Integrated software package mends a 'broken' data system

摘要

Energen, an oil and gas exploration and production company with headquarters in Birmingham, Ala., offers a real-world example of the benefits that can flow from successfully integrating systems across an oil and gas enterprise. When it embarked on its integration project, Energen was facing somewhat of a good-news, bad-news scenario.The good news was that new production methods, such as horizontal drilling, enabled the company to extract more oil from its extensive reservoir of reserves in the Permian Basin of west Texas.The bad news is that Energen's information systems were not equipped to manage heavier production levels.