Successful Workshop focusing on Management of Petrel Projects

More than 60 attendees followed the half day workshop was held in Måltidets Hus on March 2009. The theme was: Managing Petrel Projects - Alternative approaches

Cathrine Gunnesdal, Statoil, opened the workshop talking about Managing Petrel data in integration with a project DB, followed by Bjørn Thorsen (Landmark) and Tine Gaard Holmer presenting pro&cons integrated database and file based applications.

After a short break, Sissel W. Egenes from Schlumberger made a presentation focusing on the users workflow and need for data this talk highlights some of the experiences and best practices for using Petrel Reference projects as a tool for organizing and standardizing data for the Petrel user. A complete guide was compiled in collaboration with Petoro and contains agreed procedures, naming conventions, standards and workflows collated into a company standard. The guide is presented as a webpage with a user friendly interface that ensures easy access to the company standard for everybody in the organization.

The last two presentations was about Open Spirit experiences presented by Kjetil Revheim (Statoil) and OS project database and filebased environment presented by Lars Gåseby from Shell.

ECIM' Calendar

June 12 (NEW DATE): Introduction to the licence lifecycle.

ECIM IME Workgroup invites to a workshop focusing on licence lifecycles. Date is not confirmed. Invitation will be sent out when date and program is settled.

September 10-12: ECIM2012 E&P IM Conference and User Meeting in Haugesund.

ECIM E&P Annual Conference and User Meeting held in Haugesund has become the most important conference for petroleum data management and information management in the E&P industry. The 2011 conference was again successful with more than 300 satisfied attendees representing over 100 companies and 21 countries. Please find more info about the 2012 conference here.

Previous held meetings

29.02.2012: ECIM Forum Information Meeting

Experiences and needs for formal education for DM/IM Professionals. Dr. Alan MacLennan, the course leader for the MSc in Information Management at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen (UK) presented the structure and content of their IM course.

16.06.2011: ECIM Forum Workshop focusing on GIS in a DM perspective.

GIS from a Data Management perspective.

15.05.2011: ECIM Forum Workshop: Managing R5000 data in OpenWorks.

R5000 data mangement.

Tips and suggestions..

Please mail us if you have any tips or suggestions to relevant and interesting topics, speakers, 'Best Practices', activities or projects that you believe would be of interest for the ECIM Network. You may call +47 91615866 or send us an e-mail (post@ecim.no).