[[Image(IOHN_logo_small.gif, right)]] = Integrated Operations in the High North (IOHN) Joint Industry Project = == ''Demonstrating the digital platform for next generation Integrated Operations'' == __For IOHN participants__: a password-restricted [wiki:IOHN/Internal internal WIKI-site] is also available.[[BR]] __No password?__: IOHN participants can follow these [http://rdssupport.posccaesar.org/wiki/RdsServicesOffered#ServiceRegistrationLogin instructions] to obtain a password. Please mention that you would like to have access to the IOHN Wiki-site. ---- ''Twenty-five companies from different parts in the value chain have joined forces to design, implement and demonstrate a reliable and robust ICT architecture to be used for petroleum exploration and production in an Arctic setting. Open standards are used to ensure interoperability, to facilitate integration and to transfer data. Combined with advances in information sharing and knowledge management technologies, this readily improves the basis for collaborative decision making and thereby facilitates more effective work processes.'' == Background == === Arctic region === The Arctic region holds vast amounts of extractive energy resources. Most of these resources are located offshore in environmentally very sensitive areas possibly beneath thick ice and/or in deep water. Weather and distance from existing infrastructure and centers of population add additional operational and logistic challenges. === Second generation Integrated Operations === In order to meet all these requirements and at the same time maintain profitable operations, the industry needs to create new field development and operational concepts that include heavily instrumented facilities. These operational concepts will be often based on a lean local organization supported remotely from a combination of an asset organization, multi-asset support centers and external expert centers. This is what has been called the second generation of Integrated Operations. [[Image(IOHN_Digital_large.JPG,400px,right)]] === Digital platform === An important prerequisite for this development is a robust and secure digital infrastructure as a platform for effective and efficient data and information exchange and decision making. To enable collaboration across boundaries in a smooth and efficient manner, a digital platform based on open standards is required, thus allowing for a much higher degree of interoperability across applications, disciplines, geographic locations and organizations than is common today. == Integrated Operations in the High North project == === Overall goal for the project === The goal for the Integrated Operations in the High North (IOHN) project is to design, implement and demonstrate a reliable and robust architecture for Integrated Operations Generation 2 (IO G2). Existing open standards are used and extended when required and new standards are incubated to ensure interoperability, to facilitate integration and to transfer data. To make data-to-information-to-decisions work processes more efficient, information and knowledge models based on open standards are also developed and used. === Project layout === The IOHN project is set up as six activities organized in a matrix; three related to the digital platform and three related to pilots for different business domains. Within the different business domains, architectural relevant use cases have been defined. These use cases form the basis for extracting the requirements for the digital platform and are used later on to test (parts of) the digital platform and to validate the value potential for IO G2. == Integrated Operations in the High North (IOHN) project == The project is set up as six coordinated activities; three related to the digital platform and three related to the business processes that will be piloted. The three activities related to the digital platform are: [[Image(IOHN_Activities_new.JPG,377px,right)]] * Integration platform: networks, infrastructure and web services * Semantic model: information assurance * Safety and risk The three activities related to the business processes are: * Drilling and Completion: unmanned drilling rig * Reservoir and Production: improved production * Operations and Maintenance: sub-ice operation During a four year period starting May 2008, the [wiki:IOHN/participants 25 participants] in the project plan to go from conceptualisation to real-life pilots. During this period the project will both benefit from and contribute to the extensive integrated operations development on the Norwegian continental shelf and in other parts of the world. The IOHN project consortium includes operators, service providers and software vendors. In addition, the Norwegian Defence is working with the project to resolve common infrastructure and communication challenges. The project is managed by Det Norske Veritas ([http://www.dnv.com DNV]). The project is supported by the Norwegian Oil Industry Association ([http://www.olf.no/io/ OLF]), the Business Association of Norwegian knowledge- and technology-based enterprises ([http://abelia.no/english/ Abelia]), and the Norwegian Defence and Security Industries Association ([http://www.fsi.no/fsi_english/home/ FSi]). Financing comes from the partners and the Research Council of Norway ([http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Home+page/1177315753906 RCN]) for parts of the project ([http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?c=Prosjekt&cid=1207296035860&pagename=verdikt/Hovedsidemal&p=1226993814962 GOICT] and [http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?c=Prosjekt&cid=1198060412649&pagename=ForskningsradetNorsk/Hovedsidemal&p=1181730334233 AutoConRig]). == Participants == Overview of the [wiki:IOHN/participants 25 companies] participating in the IOHN project. == More information == Contact: Frédéric Verhelst (IOHN Project Manager on behalf of DNV), i n f o @ i o h n . o r g. == Some relevant links == * [http://www.posccaesar.org/wiki POSC Caesar Association], the custodian of the [http://www.posccaesar.org/wiki/ISO15926 ISO 15926 Oil and Gas ontology] * brochure: [http://www.olf.no/getfile.php/zKonvertert/www.olf.no/Rapporter/Dokumenter/070919%20IO%20and%20Ontology%20-%20Brosjyre.pdf Integrated Operations and the Oil and Gas Ontology] by the Norwegian Oil Industry Association ([http://www.olf.no/io/ OLF]) * W3C workshop on [http://www.w3.org/2008/12/ogws-report.html Semantic Web in Oil and Gas industry], Houston, December 9-10, 2008. [http://www.w3.org/2008/12/ogws-report#papers Position papers] from several participants in IOHN. * [http://www.posccaesar.org/wiki/PCA/SemanticDays2009/AboutSemanticDays Semantic Days 2009], Stavanger, May 18-20, 2009. One [http://www.posccaesar.org/wiki/PCA/SemanticDays2009#Session6:SemantictechnologyforIOGeneration2 session] is devoted to IOHN. * [http://www.ioconf.no/2009/ IO 09 Science and Practice], Trondheim, September 29-30, 2009. One [http://ioconf.no/2009/parallel6 session] is devoted to IOHN. == Some articles about the project == * [http://www.spe.org SPE] [http://www.intelligentenergyevent.com/ Intelligent Energy Conference], [http://www.intelligentenergyevent.com/page.cfm/action=Seminars/SeminarID=388 Transformational Solutions session] (2010-03-24). Digital platform for the next generation IO: a prerequisite for the high north (SPE 127550). * Oil&Gas Journal (2010-02-04). [http://www.ogj.com/index/article-display/4660624989/articles/oil-gas-journal/drilling-production-2/2010/02/iadc_spe_-project/QP129867/cmpid=EnlDrillingFebruary82010.html IADC/SPE: Project is devising autopilot drilling standards] Retrieved on 2010-02-09. * Rigzone E&P News (2008-08-26). [http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=65883 Norway Takes Reign to Provide Next Generation Integrated Operations] Retrieved on 2009-05-08. * Digital Energy Journal (2008-08-27). [http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=758&PHPSESSID=9hhp6qe4qqpi7qnbgffgqhv1h7 Norway developing next generation Integrated Operations]. Retrieved on 2009-05-08. * E&P Magazine (2008-12-2). [http://www.epmag.com/Magazine/2008/12/item24047.php Offshore R&D pushes the limits]. Retrieved on 2009-05-08. * Wikipedia. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Operations_in_the_High_North Integrated Operations in the High North]. Retrieved on 2009-05-12.