Integrated operations enhance value - Move beyond information technology for field management

摘要

Many confuse the digital oil field as simply the use of information technology (IT) to manage field operations remotely. While IT is critical to asset management in all industries, this is not an IT solution - it is an economic solution. Digital technology has been used in the oil field for more than 30 years and enables certain behavioral changes. High-bandwidth, low-cost communications to oil and gas assets provide the ability to remotely manage facilities and realize specific savings; however, there is a greater value proposition. A more apt name for the broad economic solution that includes linking digital acquisition and monitoring systems to control room facilities is integrated operations (IO).