IO 08 Science and Practice

20 October
19:00 -22:00Get-together party at Royal Garden Hotel, Monday October 20 at 1900-2200.
Day 1 - 21 October
10:00 - 10:05Welcome and introduction, Arild N. Nystad, Conference Chair, IO Center at NTNU
10:05 - 12:00Plenum 1
“Breakthrough processes and technologies for IO – challenging traditional practices”
Session Chair: Vidar Hepsø, StatoilHydro
Speakers:
- “Saudi Aramco Intelligent Field Development Approach”, Tofig A. Al-Dhubaib, Intelligent Field Team Leader, Saudi Aramco
- “GeDig - Petrobras Corporate Program for Digital Integrated Field Management”, Gustavo Vinicius Lorenço Moisés, MSc, Petrobras
- “Thoughts on current trends in IO”, Tony Edwards, Head of iValue, BG Group
- “Reservoir Modeling Challenges for Smart Fields”, Khalid Aziz, Professor, Stanford Univeristy, Smart Field
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
13:00 - 15:00Parallel session 1
New work processes and enabling technologies in IO
Session Chair: Jon Kvalem, Institute of Energy Technology (IFE)
Topics:
- “Next generation IO work processes”, Trond Lilleng, StatoilHydro and Asgeir Drøivoldsmo Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)
- - “The importance of a wider business context in implementing IO-solutions”, Dr.Scient Knut Helge Ronæss Rolland, Avenir AS
- ”Keys to successful collaboration in virtual teams”, Sjur Larsen, researcher, Studio Apertra, NTNU
- “Future collaboration environments”, Senior researcher Grete Rindahl, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)

13:00 - 15:00Parallel session 2
Closed loop reservoir management and production optimization
Session Chair: Professor Jon Kleppe, NTNU
Topics:
- “Closed loop reservoir management – a survey”, Professor Bjarne Foss, NTNU and IO Center
- “Production optimization in Shell”, Edwin van Donkelaar, Smart Fields Research and Development, Shell Exploration and Production
- “A new approach to production optimization – applied to Troll oil”, PhD-student Vidar Gunnerud, IO center
- “Integrating 4D seismic and production data for assisted history matching using principal component analysis”, PhD-student Mohsen Dadashpour, IO center and David Echeverria Ciaurri, PhD, Stanford University
15:00 - 15:30Coffee/Tea
15:30 - 17:00Plenum 2
“IO and HSE – Risk exposure and solutions for improved safety”
Session Chair: Paul Bang, Petroleum Safety Authoroty Norway (PTIL),
Topics:
- “The IO perspective in relation to HSE - ambitions seen from the authorities”, Paul Bang, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PTIL)
- “The ICT ®evolution – risks, uncertainties and complexities” Prof. Ole Hanseth, the University of Oslo
- “Re-development of a brown field – managing technical design risk in delivering a fully integrated operating environment - Valhall”, Paul Hocking (BP)
19:30Conference dinner
Cultural visit of Trondheimsolistene
Exhibition and posters Day 1
Partner companies and SME
 
Day 2 - 22 October
08:30 - 10:00Plenum 3
“Experience from other businesses”
Session Chair: Jon Lippe, NTNU and IO Center Manager
Topics:
- “Experience from virtual design and construction in the building industry”, John Kunz, Executive Director Center for Integrated facility Engineering, Stanford University
-“Network centric operations in defense”, William R. Phillips, Vice President & Partner, Global Defense Industry Leader, IBM Global Business Services
- “Experience with telemedicine and IO to build a remote medical service for offshore personnel”, Arne Michael Cosgrove Evensen, StatoilHydro
10:00 - 10:30Coffe/Tea
10:30–12:30Parallel session 3
Smarter well solutions and better reservoir interfacing
Session Chair: Rolv Rommetveit, SINTEF Petroleum Research
- “Utilization of seismic for near real time update of geo-pressure while drilling”, Senior Researcher Hans Martin Helseth, SINTEF Petroleum Research
- “Experience and possibilities with wired drillpipe”, Tor Stein Ølberg
- “eDrilling – RT simulation, visualization and decision support”, Sven Inge Ødegård, Hitec Products Drilling
10:30-12:30Parallel session 4
Operations, maintenance and modifications - closer link to production optimization
Session Chair: Andrew Gibson, MARINTEK
- “2nd generation Integrated Operations and maintenance enables Groningen gas system to operate as a capacity swing producer for the Dutch and European gas market”, Michiel Jansen, Engineering and maintenance asset leader Groningen, Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V.
- “Condition and Performance Monitoring, CPM, for enhanced collaboration in integrated operations of advanced subsea production systems”`, Ulf Skytte af Sätra, Senior Product Engineer Condition & Performance Solutions, FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS
“Information required for Control & Decision Support, Integrated Operations, Operation & Maintenance”, Andrew K. Gibson, Research Director, Marintek
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 15:00Plenum 4
IO opportunities in new projects
Session Chair: Roy Ruså, Petoro
Topics:
- Presentations of OLF report “IO in new Projects”, Ivar Sløveren, Petoro/OLF
Round table discussion – key issues::
- Does the field development process sufficiently address the IO opportunities?
- Do IO requirements survive the traditional engineering and procurement processes?
- Are we competent buyers of new IO solutions?
Round table discussion - panel:
Egil Birkemoe, ABB
Jann Slettebakk, AkerSolutions
Brage Sandstad, ConocoPhillips
Trond Lilleng, StatoilHydro
Rebecca Christensen, Gaz de France
Contribution from Plenum 1
Exhibition and posters Day 2
Partner companies and SME
16:00 - 19:00Excursions:
Demo 1:
- Center for Integrated Operations at NTNU: IO Laboratory
Demo 2
- StatoilHydro Stjørdal: IO Cooperation rooms and work processes between onshore/offshore
Demo 3:
- Aker-Reinertsen: IO Cooperation rooms and work processes Supplier/Oil companies
Demo 4:
- Cybernetic Laboratory at NTNU; Utilization of Robots for unmanned platforms
IO08 Conference Flyer
Day 3 - 23 October

SME Innovation Forum – by invitation – Cooperation between the IO Center, Innovation Norway and StatoilHydro including the following programmes: ARENA Integrated Operations, ARENA Rig Cluster NODE, ARENA Well technologies Centre for Smart and Safe Wells, Norwegian Centre of Expertise (NCE) Subsea, SFI Instrumenation at Christian Michelsen Research (CMR) and Norwegian Centre of Expertise (NCE) Systems Engineering.




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