The IDS project - Intelligent Data Sets
EXPLOITATION OF RESULTS
Main Business Goal
Availability of product models for data sheets allows for substantial time/cost/quality benefits to collaborative business partners through more effective data exchange, smooth workflow, and optimum work process integration. These neutral models are a basis for integration and reuse of core data across applications and organizations.
A test facility promotes high information quality that is necessary for migration to new information exchange based collaborative work processes. The test facility shall also be used to evaluate prototype software interfaces and to validate data integration, data exchange, and completeness of product models. This facility can be used by any oil and gas company.
The project also addresses effective business process integration work processes optimisation in a highly-collaborative environment involving suppliers and operators. By developing a template for work process-to-work process interface design within and between organizations, business processes can be integrated and new work processes can be developed.
The project shall make technical data much more accessible for sharing and exchange across disciplines, organisations and geographical distances.
Innovation / New Results
The project will develop product models that include implicit data from data sheets. The project shall also demonstrate prototype software and test information exchange and the quality of the information being exchanged between applications.
The project shall define a methodology and templates for seamless work process-to-work process communication. In addition, a plan for migrating from current to “to be” work processes within an organization and between organizations for optimal use of product models shall be developed.
Plan for Using Research Results in Each Company
For Statoil, this project offers the possibility for better work flow and productivity benefits based on standardised product models that can be interfaced to Statoil’s SAP system. Statoil can also benefit by more effective exchange of data with contractors and suppliers. The risk to Statoil is the large amount work for product model development that is planned in this project.
DNV’s business is in quality, risk, reliability and safety services. For DNV, this project is part of a larger strategy to develop Information Quality Management (IQM) services. DNV would like to host the test facility. Furthermore, DNV would like to maintain a leading position in the development of standards for the oil and gas industry. The risk to DNV is that this project may cost more than budgeted.
ALCIM with its headquarters in Malaysia, and iXIT with its headquarters in Germany, are working as a team. ALCIM competency lies within the power industry. iXIT is interested in product structuring and development of equipment and automation product models. ALCIM and iXIT are interested in ISO standardization of the NORSOK product models. ALCIM is working with iXIT to use NORSOK data sheets in Malaysia and is hoping to also use these data sheets in the Middle East and China. The Far East and the Middle East are interested in using ISO standards. The risk to ALCIM and iXIT are the ISO standardization process, which may ask for modifications to the work done by this project.
Intergraph is based in the USA. The company has oil and gas clients and is interested in to develop an interface with Statoil’s SAP system.
Aveva is based in the UK and has over 1000 data sheets in their software system. The company has oil&gas clients and is interested in developing an interface to Statoil’s SAP.
The benefit for software vendors like Intergraph and Aveva are that this project aims to improve business processes as effective exchange based on standardised product descriptions offers value to participants by facilitating the migration to more efficient work processes and thereby increasing productivity. The risks for software vendors are unresolved legal and organizational factors at Statoil for automated information transfer and the possibility for new work processes between organizations.
For FMC this project provides the ability to develop product models for equipment. FMC is looking to increase its business efficiency in the monitoring, operation and maintenance phases. The risk to FMC is the ISO standardization process which may ask for modifications to the work done in this project.
Environmental Consequences
There are no hazardous environmental consequences of this project. If anything, this project will have positive environmental consequences by allowing operators to make quicker and more effective decisions.
Availability of an integration information platform for the offshore industry will potentially improve the HSE factors significantly as stated in the OLF’s report on e-Operation.
Other Benefits
The project will support two Ph. D. candidates from the University of Stavanger and will also provide the University of Stavanger an opportunity to work with industry to develop models and templates for new work processes.
The project will provide open information models and an international standard for use by the oil and gas industry.
Information Dissemination
OLF and PCA in cooperation with the other partners will arrange seminars and conferences for the oil and gas industry. ALCIM and iXIT are interested in using the project results in the Far East. Intergraph and Aveva are international companies interested in using the project results. Cooperation with FIATECH shall be used to promote project results in the USA. In addition, UiS will disseminate information through publication and presentation in national and international conferences.
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