Using Analytics to Improve Production

How can geologists, production engineers, reservoir engineers and well engineers best collaborate?

Tuesday, September 29, 2015, Aberdeen, Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Aberdeen Treetops

Is it possible to find ways to improve production without investing in more wells, intervention or offshore work, just from analysing the data we have, to help make better decisions?

This is what we explored in our half day Digital Energy Journal / Finding Petroleum forum in Aberdeen on September 29, "Using Analytics to Improve Production."

You can also read the report from our May Stavanger conference on production data and analytics here

We previously ran this conference in September 2014 - see the agenda see the delegates list

Agenda

8:30

Welcome coffee/ registration

9:10

Karl Jeffery - Editor - Digital Energy Journal

Chairman's introduction

Karl Jeffery is editor of Digital Energy Journal and managing director of Future Energy Publishing, which also publishes Tanker Operator magazine and Carbon Capture Journal. He was previously co-founder and editor of Digital Ship Ltd, a publishing company focussing on IT in the shipping sector. He has a BEng in chemical engineering from Nottingham University

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

9:10

Steve Harrison - project manager - Scottish Enterprise

Introduction from Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise
Scottish Enterprise's aim is to stimulate Scotland's economic ambition - creating an innovative, high-wage and highly productive economy with a competitive, international market presence and a focus on high value opportunities.

9:15

Tom Fox - Director - 1234most Ltd

How cooperation across the organisation enables optimal production and forecasting

Talk Description.
To maximise production we need to integrate different areas of technical expertise. We need to involve all levels in the organisation, equity partners and customers too.

Integrated activity planning, rolling production forecasting and asset management must be aligned. For credible production forecasting, we have to reach a balanced view of uncertainties.

How can we enable such cooperation across organisations and locations?

Integrated Operations Centres are not the whole answer. People, Process, Technology and Organisation all need yet more attention to deliver improved workflows.

A case-study of optimising gas-lift for many wells will show the benefits of cooperation for understanding the reservoir, production and facilities all brought together with insights from Operations.
Tom Fox is a consultant in integrated production modelling in the oil and gas industry. He was formerly involved in field development planning and software development with Shell Technology Norway, and before that a consultant field development engineer with Shell Global Solutions

1234most Ltd

9:45

Duncan Irving - Oil and Gas Practice Lead (EMEA/APJ) - Teradata

The best way to work out how to improve production using your available data

Duncan Irving is the Teradata Industry Consultant for Oil & Gas in EMEA. Duncan joined Teradata from the University of Manchester where he instructed in geophysical interpretation and geocomputational methods for the last seven years. He was involved in consulting and research projects involving user interactions with massive subsurface datasets and more general upstream data management, and he continues to maintain research links as an honorary lecturer. One long term project was with Teradata and he drove the development of Teradata's capabilities in the Upstream Oil and Gas area. This time provided him with a deep understanding of the capabilities of Teradata and how they can best be used in the petroleum industry.
He is a geophysicist and also has a PhD in glacial geophysics and geotechnical engineering (why frozen ground moves faster during climate warming and how this affects infrastructure). Duncan lives in the hills outside Manchester with his wife and three children. He is a mountaineer, fell runner and is a card-carrying member of the CAMpaign for Real Ale.

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

10:15

Oludare Elebiju - Consultant reservoir engineer - Enginsoft

Optimizing Production: Integrated Field Surveillance & Cost Efficient Analytical Tool Approach (Part 1)

Talk Description.
Joint presentation with Vinicius Girardi Silva, ESSS (Business Development)

Developing a cost effective tool to help make decisions on how to improve and optimise production on mature fields

- Developing an efficient and cost effective integrated workflow solution for analytical production surveillance & optimisation
- Enabling collaboration between surface and subsurface company functions
- The tool needs to cover production modelling, production allocation, historical production and waterflood / gas lift analysis and production forecasting,
- Case study - using an efficient and cost effective tool to analyse post simulation results, for data management and production forecasting.
- Using powerful 3D visualisation to view, analyse and make quick decision from post simulation results.
Enginsoft
EnginSoft is a premier consulting firm in the field of Simulation Based Engineering Science (SBES) with a global presence. It was founded in 1984, but its founder and initial employees had been working in SBES since the mid '70s. Throughout its long history it has been at the forefront of technological innovation and remains a catalyst for change in the way SBES and CAE technologies in general are applied to solve even the most complex industrial problems with a high degree of reliability.

Today, EnginSoft is comprised of groups of highly qualified engineers, with expertise in a variety of engineering simulation technologies including FEM Analysis and CFD, working in synergic companies across the globe. We are present in Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Sweden, Turkey and the U.S.A. and have a close partnership with synergetic companies located in Greece, Spain, Israel, Portugal, Brazil, Japan and the U.S.A.

We work across a broad range of industries that include the automotive, aerospace, defense, energy, civil engineering, consumer goods and biomechanics industries to help them get the most out of existing engineering simulation technologies.

10:30

Vinicius Girardi Silva - Business development manager - ESSS

Optimizing Production: Integrated Field Surveillance & Cost Efficient Analytical Tool Approach (part 2)

Talk Description.
Developing a cost effective tool to help make decisions on how to improve and optimise production on mature fields

- Developing an efficient and cost effective integrated workflow solution for analytical production surveillance & optimisation
- Enabling collaboration between surface and subsurface company functions
- The tool needs to cover production modelling, production allocation, historical production and waterflood / gas lift analysis and production forecasting,
- Case study - using an efficient and cost effective tool to analyse post simulation results, for data management and production forecasting.
- Using powerful 3D visualisation to view, analyse and ma
ESSS
ESSS North America is a computational simulations company providing CAE modeling solutions to various segments of the Oil & Gas industry ranging from reservoir simulation post-processing to thermo-fluid system analysis. We develop, maintain and market prop

10:45

Coffee break

11:15

Duncan Hart - Business development manager - The Data Lab

Introduction to the Data Lab - a new innovation centre focused on helping scottish industry to capitalise on a growing market opportunity in data science in Scotland

The Data Lab
The Data Lab enables industry, public sector and world-class university researchers to innovate and develop new data science capabilities in a collaborative environment. Its core mission is to generate significant economic, social and scientific value from big data.

11:30

Sergio Sama Rubio - Industry Solutions Advisor - Halliburton

Data, models, workflows and change management: towards better operational performance

Talk Description.
For the last ten or fifteen years (at least) the O&G industry has seen the rise (and in some cases the fall as well) of concepts like Digital Oilfield, Integrated Operations, Digital Asset, SmartFields, iField, Field of the Future,… While the huge swings in crude oil price have not provided a stable decision making framework for companies to fully adopt these concepts, there is now renewed interest since the current situation is forcing radical action and, as existing producing assets are being subjected to renewed focus and attention, O&G producers are turning their attention back to techniques that promise to bring improved operational performance, in terms of increased production, reduced production cost, etc. Experience is that four areas are key for ensuring the success of these initiatives: data, models, workflows and change management. A case study around staged implementation of production workflows will illustrate how these four areas can be made to co-operate to deliver substantially increased operational performance.
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.

12:00

Jonathan Guthrie - Director, Energy Industry Consultant - GreyCloud Ltd

Analytics use-cases in Energy: using Production data with other data sources to reduce unplanned losses and identify and prioritise opportunities for continuous improvement

GreyCloud Ltd
GreyCloud is focused on the delivery of analytics and insights for continuous improvement, by adding value into the implementation and deployment of applications, business processes and related information technology.

For organisations that design, build, maintain and operate revenue producing assets we can help to deliver your vision of the future perfect, compressing business processes and cycles, providing the big picture of operations performance, with integrated planning, strategic asset management, mobile working and key performance indicators.

We can help build a consensus and understanding within the business of how to move from the 'current state' to 'best practice' and ultimately over time deliver lowest total cost of operations and lowest total cost of ownership.

12:30

Panel discussion with all morning speakers

13:00

Lunch and close

Sponsors of this event

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

Enginsoft
EnginSoft is a premier consulting firm in the field of Simulation Based Engineering Science (SBES) with a global presence. It was founded in 1984, but its founder and initial employees had been working in SBES since the mid '70s. Throughout its long history it has been at the forefront of technological innovation and remains a catalyst for change in the way SBES and CAE technologies in general are applied to solve even the most complex industrial problems with a high degree of reliability.

Today, EnginSoft is comprised of groups of highly qualified engineers, with expertise in a variety of engineering simulation technologies including FEM Analysis and CFD, working in synergic companies across the globe. We are present in Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Sweden, Turkey and the U.S.A. and have a close partnership with synergetic companies located in Greece, Spain, Israel, Portugal, Brazil, Japan and the U.S.A.

We work across a broad range of industries that include the automotive, aerospace, defense, energy, civil engineering, consumer goods and biomechanics industries to help them get the most out of existing engineering simulation technologies.

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, distributing their colour magazine - Digital Energy Journal, and with an online social network of nearly 700 members.

Scottish Enterprise
Scottish Enterprise's aim is to stimulate Scotland's economic ambition - creating an innovative, high-wage and highly productive economy with a competitive, international market presence and a focus on high value opportunities.

Registered Delegates

Graeme Coghill Managing Director Aberdeen Group Ltd United Kingdom	Sergio Sama Rubio Industry Solutions Advisor HALLIBURTON Spain	Kurt Prendergast General Manager Palantir Solutions
Steve Eacott Industry Solutions Lead Accenture	Mike Scott Senior Managing Consultant - Intelligent Operations Halliburton United Kingdom	Deborah Murison Production Technical Sales Schlumberger
Scott Petrie Director, Techie Consultant, Problem solver Analysis Logic Ltd. United Kingdom	Gavin Robinson Business Development Manager Landmark United Kingdom	Fiona McDonald Account Manager Scottish Enterprise
Ehud Reiter CTO Arria	Alexander Petrie Director Left Field Associates Scotland Ltd United Kingdom	Steve Harrison project manager Scottish Enterprise United Kingdom
Gatsbyd Forsyth Uk Operate Sub/Surf & PO Mng BG Group United Kingdom	Azuka Akeze Reservoir Engineer Maersk Oil United Kingdom	Vivek Jaiswal Reservoir Engineer Senergy Energy
Dan Kuszpit Principal consultant Carlton Resource Solutions	Cindy Wood Senior Consultant New Digital Business United Kingdom	Peter Brownsmith Business Development Lead Tata Consultancy Services Ltd United Kingdom
Karl Jeffery Editor Digital Energy Journal United Kingdom	Cindy Wood Senior Consultant New Digital Business United Kingdom	Duncan Irving Oil and Gas Practice Lead (EMEA/APJ) Teradata United Kingdom
Avinga Pallangyo Events Manager Digital Energy Journal	Steven Taylor Production Reporting Analyst Nexen	Duncan Hart Business Developement The Data LAb United Kingdom
Oludare Elebiju Consultant Reservoir Engineer Enginsoft United Kingdom	Nick Pashley Business Applications Analyst Nexen Petroleum (UK) Ltd United Kingdom	John Greenhough Research Associate University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
Stephen Turner ?Sales Manager Enginsoft	Chris May Systems Director Oceaneering United Kingdom	Wim der Kinderen Consultant Well Optimation Ltd United Kingdom
Vinicius Girardi Silva Business Development Manager ESSS	Tom Fox Director OneTwoThreeFourMost United Kingdom	Anagha Vellani Business Analyst Wipro UK Limited United Kingdom
Jonathan Guthrie GreyCloud Limited - Analytics for Energy