The Hierarchy of Collaboration

Jakeman, Simon Victor John; Al-Azawi, Bahir; Alkarbi, Ahmed

doi:10.2118/172006-ms

Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference 2014

DOI: 10.2118/172006-ms

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The Hierarchy of Collaboration

Simon Victor John Jakeman

Bahir Al-Azawi

Ahmed Alkarbi

Abstract: Collaborative Work Environments provide seamless communications between disciplines and between teams in different locations. Traditionally they have been used to connect staff in remote locations to teams in the headquarters, allowing real time monitoring of the health of the field, and fast decision making on operational issues and short to medium term optimisation opportunities. The ultimate goal is to be quickly alerted to events and make smarter, faster decisions using the key capabilities available to th… Show more

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Improving Governance of Integrated Reservoir and Information Management Leveraging Business Process Management and Workflow Automation

Escorcia¹,

Mohan

Saputelli

2017

SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

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This paper illustrates strategies, methods, and techniques that have been successfully utilized to model and deploy collaborative solutions to help teams and individuals within and across companies execute business processes efficiently and consistently, whilst ensuring adherence to norms, standards and agreed guidelines for the benefits of shareholders and contractual parties. Cases are presented related to Integrated Reservoir Management, E&P Technical Information Management, and Surface Rights Management for O&G operations. Whilst some contextual aspects of information technology are mentioned in this paper, the focus rather lies in the aspects of value delivery through process governance, workflow automation efficiencies, process improvement, and reduction of time to learn how things must be done on a day to day basis by newcomers. Business process management (BPM) is a technique that brings efficiency and effectiveness to the execution of processes. Rather than replacing big systems, companies are looking at technologies that facilitate implementing operating processes on a workflow orchestration platform that establishes a controlled environment to execute defined activities efficiently. The convergence of business process modeling, business rules engines, process performance monitoring and human workflows has led to adoption of integrated systems leveraging BPM platform solutions. Wide market availability of BPM platform solutions makes possible chosing from diverse types of architecture, functionality, usability and integration capabilities to meet the information management requirements of an operating company. However, adherence to Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) and to data and integration standards, is critical to balance governance of processes with agility and flexibility to adapt workflows, especially in companies that require to scale-up workflows initially created for the needs of one functional or organizational area across and into others. Using standards is critical in cases where collaborative workflows require integration and interaction with data, calculations, and transactions performed in existing back office and/or Petrotechnical systems. Successful BPM implementations are those that become adopted by business users and create incremental value. This requires a systematic approach to process improvement opportunity identification, creating realistic business cases, defining and tracking process performance metrics, communicating value and strategic alignment lead by management, and effective management of change.

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Improving Governance of Integrated Reservoir and Information Management Leveraging Business Process Management and Workflow Automation

Escorcia¹,

Mohan

Saputelli

2017

SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

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Automated Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Integrated Reservoir Management IRM through Business Process Management BPM

Marzouqi

Saputelli

Abdou

et al. 2018

Day 4 Thu, November 15, 2018

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The objective of this work is to enable the collaboration of multiple disciplines in the performance reviews of reservoirs while establishing a culture of variance reduction and sustainable consistency in results delivery. This effort focuses on the performance management reviews of very large carbonate reservoirs where the number of wells and producing zones overwhelm engineers and organizations with data volume and complexity due to areal and vertical heterogeneity. A novel Reservoir Performance Review (RPR) solution has been implemented across various offshore reservoirs units. RPR initiates all asset activities during reservoir performance reviews and allows the tracking of actions over the life of the reservoir. RPR leverages data analytics to automatically compute reservoir health key performance indicators that allow prioritization of the technical work, extract and transform data from multiple data sources, deliver performance dashboards with diagnostic plot standardized across all assets and users providing an archive of information and knowledge from past reservoir performance reviews. RPR leverages business process management and integrated visualization to assist in the identification and recording of opportunities, risks and actions, while providing control and management of the business processes. The solution offers an innovative way to collaboratively gather, validate, analyze reservoir performance across the asset on a sustainable and cost-efficient manner while addressing more formal approval processes in order to garner approval or authorization for action. Some of the realized benefits include ensuring effectiveness in the execution of reservoir management, monitor variance between actual performance and expectation during the execution of projects; and ensure production sustainability and mitigate shortfalls proactively. RPR enabled the achievement of a consistent approach across all assets for all reservoir performance review processes, while improving efficiency through automation of data gathering and presentation and the identification of all underperforming reservoir, sectors and fields. Reservoir management excellence is achieved by delivering immediate value on the opportunities identified during performance reviews which ensure short term profitability while preserving long term goals. Typically, operators are satisfied by meeting targets within certain tolerance. RPR ensures that performance excellence is achieved by considering all technical and business aspects.

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Faster and Profitable Production Optimization Decisions through Workflow Automation and Business Process Management - A Unique Concept

Khan

Neaimi

Qamzi

et al. 2018

Day 4 Thu, November 15, 2018

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Operational efficiency improvement is a fundamental requirement and the continuous effort to achieve it is the inevitable need for any organization that targets profitable throughput in today's volatile market. Based on a study for a group of North American oilfields, in a typical mature oilfield, on an average 6% to 10% production deferments are caused by the process inefficiencies. Organizations continuously look for cost effective technologies that can facilitate implementing systematic operating procedures to maximize value of available resources and to provide a controlled environment for executing defined activities efficiently. Business process management (BPM) is a technique that brings in a governance mechanism to the efficient execution of processes. It uses various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business process to generate and track improvement actions. A typical project implementation involves a holistic review of the existing processes, identifications of the bottlenecks, mapping of the stakeholders and developing definitions for efficient corrective actions that enable closing system gaps. Early engagement with the stakeholders and an insightful management of change (MOC) are the key requisites of assuring the successful process roll out. Despite many industries, such as, medical and financial institutions, human capital management firms and logistics tracking system providers, have exploited the use of BPM and workflow automation to enhance their operation management capabilities, oil and gas industry still lags behind in capitalizing the benefits of this useful combination. This paper demonstrates the stepwise approach of implementing effective strategies, methods, and techniques to model and roll out collaborative solutions to help multi-disciplinary teams to execute business processes efficiently and consistently, whilst ensuring adherence to standards and agreed guidelines for maximizing efficiency and profitability. A real implementation case is presented, where a complex integrated production management and optimization system is managed leveraging workflow automation and BPM that has resulted in significant efficiency gain.

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Improving Governance of Integrated Reservoir and Information Management Leveraging Business Process Management and Workflow Automation

Improving Governance of Integrated Reservoir and Information Management Leveraging Business Process Management and Workflow Automation

Automated Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Integrated Reservoir Management IRM through Business Process Management BPM

Faster and Profitable Production Optimization Decisions through Workflow Automation and Business Process Management - A Unique Concept

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