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Integrated Operations in the High North (IOHN) Joint Industry Project

Demonstrating the digital platform for next generation Integrated Operations

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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.

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 set up

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:

  • 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 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 (DNV).

The project is supported by the Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF), the Business Association of Norwegian knowledge- and technology-based enterprises (Abelia), and the Norwegian Defence and Security Industries Association (FSi). Financing comes from the partners and the Research Council of Norway (RCN) for parts of the project (GOICT and AutoConRig).

Participants

Overview of the 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 articles about the project

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