Tuesday, May 15, 2012

'Technology is all about integration '

Shell said it spends more money than any other international oil major on research because it believes technology is the way to take the industry forward, says Director of Technology Matthias Bichsel.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

...not at the last moment.

In future, reservoir engineers will plan for enhanced oil recovery covering the entire lifecycle of a field – it won’t just be something they think about at the end, Shell believes

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

..we're behind the rest of the industry!

The oil and gas industry’s IT systems could be better at working with real time data, managing new data types and providing analytics, says Jay Hollingsworth, director of oil and gas with Oracle.

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

...we're two years behind other industries!

Oil & gas IT could be much easier if all data and application functionality was on a centralised database and computing platform accessed via a web browser, instead of using multiple PC software tools. Dr Duncan Irving of Teradata asks if it can be done.

Thursday, May 03, 2012

The explorers who 'win' know how to solve this problem!

New exploration plays are increasingly difficult to find and spotting the few that might work requires explorers to undertand what vast amounts of data is telling them. Either that, or simply depend on being 'lucky'!

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

...not always easy to do.

Perhaps for an oil field service company knowing who your suppliers and customers are - where you sit in the supply chain - is relatively easy. For example, a seismic contractor supply a proprietary 3D seismic survey over an oil field sits between the manufacturer of cables, airguns, recording equipment and the seismic operations specialists of the client oil company. The same specialists sit in the supply chain between the seismic contractor and the geoscientists in the field's reservoir management team. Less obviously, the reservoir management's team has the asset manager as a customer and, ultimately, the oil company that owns the asset has the host government as a customer.