all 6 crews (drillers, assistant drillers, tool pushers, drilling supervisors ) before taking the Drilltronics technology into use at Statfjord C
• Testing of new software and automation technologies
• Analysis of the effect of wired pipe telemetry for kick detection
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Eric Cayeux is chief scientist drilling and well modelling with the International research institute of Stavanger (IRIS), doing research in real time systems for supporting drilling operations. He was involved in design, implementation and testing of Sekal's Drilltronics real time drilling control system and DrillScene monitoring and decision support system. He was previously well and production technology manager in Roxar, developing the well planning module of Roxar's Reservoir Modelling System (RMS).
International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS)
IRIS - International Research Institute of Stavanger - is a recognised research institute with high focus on applied research, equally owned by the University of Stavanger and the regional foundation Rogalandsforskning. IRIS was established in 2006, as a result of a technical re-structuring of the ownership of Rogaland Research.
Rogaland Research was established in 1973, and the continuation of its activities in IRIS provides IRIS with a long and proud history right from the start. Research activities started in the area of social science, but quickly developed to include petroleum.
Today IRIS remains an independent research institute with research and research-related activities in petroleum, new energy, marine environment, biotechnology and social science and business development.
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