IPv6 Seen From Statoil: Knut Sebastian Tungland, Chief Engineer Information Technology, Statoil IKT-Norge IPv6 forum IPV6 konferanse 23 & 24 mai 2011

1. IP6 seen from Statoil
Knut Sebastian Tungland
Chief Engineer for Information Technology
Statoil ASA

2. Who we are
• Energy company present in 34 countries with 20,000 employees
• Produced 1.96 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day in 2009 (equity
production)
• About 22 billion boe in proven resources (5.4 billion as booked reserves)
• One of the world’s largest net sellers of crude oil
• The world's largest operator in waters deeper than 100 metres
• World leader in carbon storage
• The second largest exporter of gas to Europe

3. Our strategy
Deep water
Maintain NCS
production level
Heavy oil
International growth
Stepwise develop
profitable renewable Gas value chains
energy
Harsh environments
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4. The IT investments are driven by the
exploration, operations and collaboration
ambitions
Exploration Ambitions Operations and Collaboration
• Seismic imaging and interpretation are essential • Integrated operations – real-time communication
for prioritising new opportunities for efficient interaction between experts and
decision-makers, regardless of location
• High Performance Computing (HPC) is essential
for exploration success in sub-salt and other • Improved capability to collaborate and share
geologically complex areas information across the value chain and across
locations to support Statoil’s international growth

5. Why IPv6? – same reasons as everybody else
• Global IPv4 address depletion – some time in 2012
− Ex. http://ipv4.potaroo.net
− Asia to face the biggest challenge over the next years
• Increased mobile connectivity worldwide
• Anywhere, Anytime access for Everything
• New applications developed for IPv6 only
• Protocol enhancements for security, mobility, QoS and performance
• Future end-to-end IP transparency - no NAT and no disjoint IP routing (home,
office, extranet, Internet)
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6. A global IT infrastructure supporting local
needs
• IT infrastructure is transparent and support
global business processes in terms of
− Local needs
− Need to be “self-contained”
− Optimized performance
− Compliance
− Need to scale and adapt as business
change
• Utilize global marked for IT services

7. Subsea data management:
integrated fiber optic subsea system
Riserless light well
intervention
Permanent ocean Monobore drilling
bottom seismic
Environmental
monitoring
Integrated fiber optic
Subsea
System compression
Integrated subsea and seperation
control modules
Subsea injection of raw
Downhole sea water
Multi lateral monitoring
wells and control
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9. Teredo Tunnel
• wikipedia.org •
…is a
transition
technology that
gives full IPv6
connectivity for
IPv6-capable
hosts which are on
the IPv4

10. Implemention - 1
• We have provider independent IPv6 address-space
• IPv6 has been running in our LAB environment for 2 years (isolated LAN, FW and
Internet-access using PA addresses)
• IPv6 is running on all backbone routers in Norway
• IPv6 is running in part of the IT department network
− Some users have been moved to test servers (home disk)
− One of LAB proxies is enabled to support IPv6
− Working on LoadBalancers to be able to support a IPv6 frontend without
changing the IPv4 server backend

11. Implementation - 2
• We are done testing. Todo:
− Decide how to do DNS
− Decide how to do DHCP. Stateless, Statefull of both?
− Enable IPv6 on production server VLAN’s
− Enable IPv6 on production Internet FW’s
− IPv6 support in our global and local Managed Service networks (managed
MPLS-VPN)
− Everywhere (LAN and WLAN)

12. Thank you