JPT

 

Vol. 58 No. 8

August 2006

Intelligent Fields Technology

Making Mature Fields Smarter

This paper summarizes findings of the SPE Making our Mature Fields Smarter Forum, September 2005. Participants in the Forum granted permission to present this paper on the basis that the authors represent the views of neither SPE nor of the participants' companies.We are delivering smarter fields to add value to our business. But companies do not have a common vision of what a truly smart field will look like, which contributes to the difficulty of assigning a value to "smartness." Collaboration and visualization technologies are enablers required to integrate across the core business processes and permit people working with these processes to assimilate the huge and diverse volumes of data and information.

Synopsis of SPE 100024

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 100024, "Making Our Mature Fields Smarter - An Industrywide Position Paper From the 2005 SPE Forum," by R. Murray, SPE, BP plc; C. Edwards, SPE, Shell; K. Gibbons, SPE, Helix-RDS; S. Jakeman, SPE, Shell; G. de Jonge, SPE, Chevron; S. Kimminau, SPE, Schlumberger; L. Ormerod, SPE, Weatherford; C. Roy, SPE, Total; and G. Vachon, SPE, Baker Hughes, prepared for the 2006 SPE Intelligent Energy Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam, 11-13 April.

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