POSC Workshop CGG and Oilfield Systems

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POSC WorkshopCGG and Oilfield Systems

• Department of Trade Industry
• London
• 4 February 1998

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Major Topics

• Introduce Oilfield Systems
• Oilfield Systems CGG
• Oilfield Systems POSC
• DAEX History
• Brief explanation of DAEX
• Lead up to demonstration

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Oilfield Systems

• Company formed in 1984
• Advanced software tools for EP
• Independent U.K. Company
• Based in Southampton, England
• Offices in Houston, Calgary Aberdeen
• Practical experience of solving data problems for
  our geological product, GeoScene

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Oilfield Systems CGG

• Worked with CGG since 1992
• CGG was sponsor of DAEX development
• Joint Projects
• Archidex, BridgeLink, OG Project, PV-DAEX
• Joint presentation at November97 meeting in
  Dallas (with Prism Technologies)

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Oilfield Systems POSC

• Industry Pilot Projects
• Houston London
• POSC helped guide DAEX development
• Epicentre in DAEX
• Epicentre Migration Project
• with Prism Technologies
• Business Objects Workshop
• Work with Statoil on Epicentre

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Oilfield Systems Experience

• Data moving
• Worked with lots of EP companies
• Loaded many different project stores
• Loaded several hundred projects
• Loaded diverse data types
• Data from many sources
• Field experience of the problems
• Developed internal support tools

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DAEX History

• which became DAEX
• DAEX Project begun in 1994
• DAEX provides a framework for building, testing
  and running exchanges
• Scaleable solutions
• Extensible too
• roll your own
• fix at runtime

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DAEX - The Data Exchange

• Reusable components encapsulate operations on
  data (e.g. read log from PV, write well picks to
  OpenWorks)
• networks of components implement loaders or
  exchanges
• Can build proprietary components
• DAEX provides the control program
• Single, consistent user interface

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DAEX Attributes

• Its a framework for building, testing and
  running data exchanges
• Quality Control
• Robust
• Configurable, Adaptable Extensible
• Full Audit
• Macro Language

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A Typical Exchange
User Interface
DAEX Master
Write Picks
Geoshare File
Check Well Names
Read Picks
PetroVision
Read Well Names
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Fan-In/Fan-Out
DAEX
Readers
Writers
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DAEX in the Larger Picture

• The larger picture comprises...
• Corporate Store(s)
• Meta-Database (real or derived)
• GIS or similar user-friendly selection mechanism
• DAEX or similar moves selected data to Project
  Database

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DAEX as part of Solution
summary data including full location
meta-database
GIS
details of data storage
data migration instructions
DAEX
Corporate databases
Project Database
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Attraction of Standards

• Appeal of a standard oil gas database
  modelPOSC Epicentre
• Fewer databasesless change
• Actually...
• DAEX uses Epicentre internally
• Subsets provide interoperability among DAEX
  components

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POSCs Epicentre

• A thorough EP Database description
• Provides DAEX with minimal chance of data
  leakage
• Defined footprints for data transfers
• Commercial implementation
• CGGs PetroVision

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Summary

• DAEX can be used standalone or as part of a
  larger solution
• DAEX promotes the use of Epicentre
• Oilfield Systems is working with CGG to extend
  its DAEX links to PetroVision

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PetroVision to DAEX
PetroVision
Trigger DAEX on file creation
OpenWorks
DAEX
dump file