MultiVendor Data and Application Integration

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Multi-Vendor Data and Application Integration

• Management Overview
• Feb. 2000
• by Clay Harter

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What is OpenSpirit?

• All of the following
• A commercial product
• An alliance of oil companies and software vendors
• An open specification

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Alliance activities

• Sponsoring of commercial product
• Pre-commercial collaboration
• co-operation on open specifications

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The Business Problem
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The Business Problem Cost, Cycle-Time, Efficiency

• EP applications are full-featured and
  expensive
• It is difficult to add functional enhancements
• Difficult to use niche products
• Applications are not well integrated
• Heterogeneous data access is difficult and
  expensive
• Legacy inertia stifles innovation
• Hence
• Application developers and support personnel face
  complexity they dont want
• Application users dont have the desktop
  environment they need

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Business Drivers for Using OpenSpirit
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OpenSpirit Value Proposition -Customer
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OpenSpirit Value Proposition Sponsor (for
Chevron)

• make it happen - ensure opco customer benefits
• good return on investment
• influence direction to meet our priorities
• early involvement with new technology can give
  competitive advantage
• highly leveraged investment
• consistent with existing internal strategy and
  efforts
• industry collaborative effort influences market
  more than any single company effort

• Note Chevron, as OpenSpirit sponsor,
• has put in
• 1 million in cash
• 10 staff-years

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Chevron Benefits (p50 case)

• Plus intangibles
• Support multi-vendor buy and build strategy
• Improved decision quality through
• using most appropriate application
• More focus of internal resources on value-added
  proprietary components that lead to competitive
  advantage
• Better harvesting of market

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The Business ProblemCurrent Application
Environment
Seismic Interpretation
Wavelet Estimation
Geostatistics
Displays
Displays
Displays
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The SolutionComponent-Based Applications and
Generic Data Access
Virtual Application Suite
Seismic Interpretation
Wavelet Estimation
Geostatistics
Process
Visualization
Reusable Business Objects
Data
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The SolutionComponent-Based Applications and
Generic Data Access
Virtual Application Suite
Seismic Interpretation
Wavelet Estimation
Geostatistics
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OpenSpirit Extensions
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Current OpenSpirit Data Coverage

• Sub-Surface Data Module supports
• Geologic Mapping, Well Correlation, Basic
  Petrophysics, Seismic Interpretation, Earth Model
  Construction
• Well
• Header
• Picks
• Time-Depth Table
• Logs
• Seismic
• 3D post-stack
• 2D post-stack
• Line of Section
• Interpretation
• Earth Model
• Horizons (2D grid representation)
• Horizon Properties (2D grid representation)
• Faults (polyline)

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Plans for Future Extensions

• Sub-Surface Data Module
• 2D interpretation
• Trimesh representation
• Well zone models
• COM Option
• Preliminary investigation of options
• Prototyping of solutions in Q2
• Drilling Data Module
• Forming cross company requirements/specification
  workgroup.
• 2-3 month requirement/specification effort
• 6 month implementation/testing
• Shared Earth Model Services
• Elf, Chevron, Tsurf, GeoQuest, IFP, Shell?,
• Collaborative pre-commercial prototyping
• Production Data Module
• Introduction timing based on customer demand and
  resource availability

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Customer Extensions to OpenSpirit

• V2 architected to provide extensibility
• New attributes/methods on existing objects
• New Objects (in existing servers)
• Linkage to new datastores
• Source code and documentation provided for
  example extensions
• Note training, consulting, and custom
  development services available

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OpenSpirit 2000 Release
Numerous commercial and in-house applications
developed on v1 beta
2000 release
V1 beta (bc2)
Shipped to 80 companies
2000 beta
SEG
GeoQuest, Tsurf, PDS, Shell, and Elf OpenSpirit
based applications demonstrated
Based on customer and sponsor feedback the
decision was taken to accelerate OpenSpirit 2000
development and forego full v1 commercialization