Developments with subsurface data

Finding better ways to work with subsurface data 1

Tuesday, March 13, 2012, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Marriott Hotel

If it is your job to help your company manage and get more out of its reservoirs, our conference is designed for you. To help you work out ways to make your company's data work harder.

You've heard about the dream of a fully integrated data system for subsurface, including all exploration data, well data and models, with everybody working on the same data set.

Is this dream still worth working towards - and how much do new super-powerful database systems (such as Oracle's Exadata and Teradata's own database) make it easier to achieve?

Hear ideas about how other companies get better at managing data about their reservoirs.

Meet colleagues from other companies who work with subsurface data.

Find ways to manage reservoir data which are simpler, cheaper and potentially better.

If you think it might be possible to do better with how we manage subsurface data, register now for the conference.

This is our second conference on subsurface data management, following the first event we held in London on April 20 2011, which attracted delegates from BP, Centrica, EOG Resources, Perenco, RPS Energy, SASOL and Schlumberger among others. (See photos from that event).

KEY TOPICS

Integrating subsurface data
We are still a long way from being able to integrate all of the available subsurface data into one model - if it is to include all types of seismic (including passive seismic, microseismic, permanent monitoring); well and production data; gravity and electromagnetics. How can this be accelerated?

High performance data management + cloud
We have new computer and database tools coming onto the market which can process and move large amounts of data much faster. What implications does this have on subsurface data management, in terms of making it faster to process data, making it easier to move data around the company (including remote access), making it easier to integrate data, allowing larger reservoir models, and making it easier for geologists to work on their models in the airport? Are companies willing to commit the budgets required to purchase such systems?

Agenda

9:30

Jay Hollingsworth - Director - Oil and Gas Industry Business Unit at Oracle - Oracle Corporation

Getting a better understanding of your reservoir - through advances in high performance data management technology

Jay Hollingsworth is Director - Oil and Gas Industry Business Unit at Oracle; Board of Directors Member at PPDM Association; Technical Representative at POSC/Energistics.

He was previously Seabed Architect / Portfolio Manager at Schlumberger Information Solutions
Principal Data Architect at Schlumberger Information Solutions; and Consulting Data Architect at Landmark Graphics

Oracle Corporation
Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. Oracle's product strategy provides flexibility and choice to our customers across their IT infrastructure. Now, with Sun server, storage, operating-system, and virtualization technology, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is integrated to work together as a single system. In addition, Oracle's open architecture and multiple operating-system options gives our customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including excellent system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership.

10:00

Tim Hollis - Studio Champion - Schlumberger

Studio - the Multiuser Database for Petrel

Talk Description.
For many years "Petrel" and "Data Management" were like oil and water - managing Petrel projects was often a case of disk space damage limitation. Not any more.

With Studio Knowledge - the database for Petrel - users now have the security of a multi-user database, a single source for their data, giving them the freedom and confidence to release their data into the Data Management workflow.

Finding data, sharing data and collaborating together is easy -across multiple co-ordinate reference systems (CRS), across multiple units of measurement, across multiple locations - transforming the user's Petrel experience from the "one-project, one-user" scenario, to user's sharing a single data source, capturing not just data but Knowledge, enabling more productive users workflows, giving secure and easy access to your Knowledge and sharing and collaborating for faster decision making.

Petrel E&P Software Platform helps increase reservoir performance by improving asset team productivity. Geophysicists, geologists, and reservoir engineers can develop collaborative workflows and integrate operations to streamline processes.

Studio is a knowledge centric collaboration environment - providing SIS application users a whole new level of productivity and knowledge management for petrotechnical data through a scalable solution which is valuable from small teams of users to the largest enterprise. The collaboration, knowledge management and personalization capabilities of Studio are integrated into the petrotechnical desktop applications such as Petrel to ensure seamless scalable awareness and access to key insight, information and results.

Tim Hollis is the Studio Champion for Schlumberger Information Solutions based in Aberdeen. Tim has been involved in Information Management in the oil industry for the past 10 years working in London, The Netherlands and Aberdeen. Tim has worked on client site performing day to day seismic and well data management, worked on several large data migration projects, and managed various onsite services for multiple clients. Tim is now the Studio Champion for the UK responsible for Technical Sales of Studio - the Knowledge Management, Collaboration and Usability enhancements introduced with Petrel 2011.

Schlumberger
Schlumberger is the leading oilfield services provider, trusted to deliver superior results and improved E&P performance for oil and gas companies around the world. Through our well site operations and in our research and engineering facilities, we are working to develop products, services and solutions that optimize customer performance in a safe and environmentally sound manner.

10:30

Dr Duncan Irving - Practice Partner, oil and gas - Teradata

Tackling the "Big Data" challenges in Upstream E&P: A review of approaches

Talk Description.
"Big Data" has become a convenient short-hand for the exponential growth of data volumes across many industry sectors. Upstream E&P has suffered from "Big Data" for longer than most, firstly in terms of the data volumes but more recently dealing with rapidly changing data and the need to bring complex analytical procedures to bear on it in an operational timeframe.

We present and discuss architectures that bring to bear the twin paradigms of massive knowledge discovery using MapReduce-based technologies and "operationalized" decision support using a massively parallel Relational Database Management System.

We explain how a single integrated data instance should drive rigorous geological, geophysical and engineering insight into right-time integrated operations generally, and short-interval time-lapse reservoir imaging specifically. We explain how we can incorporate this into production workflows to address, for example, HSE and reservoir injection objectives in hour-day timeframes.

Duncan Irving is the Oil & Gas Consulting Team Lead, EMEA & APAC with Teradata. Duncan joined Teradata from the University of Manchester where he instructed in geophysical interpretation and geocomputational methods for the last seven years. He was involved in consulting and research projects involving user interactions with massive subsurface datasets and more general upstream data management, and he continues to maintain research links as an honorary lecturer. One long term project was with Teradata and he drove the development of Teradata's capabilities in the Upstream Oil and Gas area. This time provided him with a deep understanding of the capabilities of Teradata and how they can best be used in the petroleum industry.
He is a geophysicist and also has a PhD in glacial geophysics and geotechnical engineering (why frozen ground moves faster during climate warming and how this affects infrastructure). Duncan lives in the hills outside Manchester with his wife and three children. He is a mountaineer, fell runner and is a card-carrying member of the CAMpaign for Real Ale.

Teradata
Teradata is the world's largest company solely focused on creating enterprise agility through database software, enterprise data warehousing, and analytics. It's our passion and it's all we do. For the Oil & Gas Industry it must be "now", it must be safe, and it has to scale. Whether it is upstream reservoir data analytics, production and refining real-time data analysis, operations management, or back-office ERP provisioning Teradata has the technology platform, scalability, people and approach that will allow you to do more with your data - today.

11:00

Coffee

11:30

Tyson Bridger - - Roxar

Extending Field Life and Addressing the Recovery Gap - The Growing Influence of Reservoir Modelling

Talk Description.
With average global oil & gas recovery rates of just 22%, the smallest percentage improvements can have a huge impact on future oil & gas production and the bottom line. Oil & Gas Journal, for example, estimates that each additional 1% of oil recovered can replace up to three years of global oil consumption. Against this backdrop, reservoir modelling and its ability to map, understand and predict reservoir behavior is being viewed as a crucial tool in improving recovery rates.

In this presentation, Tyson Bridger will explain how recent innovations in reservoir modelling are making increased recovery rates a reality. Drawing upon examples from the Norwegian Continental Shelf where 50% recovery rates are the norm (and where many fields have adopted Roxar’s reservoir modeling solution RMS), Tyson will examine the crucial elements of reservoir modeling today. This will include the need to have a realistic representation of the underlying seismic data and handle complex geologies without simplification, through to the need to develop a seamless workflow which includes data acquisition, modeling, simulation and uncertainty management.

The result will be a vital new tool in addressing the recovery gap and extending the life of many fields.

Roxar
Roxar is an international technology company supplying to the oil & gas industry. The company develops solutions for reservoir management and production optimisation for oil & gas companies challenged with maximising returns from their reservoir assets. Roxar is a business unit of Emerson Process Management.

12:00

Tony Klapcia - Enterprise Services Manager - Eurotech Computer Services Ltd

Creating a coherent and integrated model for managing subsurface data - Advances in information management for geoscientists

Tony has worked in the IT industry for over 30 years in a variety of technical, business and management roles for some of the World’s leading technology innovators and Global services organisations.
At Eurotech he is tasked with looking at how advances in IT technology can be exploited and developed to help companies working in the Digital Oilfield arena get more benefits from new technology but retaining strict cost control.
Our objective is to use technology to allow better use and management of seismic data and to create solutions that allow not just faster processing of data but how to integrate it into a formal cross-boundary information structure to improve business decision making processes.

Eurotech Computer Services Ltd
Eurotech Computer Services has been providing solutions and services to the oil & gas industry on a Global basis since 1993. With deep core experience and expertise of Upstream and Digital Oilfield environments, Eurotech offers G&G services such as E&P Data Management, Information Management and Records Management, bespoke project work, systems and applications support and high level consultancy and IT / IM integration.

In addition, we are able to combine this experience with a first-hand knowledge of technology and how to apply it.
This allows us to design, develop and implement IT solutions that perfectly fit the demands of the Digital Oilfield - delivering the performance, availability and functionality required in this demanding environment while retaining the Total Cost of Ownership that is expected.

Eurotech works with both the major and emerging innovative vendors to create the best solution sets for the industry and has recently utilised this unique blend of experience and knowledge to develop Cloud Services for oil & gas companies

12:30

Panel discussion - for all morning speakers

12:45

Lunch

13:30

Mitch Sutherland - UK manager - Blueback Reservoir

Blueback Project Tracker – A Dedicated Data Management Tool for Petrel

Talk Description.
With global growth in the use of the Schlumberger’s Petrel* seismic to simulation software over the last 10 years there has also been a growth in associated data management challenges.
With Petrel projects scattered around company networks, data managers face a real challenge monitoring and safeguarding this valuable data. This presentation will provide an overview of the real challenges faced by those trying to manage these Petrel project networks. It will also offer innovative solutions to the data managers, by leveraging existing technology and infrastructure for overseeing and protecting their entire Petrel project network.

Mitch graduated with a degree in Geology/Geography from the University of Glasgow in 1989 and has spent the last 22yrs working in the oil & gas industry.
Mitch’s early career was predominantly made up of technical G&G positions within E&P companies including BP, Enterprise Oil and BHP. After BHP, he moved to the service sector and held senior consultant and management positions with Landmark, Technoguide, Roxar and Blueback Reservoir.
Mitch is currently the UK Manager for Blueback Reservoir. He started Blueback’s UK office in 2008 and 5yrs later there are now 15 employees with a multi-million pound turnover and an excellent reputation for quality people & products.
Special interests include all aspects of 3D geomodeling and the running of two popular forums on the LinkedIn website – “The Geomodeling Network” and the “Petrel Plug-in Network”. The combined membership of both these groups is now approx 3,000 members. Mitch regulates both of these groups and writes newsletters on a semi-regular basis with topics ranging from data management, G&G workflows to new 3D geomodeling technologies.

Blueback Reservoir
Blueback Reservoir is a fast growing technology company specializing in providing consulting services and software solutions to the global oil & gas exploration and production industry. Our strong knowledge, both within the geoscience domains and software development, makes Blueback Reservoir an excellent partner to help you maximize the value of your assets.

14:00

Hamish Strang - Software Developer - Senergy

From hot prospect to brownfield - visualising the life of a reservoir

Talk Description.
- A common subsurface database which can be used for drilling, stratigraphy and production
- Use the same database for exploration, brownfield monitoring, automated e-wellbook creation, integrated field reviews

Hamish has 27 years experience developing scientific software applications. He is numerate with a strong scientific background and has excellent project management skills and inter-disciplinary experience.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Ph.D. A Study of Star Formation within Turbulent Giant Molecular Clouds, York University, 1980 - 1983
B.Sc. Physical Sciences majoring in Physics (2.1), Robert Gordon Institute of Technology, 1976 - 1980

Senergy
Senergy develops, markets and supports innovative technologies
including Interactive Petrophysics (IPTM) and Oilfield Data Manager (ODMTM)
which have become invaluable resource tools for thousands of users globally.
Senergy software is supported by technical specialists across Senergy's
international locations. We have regional hubs in Europe, Americas, Middle
East, Far East and the Asian Pacific regions.

14:30

Craig Beebee - Global Data Management Practice - Halliburton Landmark

The DecisionSpace® Platform: supporting cross domain solutions

Talk Description.
Landmark’s goal is to enable more efficient E&P workflows to support our customer’s decision making process.

This presentation describes how the DecisionSpace® Platform supports collaborative workflows through the integration of your preferred applications and data within and across domains, from any vendor.

It simplifies the adoption of new technologies and workflows, such as next-generation earth modeling, basin scale exploration and production optimization through its complete and modular enterprise architecture. The foundation of any Platform is the data used by the applications.

This presentation will highlight the fundamental role the Landmark databases play in the DecisionSpace Platform and flexibility provided to connect to non-Landmark data sources.
Craig has over twenty years experience in the E&P Information Management domain. He has been with Landmark for six years in which time he has led the business development and project deployment of Information and Data Management services within the Landmark Digital Infrastructure group. Based in Leatherhead Craig is part of the global DI team and has responsibility for customers in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Halliburton Landmark
Halliburton Landmark, provides E&P professionals with software-driven lifecycle insights that generate new ideas, actions, and results to maximize asset value. Such insights are derived from digital technology, such as an oil and gas digital twin, which helps take your work to a new level of agility, openness, and collaboration-enabled by innovative and open industry software.

15:00

Event finishes - coffee

Sponsors of this event

Digital Energy Journal
Founded in 2006, Digital Energy Journal is the world's leading magazine for digital technology in the upstream oil and gas industry, covering developments in exploration, drilling and production, covering IT infrastructure, software, automation and people. We produce 6 issues per year, distributed by print and pdf, and an e-mail newsletter every Friday. Digital Energy Journal the official publication of Finding Petroleum. Subscriptions are GBP 250 a year.

Energistics
Energistics is a not for profit organisation to help facilitate information sharing and business process integration in the oil and gas industry. It has 97 members, including all of the oil majors and major oil service companies. It is also manages the WITSML and PRODML data exchange standards for drilling and production, and provides a neutral forum for collaborative learning and sharing.

Eurotech Computer Services Ltd
Eurotech Computer Services has been providing solutions and services to the oil & gas industry on a Global basis since 1993. With deep core experience and expertise of Upstream and Digital Oilfield environments, Eurotech offers G&G services such as E&P Data Management, Information Management and Records Management, bespoke project work, systems and applications support and high level consultancy and IT / IM integration.

In addition, we are able to combine this experience with a first-hand knowledge of technology and how to apply it.
This allows us to design, develop and implement IT solutions that perfectly fit the demands of the Digital Oilfield - delivering the performance, availability and functionality required in this demanding environment while retaining the Total Cost of Ownership that is expected.

Eurotech works with both the major and emerging innovative vendors to create the best solution sets for the industry and has recently utilised this unique blend of experience and knowledge to develop Cloud Services for oil & gas companies

InfoAsset Limited
INFOASSET is a UK based company providing unique data management services to Exploration & Production (E&P) businesses in Oil & Gas, across the globe.

INFOASSET specialises in the delivery of subsurface data managed services. We enable our E & P clients to professionally manage and leverage their assets. We deal with the mass of geotechnical and associated information that describes and values their subsurface assets, such as seismic surveys, well logs and application data.

Enigma Data Solutions
Enigma Data Solutions provides sophisticated information management software and consultancy services that address today's information management and storage demands. Our independent solutions enable businesses facing intensive data storage challenges to operate more effectively by preserving strategic data and reducing Total Cost of Ownership.

Teradata
Teradata is the world's largest company solely focused on creating enterprise agility through database software, enterprise data warehousing, and analytics. It's our passion and it's all we do. For the Oil & Gas Industry it must be "now", it must be safe, and it has to scale. Whether it is upstream reservoir data analytics, production and refining real-time data analysis, operations management, or back-office ERP provisioning Teradata has the technology platform, scalability, people and approach that will allow you to do more with your data - today.

Blueback Reservoir
Blueback Reservoir is a fast growing technology company specializing in providing consulting services and software solutions to the global oil & gas exploration and production industry. Our strong knowledge, both within the geoscience domains and software development, makes Blueback Reservoir an excellent partner to help you maximize the value of your assets.

Exhibition Stands

Registered Delegates

Lucy Mack Business Development Aupec Ltd United Kingdom	Douglas Gow Account Executive Harris CapRock United Kingdom	Anthony Klapcia Sales Manager Perigon United Kingdom
John Shields Technical Advisor Baker Hughes United Kingdom	Sam Murray Business Development Executive Hermes Datacomms	Nathan Balls Regional Manager Petrosys
mark heady Senior Geoscience Advisor baker hughes	Joel Chacon Solution Consultant Honeywell	José Ramón Jiménez Arlegui Partner Practia Consulting (Grupo Pragma) Spain
Neil Cardy Product Manager - Wellbore Integrity Solutions & Advanced Logging Services Baker Hughes United Kingdom	Hugo D'Ulisse Information Technology IBM	John Harkness General Manager QuickWells Ltd United Kingdom
Pete Morrison Software Projects Development Manager Baker Hughes United Kingdom	Jim Maitland Client Exec IBM United Kingdom	Tim Hollis Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS)
Anthony Cooke Business Development Manager Baker RDS United Kingdom	Anil Aggarwal IBM UK Ltd United Kingdom	David Richardson School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
Mitch Sutherland Blueback Reservoir	Steven Haddow Channel Manager IBM UK Ltd	Kevin OConnor Business Development Manager Scotland Electronics International Limited
PETER KENNEDY Data Lead BP United Kingdom	Joe Hardy Marketing Dir. InfoAsset Ltd	Mark Rixon Real Time Services Coordinator Senergy
James Moran Subsurface Data Lead BP UK	Mayur Udernani Upstream Practice Lead Infosys United Kingdom	Steve Fulford Product Manager Real Time Services Senergy United Kingdom
Owain Pedrog Data Management Delivery Lead BP	Boyd Ross Principal Consultant Infotechnics Ltd	Grant Speirs Drilling Optimisation Engineer Senergy
DEREK HENDRY Applications Portfolio Manager BP United Kingdom	Dave Brett Geoscientist Ithaca Energy	Hege Vanessa Westland North Sea Account Manager Senergy Software United Kingdom
Paul Gibb Business Development Manager CouttsGibb	Graham Dingwall Senior Consultant JAB	Zak Crawford Data Management Lead (UK), Data Quality SME (Upstream) Shell United Kingdom
Max Leadley-Brown Sales Dassault Systemes UK Ltd	leah stewart Subsurface Resourcer and Consultant JAB-Recruitment United Kingdom	Ian Adans Subsurface Data Consultant Shell UK United Kingdom
Rory Marr Senior Manager Deloitte	Gavin Robinson Business Development Manager Landmark United Kingdom	Larissa Middleton Data Manager Suncor Energy UK ltd
karl jeffery Editor Digital Energy Journal United Kingdom	Craig Beebee Global Practice Manager - Data Management Landmark United Kingdom	Babalola Akiode Principal Petrophysicist Taqa
Andy Sentance Software Applications Specialist Dynamic Graphics United Kingdom	Kevin King Services Manager Landmark Netherlands	Sheena Hickey Data Manager TAQA Bratani United Kingdom
Peter Copley Specialist Director Enigma Data Solutions Ltd. United Kingdom	Michael Jones UK MD Landmark Graphics United Kingdom	Susan Robertson Petrophysics Technical Asst TAQA Bratani Limited
Mayela Torrealba Well Data Manager Eurotech United Kingdom	Phil Bustin O&G Consulting Manager Logica	Niall O'Doherty Manager Teradata Ireland
Gareth Neville Pre-Sales Technical Consultant Eurotech Computer Services Ltd	Alan Smith Director Luchelan Limited United Kingdom	Hannu Rajaniemi Director Think Tank Maths
Nick McArdle Senior Geophysicist ffA	Jonathan Fleetham Geoscience Data Manager Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited United Kingdom	Duncan Irving Head of AI and Automation tietoEVRY
Colin Ferguson Software Geoscientist ffA United Kingdom	Tanguy Blachere R&D Engineer Maxwell Downhole Technology United Kingdom	Elias Theocharopoulos Software engineer University of Edinburgh
Adam Marmaras Event Organiser Finding Petroleum United Kingdom	Colin Malcomson Maxwell Downhole Technology United Kingdom	Dave Fraser Director - Sales & Marketing Venture Information Management United Kingdom
John Finder Sales Manager Finding Petroleum / Digital Energy Journal United Kingdom	Jonathan Jenkins Director NDB Upstream United Kingdom	Ian Jones Head of IIS Practice Venture Information Management United Kingdom
Douglas Gibson CEO Fotech Solutions United Kingdom	Nick Pashley Business Applications Analyst Nexen Petroleum (UK) Ltd United Kingdom	Ugur Algan Director Volantice Ltd. United Kingdom
Simon Berry Geophysicist Fugro Survey	Jay Hollingsworth Oracle	Pete Floyd Senior Manager Upstream Wipro United Kingdom
Nick May IS Business Analyst GDF SUEZ E&P UK	Laurence Ormerod Consultant Ormerod Consulting Ltd United Kingdom	Stephen Phillips Geologist Wipro UK Limited United Kingdom
ololade okunrinboye Environmental Specialist Halliburton