Collaborative Work Environments in Smart Oil Fields

Abstract

In the last decade, oil companies are increasingly viewing collaborative work environments as an important component of their smart oil fields programs. Collaborative work environments (CWEs) have been implemented by several major oil companies, to support the use of technology in smart oil fields. The implementation of these collaborative work environments is not without problems. After major oil companies successfully implemented the hardware, tools and applications in CWEs, organizational design challenges remained unsolved. The biggest challenge is to change behavior of staff and to effectively integrate people across disciplinary boundaries. This chapter emphasizes the importance of the organizational aspect of CWEs in smart oil fields. The objective of this chapter is to provide the upstream petroleum industry with guidelines for the organizational design of the collaborative work environments, in support of the operation of smart oil fields. In order to provide the organizational design guidelines, a PhD research was conducted at three different operating units of a major oil company. This research focused on the business processes, organizational structure, and competencies of staff in the CWEs.

Sprint to the Finish Line: Value of Agile Methodology in Digital Oilfields

“…Collaborative Work Environments (CWEs) is a forum which is specifically created to integrate people, processes, technology, and facility for improved cross-functional and virtual collaboration, learning, and high-quality decision-making (Guldemond, 2011). Collaborative Work Environments (CWEs) is a forum which is specifically created to integrate people, processes, technology, and facility for improved cross-functional and virtual collaboration, learning, and high-quality decision-making (Guldemond, 2011).…”

“…CWEs are being implemented bu the petroleum industry to access data in order to enhance collaboration and decision-making between locations (Guldemond, 2013;Ven den Berg, 2007). The CWE wokspace is equipped with advanced hardware and software systems, like video-conferencing/ audio, mobile cameras, and computing devices to facilitate cross-functional collaboration (Philips et al, 2007;Vindasius, 2008;Guldemond, 2011). CWEs have been implemented to support the use of technology in digital oilfield settings.…”

Formation of the Organizational Structure of Managing a Large Project of Oil Field Development

“…To date, the issue of the formation of the organizational structure for managing complex, unique and large-scale projects, such as the development of an extra-viscous oil field, taking into account the particularities and conditions for the implementation of these projects, which largely affect their management effectiveness, as well as its evaluation, remains open. At the same time, the creation of an organizational management structure that optimally reflects the specifics of the implementation of projects for the development of new, unique oil fields can reduce the possible risks of the project [7], [16], contribute to its development, taking into account changes in the external and internal environment [2], [6], and also become the basis for the formation of structural and integration relations in the oil and gas supply chains [9], [18].…”