An ebusiness approach to tracking E

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• An e-business approach to tracking EP processes

Graham Ayres Flare Consultants
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Agenda

• Introduction
• BP Norways approach to Well Data Tracking
• Business Requirements
• Benefits Challenges
• Shell Expro Well Data Quality Improvement
  Programme
• Summary

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Introduction

• Process busts are endemic in EP - particularly
  the baton changes between different
  organisations, companies, departments and
  functions
• Well Data Tracking is a recognised operational
  problem due to
• the virtual nature of disparate companies
  involved in acquiring, creating and receiving
  well data and information
• the diversity of multidisciplinary data and
  information associated with a well over time
• This presentation outlines BP Norways approach
  to solving these issues

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Business Requirements - Short Term

• Meeting the needs of the business in the
  short-term for the duration of the process
• Virtual team collaboration
• Explicitly defined and agreed processes for data
  acquisition with clearly assigned roles and
  responsibilities for a common view.
• Availability transparency of the process -
  connecting people to processes for all
  individuals and companies in the virtual team
  regardless of physical location
• Easy tracking of deliverables (well site to
  corporate store)
• Within the operator organisation and to partners
• Single source of the latest information for
  process management
• Easy identification of process busts and
  exception reporting
• Reporting to authorities
• Adhering to the Blue Book Regulatory Reporting
  Requirements

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Business Requirements - Long Term

• Building the corporate stores and memory for
  the long-term in a form for re-use in the future
• Populating corporate information stores and
  retaining knowledge
• Operational well files
• Accurate well history and audit trails
• Rich commentary (metadata) about the data - the
  story about the numbers
• Management of well trading
• Knowing what was acquired

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Approach - Wave

• After a review of the marketplace, it was clear
  that existing tools could not meet all the
  business requirements.
• As part of the Info2000 initiative at BP, it was
  decided to build an e-business solution to meet
  all requirements.
• The web based tool Wave was subsequently
  developed to support both the short-term needs of
  the virtual team and long-term needs of the
  corporate information management environment.
• Wave is hosted remotely by a service provider, so
  no software needs to be installed enabling easy
  access for BP, its partners and service
  organisations.
• Wave is being used to support BP Norways 2001
  drilling programme

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How Wave works
Database(s)
Well Data Acquisition
Authority
EDMS
Items being tracked
Database, File System, Hardcopy repository
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How Wave works
Process Steps
Process Steps
Database(s)
Acquire
Well Data Acquisition
Authority
Publish
Report
EDMS
Interpret
Items being tracked
Database, File System, Hardcopy repository
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System Features
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Benefits

• Increased operational efficiency and reduction in
  business risk
• Wave is enabling BP to significantly reduce the
  amount of time spent tracking data and
  information items acquired during well drilling
• Process busts are being identified and rectified
  more quickly
• Barriers between information and people have been
  reduced, there is less reliance on individuals
  and spreadsheets.
• Knowledge is being recorded in context with the
  process enabling easy re-use in the future.
• Wave has supported the effective management of
  the data acquisition process, ensuring regulatory
  requirements are met.

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Challenges

• Behaviours
• Experience has shown it is difficult to get
  people to follow processes
• Management Support
• Senior Management must be committed to the
  approach and encourage the adoption of new
  practices
• Who owns (and pays for) lifecycle well
  information?
• Drilling
• Well Operations
• Information Management
• Asset team
• Wave needs to be configured correctly
• Processes, responsibilities and standards

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• Data Quality Improvement Programme at Shell Expro

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Shell Expro QIPs

• Shell Expro has embarked on a data quality
  improvement programme as part of the Discovery
  Project
• EP Portal
• common access to data and documents
• Corporate Standards
• navigation maps
• valid values for selection lists
• Data Quality Improvement Programme
• clean up 3000 wells
• distributed teams working on a common, repeated
  process
• need to capture knowledge
• publishing of key products into EDMS and
  technical databases

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Shell Expro QIPs
Process structure - same process repeated for
each well within a business area
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Summary

• Web-based approach to EP process tracking proven
  to enable distributed teams to collaborate
  effectively
• Management need to address related behavioural
  issues
• Solution is ideally delivered as a service
• What next? Combining process management with
  standards eg navigation mapsBuilding best
  practices Linking best practices with service
  catalogue
• Further details from
• Per Svela BP Norway 47 5201
  4545 svelap_at_bp.com
• Erik van Kuijk Shell Expro 44 1224
  882542 e.vankuijk_at_expro.shell.co.uk
• Graham Ayres Flare Consultants 44 1628 482750
  g.ayres_at_flare-consultants.com

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Summary

• Web-based approach to EP process tracking proven
  to enable distributed teams to collaborate
  effectively
• Management need to address related behavioural
  issues
• Solution is ideally delivered as a service
• What next? Combining process management with
  standards eg navigation mapsBuilding best
  practices Linking best practices with service
  catalogue
• Further details from
• Per Svela BP Norway 47 5201
  4545 svelap_at_bp.com
• Erik van Kuijk Shell Expro 44 1224
  882542 e.vankuijk_at_expro.shell.co.uk
• Graham Ayres Flare Consultants 44 1628 482750
  g.ayres_at_flare-consultants.com

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