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E&P Information and Data Management

10th to 11th February 2009, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, United Kingdom.

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8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00
Chairman's Opening Remarks

John Berkin, Principal Solution Architect , Schlumberger Information Solutions.

9.10
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR INFORMATION AND DATA MANAGEMENT
  • Why should businesses invest in Information and Data Management?
  • An investment or a cost?
  • How can efficient information and data management enhance a business?
  • Justification of data management costs

Mario Marco Fiorani, Manager, Corporate Data and Information Management , Eni - E&P Division.

9.50
IS THE ERA OF PHYSICAL DATA AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT OVER? THE EXPERIENCE OF PUTTING DATA AND INFORMATION ONLINE IN NORWAY
  • Access to seismic data, well data and associated information
  • The challenges of completeness and retrievability
  • Formats and standardization
  • Future developments

Eric Toogood, Diskos Manager, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00
PROVIDING USERS WITH CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT INFORMATION IN THEIR FRAME
  • Deal with information access and overload - how TMI affects users
  • Merge the worlds of documents and data to create complete operational awareness
  • Use application context to deliver relevant information and focus the data aperture
  • Deliver critical information in the workflow, where and when it counts

Eric Abecassis, Manager, Houston Technology Center , Schlumberger Information Solutions .

11.40
HOW TO MANAGE MIGRATION OF LEGACY/MERGER + ACQUISITION DATA INTO INFORMATION SYSTEMS
  • Identification of critical information and potential duplication:  what needs to be incorporated?
  • Business philosophy observations relating to the full integration of legacy and merger/acquisition data: phased or not?
  • Risk identification, risk and financial management in data migrations

Caspar Schoorl, Department Manager, Fugro Data Solutions.

Karen Blohm, Global consultancy manager, Fugro Data Solutions.

12.10
THE CASE FOR INDEXING INFORMATION
  • How much time/effort/resources should be spent indexing information
  • The business case for indexing
  • Example of adocument management system
  • How can we encourage workers to use the system efficiently?

Al Kok, Content Data Management Group Lead, Saudi Aramco.

12.40 Networking Lunch
2.10
PANEL SESSION: INDEXING VS SEARCHING
  • Indexing vs searching
  • The business case
  • Being more intelligent with search engines
  • Changing the way we work

Mario Marco Fiorani, Manager, Corporate Data and Information Management , Eni - E&P Division.

Karen Blohm, Global consultancy manager, Fugro Data Solutions.

Al Kok, Content Data Management Group Lead, Saudi Aramco.

Caspar Schoorl, Department Manager, Fugro Data Solutions.

2.40
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FOR THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY, BENEFITS AND CASE STUDIES
  • Introduction to industrial wireless communication
  • Wireless case study 1: Improving work processes at the Snøhvit LNG plant
  • Wireless case study 2: Increasing oil recovery at the Gullfaks offshore platform

Stig Petersen, Research Scientist, SINTEF ICT.

3.20 Afternoon Tea
3.50
ENABLING CROSS-DISCIPLINE COLLABORATION IN THE DIGITAL OILFIELD
  • SOA integration foundation
  • User-defined application-to-application connectivity
  • Multiple database access
  • Practical approaches to building today’s required complex reservoir workflows

Clay Harter, Chief Technology Officer, OpenSpirit Corporation.

4.30
OPTIMIZING UPSTREAM LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
  • Addressing the logistics challenges oil and gas companies face in the upstream value chain.  
  • Why optimization of logistics process is indispensable for the Oil and Gas Industry?
  • A comparison showing typical current mode of operations vs. automated people and material asset management.
  • Bringing in transparency of upstream logistics and help improving logistics planning and operation.
  • Health and Safety Issues of People on Board.
  • How effective the coordination of people and materials movement via. Land, air and sea be captured and managed?

Simon Johnson, Head - iLogistics, IBS Group.

5.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
5.20 Drinks reception sponsored by Schlumberger Information Solutions

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