Enterprise informatics power smarter, more streamlined science: Exploration and production efficiency is all about the data

摘要

Oil and gas companies and their suppliers are under mounting pressure to innovate, keep costs down, and improve the speed, safety, and agility of their exploration and oilfield R&D efforts. But the increasing sophistication of and demands on exploration and drilling techniques presents both benefits and new challenges. Technologies for reservoir simulation and management; 3-D seismic imaging; and advanced process, production, and completion analytics are enabling companies to explore leads that might not have been possible to drill or even evaluate in the past. At the same time, these tools (as well as other information streams related to legal issues or leases) are unleashing a tsunami of data that organizations are struggling to integrate, make sense of, and manage.