The OpenSpirit Alliance

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The OpenSpirit Alliance
A status update
Ben Weltevrede
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Context
Legacy systems
AIP
Application Integration Platform
Data Integration
Platform
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Mission

• to establish, in a timely manner,an
  implementation of an Application Integration
  Platform which is commercially available through
  an EP-neutral organisation
• and

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Mission

• to promote the adoption of that platform by
  independent software vendors for the development
  of inter-operating application modules for use
  within the oil industry.

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Participants

• Shell, Chevron, Statoil, Elf, British Gas, AGIP
• IBM, Jason, De Bril-Groot, Shared Earth
  Technologies, Petrosystems, Foster Findlay

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Approach

• Based on open standards
• Commercial implementation by EP neutral vendor
• Take-up by industry

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Standards - POSC RFT

• Prism will respond on behalf of Alliance
• Workshop on Feb 23 1998
• Possibility for joint submissions

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Project 1

• Base foundation
• Generic Geoscience Framework
• Subsurface Interpretation Framework
• Under development by PrismTech

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Commercial implementation - status

• Interim releases to OpenSpirit participants
• First commercial products at SEG 98
• OpenSpirit 1.0 Q4 98

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Take-up projects

• CGG Stratimagic integration
• Elf/Chevron GOCAD integration
• Shared Earth Select sub-surface data
• Chevron Wavelet extraction
• DGB GDI integration
• Elf SISMAGE integration
• Jason Workbench integration
• Shared Earth 3D seismic image processing
• Shell Oil 3D sample implementation

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Future plans

• Project 2 Well production data
• Different part of domain
• Compatible with and using OpenSpirit 1
• Possibly different participants
• RFT workshop - Feb 23
• Topology workshop

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Project 2
Application Integration Platform