Easily Manage Complex Integration Problems in Petroleum Upstream

For years scientists, engineers, and economists have been studying ways that process, data and application integration could improve value drivers like:

• Reduced Finding & Development Cost
• Reduced lifting cost
• "Sooner" production
• "Faster" production
• "More" recovery

The challenge is to find a technology that can make it a reality. Upstream Oil and Gas presents a limited alignment of People, Process and Technology:

• Upstream Micro Processes: Good alignment
• Upstream Macro Processes: Poor alignment

For Breakthrough performance, companies integrate technical data and processes with economic evaluation and portfolio management processes. Until now, the industry has lacked a viable integration solution across multiple disciplines and data stores. Stone Bond's Enterprise Enabler^® for Energy represents a dramatic leap in integration technology, providing intelligent connectivity for field-wide production optimization.

Enterprise Enabler offers a dynamic integration environment which eliminates static interfaces and proactively monitors change; without imposing requirements on participating applications or pockets of existing integration.

Benefits in Exploration

Faster Prospect Evaluation

Enterprise Enabler links the latest well log, field operations and economic condition data in a complete integrated framework to improve the speed and quality of investment decisions. Examples of EE exploration benefits include:

• Accesses required information, on demand, for portfolio management decisions, such as data from seismic, drilling, borehole, petro-physical, geological, portfolio management tools and business systems
• Enables transfer of information between project models, increasing efficiency and leveraging knowledge assets
• Integrates sources of drilling information and business systems, increasing visibility of field operations to management

Data Integrity & Reliability

Enterprise Enabler forms a “nervous system” across the exploration business that can sense changes in data sources or significant changes in information where it exceeds given limits. Ensuring data integrity, this monitoring capability can report gaps in the information, indicating where key systems may be offline for fast action.

Data Management & Decision Support

E&P companies are spending a significant amount of time managing increasing quantities of geo-science data, lengthening evaluation time and potentially missing drilling opportunities. With Enterprise Enabler, E&P data does not have to be consolidated in a single data source. Instead, EE's straightforward "drag-and-drop" graphical interface locates and incorporates desired geo-science data sources, increasing asset team productivity. With this level of control, managers can react to changes with ease and agility, leveraging the latest information to evaluate prospective investments.

Selected Supported Applications

 

Benefits in Production

Production Optimization Support

Enterprise Enabler creates a comprehensive integration framework that accommodates the dynamics of the E&P business. Within this framework, data can be collected from multiple sources, compared to mathematical models and transformed into knowledge. EE goes beyond traditional enterprise application integration to create a central "nervous system" for production systems, facilitate data exchange in the production environment, and initiate work processes based on events in the production process.

Rapid Real-Time Integration

Comparing real-time well data with predictive models can result in improved asset performance. Enterprise Enabler provides a feedback loop between real-time well data and software models, increasing model accuracy while maximizing production. For example, EE is used to link real-time well data from Shell’s proprietary FieldWare ESP and SubPump, the IHS energy modeling software for submersible pumps. Enterprise Enabler is launched automatically on triggers, responding to any one of many conditions, including when a new well starts producing, a flag from operations, alarm conditions or a scheduled well review.

Downloads:

Exploration and Production Datasheet
Production Optimization Case Study
Energy Overview Datasheet
Vetco Gray and PDVSA Value Study
EE-B2B Solution For Oil & Gas Industry
Upstream CIO - Smart Integrator of Enterprise Applications Enables On-Time Decision-Making