Real Time Reservoir Management at Chevron’s Gulf of Mexico Operations
Sponsored by Accenture
Abstract to come.

Shell's New Approach to Technology Delivery
Sponsored by Schlumberger
Since 2004, Shell has invested to extend the capabilities of Schlumberger’s Petrel application to enrich it with features and capabilities unique to Shell.  The Shell investment has provided enhanced workflows for the global Shell user community in the exploration and production of hydrocarbons and already comprises over 70 distinct modules. More importantly, a faster means of bridging the gap between innovation and utilization has been delivered. The enhancements are enabled by the Microsoft platform and tooling, such as their .Net Framework, Visual Studio and Team System. This presentation describes the strategic rationale for the investment and some of the resulting benefits.

Schlumberger’s ‘Avance’ Integrated Project Management System: New Developments and Deployment Experiences
Sponsored by Sogeti
Avance is a “mission critical” enterprise system providing consistent process, procedure and content support for Schlumberger’s Integrated Project Management (IPM) division. Using a common implementation for project management best practices across the portfolio, Avance optimizes execution across IPM’s functional and geographic segments by integrating scope, schedule, cost, and quality data and providing support for risk analysis, human resources management, procurement, communications, reporting, contract and document management. During 2009 Avance was enhanced with data analysis and visualization capabilities and deployed to over 20 projects worldwide. Using Avance, Schlumberger’s project managers are better able to manage risk and control project success using the aggregated project schedules, KPI’s, tasks, and LOB data. The presentation will show key system functionality and cover the change management lessons learned and best practices developed whilst deploying such an enterprise system in a globally dynamic business.

Achieving Effective 24 by 7 Global Work Sharing on Major Capital Projects at Bechtel
Sponsored by Bentley
This presentation will cover how Bechtel, one of the largest engineering and construction firms in the world, is deploying the latest Microsoft technology to facilitate global collaboration across its own offices and externally with clients, suppliers and partners. The presentation will cover how they are using Microsoft’s collaborative platform to deliver a 24x7 managed project delivery environment allowing projects to use the best resources wherever they are located and to compress project schedules. The presentation will also cover how they are using these standard tools together with company standards and work-processes, to enable project partners to be working productively in a collaborative environment in a matter of hours rather than weeks or months, delivering a step change in capital project performance.

MaraView – Marathon’s Enterprise Content Management Solution
Sponsored by Gimmal
Like many companies, Marathon is managing a “mountain” of information. Without attention, that mountain is expected to double in size every 18 months. This motivated the company to start an Enterprise Content Management program. The business goals were: i) to improve the productivity of employees in finding and sharing information, ii) to improve the quality of the information on which decisions are taken, and iii) to improve management of the lifecycle of information, from creation to end of life.

Marathon introduced MaraView, a new information management framework for creating, finding, and sharing relevant, up-to-date and trusted information. It is how Marathon attacks the mountain. In this session, learn about how Marathon used SharePoint 2007 as the primary underlying technology and user interface for MaraView. The deployment and adoption of MaraView has resulted in cost reduction and increased productivity.

Adapting Leading Edge Graphics and Gaming Technology to Geoscience Interpretation at Chesapeake Energy
Sponsored by Landmark Software & Services
Oil and gas customers always demand strong 3D capabilities. Imaging only 2D sections has its uses, but the subsurface is 3D, and such a view greatly enhances interpretation. Customer expectations are also increasing at a Moore's Law pace. They want more scalability, more interpretative capability, and higher quality graphics. These demands tax legacy applications. The power customers want is simply not possible with legacy technologies: 32-bit applications, single-core machines, and fixed function 3D graphics pipelines. Meeting these challenges required Landmark to embrace the latest graphics, operating system (Windows 7) and gaming (Xbox) technologies offered by Microsoft. This customer presentation will highlight the business and technical benefits extended to geoscientists as a result of applying horizontal Microsoft technologies specifically for Exploration and Production of hydrocarbons.

Quality Key Performance Indicators at Schlumberger – “If you can Measure it you can Manage it”
Sponsored by Hitachi Consulting
To efficiently extract hydrocarbons residing in more challenging and risk-prone environments, the oil and gas industry must strive for far higher standards of operations. Today, a key focus of operators is the ability to execute projects on time and on budget. Essential to achieving this, is having a zero tolerance attitude towards Quality incidents. Accurately tracking and managing Quality within an organization requires clearly defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). To meet our goal of delivering flawless execution to our customers, Schlumberger has addressed this need by establishing a uniform set of Quality KPIs and applying these throughout the organization. A web-based portal has been developed to pull data from Schlumberger databases worldwide, enabling managers to identify and address Quality incidents. The continuous tracking of Non-Productive Rate and Non-Conformance Rate enables Schlumberger to measure and manage Quality in all geographic locations. Performing fair and systematic investigations, to determine root cause(s) after non-conformances, reduces Quality incidents and prevents similar reoccurrences. Schlumberger’s strong commitment to service delivery and product reliability is driven by the Excellence in Execution multi-year program.

Samson's Integrated Enterprise Prospect to Spud Well Lifecycle Management System
Sponsored by Idea Integration
Samson Investment Company, a privately held exploration and production company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma needed to improve their prospect to drilling well lifecycle data capture and rig scheduling processes. Samson wanted to collect pre-drill, structured and non-structured data through the lifecycle of the well, including documents and maps, to improve visibility and decision-making to the enterprise. The map-driven dashboard provides access to data capture, document capture, spatial data visualization and polygon (prospect) and point (well) data creation.

The solution will assist Samson with knowledge management leading to improved look-backs on well and associated data for analysis and planning purposes. The solution will also improve collaboration and visibility between and across teams, improving asset management efficiency while minimizing mistakes made through lack of access to the right data. Spatially driven document management will improve access to documents through more intuitive document management filtering and search.

Baker Hughes: Collaboration Across the Extended Enterprise for Competitive Advantage
Sponsored by Infosys
Baker Hughes is a global oilfield service company with operations in over 90 countries providing advanced products and services to help customers drill, evaluate, complete and produce oil and gas wells. Baker Hughes also provides reservoir engineering and other consulting services to its global client base. In this context, it is important for Baker Hughes to collaborate effectively across a global employee base with varied skill sets and leverage information for optimal decision making. This session explores how Baker Hughes embraced collaboration to give them a competitive edge, and is now extending these tools to their customers and external partners.

ConocoPhillips’ experience with Field Workforce Mobility
Sponsored by Invensys
ConocoPhillips, using a field workforce mobility solution in its refineries since 2006, has accelerated planned improvements in reliability and compliance. This session will review ConocoPhillips’ objectives, results and lessons learned in equipping plant operators with mobile computing technology and the related work process improvements.

Information Management at Southwestern Energy – Putting the Platform to Work
Sponsored by Stonebridge
As a growing independent producer of natural gas, Southwestern Energy (SWN) maintains many different domains of information, each with its own challenges. To meet these diverse needs, Southwestern Energy leverages many aspects of the SharePoint platform. SWN devised the Partner Information Portal, a secure online application for delivering well-level information to operating partners. The application saves hundreds of man-hours per month through more efficient and more secure communications. What’s more, it represents a decidedly “green” approach to a traditionally paper-based business process. SWN also utilized SharePoint to redefine its external web presence with the launch of the new www.swn.com . This site delivers multimedia, search and content management capabilities. SWN’s website is the centerpiece of a corporate branding initiative for a progressive energy company driven to succeed through innovation and creativity. Additionally, each day SWN is identifying new and different ways to streamline its internal communication and collaboration through SharePoint. This includes its corporate intranet, electronic content management, business intelligence, and other information management activities. This discussion will address how these new capabilities have changed “daily life” at SWN for its IT and business communities, as well as the potential SharePoint holds for future improvements.

Drive Efficiency and Gain Valuable Insight into Project, Material and Resource Planning
Sponsored by Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Effectively managing engineering and construction projects is critical to the success of Cameron’s Petreco division which supplies custom process packages for the treatment of oil, gas, water, and solid streams associated with oil and gas production. At Halliburton, accurately forecasting and planning for human resource, material, and equipment requirements is crucial to providing on time delivery of services, competitive pricing, and high quality services. In this session, we will explore how both of these companies are accomplishing this through technology to achieve these key business objectives in a fast, scalable, and flexible way.

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