Tentative Technical Agenda
Sunday 13 January
Badge Collection and Icebreaker Reception and Dinner
Monday 14 January
Session 1 - Plenary Session
Session Chairpersons: Ali Al Muallem, Saudi Aramco & Zara Khatib, Shell
In this plenary session, leaders from various businesses, technology, and service providers will focus on information management strategies, trends, and outlook to move their companies into the new global and digital era of operation. They will also explore the challenges, business value, and operational benefits derived from the integration of people, technology, and business and operational processes with special emphasis on human factors.
Session 2 - Human Capabilities
Session Chairpersons: Con Goedman, Shell & Victor Lunar, Schlumberger
Information and knowledge management are two factors that glue diverse human capabilities together to multiply the delivered business value to the business. Unless individual human capabilities are connected through structured training programs, knowledge capture, change management and effective sharing of knowledge, the most important assets that oil and gas companies have today, will 'walk out the door' with the upcoming 'crew change', and with it the immense business value it generates. By connecting existing human capabilities effectiveness, business value can be increased dramatically enabling the business to compete and survive in a difficult market environment.
This session will highlight ways to overcome the human resource constraint by unlocking human potentials and by increasing the capabilities of teams. This will include effective knowledge transfer/training programs, embedded knowledge sharing, ways of working and related change programs that will amplify the impact that technical professionals can have on business results.
Tuesday 15 January
Session 3 - Intelligent Technology
Session Chairpersons: Eyad Al Qadi, CISCO, Soran Talabani, Baker Hughes & Zara Khatib, Shell
Intelligent reservoir and well foundation and completion are based on human expertise, technology support, and live management. With the capacity of the data and information transferred live to our offices from oil and gas fields, we are able to make precise decisions on time. Today, we manage to navigate thoroughly through the reservoir from our offices and make decisions based on real time information. Technologies of today have also boosted our capabilities to manage and monitor oil and gas fields based on such live information. Oilfield asset owners and operators face two primary issues in exploration and production: asset productivity and operating efficiency.
Operators typically do not have visibility to sense the current state of the oilfield, and respond with actions to reduce well downtime or increase the oil flow. Traditionally, these sense-and-respond capabilities have been prohibited by the remoteness of this "First Mile" and its fundamental lack of connectivity. This session will highlight recent advances in intelligent technologies such as wireless technologies to resolve this limitation and to enable operators to transform their operations into increased asset productivity while reducing costs and improving communication and collaboration. In addition, recent implementation of new and improved physical and virtual security guidelines and awareness programs to safeguard against unauthorized access and activate a rapid and effective response will be discussed.
Session 4 - Collaborative Environment
Session Chairpersons: Eyad Al Qadi, CISCO & Con Goedman, Shell
The traditional tools and technology-focused approach have proven to be falling short in providing the collaborative environment that matches up with the business needs and delivers the required value to the business. Business users rightfully focus on delivering business results and the required information management, good practices and necessary compliance with information security, records management, etc. come too often as an 'after the event chore'. Tools and technology can work diametrically opposed to the required ways of working, unless they come at the end of the process when the required tool capabilities are clearly understood and the tools serve the everyday workflow and not the other way around.
This session will focus on business requirements and how to connect them to human behaviour, thereby establishing required collaborative everyday ways of working. It will also cover how managing technology and its infrastructure, as well as coupling people and workflows will contribute to the success of using intelligent technology. In addition, it will highlight ways to embed sharing and storing in the right place in everyday workflow to avoid business users from falling back into private filing and non-sharing type of behaviour Best practices in making the environment comfortable to the (potential) data user to find data, use it and store it in a potentially personalised environment will be shared.
Wednesday 16 January
Session 5 - Intelligent Fields in Action
Session Chairpersons: Ali Al Muallem, Saudi Aramco & Victor Lunar, Schlumberger
The challenges faced by the oil and gas industry are complex today and include difficult operational environments, increased data availability, information demands, complex field infrastructure, renewed commitment to HSE, tighter regulatory and media pressure, reduction in the availability of skilled work force, pressure to increase production and increase recovery factor and overall demand to improve returns and operating efficiency. Oil and gas companies are driven to look for innovative ways to conduct their field operations. Ways put forward to address these issues are demonstrated by implementing the concept for Intelligent Fields or the like such as Smart fields, i-Field, Digital Oil Field or e-field, Bluefield, etc.
This session aims at highlighting the pros and cons of intelligent fields through case studies that will show some of the technological advancements and collaborative environments achieved by oil and gas companies on this subject. Discussion leaders will also discuss the role that information management has in the implementation of intelligent fields and will highlight how that can improve production operations, accounting and measurements, while boosting the reliability of data quality that is put into the system. The follow-up work groups will set the stage for key learnings to be explored as industry moves into intelligent fields and will discuss/prioritise technological and capability gaps and list future R&D needs.
