Expert-centric digital technology
how digital technology can be better designed specifically around the needs of its users
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David Bamford
» Director
» Future Energy Partners Ltd
Dimitris Lyras
» director
» Lyras Shipping / Ulysses Systems
Murray Callander
» CEO
» Eigen Ltd
Paul Cleverley
» founder
» Infoscience Technologies Ltd
Julian Zec
» Chief Engineer & Manager Maintenance & Reliability
» National Oilwell Varco
Paul Helm
» Associate Technical Director
» Geologix Systems Integration Ltd
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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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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 t More... | |
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David Bamford is well known around the oil & gas industry both as an explorer and a geophysicist. 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 undertaken asset and company valuation projects for investment banks, hedge funds and small oil companies. He has been a board director of Tullow Oil and Premier Oil.
He holds a Physics degree from the University of Bristol and a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham.
Future Energy Partners Ltd Future Energy Partners (FEP) is a unique oil and gas advisory service which prides itself on technic More... | |
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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
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Ulysses Systems is a software company specializing in the delivery of actionable information. Ou More... | |
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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
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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.
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I’m a Geoscientist and Information Scientist with over 30 years experience in the UK and International Digital Geoscience sector. My particular passion is Artificial Intelligence, applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) to geoscience and subsurface information for societal and industry benefit. I am a Fellow of the Geological Society of London (FGS), first elected in 1994 and participate in various international Data Science committees.
Infoscience Technologies Ltd
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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 is a worldwide leader in providing major mechanical components for land and o More... | |
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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 interpretat More... | |
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