Oil Fields Yield Digital Data

摘要

Software tools that can extract and analyze all kinds of asset management data are turning offshore oil fields and facilities into more efficient, factory-like operations. There doesn't appear to be lots of binary code floating on the high seas-until you look below the surface. For instance, Mark Lochmann, director of reservoir and production technology at Landmark Software and Services, a division of Halliburton (www.halliburton.com), reports that his company is using integrated production operations (IPO) software to help Chevron Corp. (www.chevron.com) coordinate numerous data sources at its Agbami field off the coast of Nigeria.