Integrated operations program with Statoil

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 682
Author(s):  
David Haake
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Active Member ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Business Organisation ◽  
Industry Standards ◽  
Offshore Industry ◽  
Integrated Operations

Several years ago, IBM established its Smarter Planet vision: to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works—to how every person, business, organisation, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts. Mr Haake will present a case study from our collaboration with Statoil on integrated operations. Statoil defines integrated operations (IO) as: collaboration across disciplines, companies, organisational and geographical boundaries—made possible by real-time data and new work processes—to reach safer and better decisions faster. To help identify the methods, technologies and work processes necessary to integrate its operations, Statoil appointed a research and development consortium consisting of ABB, IBM, SKF and Aker Kvaerner. The Statoil TAIL IO project was aimed at improving operations at fields approaching the end of their life-spans—the stage where production rate is declining, the facilities are aging, and the cost of operation is high. The result is a set of integrated operations solutions based on industry standards that offer great promise. “Our efforts to bring more integration and collaboration to our production processes are critical to the future of the offshore industry. IBM has shown a strong commitment to helping us achieve this goal.”—Adolfo Henriquez, head of Integrated Operations, Statoil. IBM Research, is the world’s largest private research institution. The IBM annual research and development budget is nearly $6 Billion. IBM is also an active member and participant in the development and leadership of multiple petroleum industry standards bodies: Mimosa and Open Operations & Maintenance Integrated Operations of the High North (IOHN) Energistics, coordinating WITSML and PRODML.

Maximising value by using good data to drive good decisions

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidan Shields ◽  
Marivic Mirhan ◽  
Emma Stratford
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Problem Analysis ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Data Accessibility ◽  
Good Data ◽  
Management Standards

The industry-wide move towards big data and the digital oilfield is underpinned by good data. This paper outlines a suite of data management standards, systems and processes, and provides examples of how these have led to improved decision making. The approach involved the development of standards and streamlined business processes followed by the implementation of systems focusing on production data accessibility, quality and integration. Accessibility was addressed by making real-time data readily available from multiple devices so users spend more time using data instead of locating it. Quality was improved through the implementation of processes such as operational data validation (ODV) and production allocation (PA). Integration was facilitated so that users could view data from various systems in a single location. The implementation of data management standards, systems and processes led to improved decision making in the areas of external reporting, operating cost, safety, environment, commercial, reservoir management, well surveillance, and situational awareness. In particular, implementation of the ODV process ensured the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of data from reservoir to sales. Furthermore, improved accessibility and integration increased situational awareness, reduced troubleshooting time, and improved problem analysis. While the concept of data management and quality control is not new, the novelty is in the approach of developing robust standards, implementation of systems based on these standards, and creating the supporting business process and culture aligned to what drives value in the organisation. This is easily transferable and adaptable across all facets of the petroleum industry.

The Latest Innovation in Pressure Compensated Deep-Sea Wet Mateable High Voltage Connectors

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Frerck
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Market Share ◽  
High Voltage ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
World Wide ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Marine Technology ◽  
Offshore Industry

GISMA GmbH was founded in 1983 and is today a medium-sized company with 42 employees. With a real net output of 90%, GISMA in Neumu¨nster develops, designs and produces 3,500 different connectors. The high-quality electrical and fibre-optical connectors are used world-wide in the offshore industry, marine technologies and in submarine technologies. With a market share of approx. 30% GISMA is nowadays one of the leading connector manufacturers in European marine technology. 350,000 Euro is invested annually in research and development.

scholarly journals Modelling surface NMR spin-echo experiments in a heterogeneous B1 field

2019 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 1395-1404
Author(s):  
Denys Grombacher
Keyword(s):  
Pore Space ◽  
Spin Echo ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Bloch Equation ◽  
Transverse Magnetization ◽  
Subsurface Water ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Pore Geometry ◽  
Analytic Expression ◽  
B1 Field

SUMMARY Surface nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements show great promise for characterization of subsurface water content, pore-sizes and permeability. The link between surface NMR and pore-size/permeability is founded in the connection between the NMR signal's time dependence and the geometry of the pore-space. To strengthen links between the NMR signal and pore-geometry multipulse surface NMR sequences have been developed to estimate the parameter T2, which carries a strong link to pore-geometry and has formed the basis for NMR-based permeability estimation in the petroleum industry for decades. Producing reliable subsurface characterizations from multipulse surface NMR measurements that measure T2 requires that the forward model is able to accurately predict the transverse magnetization at the time when the measurement occurs. Traditional surface NMR T2 forward models employ an analytic expression for the transverse magnetization, an expression developed in the context of laboratory NMR experiments conducted under conditions significantly different from surface NMR and which require several assumptions to simplify the underlying Bloch equation. To investigate the reliability of this analytic expression under surface NMR conditions, a synthetic comparison is performed where the analytic expression is contrasted against the transverse magnetization predicted from a solution of the full-Bloch equation without the same simplifying assumptions and which can appropriately weight heterogeneity in the applied and background magnetic fields. The comparison shows that the analytic expression breaks down in a range of conditions typical to surface NMR measurements.

A Tribute to the Extraordinary Research Work Within the Domain of Fatigue and Fracture of Offshore and Ship Structures Carried Out by Prof. Stig Berge and Per Jahn Haagensen at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Marie Horn ◽  
Kenneth A. Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Active Member ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Ship Structures ◽  
Fatigue And Fracture ◽  
Marine Technology ◽  
Offshore Industry ◽  
Historical Contribution

The motivation of this paper is to highlight the importance of the work carried out during the last decade by Prof. Haagensen and Prof. Berge at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, with the aim to inspire and motivate young engineers to continue their important and valuable research within fatigue and fracture. This paper will focus on their historical contribution to the research within fatigue and fracture of offshore and ship structures. Stig Berge is a professor of Marine Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU. He has spent his academic carrier focusing on fatigue of offshore and ship structures; he has published more than 70 papers and articles in well-known journals and conferences since 80’s. Per Jahn Haagensen is currently an Emeritus professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering and Logistic Faculty of Technology. He has spent his whole research carrier within fatigue and fracture related topics mainly for the offshore industry. He is especially known for the different fatigue improvement methods which have been developed since the 90’s. He has until recently been an active member of the International Institute of Welding (IIW). This article aims to present their main findings and conclusions from their long academic carrier. While the authors have strived to convey in a single paper an overview of the careers and important contributions, the Professors themselves may well have chosen to place a different emphasis on their work.

scholarly journals Dispersing hydrophobic natural colourant β-carotene in shellac particles for enhanced stability and tunable colour

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 170919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Chen ◽  
Chun-Xia Zhao ◽  
Camille Lagoin ◽  
Mingtan Hai ◽  
Laura R. Arriaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Polymer Matrix ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Natural Food ◽  
Visual Attributes ◽  
Emulsion Droplets ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Β Carotene ◽  
Enhanced Stability

Colour is one of the most important visual attributes of food and is directly related to the perception of food quality. The interest in natural colourants, especially β-carotene that not only imparts colour but also has well-documented health benefits, has triggered the research and development of different protocols designed to entrap these hydrophobic natural molecules to improve their stability against oxidation. Here, we report a versatile microfluidic approach that uses single emulsion droplets as templates to prepare microparticles loaded with natural colourants. The solution of β-carotene and shellac in the solvent is emulsified by microfluidics into droplets. Upon solvent diffusion, β-carotene and shellac co-precipitates, forming solid microparticles of β-carotene dispersed in the shellac polymer matrix. We substantially improve the stability of β-carotene that is protected from oxidation by the polymer matrix and achieve different colour appearances by loading particles with different β-carotene concentrations. These particles demonstrate great promise for practical use in natural food colouring.

Can we understand complex systems in terms of risk analysis?

2011 ◽  
Vol 226 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-358
Author(s):  
J Vatn
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Complexity Analysis ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Sources Of Uncertainty ◽  
Integrated Risk ◽  
Integrated Operations ◽  
Quantifying Uncertainty

The concept of integrated operations (IO) introduces new ways of operations in the offshore petroleum industry. IO is often characterized by virtual decision arenas where many safety critical decisions are supported and made by distributed actors with different rationalities and responsibilities. This will challenge more traditional decision processes in several ways and it has been questioned whether the risk analysis framework can handle what some authors denote as emerging and escaping risks. Complexity is often considered as a source of such risks. In this paper risk is defined as uncertainty regarding occurrence and severity of undesired events. Next a variety of techniques for structuring and quantifying uncertainty are listed. To approach complexity it is proposed to identify a set of complexity characteristics in relation to the accidental scenarios to be undertaken in the analysis. This enables uncertainty due to complexity to be approached within the same framework as that used to cope with other sources of uncertainty. The important steps in such an integrated risk and complexity analysis are listed, and some of these steps are discussed in the light of examples relevant to IO.

Can Government Policies Drive Open Innovation Type Platforms? Ideas from the MSC Malaysia Flagship Applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliza A. Omar ◽  
Avvari V. Mohan ◽  
XIAOFEI ZHAO
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Business Organisation ◽  
Demand Pull ◽  
Innovation Platform ◽  
Innovation Type

The discussion of open innovation has always been centred on the organisation where innovation occurs. The focus would be on the inflow and outflow of knowledge into the organisation; several studies and cases published have addressed the concept around business (or government) organisations and their research and development (R&D) activities. The open innovation framework is based on a focal organisation, which is usually a business organisation that provides a platform for other organisations to collaborate—either helping the focal organisation to commercialise its knowledge and gain economic benefits or vice versa. This notion, we argue, is where an open innovation platform is ‘supplier-driven’, that is, ‘supplier’ indicating the focal organisation where innovation occurs. In this article, however, we propose an alternate framework for open innovation, that is, one that is ‘customer-driven’ where the customer organisation or demand-creating organisation provides a platform for open innovation. This alternate notion is derived from the case of the flagship applications of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC Malaysia). The MSC Malaysia flagships can be seen as open innovation type platforms established by the customer, that is, the Malaysian government—which provides the demand pull for creating an open-innovation platform. This framework of a ‘customer-driven’ open innovation platform could provide lessons for other emerging economies to understand how their governments can play a more active role, as policymaker and demand-generating entity, to create a platform for open innovation.

scholarly journals ABSORB: A THREE YEAR UPDATE IN ARCTIC SPILL RESPONSE

1983 ◽  
Vol 1983 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
Sharon O. Hillman ◽  
Richard V. Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Oil Spill Response ◽  
Development Engineering

ABSTRACT In 1979 the petroleum industry formed an oil spill response organization called the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Oilspill Response Body (ABSORB). This group's purpose is to help participating oil companies provide an integrated capability to deal with the possibility of a major oil spill in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea. ABSORB and its member companies have maintained a high priority on increasing the state-of-the-art capabilities for effective response during the solid ice season, as reported in earlier conferences. In addition they have worked to identify and fill the data gaps for all season response capabilities. The ongoing research and development engineering projects have complemented this goal, along with the ongoing efforts of the ABSORB staff and member company technical representatives in the areas of equipment selection, purchase, modification and training. This paper briefly reviews the status of ABSORB today in terms of its organization and staffing, facilities and equipment, contingency planning, research and development (R & D), training programs, and response techniques.11,9

AUSTRALIAN PETROLEUM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: AN EXAMPLE OF PROBLEM-DRIVEN GEOSCIENCE RESEARCH MANAGEMENT

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 500 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.S. Loutit
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Database Systems ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
The Government

The Australian petroleum exploration research program is customer-driven and reflects the balance between the need for the petroleum industry to reduce exploration risk in the short term and the government need to improve the perception of prospectivity in the longer term. Higher prospectivity will lead to greater exploration investment and competition, whereas risk-reduction will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the exploration industry. Thus the objectives of the primary customers may be significantly different, with government intent on increasing the amount of investment and competition between explorers, whereas industry is intent on keeping expenditure to a minimum and maintaining competitive advantage. Despite the differences, collaboration between all groups involved in exploration and exploration-related research in Australia is essential to solve the range of exploration problems and generate new paradigms. Collaborative research ventures are most successful when new ideas stimulate explorer and researcher alike to focus resources on the key questions despite factors such as competitive advantage. Government geoscience researchers must play a significant role in generating and marketing new concepts to help maintain Australia's supply of domestic petroleum products.The scale of the petroleum research undertaken, and the degree of collaboration between industry and research groups in Australia, is remarkable. There is a productive balance between groups developing and applying new technology and those undertaking regional geological and petroleum systems research. This balance has been reached because of the long-term commitment by the Australian Government, via legislation and funding, to ensure the preservation of exploration data in national geoscience database systems, and that basic and applied research at all scales, from basins to wells, is undertaken in support of petroleum exploration and development.Despite the success of a number of collaborative research projects, research and development resources are still under-utilised by the Australian petroleum industry. Government research agencies must develop a higher marketing profile to ensure that the utilisation of the resources is at a maximum.

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