The document discusses how IBM Rational engineering solutions can help oil and gas companies enhance upstream engineering to deliver smarter oilfield operations. Case studies show how standardized requirements management, knowledge sharing across teams, predictive analytics, and reusable engineering assets can increase productivity, quality, and decision-making while reducing costs and risks. The solutions aim to improve engineering collaboration, governance, and the development of digital and software systems for intelligent oilfield solutions.

1. Presented by: Derek Newton
derek_newton@uk.ibm.com
07966 265055
@DesNewtron
Smarter Oil and Gas
Enhance upstream engineering
Technical Solutions from IBM Rational
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Introduction
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New technology is transforming how oilfields operate. While the concept of the
Smarter Oilfield has been around for some time, what this model means and how it
works is changing, so are the results;
• Increasing productivity
• More oil recovered from each field
• Lower costs and reduced risks to health, safety and the environment.
But how do Engineering Project Managers and Engineers deliver on this world
class best practice to realise the vision and drive engineering excellence?
We will highlight a selection of case studies which show IBM Rational
bringing value to day to day engineering operations
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Dramatic forces across the industry require new approaches to
improve engineering sustainability.
IBM see ‘front-end’ project management needing to use innovative technologies around world-class
engineering best practices to consistently deliver major projects successfully, safely and sustainably.
Today Oil and Gas engineering project management needs to navigate around eco systems of partnering
arrangements both internally and externally that produce significant cost savings, faster project delivery and
greater long-term value with secured safety and quality that keeps the reputation of the organisation in state.
Engineering Requirements and Design Governance over Project Capital and
Review Management securing the collaboration operating expense to assess economic
of design requirements across the engineering viability of assets
ecosystem
Aligning Risk and Compliance
A changing and global workforce requires regulations into the understanding of all
increased productivity and knowledge asset project design requirements
transfer across the engineering team
Limiting Environmental impacts with
Repeatable Engineering Project asset governed engineering design reviews
providing opportunities to capture and re-use
engineering project artifacts across the global Digital Engineering creating
team intelligence into the future Oil Field that
requires interlocking systems and
software technology
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Case Study 1 aims to integrate and standardise engineering requirements
processes across the development team ecosystem to increase design
quality in upstream engineering projects.
Integrated and standardised
engineering requirements
processes across
offshore sub
sea
technologies
Interlocking project
management design reviews
across the eco-system
Improved Business problem: The company’s future strategy for increased off shore sub
quality and sea drilling in extreme environments needs a sustained design with the highest
level of engineering quality.
removed risk Solution: Develop an integrated requirements management framework, based on
By enforcing the design quality industry standards, through collaboration across a broad ecosystem of in-house
of the big interlocking picture of development teams, external partners, suppliers and contractors
the complete offering
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Case Study 2 expanded their re-use of knowledge management base
across a global team and created a culture of sharing
Looking to bring in a new
culture to the global team by
Re-use of
knowledge.
Increasing global collaboration of re-
using engineering knowledge assets
with an easy search and retrieve
technology solution
Increased Business problem: The company had a wealth of Engineering information and
productivity knowledge, but it was kept in too many different places. They needed to create a
one-stop shop for knowledge assets, where their staff could find what they needed
easily and re-use what th had.”
in engineering operations
across a global team and Solution: Creation of a group to catalogue, organise, use, reuse, manage and
transferred knowledge across report on all types of information asset across the enterprise. That solution allows
the workforce the company to manage their data as true, valuable assets. They could define
ownership of those assets, relate assets to one another easily and provide a
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Case Study 3 illustrates how engineering insight and governance can
improve decision making around critical key performance indicators
Supported project management
decision through
predictive
insight,
by capturing real time data into
dashboards that are aligned around
Key Performance Indicators for
Engineering project management Business problem: Global distributed development teams working in a portfolio
Improved roadmap of projects. Visibility of project data was scattered around multiple
repositores, databases and tools. Project predictibility was through educated
guesswork based upon old historic data rather than fact based decisions.
decision Accuracy of the decisions was not best in class and often lacked resilience under
scrutiny.
making Solution: to build a business command center around the portfolio of
development projects that mapped against specific key performance indicators
To support accurate control of and measurement metrics. Dash board views were defined with real time data
capital project expenditure filtering into the cockpits from project execution repositories.
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Case Study 4 builds their maturity in the digital era of systems of systems
and software engineering for the oil fields of the future
Increased the maturity of the
digital engineering processes and
skills.
Developing
intelligence,
by introducing systems of systems
engineering and software
development best practices.
Business problem: Increase control over software and systems development
processes to avoid risks and minimise the costs of a complex project to design
Improved and deploy a large-scale monitoring system.
quality Solution: Our solution provided the client with a full-scale process-improvement
initiative that helps teams of geographically dispersed engineers collaborate
supporting engineers with the right efficiently and enable project leads to maintain control over the requirements
traceability, test cases, configuration assets and changes. Software application
tooling infrastructure to create lifecycle management tools provided reduced risks and controlled the costs of the
intelligent solutions for the industry systems development lifecycle.
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Case Study 5 demonstrates how re-use of engineering assets can provide
a major input into repeatable engineering projects.
Re-usable assets
Supported project management
through
repeatability
of engineering
content,
Project A Project B
by capturing specific re-usable
component structures, interlocking
requirement, models and artifacts
Business problem: Large global projects consist of huge amounts of engineering
that can be easily found and re-used assets (artifacts) that have been developed, tested and deployed. New
Improved requirements for new projects often miss the potential savings of re-using already
configured components in new designs.
productivity, Solution: building an intelligent engineering solution that helps engineering team
members find, query, and navigate assets (artifacts) and relationships distributed
quality, cost across different tools. Provides the ability to manage baselines of assets (artifacts)
and organise information about project/product releases, project/product lines, and
and secured timelines by being able project/products variants
to access engineering design data
in an easy and structured way.
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IBM Engineering Project Excellence Solutions
Provides technology and best practices for an enterprise-wide collaboration which
enables greater operational excellence for upstream engineering activities.
Management
Engineering Design
Enables you to
Requirements Requirements
across the Eco-
Mgt
system (ISO 19900)
• Increase engineering collaboration across
internal and external teams
Engineering • Reduce cost and risk by increased design
Knowledge
Asset Re-use Project Mgt quality
Excellence
• Standardisation • Create agility to re-use project and
Creating reusable
Repeatable re-use of
• Convergence knowledge assets and
knowledge assets across a global team
engineering project
assets (ISO 15926) • Collaboration sharing them across
the global team • Aggregate engineering project mgt
Digital Project information across multiple activities for
Engineering Governance
increased governance and control
Managing the Real-Time • Improve overall productivity, cost and
technology project analytics quality of engineering projects
development of tracking
automation,
monitoring &
control systems
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Useful Links
Smarter Oil and Gas
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/oil_exploration/ideas/
Smarter Oilfields make dollars and sense
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/oilfields/042307/index.shtml
Requirements engineering for complex systems
https://jazz.net/products/rational-doors/
LinkedIN - Smarter Chemicals and Petroleum Community
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Smarter-Chemicals-Petroleum-Community-
2309500
Chemicals and Petroleum software solutions
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/industry/chemicals_petroleum/
Systems Engineering for Dummies
http://media.wiley.com/assets/5008/34/9781118100738.pdf
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