KADME deployed Whereoil software in a major international oil company to help them access their data via OpenSpirit. The result is a single point of access to multiple sources of information from internal information sources, external data storage facilities, and national data repositories.

1. Whereoil/OpenSpirit Integration in
a Major Information Access Project
EAGE Vienna, 26th May 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011

2. The Challenge
Thursday, June 9, 2011

3. The Challenge
• The customer is a major international oil company with multiple office
locations worldwide.
• Access to the information distributed across locations and data silos is a
major challenge for the Head Office.
• Information is also available in the form of data subscriptions and external
data storage facilities such as National Data Repositories.
• The organization wanted a simple, fast, single point of access to those
multiple sources of information.
• The system should reduce the time spent to collect and assemble
information from different applications, databases and websites.
• The system should be accessed via a web based GIS front-end.
Thursday, June 9, 2011

4. The Challenge
• The customer is a major international oil company with multiple office
locations worldwide.
• Access to the information distributed across locations and data silos is a
major challenge for the Head Office.
• Information is also available in the form of data subscriptions and external
data storage facilities such as National Data Repositories.
• The organization wanted a simple, fast, single point of access to those
multiple sources of information.
• The system should reduce the time spent to collect and assemble
information from different applications, databases and websites.
• The system should be accessed via a web based GIS front-end.
Simple
Thursday, June 9, 2011

5. The Challenge
• The customer is a major international oil company with multiple office
locations worldwide.
• Access to the information distributed across locations and data silos is a
major challenge for the Head Office.
• Information is also available in the form of data subscriptions and external
data storage facilities such as National Data Repositories.
• The organization wanted a simple, fast, single point of access to those
multiple sources of information.
• The system should reduce the time spent to collect and assemble
information from different applications, databases and websites.
• The system should be accessed via a web based GIS front-end.
Simple Fast
Thursday, June 9, 2011

6. The Challenge
• The customer is a major international oil company with multiple office
locations worldwide.
• Access to the information distributed across locations and data silos is a
major challenge for the Head Office.
• Information is also available in the form of data subscriptions and external
data storage facilities such as National Data Repositories.
• The organization wanted a simple, fast, single point of access to those
multiple sources of information.
• The system should reduce the time spent to collect and assemble
information from different applications, databases and websites.
• The system should be accessed via a web based GIS front-end.
Simple Fast Affordable
Thursday, June 9, 2011

7. The Challenge
• The customer is a major international oil company with multiple office
locations worldwide.
• Access to the information distributed across locations and data silos is a
major challenge for the Head Office.
• Information is also available in the form of data subscriptions and external
data storage facilities such as National Data Repositories.
• The organization wanted a simple, fast, single point of access to those
multiple sources of information.
• The system should reduce the time spent to collect and assemble
information from different applications, databases and websites.
• The system should be accessed via a web based GIS front-end.
Simple Fast Affordable Comprehensive
Thursday, June 9, 2011

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10. Information access scenario
send data to map
send data to search
Whereoil
GIS portal
Search
Corporate
Geodatabase Whereoil server
(ArcSDE)
Corporate
OpenSpirit OpenWells
DB
NPD DEAL
Task
Management IHS GEUS
OpenWorks OpenWorks Petrel
application
R2300 R5000
Petrobank News
internal data external data
Thursday, June 9, 2011

11. OpenWorks/SeisWorks Crawler
• Metadata contained within an Openworks / Seisworks data repository is scanned
and then crawled for inclusion into Whereoil. The metadata extraction process is
performed using the Openspirit API
• The following Openspirit Data Model types are supported: Project, Well,
WellBore, WellPick, WellVelocity, WellLogTrace, LineGeometry2d,
SeismicGeometry3d, PostStack3d, PostStack2d
• Scanning can be a processor and time-consuming exercise, hence the need for
an “updated only” scan. Scan commands must be executed as a user with
suitable access permissions to the Openworks / Seisworks data repository.
• Therefore we created two Whereoil tools for metadata extraction:
• A Scan tool that undertakes full metadata extraction from a specified Openspirit DataSource
• An Update tool that only extracts metadata modified within a specified time interval
Thursday, June 9, 2011

12. OpenSpirit data sources and the rest
Thursday, June 9, 2011

13. Entitlement management in OpenWorks/
SeisWorks
• OpenSpirit is normally used at runtime with a named user, so this particular
use in this project (check with Igor)
• As Openworks metadata is not available for public access, users must be
granted a minimum of "browse" level access to view data. User access is
configured on a User/Project basis in Openworks.
• The Whereoil Crawler is setting the corresponding access rights for each
extracted record during the crawling phase.
• Individual entitlement properties determine record filtering during querying in
Whereoil Search.
• To preserve in Whereoil the user access level defined in Seisworks, data
entitlements are extracted from the plist.* text files in the user profile directory.
Thursday, June 9, 2011

14. Using the OpenSpirit API
• To maintain OpenWorks spatial data in the GIS portal, the OpenSpirit Scan Utility
was used to convert datatypes to features that can be stored in ArcSDE.
• This data spatialization process is both time and process intensive. As the Scan
Utility does not handle selective updating, the need for a batch updating process
that only processes changes is of the highest importance.
• This was achieved using a utility developed by Kadme, called SCANXML. The
utility determines updated datasource files and generates Scan Utility xml
configuration files.
• The Scan Utility is then run in batch mode, invoked selectively with the xml
configuration files created by SCANXML to update the ArcSDE datastore and
ensuring updated features can be displayed on the GIS portal.
• We understand that this type of functionality will be included in the next release of
the Scan Utility.
Thursday, June 9, 2011

15. Integration with the GIS portal
Send to map
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16. Global Rollout
send data to map
send data to search
Whereoil
GIS portal
Search
Corporate
Geodatabase Whereoil server
(ArcSDE)
ync
Da ta s
Whereoil server Corporate
SDE OpenSpirit OpenWells
DB
NPD DEAL
Task
Data
Management
Petrel
IHS GEUS sync
OpenWorks OpenWorks application
OpenSpirit R2300 R5000
Petrobank News
internal data external data
SDE Whereoil server
Data sync
OpenSpirit
SDE Whereoil server
OpenSpirit
Thursday, June 9, 2011

17. Future Developments
• Possible new connectors for other OpenSpirit enabled data sources
• Use of OpenSpirit’s Enterprise Service Bus
• To support exchange of events between Whereoil and OpenSpirit-enabled
applications, applied for OpenSpirit-enabled data sources.
• Run Time access to applications
• Data transfer workflows
Thursday, June 9, 2011

18. Thanks!
For more info about Whereoil, please visit:
http://www.kadme.com/solutions/whereoil/
You can see a short video demonstration of Whereoil at:
http://www.kadme.com/solutions/whereoil/whereoil-demo-video/
KADME is booth number 1591
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