Agenda

Open projects represent a deviation from the usual business practices in the oil and gas industry. Other sectors have managed to develop business models that benefit different members of an open ecosystem. This session will explore how a transition to an open environment could be achieved in the industry and lead to a successful business environment for all stakeholders.

This session will focus on the process of launching open projects, addressing key questions such as: (1) how to start a new, open project; (2) how to accelerate innovation through open data, code, and publications; (3) how to leverage a broad network of contributors and build an engaged community; and (4) how to manage downside risks associated with open frameworks.

This session is designed to provide the open project contributor or user a primer on licensing, legal considerations and intellectual property (IP) rights. In particular, it will introduce various popular licensing structures for open content and highlight the implications and limitations of each. It will also cover the IP implications of contributing to open projects.

This session explores opportunities, examples, and advice to ensure a successful, secure, and strategic open-data project. The discussion will review themes such as, how do you organize the project to ensure that it gets continuous traction and support; obtaining feedback on open-source projects; how to promote/expand these efforts while balancing proprietary and other concerns; cybersecurity concerns and advice for open-data efforts; balancing meritocracy with predictability; and ecosystem development for adoption beyond the community.

Traditionally, publications were designed to share ideas with peers and obtain feedback. Today, a significant body of research is computational or data-driven research. In these cases, it is impossible to check the validity of the approach without having access to the underlying dataset or source code. Technology has also advanced significantly to allow publications to contain data, computer programs, and interactive content. This panel will discuss the current state-of-the-art of scientific publishing and explore how it needs to evolve to better support reproducible research and explainable data science results.

Open projects provide a useful learning opportunity as we move beyond the current difficulties due to the lack of data. This session will discuss trainning models that will be viable with open projects and understanding the impact of these opportuities. With the data readily available, education could be pivoted towards more field examples and newer insights could be obtained from the data.

Discussions can develop a framework to help enhace the skillset with open projects and removing barriers towards adoption of these projects and datasets, reducing the learning curve for the projects. This session will also cover necessary developments in the Petrowiki portal to include examples based on field data that use and reference open source and open data projects.

Data type, size and file formats greatly vary and change over time with technology used to capture data. Thus without investing into infrastructure to manage data, the open data concept is just a wish despite the benefits of data and software exchange. This session will discuss how to (1) connect open data and open source projects, i.e. ensure compatbility and interoperability, (2) foster environments that enable users to easily contribute and align the contributions, and (3) how to get the open efforts funded.

This session will review and summarize the sessions that have occured throughout the workshop and will gather some statistics from the audience via polling. We will discuss the challenges and opportunities from a practical and actionable point of view and formulate some take-home lessons. The closing panel session will attempt to define the role that the industry should play and identify concrete actions that the SPE should take to foster an open subsurface ecosystem. The concensus achieved will form the basis for a recommendation whitepaper that represents the final deliverable of the workshop.