CVEs – Data-driven design
Lawrence Wood – Senior Technical Consultant
SIS Information Management
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Agenda
• Growth of CVE sophistication – industry trends
• Convergence and what it means
• Drivers for change – What is happening
• The Case for CVEs – I see what you mean!
• Uses of CVEs today
• Engagement focus - Case, Vision, Process, Communication, Reward & Measure
• Getting it wrong
• Getting it right – design driven by workflow/dataflow
• The Data Challenge
Industry Trends
Next generation
Segregated
facilities
Approximately 350 viz rooms in use today (single channel 3D or more)
100 real-time operational support centres in 2007 alone
All deliver varying degrees of collaboration and decision support in workflows such as geological model development
and well placement
Surge of interest in dedicated 24/7 collaboration rooms gathering momentum
2nd Generation Converged Collaborative World
• Rapid convergence between visualisation, modelling and real-time
iterations…in same facility = next generation
• Allows for drilling teams to adjust their activity based on rapid updating of
geological and reservoir models using LWD (large time reductions)
• In future, each Asset will have its own large screen team room, to enable
multidisciplinary working (collaboration space)
• Managing these will require diligence, focus, intelligence and intricate DM
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Realtime production monitoring
using 3D software to update
reservoir models on the fly…
Space for collaboration
Decision making from above,
monitoring, critical parameters on
smaller screens
Real-time production data
on cubewalls
Converged Collaboration
Real-time drilling theatre with
software to monitor live
geosteering in the 3D model
Drivers for Change
“Visualisation gives us the ability to give all the people involved in an exploration project a common
mental picture of the sub-surface on which they are working, a rapid and common understanding of
something they will never actually see.”
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Increased ambition - find more oil/gas, find it faster and right first time
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Higher resolution - multi-source, better s/w, greater reliability, more options
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Improved price point - unit costs reduced, greater competition of suppliers
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Better understanding - Team dynamics, ergonomics, room layouts, workflows
How are CVEs being used today?
• Well planning and monitoring
• Mature asset and field rehabilitation
• Exploration prospect generation
Earth model and simulation
• Peer Reviews & Partner Reviews
• Integrated geoscience workflows
• Portfolio management (business)
• NOC and government reviews
Integrated geoscience with v/c
• Field development processing
• Seismic processing reviews
How does this affect data delivery?
Live peer review
Bilingual NOC review
Management meeting – multi desktop
The Case for a CVE – Seeing what you Mean
Visualisation is an motivator for collaborative working, bringing together very different disciplines - all applying their skills
to a common objective, with an ability to reach decisions many times quicker than desktop working.
Reliant on good data management and planning.
Results prove that success from a CVE is no longer anecdotal : large-scale visualisation centers do provide a solid
return on investment” *….if measured
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20% decision-time reduction using 3D stereo over static desktop display
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Accuracy of well trajectory increase in 10%
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Improved efficiency and accuracy in results
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Full immersion also contributes improvements up to 10%
However…..
“I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I’ve seen a truly integrated display; for example, a
review of a regional geological framework where I could simultaneously view plate tectonic reconstructions,
regional field maps, …seismic stratigraphic & facies interpretations, migration pathways and gross depositional
environment maps.”**
*Studies performed at TerraSpark Geosciences LP and at BP. Supported by ExxonMobil, ENI, BP, Chevron and Paradigm.
Published January 2009.
**David Bamford, ex Head Exploration, BP West Africa – Digital Energy Journal, May 2009.
Engagement focus
Still Putting Technology First
Requests are commonly made for new technology in a CVE with little or no attention
paid to planning, reviewing and managing
• “We need new projectors. Give me a price for these units”
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Consider the needs of the room – who will use it and why?
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Measure usage, use a communications plan
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Don't underestimate Change Management
Focussing on the technology could result in the facility becoming redundant
and decommissioned through “lack of use”
….or being overwhelmed with technology!
Dataflow-driven designs
Decision speedFast:
Monitoring & Control
Medium:
Diagnostics & Optimisation
Slow:
Geological & Static / dynamic
modeling
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Workflows drive the design…
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Data drives the session
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Management drive usage
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Getting it wrong….
Build it and they will come?
The premise: "Let's spend a lot money to build a new attraction to
celebrate the new Millennium with lots of flashy technology - many
visitors will come, it will be self-supporting. We can do it
ourselves!“.
Business plan?
Management Plan?
Forward load?
The Millenium Dome,
London, 2000
“Dome and Domer”
The people who designed it weren't the people who had to run it – little or no commercial experience (politicians)
No cohesive "vision" to the entire enterprise
Badly thought-out, badly executed. Left the UK government with embarrassing question of what to do with it afterwards.
Survives on good intentions rather than sound business fundamentals
Numerous changes at management and Board level had only limited, if any, results
Financial predictions were based on an unrealistically high forecast of visitor numbers at 12 million - During the 12
months it was open there were approximately 6.5 million visitors
Getting it right….
The premise: “Celebrate Victorian-era invention and industrial prowess,
provide a fabulous fit-for-purpose beautiful building, fill it with over 15000
examples of modern technology and forward thinking
Focussed on the presentations,
demonstrations and exhibits – fit for purpose.
Designed and Built:
Isembard Kingdom Brunel.
The Great Exhibition,
London, 1851
Many visitors (users) with different talents:
• Charles Darwin
• Charlotte Brontë
• Lewis Carroll
• George Eliot...
Six million visitors (one third the population of Britain in 1851)
Value: Made a surplus of £186,000 - used to found the V&A Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural
History Museum. Remaining surplus used to provide grants and scholarships for industrial research
Multi use:
Envelope machine…kitchen appliances…steel-making displays…reaping machine…world's first automatic
voting machine…precursor to modern fax machine…the Tempest Prognosticator - a barometer using
leeches…first public toilets…world's biggest known diamond…demonstration of the inadequacy of respected
door locks….Danish single-cast ironframe for a piano - the first made in Europe.
Data Delivery Challenges
In order to understand a petroleum system or prospect,
many different types of data need to be integrated.
Intelligent conversation must centre around volumes,
uncertainties and risks.
Different data types combine to give particular insights
which merge to reach a key stage in the evaluation.
Any one of these elements involves a potentially unique set
of processes, models and interpretations, and therefore
data.
How do assembled team in the CVE begin to understand
the multi-faceted and sometimes conflicting interpretations,
both efficiently and effectively?
• Data must be available in order to make decisions, real-time or static
• Linking and integrating these numerous data feeds in to simultaneous outputs is a real challenge
and puts a strain on existing workflows as well as the data infrastructure
“Integrated exploration is tough to do, challenging to deliver…… but the future “winners” in
oil & gas will deliver it…..and to their advantage”**
**David Bamford, Digital Energy Journal, May 2009
Thank you