Sessions at GEF 2012

Sponsored by Schlumberger - Apache Corporation are key users of highly advanced Petrotechnical applications such as Petrel, ECLIPSE, and PetroMod. With many users developing new techniques and project sizes moving to multiple GBs in size, this created a need for high performance, flexible computing infrastructure that is adaptable throughout the global operations of Apache Corporation. Using Microsoft Operating systems within this infrastructure has allowed Apache to fully realize the advantages of easily configurable, maintainable and performant systems to run their Petrotechnical computing. This presentation will explore the Petro technical computing challenges that Apache faced and present the current state solutions delivered by SIS and highlight how Apache has taken advantage of these technologies to: 1) Deliver a single workspace for productivity and petrotechnical applications for each geoscientist, 2) Significantly improve performance for technical users and accelerate application workflows.

Sponsored by Petris - With more than 53,000 employees in 80 countries, Baker Hughes is a top-tier oilfield service company that delivers solutions to help oil and gas operators make the most of their wells and reservoirs. A web-based solution that helps amalgamate the silos of information and presents a common point of access across the enterprise was delivered to fulfill the needs. The Baker Hughes WellData Discovery system was built on the PetrisWINDS Enterprise (PWE) platform. It enables end users to search by attributes and location for wells and the associated operation data from several databases. With the recent product upgrade, the system provides an easy-to-use user interface built with Microsoft Silverlight, ESRI GIS technology and a Petris custom tool bar. It also integrates easily with the SharePoint environment and stores user-specific key search attributes and the geodetic preference. The PWE application has become a powerful tool for Sales & Marketing, Geoscientists and engineers. Key product features, successes and challenges will be shared in this case study. For the enterprise, however, the synergy across the product lines has become crucial for the company's growth and survival in today's challenging business environment. Since each product line is involved in distinct phases of the well life cycle, data acquired by one product line can become a valuable asset to the parts of the company that are involved in other stages of the well life cycle. Finding the collective information about wells and their operation history has thus become a pressing business demand. Many of Baker Hughes' products and services produce large amounts of technical information, which is gathered daily. With dozens of product lines and hundreds of products and services, discovering synergies among data in product-centric database silos was a difficult task.

Sponsored by Iconics - The National Center of Measurement and Control of Hydrocarbons (CNMCH) is responsible for the real time monitoring, measurement and control of 80% the natural gas and petroleum production in Bolivia. The center, located in Villa Montes, monitors 250 locations, with over 6000 process points from the wellhead, to processing, to custody and transfer of liquid and gas products every 30 seconds. The ICONICS GENESIS™ and Microsoft based system brings in real time data from many dissimilar DCS and SCADA systems, from hundreds of locations, that include wellheads, pipelines and plants in Sábalo, San Alberto and Margarita. The 432-km GASYRG pipeline is designed to transport up to 34 MMm3/day of natural gas for export to Brazil and Argentina, and additional custody and transfer points of the sale of gas are monitored across Bolivia.The CNMCH provides production reports relating to transportation, export, faults, underutilization of plants, flare status, security breaches, and events, all while coordinating activities in the field such as maintenance, calibration and contracts. The centralized SCADA software is ICONICS GENESIS, a world-wide leader whose technology is used in the largest gas pipelines of the world. Base systems uses multiple Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, and Web based Internet Explorer clients. Currently being implemented is a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Collaboration Portal system, using ICONICS and Microsoft Web parts.

Sponsored by Covisint - In today's energy world, roughly 77% of employees do not belong to your company. This creates the need for companies to build ad hoc partnerships that share massive amounts of data with workers that reside outside the confines of their organization. What is even more interesting is that these partnerships typically include yesterday’s rivals who are competing for the world's energy reserves. To make these partnerships work requires flexibility, reliability, speed with the highest levels of security as you are allowing business partners seamless access to highly sensitive assets. For years, companies have tried to provide these services on their own with limited success due to the complexity and costs involved ? and with the current flurry of hacking attempts such as the Night Dragon attacks, it has become critical for companies to search out alternative choices to internally provisioning access to their assets.Working with Covisint, Chevron is able to provide a solution that provides significant advantages over the conventional buy-build-implement paradigm. The Chevron extended workforce will be able to plug into production-ready solutions within days or weeks, as opposed to the many months typically required by conventional on-premise solutions. By leveraging the Covisint software-as-a-service (SaaS) model of connectivity, Chevron will only have to maintain a single connection to Covisint in order to provide access to their internal resources for select customers, partners and joint ventures. This solution leverages the Microsoft ADFS as the federation gateway, with Microsoft AD being the authoritative source for Chevron identities. The Microsoft Card Management solution is also in play for 2-factor authentication, which will eventually provide two-way access for Chevron employees.

Sponsored by Invensys - This session looks at two questions many operating company managers ask themselves daily: How can I better enable my front line workers? and how can I empower these employees have the right knowledge at the point of incident to take action if possible and/or ensure the responsible employee can easily follow up on the duties and corrective actions?All organizations train their people and most spend significant money doing so. Ninety percent of the respondents to a recent McKinsey Quarterly survey said building capabilities was a top 10 priority for their organizations. In addition, the study stated only 25 percent of the companies surveyed said their training programs were effective at improving performance measurably and only eight percent track a program's return on investment. This session will highlight approaches that go beyond traditional training that can help to overcome the crossfire industry faces with workforce turnover and increasing regulatory compliance. The key takeaways from the session will be the sharing of several new approaches to help achieve safer and more competitive operations.Chevron has entered a new phase of their journey to exploit the new mobile and workflow technologies in the Microsoft stack. Now that optimal data collection and best practices are consistently being executed through operational routine duties … the new path forward is one that will automate procedural compliance through new technologies such as procedures on demand, dynamic procedures and mobile learning on demand (media). If you have procedures in MS Word ... you will not want to miss this presentation and demonstration.

Sponsored by Microsoft - Technology is playing an increasingly important role in people's personal lives, and these consumer technology experiences are spilling over into their professional lives. People have a growing expectation to use the same technology at work as they use at home, which is at the heart of the Consumerization of IT trend. This trend presents challenges to enterprises, but with the right approach businesses can realize a number of benefits. The key is to strike a balance between user expectations and enterprise requirements for security, privacy, control, and compliance. Attend this session to learn how Devon Energy is embracing the Consumerization of IT and leveraging Microsoft technology and Services to further its business goals and to drive innovation in its workforce culture in 2012 and beyond.

Boardwalk utilized a myriad of technologies, including SharePoint 2003 and 2007, as a portal and collaboration platform. These technologies were used to store pipeline design and implementation details; allow Boardwalk customers to request pipeline interconnects; track operations and regulatory items; and provide forms, organizational data, collaboration tools, and other information employees require to fulfill their job responsibilities. These disparate portals created inefficiencies that hindered their ability to meet business objectives effectively and efficiently. Come and learn how the portal project has allowed Boardwalk to improve their internal operations and further reduce their technical landscape.

Sponsored by UMT - The Halliburton Consulting and Project Management (C&PM) organization is responsible for the global planning and execution of Halliburton's large, upstream Oil and Gas related projects. In this session you will learn directly from those that managed the Halliburton C&PM deployment of Project and Portfolio Management capabilities to provide the following BENEFITS:Executive visibility across the portfolio, Lifecycle management from Planning to Execution and Closeout, Resource management capabilities, Knowledge management and sharing of best practices, Compliance with the Halliburton Management System involving project teams, customers, third parties and quality control, A common platform for all Project, Portfolio and Resource management activities across the world, SharePoint collaboration capabilities through the Project and Portfolio Management work.From the vision of "A globally-accessible, common project management system to help improve project profitability and customer satisfaction", this session will provide details on the Halliburton C&PM EXPERIENCE:Why an Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management system is necessary?How the Microsoft Project Server 2010 was selected through an evaluation and rationalization process considering other options?How was the implementation done and what lessons were learned?What value has been realized?Join us for this session and learn about the business impact of Managing your Portfolio directly from the experience of Halliburton C&PM.

Sponsored by Honeywell - Microsoft technologies (SharePoint, SQL & Silverlight) enabled rapid proof of concept deployment for a new Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Foundation that:seamlessly ties into SAP to connect operations to business systems;automates formerly manual production and consumption data for improved accuracy and timeliness of information;enables information sharing across the plant.The quick and efficient implementation (within 90 days) was made possible by using a modular approach and true collaboration between the customer and supplier to ensure delivery of a solution to meet Honeywell Specialty Materials needs for complete Shop Floor to Top Floor visibility. The MES Foundation is currently being rolled out as the corporate standard at 15 facilities. The expected benefit is a $1.5 million increase in operating income per plant over 3 years.

Sponsored by OSIsoft - On its way from 'wellhead to burner tip' a cubic foot of methane passes through a diverse physical infrastructure of pipes, compressors, valves, meters and other assets. This system is operated by different entities that span the delivery chain from upstream, to transmission, to storage, and finally distribution. As each unit of natural gas crosses boundaries, moving from one silo of the transportation system to another, it leaves its operational "footprint" behind in the form of data. This data and the knowledge derived from it are priceless corporate assets. Ensuring that this data is collected, retained, and made accessible so employees and business applications can transform it into operational improvement is at the core of the NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage reliability and modernization program. While shale dynamics and gas industry regulations are driving the need for this new program, NiSource sees this work as an opportunity to ask 'While we're at it, what else can we do better as an operating company? As an industry, how can we take this to the next level? Can a standard methodology for exchanging real time operating data across industry boundaries and between stakeholders improve gas industry performance?' In this presentation Michael Graves, IT Director at NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage will address these topics and discuss where the gas industry has been, challenges for the future, and how NGT&S is building out reliable operations to ensure long term success.

Sponsored by MCA Connect - NOV Services Division is experiencing tremendous growth as a result of choices made during the economic and energy downturn. Learn from their success by hearing Debra Dobbins, VP IS at NOV Services review choices NOV made to retool the Services division to optimize, standardize and position the division for unparalleled growth with their Enterprise Resource Planning strategy at the core of the solution.

Sponsored by Stonebridge - In the fast paced world of oil exploration and production, timely access to critical data drives the path to success. The rapid and meteoric rise of Oasis Petroleum from an start up oil and gas company to a public traded entity strained many of the internal processes which had originally been developed for a much smaller operation. While at one point, the processes had been "good enough"; they were now an inhibitor to growth. Case in point: well data management.Oasis had implemented manual processes and systems for managing information about its wells - the core assets around which the business runs. While these processes were sufficient for a smaller company, they would not facilitate the desired growth. Management of well data was essentially a collection of disparate activities, generating questions of data integrity and accuracy. The process offered a disjointed, cumbersome means of delivering the right information to the right people - from the executive office to the field, from regulatory to land, from accounting to operations. Through a methodical approach, Oasis devised a new standard for information management consistent with the company it had become. By leveraging the inherent strength of the SharePoint 2010 collaborative platform, Oasis began a series of incremental improvements in order to manage well information more effectively. These changes improved access for the wide variety of business users and streamlined the process of acquiring knowledge regarding the company's wells. By making these changes and developing this foundation, Oasis is saving costs and reducing risks posed by bad or untimely data.As it looks toward the future, Oasis intends to build upon its information management success by SharePoint-enabling a number of other key processes, including document management, workflow, and business intelligence. This session will describe the SharePoint transformation under way at Oasis and share key insights and lessons learned in utilizing SharePoint as a collaborative engine.

Sponsored by iStore - PEMEX is driving business improvements in its ATG asset, through the use of new technologies, different approaches to drilling and completion practices and creating a competitive environment with multiple service providers and operators. These efforts are enabled by digital oilfield solutions built with Microsoft technologies that support improved access to data, surveillance, collaborative work, and tracking of key performance indicators. These tools are generating unprecedented operational insight and will play a significant role in future operations.

Sponsored by InduSoft - When drilling wells for oil or natural gas, the safety of the employees and the integrity of the well are some of the foremost concerns. PML Exploration Services LLC provides gas analysis in 'real time', thanks to the extensive web-ready tools available in the InduSoft Web Studio SCADA Software package. With these tools, PML can help well operators optimize their time, protect their investment in the well and ensure the safety of the operation by offering up-to-the-minute gas analysis and detailed, web viewable geological information. InduSoft Web Studio is able to help companies like PML put their data 'in the cloud' so that rig operators and site managers can have ready access to data, even while out at remote locations, such as oil and natural gas drilling rigs.

Sponsored by Siemens - The Smart Solutions Platform (SSP) is a strategic initiative to accelerate development and delivery of business solutions, sustain realized benefits, and provide faster internal and external innovation in Smart Solutions. Smart Solutions are the business applications solely focused on the business logic and are built on top of the SSP. Therefore, the SSP is a key enabler for Upstream Production, Mining and Downstream Manufacturing and be extended to Supply and Retail Domains. This SSP is what we call an Foundation layer consisting of IT services such as Complex Event Processing (CEP), Event and Alarm Management, Calculation & Modeling engines, Visualisation & Reporting services, Data models, etc.One of the core components of the SSP is the Data Services Layer (DSL) and, in case of SSP, Siemens XHQ is the key element here. This means that all relevant (hundreds of) data sources globally are connected to the DSL and therefore all IT services requiring data connect as well to this DSL. Another key component of Siemens XHQ is the semantic model, where, based on the Shell Enterprise Data Model, the complete data structure of all connected data sources is kept in a way easily understandable to all users in the field. This also for easy global reporting and analytics.

Sponsored by Hitachi Consulting - T.D.Williamson, Inc., the world's most recognized name in pipeline equipment and services, delivers safe integrity solutions for onshore and offshore applications. TDW's experts provide hot tapping & plugging, pipeline cleaning, geometry & MFL inspection, pigging and non-tethered plugging pig technology services for any pressurized pipeline system, anywhere in the world.Operating multiple and disparate ERP applications created siloed operating models across the global organization. In response, TDW selected Microsoft Dynamics as their solution roadmap implementing One ERP solution worldwide to their 48 offices and service centers spread throughout 37 countries. Objectives for the Strategic Global Initiative are to differentiate service delivery by combining Dynamics CRM, Field Services for Dynamics AX and Dynamics AX into a solution footprint that spans Sales, Job Estimating, Fleet Management and Job Costing. The solution allows TDW to instantly see availability of complex tool configurations and skilled technician resources anywhere in the world and to confidently promise and deliver on quoted work per the customer's constraints. Simultaneously a Greenfield manufacturing center in India offered the opportunity to create a Global ERP template that can be rolled out to TDW's other manufacturing centers. TDW will achieve their goal of a having a globally united organization with complete visibility to support informed management decision-making, increased utilization of equipment and people, a reduction in capital requests for new tools and improved service margins from equipment scheduling efficiencies.

Sponsored by Microsoft - This presentation from Microsoft will provide an overview of the tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) most commonly encountered by Microsoft Services' Cybersecurity Team when performing Incident Response and Recovery services for enterprise and government customers. In addition to providing an overview of the TTPs, the discussion will provide information on the recommended methods for interdicting the various attack phases. The presentation will also provide some of the most recent threat intelligence information as published in the latest Security Intelligence Report.