Conference Day One
16 June 2015
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08:15 Registration and welcome coffee
08:50 Opening remarks from the Chair
Kym Bills, Chief Executive Officer, Western Australian Energy Research Alliance (WA:ERA)
Bridging the gap between R&D, business technology and IT technology to accelerate time on deliverables
09:00 Innovation—how can technologies accelerate results?
- Making IT the key innovation driver to achieve competitiveness in the energy sector
- How innovative E&Ps are improving their operational efficiency through IT-led innovation
- Integrating R&D with IT to provide a holistic engineering environment
- Leveraging big data, next generation modelling and predictive analytics to increase productivity
Fred Wehr, Director-Exploration and Development, Apache Energy
09:30 International Keynote Address
The evolving landscape of integrated operations - improvements to decision speed and quality, and cross discipline collaboration
- Explaining integrated operations (IO) projects through a common model
- Lessons learned from real cases of digital field projects around the world
- How the next generation of IO is beginning to impact the macro business processes originating from operational excellence programs
Steve Scillitani, Director of Solution Services for the Integrated Operations Program, Petronas (Malaysia)
10:00 Technology Leaders Panel Discussion
How to successfully integrate petroleum engineering, information technology and process improvement to create business value
- What are the critical factors to achieving efective organisational collaboration?
- The end of Moore’s Law and addressing the next set of tough business and operational problems - what types of transformations are taking place in E&P and how are operators embracing the changes?
- Collaboration between industry and academia - how are successful partnerships around the world working on the challenges?
- Designing systems and interfaces that the ‘next generation’ of engineers and geoscientists will want to work in and with
Moderator
Kym Bills, Chief Executive Officer, Western Australian Energy Research Alliance (WA:ERA)
Panellists
Neil Kavanagh, Chief Science and Technology Manager,Woodside Energy
Emma Whitty,Vice President Information Systems, Clough
Aparna Raman, Managing Director, Schlumberger Australia
10:45 Morning tea
Leveraging technology for smarter insight and actions to deliver value
11:15 How innovation in seismic imaging and High Performance Computing (HPC) partnerships are providing scientific breakthroughs for the O&G sector
- Breakthroughs delivered through imaging research over the last year, and how these breakthroughs generate new opportunities and value
- Contributions that HPC has made to enable imaging success
- Future directions for imaging and the computing challenges required to deliver our future
Neil Stringfellow, Executive Director, iVec
11:45 Predictive analytics for an intelligent oil & gas operation - integrating real-time data with predictive tools, processes and expertise to enable more informed operational decisions
- How can we create value from what we already know? Benefitting from the analytics on the data our machines are already producing
- Keeping maintenance costs on a lower budget through efective prediction analysis
- Predicting lifecycle performance and future conditions as they relate to well planning, drilling and reservoir management
Shane Donohoo, Global Director Advanced Analysis, Worley Parsons
12:15 How can we use Building Information Modelling (BIM) and other technology to increase productivity and optimise assets?
- Exploring the benefits of lean construction technologies for enhancing efficiency
- Using visualisation technology to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time
- How data is intelligently linked to equipment to enable employees’ access to real-time information from any workstation
- Case studies of results to date in cost efficiencies, safety and reliability
Xiangyu Wang, Curtin-Woodside Chair Professor, Oil, Gas & LNG Construction and Project Management Curtin Director, Australasian Joint Research Centre for Building Information Modelling (BIM), Curtin University
12:45 Networking lunch
Addressing the practical implementation issues of big data in oil and gas E&P
13:45 How cloud computing and big data are enabling complex engineering solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner
- Revolutionising faster drilling and smarter excavation
- Using big data to improve service efficiency and enhance the experience
- Addressing cyber security for effective protection of operations
(Speaker to be confirmed)
14:15 Geoscience innovation in the E&P industry - using High Performance Data techniques to achieve better data integration and application performance
- Leveraging HPC and HPD to enable integration of data at higher resolutions and analysis at larger scales and greater complexity
- Cross-discipline leveraging of data mining, modelling and analytics for faster decision making
- Taking modelling workflows to new levels of transparency and ultimately, reproducibility
Lesley Wyborn, Adjunct Fellow, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australian National University
14:45 Afternoon tea
15:15 Understanding the impact of data standards on industry performance
- What are the data standards available for upstream and downstream E&P?
- Viewing collective and collaborative action as an optimum accepted practice
- Reviewing recent developments in certification, education and professional development
- How is the professional maturity of the information technology discipline in oil and gas impacting the industry’s performance?
Jess Kozman, Regional Representative, Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM)
15:45 Technology Leaders Panel Discussion
How ready is the Australian oil and gas industry to embrace big data?
- Beyond the buzzword – addressing the practical implementation issues of big data in oil and gas E&P
- Providing an end-to-end seismic management strategy has to be the main focus… so how do you do this?
- Evaluating the impact of scale-out technology and big data analytical technologies on costs and user experience
- How to ensure that appropriate levels of governance and protection are applied
Moderator
Kym Bills, Chief Executive Officer, Western Australian Energy Research Alliance (WA:ERA)
Panellists
Lesley Wyborn, Adjunct Fellow, Australian National University and Visiting Fellow, National Computational Infrastructure, NCI
Neil Stringfellow, Executive Director, iVec
Coert Du Plessis, WA Chapter Head, Institute of Analytics Professionals Australia (IAPA)
16:45 Closing remarks from the Chair
16:55 Close of Day One and networking drinks
19:00 Official event dinner