WIME (Well Information Mapping Into Epicentre)

Sponsor: Statoil

Participant(s): Baker Hughes Inteq, British Petroleum, Landmark, Marathon, Mobil, Saga, Schlumberger/GeoQuest, Sysdrill

Purpose: The purpose of this endeavour is to define standards for the electronic representation of drilling and well operations which, when implemented in computer software products, will reduce the costs of drilling, increase the effectiveness of communication, allow more effective analysis of drilling information, and enable faster decisions which take into account the geoscience and drilling engineering aspects of the drilling business. The following are the objectives of the WIME project:

• Activity Model — standard representations of all activities performed on a well throughout its lifecycle, including design, construction, testing, maintenance and abandonment. Production itself is not in scope, but activities performed on the well during the production phase, such as workovers, are included. Of concern is the overall optimisation of well economics throughout its lifecycle. The planning, scheduling and recording of activities is within scope. Drilling and completion is high priority, workover is medium priority, and mobilise, site preparation and plug and abandon are low priority.
• Epicentre Validation — Identify and implement enhancements required for POSC's Epicentre model to meet drilling and well operations business needs
• Business Case Evaluation — research and develop benefits, produce business case for migration and gain the commitment of operating companies
• Time Dependent Data Analysis — investigate the current and planned usage of time related data and analyze implications for the model

Focus: Activity coding schemes have typically been proprietary and designed to provide a specific company view. New technology, partnership agreements and the requirement for enhanced benchmarking has increased the demand for sharing of information between operators, service providers and regulatory bodies. In this environment, proprietary schemes with locally, or poorly, defined definitions become untenable. With little or no world-wide industry definition of activities, comparison between partner, regulatory body and even internal legacy systems becomes invalid due to differing definitions in each corporate system.

The main objective of the WIME project is to reach an industry wide consensus on well operations activity codes and implement these codes in a standard data model such as POSC's Epicentre. This will enable better distribution of important data between disciplines, between partners and companies, and within the organization.

Further, WIME wishes to focus on time based data. Traditionally data is being stored with depth as the primary key, more rarely time based data. Analysis of real time data will be an important step towards a continuous improvement of how we carry out our operations, to improve efficiency and thus reduce costs, and to improve safety. Much of the data is already there, but is not being utilized the way it could be provided the right tools were available.

It does not make sense for E&P companies to compete in the development of standards. Sustainable competitive edge can only be gained through their early adoption by IT suppliers, and through innovative use by the business of the resulting products and services. WIME therefore wishes to invite the oil companies to take part in this important work of making the framework for improved use of the data we already have, but not able to utilize fully - and the data we currently don't have, but will be required.

Status:

• Data Model Requirements Published Mid-1997 -- Submitted to POSC and POSC/CAESAR
• Activity Type Snapshot Published End-1997
• Currently Active

Contact:

During the WIME project, the activity information will be disseminated electronically on the WIME Web site (http://www.essence.co.uk/essence/WIME).

There is a WIME e-mail exploder (wime@posc.org)

Rolf Rolfson
Statoil
Forusbeen 50
N-4035 Stavanger
Norway
+47 51 809723 Phone
+47 51 804360 Fax
roro@statoil.no

or

Nigel Goodwin
Essence Associates Ltd.
Southbank House, Black Prince Road
London SE1 7SU
United Kingdom
+44 171 793 4150 Phone
+44 171 793 4150 Fax
goodwin@essence.co.uk
http://www.essence.co.uk/essence/

POSC Contact:

James C. Brannigan
brannigan@posc.org

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