Shell Expro, CDA, the DTI, and POSC hosted this workshop for about thirty participants. The focus of the workshop was to review the results of portions of Shell Expro's Discovery Programme and to determine what steps the industry might take to build collaboratively on these results.
Shell invited oil company, regulator, and standards organization representatives to the workshop. The Discovery Programme produced a uniform framework for access to information. Shell is interested in sharing these results with industry and encouraged the attendees to consider implementation pilot projects within companies, among companies, among trading groups, etc. to test and expand on the results and to validate what may become industry standards and best practices hosted by POSC.
The objectives of the workshop were to introduce the Discovery Programme, to summarize the generic problems that were addressed, to share the thought processes from Discovery, to consider generic solutions, to look at generic standards that underpin the results, and to examine the feasibility of a shared way forward.
Shell Expro asked POSC to post the workshop material on the POSC Web site for reference by the workshop attendees and others. This material can be accessed through the links embedded in the following outline:
the agenda (26 KB)
the presentations
Introduction (PowerPoint, 366 KB)
The future (PowerPoint, 5.2 MB)
Where we came from (PowerPoint, 1,8 MB) and basic models (PowerPoint, 444 KB)
Where are now (demonstration)
Standards (PowerPoint, 508 KB) and conventions overview (PowerPoint, 314 KB)
Discovery standards spreadsheet (Excel, 69 KB)
Business case (PowerPoint, 110 KB), POSC's remarks (PowerPoint, 318 KB), and using the Discovery standards (PowerPoint, 85 KB)
Wrap-up and next steps (discussion)
other documents
Shell Expro Generic Attribute Set (Word, 167 KB)
Shell Expro Generic Product Types (Excel, 341 KB)
Workshop Attendee Addresses (Excel, 20 KB)
Entropy Video (AVI, 323 MB)
Workshop Invitation (Word, 72 KB)
Standards Example Spreadsheet (Excel, 69 KB)
CD-ROM Label (PowerPoint, 63 KB)
The material from this workshop may be used by the attendees of the Workshop only if Shell Expro is recognised as the source. The main purpose of this material is to stimulate the discussions concerning E&P standards and conventions.
Please direct comments and questions about this workshop and material to Alan Doniger (Doniger@POSC.org), Paul Maton (maton@posc.org), or Erik van Kuijk (e.vanKuijk@expro.shell.co.uk).