POSC FALL CONFERENCE: Knowledge, Information & Data

Registration Information

October 15-16, 2002

Department of Trade and Industry

Conference Centre

1 Victoria Street

London SW1H 0ET

energy eStandards

The Fall 2002 Europe POSC Conference continued the focus on the benefits of the rapid creation, implementation and use of energy eStandards.

The overall theme of the conference was

"E&P Knowledge, Information and Data: Documents, Data Stores and Catalogues"

The first day was organized as a plenary conference with keynote speakers and a session on current POSC activities.

The second day featured two seminars:

* Wellsite Information Acquisition - jointly sponsored with the WITSML SIG, and

* E&P Products and Services Nomenclature and Classification - jointly sponsored with the API's Electronic Commerce Committee, PIDX.

The Fall 2002 POSC U.S. Conference & Annual Meeting was held on November 20-21 in Houston.

The Data Store Solutions SIG met for a working meeting on Thursday, October 17 in London.

09:00	Registration & Coffee
09:30	Paul Maton, POSC, "Welcome" Kjetil Tonstad, Statoil, Keynote presentation: "Effective Management of G&G Result Data" Najib Abusalbi, Schlumberger, "Product Plans and Deployment in Light of Industry Standards and Collaboration" Break Eric Toogood, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, "Future Value of DISKOS to the Norwegian E&P Industry" Dave Camden, Flare Consultants Ltd, "E&P Information Cataloging: Principles and Practice" Tony Fricko, IBM, "Web Services: From Content-Oriented Web to Transaction-Oriented Web"
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Hamish Wilson, Paras Consulting, "Use of the Internet to Manage Exploration Performance" Bjorn Thorsen, Landmark Graphics, "Corporate Data Store Solution - Practical Data Management" Richard Wylde, ExxonMobil, "P7/2000 The New International Standard for Well Deviation Data Exchange" Break Matthew Kirkman, BP, "Preview: Wellsite Information Seminar" Jerry Hubbard, OFS-Portal, "Preview: E&P Products and Services Seminar" David Archer, POSC, "POSC Activities: 2002 - 2003" Discussion and Summary
17:15	Adjourn
17:30 - 19:30	Reception, kindly sponsored by IBM, at the Old Monk, 61-72 Victoria Street, access from Strutton Ground (Click for Map).

Conference and Seminars
DTI - 1 Victoria Place
London, England
October 16

09:00	Registration & Coffee
09:30	Day 2 Introduction - David Archer, POSC
09:40	Wellsite Information Acquisition Seminar Oil Company Motivation, Activities, and Expectations of BP, Statoil, and Shell - Matthew Kirkman, BP (input & slides provided from Statoil & Shell) WITSML Products and Services Baker Hughes, John Shields Landmark/Halliburton, Fiona Duguid Schlumberger, Nigel Deeks WITSML Implementation in Shell, Linda Dodge, Shell WITSML Tutorial, Andy Sentance, Baker Hughes INTEQ Work Flows/Data Sources/Vocabulary XML Files Readers/Loaders, Servers Future Plans, Matthew Kirkman, BP and Alan Doniger, POSC
13:00	Lunch
14:00	E&P Products and Services Nomenclature and Classification Seminar Welcome, Jerry Hubbard, OFS Portal and Alan Doniger, POSC What is Being Done and By Whom? Where is this Relevant?, Jerry Hubbard Underlying and Unifying Concepts, Jerry Hubbard The API/PIDX Product and Service Classification Effort, Jerry Hubbard The First 1500 Approved Templates, Rob MacEwan, ChevronTexaco Anatomy of an Equipment Template, Rob MacEwan Opportunities for Industry Participation, Jerry Hubbard Open Discussion/Feedback, Jerry Hubbard and Alan Doniger
17:00	Conference Day 2 Wrap-Up, David Archer, POSC
17:15	Adjourn