Halliburton
opens Canada’s largest real time operations centre in
Calgary
Posted: 08 June 2004
Real time processes significantly reduce non-productive time,
cut planning cycle time and improve wellbore placement
Halliburton announced it has opened
Canada’s largest Real Time Operations Centre (RTOC) in Calgary.
Within the state-of-the-art facility, operations can be continuously
monitored, recognizing safety critical variables and guaranteeing
an immediate response to potential issues or opportunities through
just-in-time interventions.
“Halliburton is providing access to the latest technologies
and processes for managing well operations for our customers in
Canada,” said David Ackert, Canada regional vice president,
Halliburton’s Energy Services Group. “By enabling a
collaborative, real-time approach to their work processes, field
engineers and the office-based experts can improve decision quality
and reduce cycle time around all aspects of developing their oil
and gas reservoirs.”
Making the right planning decisions can drive the overall success
of well operations. Being able to monitor actual versus plan information
through real time processes within an RTOC environment is revolutionizing
the industry’s approach to drilling and completions. This
approach can significantly drive down non-productive time, while
improving wellbore placement reducing well planning cycle time.
Within this facility, engineers, petrophysicists and geoscientists
can manage and analyze disparate surface and sub-surface information,
including seismic and operations data. This environment has been
designed to integrate all of this information in a collaborative
setting to better support well planning, resulting in a significant
improvement in multi-disciplinary decisions and overall field knowledge.
“Canadian companies have to manage more operations on smaller
and in many cases more complex reservoirs. In addition, many companies
are challenged to get the right expertise to the problem at the
right time,” said Ackert. “We believe that this collaborative,
real time environment will have a tremendous impact for our customers
and will be unequalled in Canada.”
In addition, the RTOC incorporates the collective expertise, processes
and technologies from Halliburton to allow oil and gas companies
to monitor global multi-well drilling programs from a single location.
The RTOC is part of a larger Asset Management Centre where clients
will be invited to work their small or large scale assets. By deploying
the latest Linux clusters, Windows and Unix technologies, optimized
for processing, simulation and reservoir modeling within fully
immersive Decision Centres, the Canadian Asset Management Centre
will provide Canadian companies unprecedented capabilities for
managing their critical assets throughout their prospect generation,
drilling and completions and field development workflows, all the
time, integrated to field operations in real-time.
Halliburton, founded in 1919, is one of the world's largest providers
of products and services to the petroleum and energy industries.
The company serves its customers with a broad range of products
and services through its Energy Services and Engineering and Construction
Groups.
For more information see www.halliburton.com 
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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