In IT and technology deployment, education and training is a slow learner! Learning tech guru suggests some fixes with an open source initiative from the IEEE.
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Kitware ParaView
Teratec presentation highlights the TotalEnergies-backed open source high performance data manipulation and visualization engine.
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Houskeeping
Editor Neil McNaughton reflects on changes to Oil IT Journal delivery mechanisms over the past couple of decades, offering recommendations on incorporating the Oil IT information archive into a content management system using the RSS API and on using the onsite search function. But you can still also just read it – cover to cover, every issue!
It has been a while since we did any introspection here at Oil IT
Journal. A couple of subscription cancellations (unbelievable I know)
led me to think that some folks are not getting the best out of the
Journal. And that maybe we are not doing our best at getting our
message out. So here is a short explanation of why the Journal is the
way it is today and an invitation to you all to speak up, tell us what
you think so that we can raise our game.
Oil IT Journal has changed quite a bit since it first published in
1996 as a tabloid style paper-only publication. We went online with
essentially the same information around the turn of the millennium. The
website was developed at that time using html frames which gives it a
quaint, old style look. In fact html frames were deprecated almost as
soon as we implemented them for various reasons which I won’t go into.
We stuck with them in a contrarian way for the simple reason that
frames gave us a performant GUI for minimal effort. We also made a bet
against the W3C deprecators and figured that there were too many users
of frames for the browser developers to abandon them. A bet that holds
true so far. In short we went with the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix
it’ approach. Had we done otherwise we would no doubt have had three or
four major upheavals to the GUI in the past 24 years, and our code
would look like the dogs dinners that lurk behind many ‘modern’
website. But I digress.
Having undergone our ‘digital transformation’ in 2000, one of our
major clients suggested that we implement an RSS Feed. I had no idea
what this was at the time but it seemed pretty straightforward and was
duly coded-up. I’m not sure how important this was to the original
requester. But it is still there, updated with every new issue. There
is the paid-up full text feed and a public headlines feed.
A reader recently suggested that we ‘change the delivery mechanism,
from password protected PDF to Yammer posts’. My understanding of
Yammer is that it can plug into an RSS Feed so that might be a good
repurposing of the venerable RSS format. If you have a library or run a
document management system, get it to point to the RSS Feed and
populate your repository. You can also go to either our corporate or public sitemaps page and scrape these for direct access to the text payloads.
Many of you (but not enough!) use the search function that is
provided in the main menu. Just to make thinks clear, we do not allow
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI or anyone else access to the last couple of
years of Oil IT Journal. So the onboard search will bring up more
useful stuff than Google or ChatGPT! Paid-up subscribers are of course
at liberty (in fact we recommend it) to index our content for their own
usage.
Today the size of the Journal has increased significantly over the
old tabloid. I like to think that there are folks out there who still
read it cover to cover. Maybe the ‘renaissance’ man/woman that was
supposed to be the key driver to the digital oilfield of the noughties.
Interoperability across different disciplines has been an (elusive)
holy grail of IT since we started out. We try to fill that gap with an
‘interoperability’ of understanding between upstream, operations and so
on. So my advice, plug the whole thing into whatever content management
system you have in-house but also, read it all, cover to cover. You
will be a better person!
NAP on the Digital Twin
National Academies tome ‘Foundational research gaps and future directions for digital twins’ provides great boosterism for the digital twin while warning that the ‘publicity around digital twins and digital twin solutions currently outweighs the evidence base of success’. But all that’s not going to stop US academia from pitching full-tilt into the trendy trope with notably, a validation, and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) approach.
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Letter to the Editor
Jean-Claude Dulac, formerly with EarthDecision/Paradigm, writes in response to a recent Oil IT Journal Editorial. For years, multiple and ongoing IT ‘evolution’ has brought little in terms software progress or cost savings.
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OSDU update
Oil IT Journal continues to attempt to grok OSDU with mixed success. Member meeting presentations? Private. Data standards? Variable. Progress reported on R3 milestones, CCUS coverage and workflows. The Oil IT inside track – extricating OSDU from the clutches of the CSPs.
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SPDM year-end online conference 2023
RGU: ChatGPT ‘underwhelms’ in geoscience. GeoSapien geoscience data discovery research tool announced. Ikon: From ‘magic’ PowerPoint arrows to ML-powered data management. Katalyst: DM projects ‘fail to add value’ - more ‘GLAM’ required.
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The Quantum Decade
New edition of IBM’s forward looking publication on quantum computing reports on a new 1,000 qubit machine heralding a quantum tipping point. Quantum is (still) ‘set to disrupt chemicals and petroleum’.
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Folks, facts, orgs…
RelyOn Nutec, LF Energy, EPC Audubon, Texas Rail Road Commission, BP, DNV, Forum Energy Technologies, Foster Marketing, Geospace, ISN, NOV, OPC Foundation, OSDU Forum , Oceaneering, Oxford Flow, CSA Ocean Sciences, Petrofac, Petrosys/Interica, BP, Technip Energies, Tellurian, W Energy, Datagration, Hexagon, Research Data Alliance.
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Standards stuff …
IOGP/Energeo on marine seismic operations. IOGP offshore positioning systems. CHIFOS on alignment with IOGP JIP 33. PIDX releases ETDX Scope 3 reporting standard to supplement WBCSD Pathfinder Framework. Cenelec to work on CCUS standards. ISO published AI management standard and two new climate standards. Open Geospatial Consortium kicks-off GeoZarr workgroup. Object Management Group rolls-out SysML2.
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AMG Future Downstream Automation Summit 2023
Chevron on digital twin hype and the promise of generative AI. Veerum’s digital twin targets productivity gains. Eastman Chemical on ‘people as the uncommon assets’ and on escaping the POC purgatory. Shell unleashes the power of AI on operations.
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Facility Lifecycle 3D Model Standard
USPI NL’s rolls-out V1.1 of its FL3DMS (now ‘L3Dex’), ‘foundation for the digital twin’.
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Sales, partnerships, deployments
Upstream: Geoteric AI for Petronas. tNaigator for Santos CCUS. Landmark digital twin for Libra consortium. Equinor/SLB ‘most autonomous well’. SLB/Nabors drilling automation. Operations: Cognite AI ROCR for Celanese. Optime Subsea remote controls for Equinor. Survey Groupe/Samp for Trapil. KBR selects Sharecat for BP H2. Vissim spill detection for Aker BP. WEG drives for Al Yasat Petroleum. CCUS, geothermal: Expro partners with Di. Inpex contract to Expro. Northern Lights MoU to SLB. Miscellaneous: BP/Blueprint Digbox for BWT Alpine F1. Cavu/PT Samson trains ExxonMobil Cepu. Cumulus Digital analysis of Boeing’s missing bolts. Upwing prints parts with Velo3D.
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Done deals
DeepOcean bags Btwn. EIG acquires Ocyan. ENGlobal regains Nasdaq compliance. Canada OK’s Forum’s Variperm acquisition. Luna buys Silixa. Spectris sells Red Lion Controls. VAST now a $9 billion company
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Going, going … green
Emissions: IOGP on methane quantification. MIT - carbon removal as time machine. GE CERius emissions management. Open Footprint Forum issues RFP to developers. SLB’s new methane monitor. Qnergy on new EPA venting regulations. Scepter/Aerostar’s high altitude balloon monitor. CCUS: CGG delivers GoM GeoVerse study, signs with C-Questra. SLB rolls-out screening solution. Sustainability: CGI, Google Cloud and the UN’s ‘sustainable planet’. IOSCO on greenwashing and dubious sustainability claims. Ipieca ‘sustainability goals progress is off track’. ISG on EU sustainability investment. Hydrogen: European Commission unveils terms for hydrogen bank.
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CO2 Capture and Storage
CATO, the TNO Netherlands-backed organization for carbon capture and storage, hears from the UK CCS research community and from the Netherlands Porthos and Aramis projects.
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DISC Show & Tell
Norway’s energy stakeholders collaborate on digitalization, industrialization and standardization.
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Modeling the carbon capture value chain
ECA Engineering leverages MATLAB and CAPE-OPEN in full value chain CCUS studies.
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