IT infrastructure for the digital oilfield

Keeping your IT infrastructure risk and hassle free 1

Thursday, June 7, 2012, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Marriott Hotel

Attend this event to learn about the latest ideas and technology you can use to keep your IT infrastructure risk and hassle free, and keep users happy.

This conference will cover the latest ideas for getting the most out of cloud systems to keep work off your desk but not get any surprises.

You'll learn some of the latest ideas to keep data moving quickly over satellite communications, so people can log in to software from offshore, reducing hassle.

You'll learn some of the best ways to integrate tablet computers into your IT infrastructure, meeting user demands without compromising security and control.

No attendance fee - limited places - register now to secure yours!

According to a recent Microsoft / Accenture survey 36 per cent of oil and gas managers, engineers and IT managers have plans to use cloud services, and 23 per cent are already using them, and 45 per cent of respondents thought that all company users, including management, engineers and operators, should be able to access KPIs and common information via mobile devices.


Speakers include

David Ellison, director of London oil and gas IT consultancy ISN Solutions, whose clients include Tullow, Afren and Premier Oil, 3 of the 4 largest independent oil and gas companies in the UK

Sam Murray, business development executive with Hermes Data Communications, a company which provides satellite and data communications services to Maersk, Parker Drilling, PSN, KBR, BP, Eni, Fluor and Petronas, with over 120 employees and earth stations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and UAE, among other places

Peter Black, managing director of EnergySys, a UK company which provides a cloud based system for managing production data, with clients including the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Customers include Midenergy Operating (Texas), Atlantic LNG (Trinidad and Tobago), Apache North Sea, and Ithaca Energy

Terry Price, associate partner with IBM, speaking about faciliting improved decision making using probabilities

Chaired by Julian Pickering, director of Digital Oilfield Solutions and a past Head of Digital Technology for Global Drilling and Completions at BP, and BP's Head of the Field of the Future Facilities Programme.

Agenda

9:00 Arrivals and Registration

9:30

Julian Pickering - CEO - Geologix Systems Integration Ltd

Chairman's introduction


Dr Julian Pickering has a degree in Applied Physics from Brunel University, London and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University, where he was a BP scholar. He has worked for BP for 32 years and has held major posts including the Head of Digital Technology for Global Drilling and Completions and the Head of the Field of the Future Facilities Programme. He left BP in March 2010 and set up his own company, Digital Oilfield Solutions, with partners in the United States of America. He has provided consultancy services to many large Oil and Gas companies and is a consultant to the Energistics Data Standards Organisation.

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.
9:40

David Ellison - director - ISN Solutions

Delivering Field Site IT - from today's challenges to tomorrow's potential.

Talk Description.
Thin client over satellite, wireless networking, real time video are some of the ways we are solving today's IT infrastructure issues but what lies ahead for IT and comms at the end of the decade? ...or at the end of the century?

Numerous challenges are shaping the way IT is being delivered to offshore drilling projects. ISN discuss the current state of play in the digital oilfield and offer some ideas for how things might look in the future, covering how we have overcome some of the demands E&P companies are facing in delivering applications to field sites, exploring evolving use of thin client over satellite, wireless networking, real time video and suggesting how emerging technology might transform the well site as a workplace.

Our unique field site experience means that we understand only too well the impact of IT issues faced at a well-site and how to minimise risks while delivering essential applications and services anywhere in the world.
David has been helping companies in the UK oil industry develop innovative IT strategies for the last 15 years at ISN and at Enterprise Oil before that, building upon an IT consultancy background at Flemings, NatWest and Fortis. His diverse IT background includes service delivery, project management, technical lead on desktop, server and network systems. David's main motivation is finding solutions, not necessarily technical ones, that provide clear business benefits to ISN's clients.

ISN Solutions
ISN Solutions provides IT services exclusively to the upstream oil and gas industry. Founded and operated by three former oil company IT and comms consultants, our business is built on unrivalled international field experience, delivering infrastructure projects offshore and onshore and providing IT services for oil companies in the UK and abroad.
10:10

Sam Murray - Business Development Executive - Hermes Data Communications

Case study: VSAT oil and gas project in Iraq

Talk Description.
- Case study - VSAT oil and gas project in Iraq
- Delivery of satellite communications problems in harsh and remote environments
- Risks, project support, network design

Sam Murray will be speaking on the delivery of projects in harsh and remote environments and will cover topics such as the risks, project support, network design and future offerings and will also include a case study on a VSAT project in Iraq.
Sam Murray has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, particularly focused on the oil and gas industry.
Having been born and raised in Aberdeen, Sam has seen the area’s exploration and production activities grow from its pioneering days to the global centre of excellence we see today.
He has held both technical and sales roles within BT and its joint venture partnership with AT&T - Concert, Marconi International Marine, Invsat, Nessco and Arqiva, recently joining Hermes Datacomms to support their Aberdeen based clients and to develop new business in the region.
During his career, Sam has account managed many of the world’s leading integrated oil companies on a global basis.
Sam holds Full City & Guilds Telecommunications Certifications and a Bachelor of Arts degree in World Class Sales Management from Leeds Metropolitan University.

Hermes Data Communications
Hermes Datacomms, a company which provides satellite and data communications services specifically to the Oil & Gas sector with customers including Maersk, Parker Drilling, PSN, KBR, BP, Eni, Fluor and Petronas. With over 150 employees and earth stations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and UAE (amongst other locations), Hermes enables reach and rapid deployment to meet the rigours of the industry.
10:40

Terry Price - Associate Partner | Global Chemicals & Petroleum Upstream - IBM

Knowledge Automation - Decision Making Based on Probability Factors

Talk Description.
Analytics (Historical and Predictive)
Optimisation (production and Information)
Knowledge Automation - Decision Making Based on Probability Factors

IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is a multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. As of September 2011, IBM is the second-largest publicly traded technology company in the world by market capitalization.
11:10 Break

11:40

Peter Black - Managing director - EnergySys

Enabling business agility with production allocation in the cloud

Talk Description.
- How the cloud can help you be more agile in managing production reporting and production allocation
- How to do data integration in the cloud
- How cloud systems can help you respond to changing business demands throughout the asset life
- How the cloud can enable secure information exchange within the company and with partners
- Why cloud is a business revolution not a technology revolution

Oil and gas exploration and production is a dynamic business, rapidly evolving and continuously responding to technical and commercial challenges. Asset acquisitions, transfers and divestments are common features of this changing landscape, and even the largest operators struggle to obtain a coherent view of asset performance across their estate.

Small and medium sized operators frequently have to rely on their expertise and experience to optimise production from mature assets or those with limited reserves, and need to be able to start, extend, and complete production in the most cost-effective and frictionless way possible.

This presentation will use practical examples to demonstrate that the cloud is a key enabler of agile business practices in oil and gas, focussing on production reporting and production allocation. It will illustrate the challenges and complexities associated with adoption of a mature asset, and its associated systems and processes. It will describe data gathering across assets, to obtain a corporate view and deliver standardised reporting.

It will illustrate the benefits to be obtained when developing new assets, and the ways in which cloud systems can respond effectively to the demands of the business throughout the asset life. Finally, the opportunities afforded by secure information exchange both within the enterprise and with partners will be explored, offering potentially dramatic improvements in productivity.

Through these examples, we will show that the cloud is not a technology revolution, but a business revolution, allowing oil and gas companies to create agile business models that can respond more effectively to shifting market conditions.


Everything I do is about allowing our customers to focus on their core business, and spend less time worrying about IT. My current focus is on cloud computing as a way to deliver advanced solutions for production allocation and reserves reporting to oil and gas companies. We have customers around the globe, including West Africa, Trinidad, Azerbaijan, the UK, Switzerland, and China.

Specialties
Cloud computing, oil and gas, production reporting and production allocation, reserves reporting, IT strategy

EnergySys
energysys.com is the home of the Production Allocation Cloud, the most advanced cloud solution in the world for oil and gas production allocation and reporting.

The same technology that powers the massive Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline is available in the cloud on a low-cost, per user per month, subscription platform. energysys.com is a radically innovative solution delivering robust, proven, and scalable enterprise web technology at an affordable price, whatever your size.

EnergySys Limited
Hudson House, 8 Albany Street
Edinburgh EH1 3QB
12:10

David Reed - Real-Time Drilling Solution Lead - Drilling, Completions and Wells (DC&W) Practice - Wipro Technologies

The challenges of real time drilling (RTD) infrastructure deployments

Talk Description.
Real-time Drilling deployments (RTD) and initiatives are becoming increasingly common in the industry. The benefits and importance of these systems to safety, drilling optimisation and informed decision making are well documented.

However RTD infrastructure deployments are faced with a variety of challenges that can prevent organisations obtaining a good return on their investment. This presentation will outline some of these challenges Wipro believe are important and be a basis for thought and discussion with the conference delegates.
David's past projects include:

• Solution Lead for Wipro DC&W real-time drilling. Development of a real-time specific business capability within the DC&W practice. Creating and developing Real-time drilling IT solutions to fit business and industry needs,
• Technical Architect for a super Major on a high profile Real-time drilling global programme. Ensuring Functional Non-functional requirements and high level solution designs from lead architects are realised by physical and logical infrastructure and software. Architectural design of an industry leading WITSML test lab ensuring high level test methodology could be realised while maintain strict intellectual property rights.
• Architectural Design, quality assurance, and deployment for Real-Time drilling system to a major Gas Operator. Scope included: matching design to business requirements, alignment to Enterprise standards, vendor requirements, and ensuring the support model was fit for purpose.
• Architectural Design and quality assurance for a global Well Engineering function cost tracking and Rig scheduling system. Designing the E2E system (technology, implementation, testing, and support) within an agile development methodology.
• Solution architect for a Well integrity web portal application deploying across multiple business units. Working closely with Alaska based developers, ensuring the new system would fit into existing DC&W infrastructure.
• Solution Architecture and Rig based deployment for Real-time drilling system in Norway for a Major gas operator. Based on and off shore to provide management of the vendor and ensure risks were mitigated and implementation followed the agreed design.
• Architectural assessment and appraise for a fully virtualised DC&W application environment – Understanding workflows and business requirements to replace existing Citrix Application farms incorporating real-time drilling components.

Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies, the global IT business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro Technologies delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of 'Business through Technology' - helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner's approach to delivering innovation and an organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro Technologies has over 130,000 employees and serves clients across 54 countries.
12:40 Panel discussion - for all morning speakers

13:00 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.

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.

Bright Solid Online Technology
brightsolid online technology specialise in the architecture and secure delivery of business critical infrastructures from our UK-based data centres. We offer fully managed cloud-applications, dedicated or multi-tenant platforms and reliable disaster recovery solutions backed by our experience of working with some of the UK's leading organisations.

We run secure and highly available systems across numerous sectors, including email for St Andrews University, financial systems for Alliance Trust, a global SAP solution for Clyde Union and business-critical solutions for organisations such as Lloyds Banking Group, Standard Life, Nationwide Building Society, Cairn Energy and Tesco Bank.

ISN Solutions
ISN Solutions provides IT services exclusively to the upstream oil and gas industry. Founded and operated by three former oil company IT and comms consultants, our business is built on unrivalled international field experience, delivering infrastructure projects offshore and onshore and providing IT services for oil companies in the UK and abroad.

Hermes Data Communications
Hermes Datacomms, a company which provides satellite and data communications services specifically to the Oil & Gas sector with customers including Maersk, Parker Drilling, PSN, KBR, BP, Eni, Fluor and Petronas. With over 150 employees and earth stations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and UAE (amongst other locations), Hermes enables reach and rapid deployment to meet the rigours of the industry.

IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is a multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. As of September 2011, IBM is the second-largest publicly traded technology company in the world by market capitalization.

Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies, the global IT business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro Technologies delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of 'Business through Technology' - helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner's approach to delivering innovation and an organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro Technologies has over 130,000 employees and serves clients across 54 countries.

Teneo
Teneo, a global network infrastructure optimisation specialist, delivers accelerated application performance to offshore locations and reliable connectivity to centralised IT resources. The most accredited partner of both Riverbed and Talari Networks in the UK, Teneo solutions improve data replication and backup processes and dramatically improving worker productiv­ity and job satisfaction.

Exhibition Stands

Bright Solid Online Technology
brightsolid online technology specialise in the architecture and secure delivery of business critical infrastructures from our UK-based data centres. We offer fully managed cloud-applications, dedicated or multi-tenant platforms and reliable disaster recovery solutions backed by our experience of working with some of the UK's leading organisations.

We run secure and highly available systems across numerous sectors, including email for St Andrews University, financial systems for Alliance Trust, a global SAP solution for Clyde Union and business-critical solutions for organisations such as Lloyds Banking Group, Standard Life, Nationwide Building Society, Cairn Energy and Tesco Bank.

ISN Solutions
ISN Solutions provides IT services exclusively to the upstream oil and gas industry. Founded and operated by three former oil company IT and comms consultants, our business is built on unrivalled international field experience, delivering infrastructure projects offshore and onshore and providing IT services for oil companies in the UK and abroad.

Hermes Data Communications
Hermes Datacomms, a company which provides satellite and data communications services specifically to the Oil & Gas sector with customers including Maersk, Parker Drilling, PSN, KBR, BP, Eni, Fluor and Petronas. With over 150 employees and earth stations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and UAE (amongst other locations), Hermes enables reach and rapid deployment to meet the rigours of the industry.

IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is a multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. As of September 2011, IBM is the second-largest publicly traded technology company in the world by market capitalization.

Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies, the global IT business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro Technologies delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of 'Business through Technology' - helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner's approach to delivering innovation and an organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro Technologies has over 130,000 employees and serves clients across 54 countries.

Teneo
Teneo, a global network infrastructure optimisation specialist, delivers accelerated application performance to offshore locations and reliable connectivity to centralised IT resources. The most accredited partner of both Riverbed and Talari Networks in the UK, Teneo solutions improve data replication and backup processes and dramatically improving worker productiv­ity and job satisfaction.

Registered Delegates

Alex Richards
Business Manager - Oil & Gas
BAE Systems Detica
United Kingdom
Mayela Torrealba
Well Data Manager
Eurotech
United Kingdom
Graeme Anderson
Director
Prodacon Ltd
United Kingdom
John MacCallum
Remote Connectivity Coordinator
Baker Hughes
United Kingdom
Adam Marmaras
Event Organiser
Finding Petroleum
United Kingdom
Doug Reid
IT Technical Lead
Reservoir Group
United Kingdom
Eugene Zuzik
In-country systems specialist
Baker Hughes
United Kingdom
Nick May
IS Business Analyst
GDF SUEZ E&P UK
Chris Gladding
Group IT Manager
Reservoir Group
United Kingdom
Sion Judah
Remote Connectivity Co-Ordinator
Baker Hughes
United Kingdom
Graeme Forman

GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd
United Kingdom
Sean Cooke

RGU
United Kingdom
Alasdair Macleod
Technical Director
Binary Systems
United Kingdom
Mike Scott
Senior Managing Consultant - Intelligent Operations
Halliburton
United Kingdom
Oludare Elebiju
Associate Reservoir Engineer
RPS Group
United Kingdom
Michael Johnson
Technical Authority / Engineer
BP Exploration Co.Ltd
United Kingdom
Douglas Gow
Account Executive
Harris CapRock
United Kingdom
Afef Belaid
IT Wellsite Service Manager
Schlumberger
France
Malcolm Smith
head of sales
brightsolid online technology
Kevin Blyth
Global Business development
Harris CapRock Communications
United Kingdom
Malcolm Brown
Manager of Information, Communications & Technical Services
Sterling Resources
United Kingdom
Peter Telfer
Marketing Executive
brightsolid online technology
Sam Murray
Business Development Executive
Hermes Datacomms
Lewis Yim
Operations Manager
Tachyus
United Kingdom
Mike McHale
Business Development Manager
brightsolid online technology limited
United Kingdom
Bill Green
Account Director
Hermes Datacomms
United Kingdom
Jeff Zeichick

Talari
United States
Alastair Shakeshaft
Director
BusinessPort Limited
United Kingdom
Ian Bolton
Information Systems Architect
HP Enterprise Services
United Kingdom
Phil Kane
Systems Engineer
Talari Networks
United Kingdom
Iain Lennox
Head of IT&C
Cairn Energy
United Kingdom
Martin Harbord
Technical Support Analyst
HRH Geology
United Kingdom
Willie Jamieson
Global Service Manager - Offshore Communications
Talisman Enrgy UK Ltd
United Kingdom
James Grant
Head of IS - Upstream
Centrica Energy
United Kingdom
Paul Haynes
Consultant
Hydrogen
United Kingdom
Ian Hindmarsh
IT SSO Manager
Technip
United Kingdom
Huw Pegler
Director, Oil & Gas
Cisco Systems
United Kingdom
Alan Johnstone

IBM
Gurdeep Dhillon
Senior Sales Engineer
Teneo
United Kingdom
Michael Togher
IT Consultant
Dell
United Kingdom
Colin Dawson
Account Manager
IDS
United Kingdom
Duncan Gray
Senior Sales
Teneo Ltd
United Kingdom
Christopher Neill
Solutions specialist
Dell
United Kingdom
Keith Wildridge
Regional Manager, Europe & Africa
IDS
United Kingdom
Jean-Pierre Van Frank
Principal Systems Engineer
WGPSN
United Kingdom
karl jeffery
Editor
Digital Energy Journal
United Kingdom
Tommy Mihaylov
Software Developer
IDS
United Kingdom
alan gray
System Engineer
Wipro
United Kingdom
Julian Pickering
Director
Digital Oilfield Solutions Ltd
Amit Tambi
Client Services - Energy Europe
Infosys Limited
United Kingdom
sally nuza

Wipro
Terry Price
Managing Director
Easymatics Limited
United Kingdom
Boyd Ross
Principal Consultant
Infotechnics Ltd
David Reed
RTDD Solution Lead
Wipro
Simon Williams
Account Manager
EMC
United Kingdom
Mark Ashford
Managing Director
MACOM Consulting Ltd
United Kingdom
Iain Nairn
principal solutions architect
Wipro Ltd
United Kingdom
Leon Slupinski

EMC
Keith Greig
IM&T Manager
Maersk Oil
Kyriaki Raizi - Cooke
Real Time Drilling Subject Matter Expert
WIPRO Technologies
United Kingdom
Martin Blindheim
Managing Director
Energy Growth Partners Limited
United Kingdom
Kevin Zeiler
Infrastructure Manager
Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd
Peter Marks
Data solutions lead, Drilling, Completions and Wells Practice
Wipro Technologies
United Kingdom
Peter Black
Managing Director
EnergySys Limited
United Kingdom
Neil Mccrindle
Business Development Manager
MTI Technology
United Kingdom
Stephen Phillips
Geologist
Wipro UK Limited
United Kingdom
David Petherick
Head of Digital Marketing
EnergySys Limited
United Kingdom
Lawson McBay
Senior Account Manager
NesscoInvsat
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
Erik Eriksson
Head of Sales
EnergySys Limited
United Kingdom
Chris Copner
Business Applications Team Lead
Nexen Petroleum (UK) Ltd
United Kingdom