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Asset Martyn Millwood Hargrave, managing direc- November/December 2007 Issue 9 Halliburton new range of services under tor of Ikon Science, believes that rock Digital Energy Journal the label ‘Digital Asset,’ highlighting how it physics based technologies could help find offers the people processes and technology and access a further 4 billion barrels of oil in 213 Marsh Wall, London, E14 9FJ, UK www.digitalenergyjournal.com to help customers make best use of the the North Sea. Tel +44 (0)207 510 4935 latest digital tools. 10 Fax +44 (0)207 510 2344 6 New Online GIS system Analyse geology as 3D structures rather UK company Interactive Net Mapping has Editor than layers - ffA launched a new system for oil and gas com- Karl Jeffery [email protected] UK company Foster Findlay Associates (ffA) panies to view their wells, seismic surveys provides software for analysing seismic data and related information online. Technical editor/ IT manager to find and describe 3D geological structures, 11 Keith Forward ATCE preview [email protected] SPE’s IT subcommitte update 7 We asked some of the exhibitors at the Consultant writer We spoke to section chairman Mehrzad forthcoming SPE ATCE event in November Tracey Dancy, Paras Consulting Mahdavi about how plans for the Society of 11-14 what new and exciting digital tech- Subsciptions Petroleum Engineers (SPE's) IT technical sec- nologies they will be showing this year tion are progressing. Karl Jeffery 8 12 [email protected] Oil and gas production Advertising sales Alec Egan IQPC Houston oil & Gas Intelligent Energy Conference Tel +44 (0)207 510 4944 [email protected] Discussion at IQPC's Oil and Gas Exchange Plans are moving ahead for the Society of in Houston on Sept 12-13, delegates dis- Petroleum Engineers / Reed Exhibitions 'In- Digital Energy Journal is your one stop in- cussed ways to implement IT systems in oil telligent Energy Conference,' planned for formation source for new trends, technical and gas. By Tracey Dancy of Paras Consult- this Feb 25-27 in Amsterdam. developments, opinion, new products and ing. 28 best practise with digital technology in the 15 Offshore Europe upstream oil and gas industry. Managing your growing data Some of the highlights at the Offshore Eu- As oil companies' data stores grow expo- rope exhibition in Aberdeen Each issue of Digital Energy Journal print nentially, we asked EMC about their tools to 29 magazine is mailed to 2,000 oil and gas ex- assist. Phenomatics - training in virtual ecutives, with a further 500-1000 copies 17 reality distributed at trade shows, as well as be- Roxar 190 to 800 employees Phenomatics of Austria is pushing out the ing downloaded approx 2,000 times as Roxar has more than quadrupled its staff boundaries of what is possible with simula- pdf. count from 190 to 800 people in 5 years. We tor training,by creating a system where peo- asked group marketing director Svenn Hau- ple see the virtual world on a 3D headset, Subscriptions: £GBP 195 a year for 6 is- gen how they did it rather than looking at a screen. sues. To subscribe, please contact Karl Jef- 18 31 fery on [email protected]. Alternatively Integrated Operations Electronic purchasing you can subscribe online at A new ‘embrace variability' approach to To make an electronic purchasing strategy www.d-e-j.com safety, and how BG avoids standardised work, you have to segment your suppliers in processes - some of the highlights from the the right way. Chris Welsh of Eiro Consulting, Front cover: screen shot Integrated Operations conference in Trond- writing on behalf of oil and gas e-commerce from heim, Norway, on October 2-3. company OFS-Portal, explains. Paradigm's 20 32 new Common Communications Reflection Wi-fi on offshore platforms satellite communications technology on Angle display at Offshore Communications event The time is right for wi-fi on offshore oil Migration in Houston (CRAM) solution, a new high-resolution platforms, believes automation giant subsurface imaging solution designed to Invensys 39 improve the quality of information 38 Adjust your satcom power on the fly obtained from seismic data processing Offshore communications preview Hughes Network Solutions has launched a new satellite communications technology, There will be some exciting offshore Printed in the UK by THE MAGAZINE PRINTING COMPANY DVB-S2. www.magprint.co.uk 40 September - October 2007- digital energy journal 11 Digital_Energy_Journal_1007.indd 1 9/12/07 8:53:59 AM novdec07.qxp 19/10/2007 16:03 Page 2 Exploration and Drilling Integrated Operations at Kristin Statoil made use of organisational experts when working out the best way to bring workers from its Kristen asset onshore, but working closely with platform personnel. It reduced the number of people required to be on the rig, and also gaining improvements in safety, uptime and production The Kristen platform is 240 km offshore from Trondheim, Norway, and is a conden- sate gas field with 12 wells. It is a high pres- sure (910 bar), high temperature (170 de- grees C) reservoir at 4,500m depth, below water of between 240 and 320m depth. Production started in November 2005. NOK 20bn ($3.5bn) has been invested in the platform. Statoil estimates that NOK 200m (USD $36.5m) has been saved in operating costs over the first year from integrated opera- tions, said Arne Bye, asset manager / plat- form manager at Kristin. "The first year of operation is normally costly." "Half of the savings was due to the way we work. The other half was due to having better quality plant," he said. "We had a goal Pleased with the progress - Arne S Bye, platform manager with Statoil's Kristin asset. Photo of no gas leakage, and managed it." Harald Pettersen StatoilHydro. Statoil wanted to use Integrated Opera- tions methods to be able to operate the plat- Work and play test program, we would get text messages. form with the minimum number of people The two teams even held a joint spinning When we received them, we would go to our onboard for safety reasons, maximise pro- (exercise bike) session (see picture). computers, and have a ten minute discussion duction and operational efficiency, and keep Traditional distinctions between work about what to do. That would conclude the the platform in optimum technical condition. and play are being lost, said Mr Bye. time required for the interaction." Currently there are 31 people on the "We had a problem with a completion - "I could do the work and prepare the platform at any time. The minimum allowed a leak - as you can imagine it happened at dinner at the same time. This is a vast im- number (for emergency preparedness) is 27 ten to four on Friday afternoon," he said. provement." people. "So we are close to the absolute min- "We had to collect a group of special- Mr Bye said that the platform had imum," said Mr Bye. ists to decide what to do. We worked until achieved 98 to 99 per cent uptime (known as The platform has two management 6pm, started tests and agreed to meet sat am 'regularity'), compared to 90 per cent on oth- teams, one onshore and one offshore, each at 7am to look at the results. We discussed er comparable North Sea platforms. located in a collaboration room, and there different options to do full test." The drilling was tricky, with wells at up are continuous video links from one room to "At 4pm on Saturday, I should have to 87 degrees deviation (from vertical), in another so both management teams can see been making dinner for friends at home." high pressure / high temperature reservoirs, each other at all times. "So we decided, at certain steps in the from a floating drill rig. the first ever integrated operations spinning (exercise bike) session - simultaneously on the platform (left) and the operations support centre (right), monitored on big screens.The Operation room for managers offshore, which is continuously online with the onshore participants would like us to note that it was operations room. Photo Øyvind Hagen StatoilHydro held ten minutes before the shift started (ie not during working hours) 2 digital energy journal - November - December 2007 novdec07.qxp 19/10/2007 16:03 Page 3 Exploration and Drilling "We had no well control situation," he said. "Statistically - the industry gets a well control situation from every second well drilled in high pressures and high tempera- tures." Now Statoil would like more middle managers, supervisors and technicians to be brought into the collaborative working sys- tem.