Brave New World of the Digital Age at IE 2006
Posted: 03 October 2005
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The digital age has opened up a brave new world of solutions for the oil and gas industry, with fresh advances set to take the E&P sector to a new level in terms of technologies and working practices.
The new biennial technology conference and exhibition event Intelligent Energy 2006 – Oil & Gas Pr oduction In A Digital Age – will take place in Amsterdam next April, and its aim is to highlight how the E&P industry is already embracing this paradigm shift and the possibilities that lie ahead as it takes these groundbreaking concepts further forward.
According to John Darley, Chairman of the Executive Committee for IE 2006 and Director of E&P Technology for Shell International E&P: “Intelligent Energy is about technology-led business improvement, and discussing the next paradigm, not only in technology, but potentially our working practices within the E&P sector. IE will open discussion on the design and implementation of solutions that optimise the performance of core EP processes such as drilling, field development, production optimisation and reservoir management, enabling new ways of operating and managing EP assets or value chains, both locally and globally, and challenge the reasons for resistance to change.”
Industry Facing Major Challenge
Mr Darley pointed out that the event has been born from the understanding that it has been “a constant challenge for the oil and gas industry to remain agile in the face of growing commercial pressures, increasing worldwide demands and increasingly hostile and marginal environments”. Technological advance, innovation and adaptation, he said, have remained at the forefront of this drive to operate better, faster and far more cost-effectively.
He added: “The practical and cultural challenges are such that almost completely revolutionary ways of managing mature reserves and exploring increasingly difficult environments have to be found. The goal is integration and implementation of new solutions against old challenges and obstacles throughout every phase of the resource life cycle. We quite simply have all had to start becoming more intelligent in the way we do things.”
Intelligent Energy – the three big questions
IE 2006’s programme will be created by a conference committee chaired by Pieter Kapteijn of Shell International E&P. He said: “The time is right to take stock of these fascinating developments, share ideas on their application and business value as well as to explore how the industry can accelerate and support their rapid deployment. Through a series of panel discussions and technical sessions we plan to bring in global perspectives both from our own and other industries to help us understand the technical and management issues involved.”
The programme will address three very significant questions:
- What has been achieved so far and what can we learn from it?
- What would be possible if we take these concepts even further?
- How do we manage the required changes at project, business and industry level, to realise the full benefits?
Mr Darley added that the digital age “has opened up a whole world of technologies and solutions that have already been implemented to a degree within the oil and gas industry”.
As such, the event’s executive and programme committees have representatives in place from both the oil and IT sectors to help lead the direction of this cutting edge event. “It is mine and my esteemed colleagues’ goal, through detailed technical and plenary sessions and the opportunity to see these technologies first-hand, to provide conference delegates and exhibition visitors alike with a motivating and valuable insight into the future of the global oil industry,” he declared.
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