Expert-centric digital technology

how digital technology can be better designed specifically around the needs of its users 0

Thursday, January 24, 2019, London, The Geological Society

This forum on Jan 24th explored ways to make oil and gas digital technology more oriented around the experts which use it - and by doing so create many business opportunities. The organisation gets better software and better results - and there can also be many opportunities for domain experts and software developers making much more useful software.

We define 'expert-centric' software as software designed specifically around the interests of the experts who are going to use it. In the way that cars are designed around their drivers, and mainstream software and electronics is desigend around its customers.

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Agenda

9:30

Karl Jeffery - editor - Finding Petroleum

Welcome & Introduction

Karl Jeffery is editor and co-founder of Digital Energy Journal, and conference producer of Finding Petroleum. He is also publisher of Carbon Capture Journal and Tanker Operator, and co-founder of Digital Ship, a publishing and events company covering digital technology for the deep sea maritime industry. He has a BEng in chemical engineering from Nottingham University

Finding Petroleum
Finding Petroleum was established to help the oil and gas industry network, and stay up to date on the latest technological developments. It does this via hosting regular events and with an online social network of nearly 10,000 members.

9:40

David Bamford - Director - Future Energy Partners Ltd

Eccentric or Expert-centric - how E&P works

David Bamford is well known around the oil & gas industry both as an explorer and a geophysicist. He holds a Physics degree from the University of Bristol and a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham.

Since 2004, he has been a non-executive director at Tullow Oil plc, being recruited for this position especially for his exploration knowledge. He serves on the Nominations and Remuneration Committees, and was chairman of the latter, and Senior Independent Director, for 3 years prior to his retire from the board at the end of April 2014.

He joined the board of Premier Oil in May 2014.

He retired from BP plc in 2003, his last four positions being Chief Geophysicist (1990-1995), Business Unit Leader (General Manager) for first West Africa and then Norway (1995-1999), and finally Head of Exploration until 2003.

He has served on the boards of Paras Ltd, a small exploration and IS/IT consulting company in which he held 22% equity, until its sale to RPS Energy in 2008 and Welltec a/s, a Danish well engineering company, as the nominee of the private equity investor Riverside.
From 2012 to 201 he was on the board of ASX-quoted Australia Oriental Energy as a non-executive director.

He was a founder of Richmond Energy Partners, a small oil & gas research house, and several media companies that focus on the oil & gas sector, and has served as an advisor to Alliance Bernstein, Opus Executive, the Parkmead Group plc, and Kimmeridge Energy LLP. Since retiring from BP, he has undertaken asset and company valuation projects for investment banks, hedge funds and small oil companies.

Future Energy Partners Ltd
Future Energy Partners (FEP) is a unique oil and gas advisory service which prides itself on technical excellence in selected fields and supplementing business management and leadership; in the face of uncertainty.

We offer truthful, professional opinion and advice; no playback of what you already know, and no spin.

FEP was founded by 4 senior industry practitioners who consider the challenges faced by today's oil and gas environment are going to require herculean acts of leadership and technical skill in a transforming, transitioning, industry, in order to maintain an energy supply that is sustainable and even recognisable compared to recent history.

Similarly nations developing an oil and gas industry face related challenges as they seek to maximise the benefits of this new wealth-creating opportunity - in a responsible manner.

Global reach

FEP actively participates in the facilitation and conduct of seminars and webinars worldwide, for example in conjunction with its associate partner Finding Petroleum.

Our presence reaches parts of the globe, such as: the UK, the USA, Sub-Saharan Africa, with partners wherever we work.

10:10

Dimitris Lyras - director - Lyras Shipping / Ulysses Systems

Developing software that understands the real world

Talk Description.
- Software today is mostly geared towards developing quick and cost efficient solutions
- Less attention is given to teaching computers about the world they will be operating in
- But for software to be useful to expert workers - such as geologists, drilling engineers, production engineers, facilities engineers - the software needs to understand the world they work in

Lyras Shipping / Ulysses Systems
Ulysses Systems is a software company specializing in the delivery of actionable information.
Our premier product, Task Assistant, has proven its value in the Maritime Industry where timely access to relevant information has a high impact on revenue and reputation. Ulysses is ready to show you the competitive advantages of Task Assistant in any vertical and organisation.

10:45

Coffee & Tea; Exhibits

11:10

Murray Callander - CEO - Eigen Ltd

Providing experts with an integrated view of safety data from all sources: sensors, software and qualitative factors

Talk Description.

Safety managers need to ensure safety barriers are intact – but a safety barrier is just a concept made up of processes, sensors and alerts, not a real thing.
How to provide expert safety managers with a single view of the safety situation, which they can use to drill down and find what they need

Eigen Ltd

11:40

Paul Cleverley - founder - Infoscience Technologies Ltd

Show me something I don't already know: Making Oil and Gas technical information more engaging during search for subject matter experts.

Talk Description.

Share results of research with over 50 petroleum engineers in 30 organizations using the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) content. What algorithms and visual analytics showed a greater propensity to suggest the unexpected, insightful and valuable?
Discuss various techniques which could nudge search tools from just time savers - meeting an existing need - to creative 'assistants'; stimulating new needs.

Paul is a Geoscientist and Computer Scientist who has worked on search deployments in organizations for the past three decades. He is founder of Tech Start-up Infoscience Technologies Ltd based in Oxford, that licenses exploration geoscience text mining algorithms. He is also on the Board of the non-profit GeoscienceWorld based in Washington DC and is Visiting Professor of Information Science & Technology at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. He has published numerous academic peer reviewed papers on enterprise search and text analytics in business. Links and further research found at:
https://infosciencetechnologies.com/
Blog: https://paulhcleverley.com/

Infoscience Technologies Ltd

12:10

Julian Zec - Chief Engineer & Manager Maintenance & Reliability - National Oilwell Varco

Software to help experts diagnose condition, maintain reliability and plan maintenance of drilling and subsea equipment

Talk Description.
-Specific design to support condition /predictive maintenance experts to perform daily tasks
-Enabling maintenance & reliability engineers to properly diagnose condition and predict Remaining Useful Life (RUL)
-Systematizing available, often variable and limited information for evaluation of equipment recertification based on condition, optimisation of overhauls or further diagnostics
- Extracting relevant data & information from maintenance management systems and/or other sources to help plan and complete the task, according to resource availability and existing rules and requirements
National Oilwell Varco
National Oilwell Varco is a worldwide leader in providing major mechanical components for land and offshore drilling rigs, complete land drilling and well servicing rigs, tubular inspection and internal tubular coatings, drill string equipment, extensive lifting and handling equipment, and a broad offering of downhole drilling motors, bits and tools. National Oilwell Varco also provides supply chain services through its network of distribution service centers located near major drilling and production activity worldwide.

12:40

Paul Helm - Associate Technical Director - Geologix Systems Integration Ltd

How virtual and augmented reality can help expert work

Paul Helm is a former director oil and gas with Hewlett Packard.

Geologix Systems Integration Ltd
Geologix has been a leading supplier, for more than 25 years, of software tools and data interpretation services to support oil and gas drilling. In the last few years, it has provided senior digital transformation advisors to clients and has developed new products to optimise oil and gas production, identify major equipment declining performance and predict equipment failure. More recently, Geologix has acquired VR and AR expertise and is promoting their adoption into oil and gas work processes.

13:10

Close: Lunch

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.

New Eyes Exploration
New Eyes Exploration, founded by David Bamford, explores new ways to discover Oil and Gas.

Future Energy Partners Ltd
Future Energy Partners (FEP) is a unique oil and gas advisory service which prides itself on technical excellence in selected fields and supplementing business management and leadership; in the face of uncertainty.

We offer truthful, professional opinion and advice; no playback of what you already know, and no spin.

FEP was founded by 4 senior industry practitioners who consider the challenges faced by today's oil and gas environment are going to require herculean acts of leadership and technical skill in a transforming, transitioning, industry, in order to maintain an energy supply that is sustainable and even recognisable compared to recent history.

Similarly nations developing an oil and gas industry face related challenges as they seek to maximise the benefits of this new wealth-creating opportunity - in a responsible manner.

Global reach

FEP actively participates in the facilitation and conduct of seminars and webinars worldwide, for example in conjunction with its associate partner Finding Petroleum.

Our presence reaches parts of the globe, such as: the UK, the USA, Sub-Saharan Africa, with partners wherever we work.

Registered Delegates

Paul Hodson Senior Manager Accenture United Kingdom	Nick Norton Senior Energy Advisor Foreign Office United Kingdom	Daniel Buckingham INTERNATIONAL FINANCE BROKER. Pronto Business Funding United Kingdom
Paul Murphy Key Account Manager, Oil and Gas Division Airbus Defence and Space United Kingdom	GOPI CHAVA Engineer In Transition Canada	Christopher Hughes Head of Business Development, EAME Quantico Energy Solutions United Kingdom
Geoffrey Boyd Field Development Consultant Antium FRONTFIELD United Kingdom	Nick Steel Consultant Independent United Kingdom	Robert Snashall Consultant RGSConsult United Kingdom
Maria Mackey Energy Sector AWS United Kingdom	Paul Cleverley Researcher Infoscience Technologies Ltd United Kingdom	Lucas Buchanan Contractor Self United Kingdom
Nick Pillar Manager of Geophysics Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd United Kingdom	Paul Helm MD LA12 Ltd	Hannah Aylwin Geoscientist SLR Consulting United Kingdom
Chris Hough Subsurface Data Coordinator Chevron United Kingdom	Peter Allen Consultant Layla Resources United Kingdom	Ewan Whyte Technical Director SLR Consulting Ltd. United Kingdom
John Glass MD Cloverfield Consulting Ltd United Kingdom	Mike Larsen Director Metastream Ltd United Kingdom	Michael Dyson Manager Striatum United Kingdom
Diwin Amarasinghe Geophysical Specialist Consultant United Kingdom	Julian Zec Chief Engineer National Oilwell varco Norway	Jenny Pantelis Ulysses Systems
Micky Allen consultant consultant United Kingdom	David Bamford Director New Eyes Exploration Ltd UK	DIMITRIS LYRAS MANAGER ULYSSES SYSTEMS United Kingdom
Stephen Norman Business Development Manager DNV United Kingdom	Jack Forster Maintenace & Reliability Engineer NOV United Kingdom	Gareth Smith Head of Consulting Venture United Kingdom
murray callander Lead Engineer Eigen Ltd	Abi Mirkhani COO OPG Supply United Kingdom	Deirdre ODonnell Managing Director Working Smart United Kingdom
Dave Wallis Senior Advisor Energistics United Kingdom	Dirk Peeters Sales Director Peltarion United Kingdom	Peter Sawyer Business Development Director WSS Energy Consulting United Kingdom
Karl Jeffery Editor Finding Petroleum United Kingdom	Andrew Foulds Director Petrafiz Ltd United Kingdom	Hugh Ebbutt Associated Director WSS Energy Consulting United Kingdom
Richard McIntyre Sales Manager Finding Petroleum	Frederic Yeterian Director Philax International (UK) Ltd United Kingdom	Nick Cribbens General Manager Zebra Data Sciences United Kingdom
Andy Moore Consultant Fizzbuzz Ltd	John Clure Managing Director Phoenix Hydrocarbon Resources Ltd United Kingdom