People and the digital oilfield

Thursday, October 20, 2011, Stavanger, Norwegian Petroleum Museum

This conference is designed for people from the IT department (and related domains), and human factors / training departments (and related domains), who would like to keep up to speed with the latest technology and ideas to help people work better with their computer systems.

In order to improve safety, production, efficiency and ultimate recovery, people need to have the best possible information in a way they can work with.

That means they can easily access the information they need, they don't have too much information than they can absorb, they have IT tools they can easily use and collaborate with, and they can practise what they will need to do.

This conference gathers together the best ideas from the oil industry, software companies and academia to help make this happen.

“My theory [on why Macondo happened] is that the interface [providing information about drilling operations] was too complex" - David Payne, Chevron’s vice president of drilling, speaking at the GE Oil and Gas Annual Meeting in Florence on January 312011.

TOPICS COVERED
Tools to help improve decision making during drilling operations (ConocoPhillips/Computas)

Improving collaborative working environment layouts - so they are not designed around the hardware (Halliburton Landmark)

Advances in using drilling simulators for training, using simulaators to test new technology, design procedures and study hazards - experience with Statoil, using wired drill pipe telemetry for kick detection (International Research Institute of Stavanger)

Using life-size drilling simulators the entire drilling team can work with (eDrilling Solutions / SINTEF)

Designing your integrated operations system (IFE)

Safety benefits of moving planning decisions onshore (Cap Gemini)

A better understanding of live drilling data (Verdande)

Agenda

9:00

Arrivals and Registrations

9:25

John Aurlien - Senior integrated operations engineer, Eldfisk II, Norway Capital Projects - Conoco Phillips

Chairman's introduction

John Aurlien holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology, and has over 20 years of experience from the Oil & Gas industry. In his current role as Sr. Integrated Operations Engineer, Mr. Aurlien is responsible for the implementation of Integrated Operations in the Eldfisk II project.

Conoco Phillips
ConocoPhillips is an international, integrated energy company. As of Dec. 31, 2010, it is the third-largest U.S. integrated energy company, based on market capitalization, as well as proved reserves and production of oil and natural gas, and the largest refiner in the United States. ConocoPhillips is the seventh-largest holder of proved reserves and the fourth-largest refiner worldwide, of nongovernment-controlled companies.

9:30

Sigve Hamilton Aspelund - Consultant - Independent drilling data consultant

Offshore safety related to computer interfaces and information

Sigve Hamilton Aspelund is a Senior Petroleum Engineer with onshore/offshore work experience in the oil and gas industry. Having developed excellent consulting experience across Norway and International, I’m now looking for a permanent position with a long-term career goal of becoming VP of production. My broad experience includes geo modeling and simulation, special core analysis, sedimentology and supervision of well drilling, increased oil production, enhanced oil production, water and gas injection, artificial lift (Gas lift), well completion/workover operations, offshore production engineering operations (FPSO/IPF/WHP), artificial lift selection, reservoir engineering, quality, health, safety and environment. It has been gained through working for major Oil & Gas companies including KPOC, NNPC, BP, ENI, Total, Shell, Talisman and Statoil. Additional experience as resource coordinator and have achieved managment onshore and offshore personell and data, increased oil production in exploration and production industry, organized and held courses and team buildings

Independent drilling data consultant

10:00

Mike Herbert and Roar Fjellheim - - ConocoPhillips / Computas

Collaboration for improved decision making in drilling

Talk Description.
Challenges in drilling operations, today and in the near future
How has IO improved the situation, what are the remaining gaps
The role of information technology in supporting IO processes
The CODIO solution for collaboration and decision making
Roar Fjellheim is a director of business development at Computas. He is educated at NTNU (control engineering) and worked at CERN and Det Norske Veritas before co-founding Computas in 1985. Current responsibilities include managing the Integrated Operations service area, business development and project management. He is also an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of Oslo.

Mike Herbert is the Integrated Operations Advisor for ConocoPhillips in Norway. Main responsibilities include the planning and implementation of the ODC (Onshore Drilling Centre) concept, and other Integrated Operation (IO) processes.

He currently manages all Drilling IO R&D projects within ConocoPhillips Norway, and is involved in several IO strategies and initiatives for the Company.

He started his career with Sperry Sun in 1980 as a Field engineer. He has worked in several positions within the Company including several Field positions including that of a Directional Driller. In 1995 he started as a Directional Drilling Co-ordinator. In 2000 he joined Phillips Petroleum Company Norway as a Senior Specialist Drilling Engineer.

Mike has lead one of the work groups of the OLF‘s Integrated Work Processes within Integrated Operations on the NCS. He has been involved with, OG21, where he led the IO Technology Target area group, Petromaks and other similar National strategies and initiatives.

He also is a keen explorer and likes cold places, and in 2009 he successfully spent 4 weeks on a Russian expedition to Antarctica. Now that was an integrated operation!

Mr Herbert holds a Degree in Oceanography, Maritime Science, and Engineering

ConocoPhillips / Computas
ConocoPhillips uses its pioneering spirit to responsibly deliver energy to the world. This purpose transcends all of ConocoPhillips' operations. The company conducts its business to return maximum value to shareholders while utilizing a wealth of knowledge and resources from its employees and acting responsibly in all communities in which it operates.

Computas is a Norwegian information technology company providing services and solutions for business process management and collaboration. Core services include software development, system architecture and integration, project management and consulting. The company employs 200 highly skilled engineers, and has served large customers with business critical solutions for more than 25 years.

In the oil & gas industry, Computas delivers smart work processes solutions for Integrated Operations. The solutions help people understand data and make better and faster decisions for improved safety and performance. Key technologies include work processes, decision support, semantic technology, collaboration solutions, and data and system integration.

The CODIO solution presented at the People and the Digital Oilfield conference is collaboration system for drilling operations. It supports onshore/offshore team work and joint decision making, ranging from informal exploration of decision alternatives to running formal decision models based on mathematical analysis.

10:30

Charles McFarland - Global program manager, Collaborative Work Environments - Landmark Software and Services (Halliburton)

The Real Challenges to Building Collaborative Centers

Talk Description.
Companies have struggled for the last twenty years or more adopting new technologies to improve how they work and the results they achieve. Thousands of hardware and software solutions have been introduced, installed, trained and implemented over this time period, with varying degrees of success and failure. While many factors are identified that contribute to success or failure of productivity improvements projects, we will focus our discussion on areas that are usually missed or ignored when implementing change.

Our nature is to dislike change. Change causes stress, uncertainty, and usually results in immeasurable costs, both to the individual and the organization.

Input + Process = Output. This is the definition of work. This is the basic scientific formula of life. We cannot change results if we continue to work the same way.

We only use about 20-30% of the technology available. This is called our “comfort zone”. The basic set of functionality that we use day in and day out to get our jobs done.

Knowledge management is the key to process improvement. Our industry is facing 50-70% of the talent that found the first trillion barrels leaving in the next 10-15 years.

RESULTS, OBSERVATIONS, CONCLUSIONS: At Halliburton, our design efforts focus on the desired results to achieve new collaborative working environment layouts. In the early days of technology adoption, facilities were designed around the hardware as the heart of the process, we will discuss alternatives.

APPLICATIONS: The concept of designing around workflow and personnel attributes to achieve desired results is nothing new. Architects have practiced function over form for years, but this has not always translated into easily defined changes in our workplace. We will discuss the importance of design, ergonomics and human-machine-interfaces (HMI) with regard to successfully implementing change.

TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTIONS: Far too often our focus is on short-term budget goals, not results, and our industry fails to capture real benefits from process improvement opportunities. By focusing on results, we are able to consider all elements of change that could contribute to the process goals.

Since joining Landmark Software & Services, Charles McFarland has developed a global team responsible for designing and delivering new ways of working that help customers achieve improved productivity and operating results. To date, he has managed the design and delivery of new visualization, collaboration and real time operating centers in India, Turkey, Angola, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Malaysia, Russia, the UK and the United States, all the while focusing on effective process change management. Combined with other Halliburton and Landmark offerings, Charles can design and deliver unique solutions tailored to addressing the vital operational situations encountered by any E&P company, regardless of size.
Charles is a certified public accountant and a certified information technology professional. He has published articles in the Houston Business Journal and the Journal of Petroleum Technology, and he speaks at conferences worldwide about the real challenges of achieving better performance through new collaborative work environments

Landmark Software and Services (Halliburton)
For more than 25 years, Landmark has been providing solutions to E&P challenges through the continuous development and enhancement of our leading high-science software and technology services. With over 350 patent filings since 2001, we recognize that solving your challenges of today, and those of tomorrow, requires constant innovation around everything we do.

11:00

Break

11:30

Sven Inge Ødegård - Business Development Manager - eDrilling

Using drilling simulators for entire team training and to support real time operations

Sven Inge is Project Manager for the Intellectus Training Simulator. Sven Inge has been working with Drilling control and information systems for the last 15 years. He has for the last 5 years been working as a Project Manager for the eDrilling and Intellectus concept. Sven Inge has a Master degree in Cybernetics from the University in Stavanger.

eDrilling
eDrilling is a world leading supplier of AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics solutions to the oil and gas industry. Working closely with E&P companies, operators, and service companies, eDrilling helps them save cost, improve safety, and increase efficiency of drilling operations.
eDrilling' s mission is to help energy professionals reach their goals by providing drilling and well performance solutions needed to better plan, prepare for, perform and evaluate drilling operations.

More information on www.edrilling.no.

12:00

Alf Ove Braseth - principal scientist - Norway Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)

Work on IO-map design

Alf Ove Braseth works with oil and nuclear information design, and made most of IFE's Integrated Operations (IO) map design

Norway Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)
IFE is an international research institute for energy and nuclear technology. IFE’s mandate is to undertake research and development, on an ideal basis and for the benefit of society, within the energy and petroleum sector, and to carry out assignments in the field of nuclear technology for the nation. The Institute strives for a more climate friendly energy system based on renewable and CO2-free energy sources.

12:30

Multiple - - Panel Discussion

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Panel Discussion
This is part of our agenda where Finding Petroleum has a panel discussion.

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Ioana-Andreea Ene - senior advisor oil and gas - Capgemini

How to persuade offshore staff to accept planning decisions made onshore

Talk Description.
how it is easier for people to work with digital oilfield tools if most planning decisions are made onshore
Andreea Ene specializes in organizational and work process change strategy, business information management and business process management. She works for Capgemini, and is the leader for the Upstream Advisory group based out of Stavanger. She is fluent in English, French, Norwegian and Romanian. She was previously Chemicals and Petroleum Nordic Leader with IBM Global Business Services; VP sales and marketing with Epsis and business development manager for production solutions with Landmark Graphics. She has a Phd in applied mathematics to fluid mechanics.

Capgemini
With more than 125,000 people in 44 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2012 global revenues of EUR 10.3 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.

14:30

Frode Sormo - Chief Technology Officer - Verdande Technology

Helping people understand what drilling data is telling them

Talk Description.
Today, real-time data from drilling rigs are typically available in centralized locations and integrated operations centers. However, this data still needs to be manually monitored and interpreted by highly skilled staff. In this presentation, Frode Sørmo will talk about the approaches Verdande Technology has taken in applying artificial intelligence, case-based reasoning and other data-driven methods to recognize symptoms and predict problems in real-time during drilling operations. This allows operators to have a computer system that automatically monitors operations and notifies users of approaching problems and provides links to relevant experience. This allows staff to more effectively monitor operations, focus their attention on those wells were problems are likely to develop and share experience between people and teams. Several real-world case studies where the DrillEdge product has been used and predicted problems will be shown.

Frode Sørmo has worked at Verdande Technology AS since 2006, and has since 2008 been the Chief Technology Officer of the company. He is educated at NTNU, and holds a PhD in computer science specializing in artificial intelligence and case-based reasoning from NTNU.

Verdande Technology
Verdande Technology AS develops products that use the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) methodology. Verdande Technology is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, with regional offices in Houston, Texas and Abu Dhabi, UAE. The company remains privately funded by Statoil Venture, ProVenture Seed AS, and Investinor.

15:00

Eric Cayeux - Chief Scientist - International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS)

Experiences from a virtual simulator environment

Talk Description.
Virtual Rig is a drilling simulation environment which gives a realistic response from the well to actions from drilling machineries, drill-string and drilling fluid. Drilling incidents like component failures, mechanical restrictions, formation fluid influx and hydraulic restrictions are simulated in a realistic fashion and are a result of the actions applied to the well (non-determinism). The drillers are working in a familiar environment since the simulator is adapted to the drilling workstation of both NOV (IRIS) and Aker Solutions MH (iPORT at Aker Solutions).

The purposes of the virtual simulator environment are:
• Training of drilling personnel
• Commissioning of new drilling technology before implementation at the rig site
• Build new work procedures to adapt to new drilling technology
• Study the potential hazard in a complex drilling operation

The environment has been operational since 2009 and has been used in multiple instances and different contexts like:
• Training of all 6 crews (drillers, assistant drillers, tool pushers, drilling supervisors ) before taking the Drilltronics technology into use at Statfjord C
• Testing of new software and automation technologies
• Analysis of the effect of wired pipe telemetry for kick detection

Eric Cayeux is chief scientist drilling and well modelling with the International research institute of Stavanger (IRIS), doing research in real time systems for supporting drilling operations. He was involved in design, implementation and testing of Sekal's Drilltronics real time drilling control system and DrillScene monitoring and decision support system. He was previously well and production technology manager in Roxar, developing the well planning module of Roxar's Reservoir Modelling System (RMS).

International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS)
IRIS - International Research Institute of Stavanger - is a recognised research institute with high focus on applied research, equally owned by the University of Stavanger and the regional foundation Rogalandsforskning. IRIS was established in 2006, as a result of a technical re-structuring of the ownership of Rogaland Research.

Rogaland Research was established in 1973, and the continuation of its activities in IRIS provides IRIS with a long and proud history right from the start. Research activities started in the area of social science, but quickly developed to include petroleum.

Today IRIS remains an independent research institute with research and research-related activities in petroleum, new energy, marine environment, biotechnology and social science and business development.

15:30

Multiple - - Panel Discussion

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Panel Discussion
This is part of our agenda where Finding Petroleum has a panel discussion.

Sponsors of this event

RPS Energy
RPS Energy provides a range of technical, commercial and project management support services to the international energy industry, covering geoscience, engineering and HS&E, with offices around the world.

PetroDAQ
PetroDAQ Data Acquisition units for the Oil and Gas Industry are built with reliability and safety in mind.

Units include the Universal DrillDAQ System, MudDAQ, RigDAQ, SoftDAQ data adaptors, and SafetyDAQ.

An essential safety measure for all drilling operations, SafetyDAQ provides comprehensive capture and recording of all crucial drilling data, as well as allowing for realtime 3rd party monitoring.

Capable of capturing and aggregating all standard drilling data formats, SafetyDAQ's ruggedized architecture and EEXD certified housing were designed to withstand the most extreme of events. Through it's data transmission facility, data can be monitored and safely stored as required.

It also supports the recording of Audio and Video feeds. These audio and video feeds along with the recorded drilling parameters are key elements of analysis to determine the safety conditions of the operation, as well as the main source of information during incident investigations.

SafetyDAQ can be deployed either alongside existing Data Acquisition systems at the rig, or as a standalone system for Acquisition, Agregation, Display and Transmission of data.

Halliburton
Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. With approximately 50,000 employees, representing 140 nationalities in more than 80 countries, the company helps its customers maximize value throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir - from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and optimizing production throughout the life of the asset. Visit the company's website at www.halliburton.com. Connect with Halliburton on Facebook Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube.

Computas
Computas is a Norwegian information technology company providing services and solutions for business process management and collaboration. Core services include software development, system architecture and integration, project management and consulting. The company employs 200 highly skilled engineers, and has served large customers with business critical solutions for more than 25 years.
In the oil & gas industry, Computas delivers smart work processes solutions for Integrated Operations. The solutions help people understand data and make better and faster decisions for improved safety and performance. Key technologies include work processes, decision support, semantic technology, collaboration solutions, and data and system integration.
The CODIO solution presented at the People and the Digital Oilfield conference is collaboration system for drilling operations. It supports onshore/offshore team work and joint decision making, ranging from informal exploration of decision alternatives to running formal decision models based on mathematical analysis.

Teradata
Teradata helps companies get more value from data than any other company. Our big data analytics solutions and team of experts can help your company gain a sustainable competitive advantage with data. Teradata helps organizations leverage all of their data so they can know more about their business and do more of what's really important. With more than 10,000 professionals in 43 countries, Teradata serves top companies across oil and gas, utilities, automotive, financial services, healthcare, communication, sconsumer goods, and more. A future-focused company, Teradata is recognized by industry analysts for technological excellence, sustainability, ethics, and business value. Visit teradata.com

Landmark Software and Services (Halliburton)
For more than 25 years, Landmark has been providing solutions to E&P challenges through the continuous development and enhancement of our leading high-science software and technology services. With over 350 patent filings since 2001, we recognize that solving your challenges of today, and those of tomorrow, requires constant innovation around everything we do.

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.

Energistics
Energistics is the leading upstream oil and gas industry's data standards body. We are a global, non-profit consortium established over 25 years ago to bring together industry professionals in a neutral and collaborative environment to develop and deploy open data exchange standards and to address oil and gas information sharing challenges. Our members consist of integrated, independent and national oil companies, oilfield service companies, hardware and software vendors, system integrators, regulatory agencies and the global standards user community.
For more information, visit our website at www.energistics.org.

Sekal
Sekal AS supplies solutions that employ real time data from a rig to calculate and give a detailed and refined picture of the state of an oil/gas well. The solutions may be used together with existing drilling control systems and to detect drilling problems in advance of undesirable occurrences. The result is a safer and more efficient drilling process. The company's principal owners are IRIS, Statoil, Procom Venture, SåkorninVest,
Prekubator and Wellwork Invest.

Exhibition Stands

Registered Delegates

Hans Christian von Krogh Manager Aker Solutions	Monica Vigrestad Sales Manager Epsis AS	Espen Helleland Senior Engineering Offshore Telecom
Jarle Soland Chairman of the board Avito AS Norway	Adam Marmaras Event Organiser Finding Petroleum United Kingdom	_ _ Presight Solutions AS Norway
Jan Arild Asbjørnsen CEO Avito Consulting AS Norway	Mats Henriksen Managing director Ghost Design	Petter Johnsen Man Dir Presight Solutions AS
Jan Arild Asbjørnsen CEO Avito Consulting AS Norway	dag gjertsen Account Manager Halliburton Norway	Jan Harestad Senior Advisor Oil&Gas Qualisoft AS
Paal Lilleeidet Associate Partner BackerSkeie Norway	Leif Magne Stokland Technical Sales Consultant Halliburton	Einar Nyheim Technical Manager Relacom WestNet Norway
Kari Solheim Larsen Senior advisor BackerSkeie	Gladys Hovland Sr. Business process analyst Halliburton	Gary Uddenberg Account Manager Schlumberger
Bjørn Lydvo Technical Support Manager Baker Hughes	Pål Leek IT Administrator Halliburton AS	Henning Jansen Senior Software Engineer Schlumberger Information Solutions Oman
Magne Undheim Baker Hughes Norway	Peter Redpath Account Manager HRH Limited United Kingdom	Egill Abrahamsen VP Business Development Sekal
Tom Nigg Business Development BB Visual Solutions Norway	Jan A Robstd Senior Consultant Human Factors Solutions	Oddmar Johannesen VP Sales and Marketing Sekal Norway
Steinar Omdahl Business Development Best Business AS	Aga Skorupka Consultant Human Factors Solutions	Nick Gibson VP Sales and Marketing Sekal AS United Kingdom
Andreea Ene Managing Consultant Capgemini Norge AS Norway	Unni K. Ulland Regional manager IBM Norway	Jarle Bokn Leading Advisor Statoil
Kjetil Kildal IT Coordinator Centrica Energi Norway	Vidar Helgas Senior Engineer Kongsberg Maritime Norway	Helge Eikeland Statoil
Roar Fjellheim Director Computas AS Norway	Bjørn Thorsen Landmark Software and Services Manager Landmark Norway	Steinar Strøm Head of Intelligent Well Construction Statoil asa
Bjørn Egil Hansen Chief Engineer Computas AS Norway	David Vaagenes National Oilwell Varco Norway	Magne Arne Brekke CEO The BB Visual Group
Bjørn Einar Bjartnes Senior Engineer Computas AS Norway	Heidi Andersen HMI and HF Supervisor National Oilwell Varco Norway	Natalie Linev''yuk Petroleum Engineer UiS Norway
John Aurlien Sr. Integrated Operations Engineer ConocoPhillips	Birthe Boge Manager, Software Engineering Norway National Oilwell Varco	Frode Måløy PhD Research Fellow UiS Norway
Lars-Christian Røsberg Business Analyst ConocoPhillips Norway	Erlend Engum Instructor National Oilwell Varco	Bjørn Erik Munkvold Professor University of Agder
Mike Herbert Integrated Operations Advisor ConocoPhillips Stavanger Norway	Trond Soltvedt Division Manager Norisol Norway	Chunming Rong Professor University of Stavanger Norway
Karl Jeffery Editor Digital Energy Journal United Kingdom	Thorbjørn Kaland competency manager Norway	Tomasz Wlodarczyk Post Doc. University of Stavanger
Magnus Svensson Lead System Consultant DONG Norway	Sigve Hamilton Aspelund QHSE engineer Ocean Rig	Geir Samsonsen Major Account Manager/Business Development Viju Norway
Ådne Tveit VP, Sales Epsis