The paper describes some simple, but effective steps in providing drilling and completions data and visualisation in support of enhanced collaboration whilst allowing for future growth. The solution is based on WITSML and is implemented in the Operator's Advanced Collaborative Environment (ACE) in Aberdeen.The transmission of large amounts of data onshore, from the rig is a relatively easy task but ensuring that these data are accurate and usable in both industry and proprietary tools is more of a challenge. The services provided by the major service companies are still geared towards providing data through their proprietary data packages and tools and the support they provide has been honed to match this business model. This situation is changing because of operators' needs for technical and commercial flexibility.Since January 2008, seven rig teams have adopted a new data viewer provided by an independent supplier. The shift has been user driven, prompted by a desire for consistency and the availability of dedicated on-site support. The use of proprietary tools and the greater sharing of data between the drilling and completions and subsurface disciplines is also driving the change, challenging set methods of data capture, communication and visualisation. The data displays in open areas have proved to be particularly popular and effective.Further work is needed to improve internal service levels out of normal working hours and achieve greater alignment with the service providers to leverage existing infrastructure, practices and expertise and avoid unwanted complexity and cost. Robustness will become increasingly important as more critical services are delivered from onshore. Greater standardisation will help. Contract interfaces, both with main service providers and sub-providers still represent a major challenge.The paper describes the data viewer and its deployment, the progress and successes to date and the further improvements required. Overall, team's attitude towards their data is changing and the real issue is getting teams to their data.

BP is looking to implement a standard data architecture for real-time drilling & completions information. This will enable us to make wider use of our collaboration centres through a common approach and will allow us to leverage the developing WITSML standard more effectively in our operations. BP uses many different service organisations to deliver its global drilling & completions agenda. In the past, this has resulted in a lack of standardisation in real-time information flow. We have been unable to share data and expertise readily between different operating centres. Applying a common approach to information access on a global basis will enable us to streamline our operations and make wider use of emerging collaboration technologies. WITSML is now finding greater uptake in our industry and we are seeing new compliant intelligent software tools emerging from different vendors. These will undoubtedly enable us to drill and complete smarter but we need a standard information infrastructure to deploy them widely and consistently. It is these smart tools that will ultimately deliver real value to oil companies. The adoption of a standard D&C information architecture may seem an obvious step but there are very few oil companies that can claim to have delivered it. WITSML is the vehicle to allow this to happen and over the next few years it is likely that there will be much more emphasis on open connectivity between different vendors and services supporting the drilling & completions functions. 1. Introduction The rapid development of digital technology is touching all disciplines in the oil industry and is providing exciting new opportunities and capabilities in areas such as automation, remote monitoring, simulation and enhanced visualisation. In terms of capital employed in digital technology, there can be few functional areas that have the potential to deliver a higher return on investment than drilling and completions due to the sheer magnitude of today's operational costs. A saving of at least a few percent in non-productive time should be readily achievable for most oilfield operators and service companies with more effective use of real-time data to improve operational efficiency and the productivity of scarce, highly qualified discipline specialists. Data capture from drilling rigs has for a long time been the responsibility of the service contractors (typically the MWD/LWD contractors). Their task has been to monitor information real-time on the rig and increasingly at remote onshore data centres. The oil company has generally had the option to have a real-time WITSML feed from the service contractors' data centres and has been able to monitor offshore operations using a proprietary real-time viewer. Typically, at the end of the drilling and completions operation, the oil company is supplied with an archive of the real-time information on a portable media such as tape or CD-ROM. How effectively this information is then used varies widely across the industry. When this approach was first introduced, it was excellent as it represented a significant step forwards from paper logs and other manually gathered data. However, with the expansion of the digital world, the demand for information has grown significantly and a number of opportunities now exist to make better use of real-time information:-Remote operation and support at oil company collaboration centres.Smart algorithms to improve operational efficiency.A greater desire to capture lessons learned and to influence future operations.Integration of all data sources from the rig including MWD/LWD, weather, anchor, positional, etc.

An increasing proportion of oil and gas production comes from the technically-challenging, deep-water/offshore environment, where drilling and completions teams continue to focus on enhancing safety and operational integrity and where the costs of non-productive time during well construction can be quite significant. BP identified opportunities to address these three issues through extending its use of real-time data and launched the BP Well Advisor (BPWA) Project to develop and deploy this technology to aid in further enhancing drilling performance. This paper will share the lessons that the company has learned from this project and provide an introduction to the range of functionality within the technical solutions currently being developed and deployed. It will also discuss how the company and its project collaborators have worked together to deliver the well advisor as a solution package inclusive of the underlying technology, business transformation processes, solution deployment, training and support. This approach has been a key component of the project's success to date and has built a solid platform to support its planned future activities. The objective of the well adviosr project is to facilitate the management and exploitation of real-time data. The system being developed integrates this real-time data with other predictive tools and processes to support delivery of the right information, in the right place at the right time. This helps the operational teams to make timely and well-informed decisions as they work to deliver safe and reliable wells. The project's key areas of operational focus are enhancing operational safety, improving well construction efficiency and life of well reliability. The well advisor project has demonstrated success in helping the company to enhance all three areas of operational performance listed above, and efforts are ongoing to expand the system's technical capabilities and regional deployments globally. One highlight of the project to date has been its successful application to casing running where over 291 casing/liner strings in 4 major regions have now been run without a stuck pipe incident. This success alone is estimated to have saved over 250 days of non-productive time (NPT) based on historical data associated with stuck casing incidents prior to its introduction. Other functionality being deployed monitors cement placement, blow-out preventer (BOP) health, pressure tests and rigsite fluid management. This paper will conclude with a summary of operational performance benefits derived to date from the implementation of the well advisor and give a preview of new functionality being considered for potential future deployments.

The Tangguh Project in West Papua Province, Indonesia represents significant challenges in terms of drilling conditions, extreme remoteness, and social and environmental sensitivity. The Tangguh Drilling "Advanced Collaborative Environment" (ACE) was designed to enhance drilling performance and safety. Very positive results were achieved within the first months of the drilling operation. This paper describes the design approach, implementation and subsequent operational experience of the Tangguh Drilling ACE. A number of features of this ACE have since become exemplars for BP's drilling operations globally.The two-rig Tangguh development drilling campaign of 15 wells faced particularly difficult challenges with total losses, high vibration and the extreme remoteness of a location two timezones ahead of the office. To enhance drilling performance, an ACE was developed based on BP's global design principles covering people, process, technology, physical environment and organisation. The ACE connects each rigsite drilling team to the BP office in Jakarta and the onshore supply base. Real time drilling data in WITSML (Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language) format and high quality video conferencing were essential components to support the Wellsite Leader in the execution of the drilling plan.Tangguh drilling commenced in May 2007 with a successful 10 months of field operations. The Wells Manager attributed a significant part of this success to ACE and associated working practices. The drilling ACE made a significant contribution towards reducing the recovery period from major non-productive time incidents and has promoted better connectivity between rigsite and office. This has improved teamwork and the sharing of information. It is consistent with BP's goal for Field of the Future™, "Better Decisions Faster".Critical to the success of the ACE was engagement and ownership by the Wellsite Leaders and drilling operations management. Significant organisational and interface challenges were overcome, including applying vendor neutral data standards between different service companies. This was a first for Indonesia. A number of other firsts were achieved also:-• First BP drilling ACE designed specifically for performance enhancement.• First BP multi-rig drilling ACE.• First drilling ACE in BP using full time high quality video conferencing over satellite and wireless broadband.

Most of the existing drilling and completions engineering applications in use today were designed to compute snapshots at a single point in time for one user, rather than presenting the acceptable operating envelope and its associated constraints over time and supporting interaction of multi-disciplinary teams in collaborative environments. The massive increase in data now available from real time sensors can make identification of critical factors more difficult and can hinder, rather than enhance the decision making capability and response to alarm conditions. Currently, interaction between individual team members is cumbersome and it takes place outside the applications. Teams are increasingly multi-cultural, which places additional demands on the human-computer interface and cultural and linguistic preferences need to be considered, particularly where collaboration centres span international boundaries. The applications are also part of a growing portfolio, including office and knowledge management tools. Their usefulness and efficiency depends on successful integration. In turn, this depends critically on standards. The working practices emerging from the use of these environments means the earlier applications are no longer optimised for the circumstances in which they are to be used. The paper contains a discussion of these changes and the new functionality required of the applications using a popular model in industrial psychology. It draws on practices from other industries, observations in collaborative environments and other, earlier work within our own industry that appeared before their time. It is concluded that new applications are needed for this new era and that some may bear more resemblance to gaming software than raw calculating engines. It also concludes that a number of the constraints may be self-imposed, by our failure to keep pace with the rapid and continuing developments in information and communications technology and the business models developed for the virtual world. Introduction Observations of working practices and technologies may highlight factors that if addressed, would greatly enhance their effectiveness. In some cases early recognition of these factors may be critical to the project's success. In the 1980's efforts to implement collaboration centres were hampered by inadequate attention to human factors and immature technologies1. Now, variations of these centres are in common use in both operator and service company offices worldwide. Even if successful, it is normal for these limiting factors to change over time. As weaknesses or opportunities are identified and addressed, capabilities leap-frog each other leaving another aspect at the bottom of the pile and so the cycle continues. In some cases second generation centres have already been constructed, incorporating lessons learned from the first attempt2 and we see this cycle applies to drilling collaboration centres too. Observations over the last seven years in drilling collaboration centres in Norway and Aberdeen suggest the emphasis is now changing. Whilst human factors are still key3, in established centres greater attention is now being directed towards the technology and tools and how they are used.