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News Release from: Reed Exhibitions (UK) | Subject: Intelligent Energy 2008
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 March 2008
Intelligent energy reshapes the E+P
sector
The recent Intelligent Energy 2008 conference and exhibition, held under the overall theme 'The Future is Here - The Value of Innovation and Integration', attracted a total of 1,655 attendees
The rise of intelligent energy technologies and processes is a real revolution, reshaping the upstream oil and gas industry, with its importance reflected by the outstanding success of an industry-leading event held last week in Amsterdam The attendance at the Intelligent Energy 2008 conference and exhibition was a 45% increase in delegate numbers from 2006, and featured 67 exhibiting companies over 3 days at the RAI venue in Amsterdam
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 20 Nov 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Its daily conference plenary sessions featured many of the oil and IT industries' leading players, outlining and debating their visions and experiences related to the implementation and utilisation of intelligent energy (also known as integrated operations, 'i-field', 'e-field', digital or 'smart' technology) and its continued development over the coming years.
But it also delved deeper and analysed the results emerging from pioneering projects where intelligent energy technologies and processes are being fully and successfully utilised, as well as focusing an entire 'Young Professionals' session on the key drivers surrounding the recruitment, training and involvement of the younger generation upon whom the responsibility will fall for taking the industry forward into a collaborative future environment.
On top of this there was an extensive programme of parallel technical sessions each day, covering the full spectrum of technologies and applications in practical use or under consideration.
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Highlights included speakers such as Helge Lund, the StatoilHydro Chief Executive Officer, stating that integrated operations were "a revolution reshaping our industry".
Real time competence sharing is necessary in a complex and demanding industry, he said.
"Today it is all about integrated operations and people in a seamless collaboration, independent of organisation, time and place".
Malcolm Brinded, Executive E+P Director at Royal Dutch/Shell, added in his presentation that the use of smart field technology "would accelerate massively over the next decade," and gave some examples of projects where Shell has seen previously uneconomic fields becoming economic because of the rise of intelligent technology processes.
And other speakers, such as Andrew Gould, CEO of Schlumberger, referred to the importance of working with companies from outside the oil industry to speed up the process of technology development.
He pointed out that the upstream industry could use technologies and learn processes from, for example, the aerospace sector.
"If Boeing or a company like that are designing a new aircraft, they get Rolls Royce or GE or other contractors involved from Day 1 - Sometimes adaptation of technologies from other industries can be a much faster way of developing technology than an industry bringing it along itself".
The co-chairmen of the Intelligent Energy executive committee, Satish Pai (President Europe, Africa and Caspian at Schlumberger) and Sjur Bjarte Talstad (Senior Vice President for Subsurface Technology at StatoilHydro), set the tone at the start of the event by demonstrating some intelligent energy capabilities when they connected live and simultaneously on screen with individuals working on facilities in Azerbaijan, Holland, Norway and Brazil.
"We wanted the audience to see some real facilities that have adopted digital technology in the last few years and hear from people working there," said Satish.
"It was a very good example of how intelligent energy is working today".
In his concluding remarks at the close of the event 3 days later, Sjur added: "I think we are on a journey that has just started with Intelligent Energy.
The general feedback here has been very good, people have been very happy to be here, and they have picked up a lot of good information.
"It is clear also from the technical sessions that we have come a long way since the first show in 2006.
Now it is not so much a focus on issues of technology but on people, process, organisational issues, collaboration and awareness.
It is no longer so much about "should it be implemented", but rather "how it should be done", he added".
The Intelligent Energy event, which this year attracted attendees from more than 50 countries and saw more than double the number of conference papers presented compared to the last show in 2006, is jointly organised by the Society of Petroleum Engineers and Reed Exhibitions.
This year's exhibition saw 67 exhibitors participate including Shell, BP, BT, IBM, Cisco, Schlumberger, Halliburton, Weatherford, ABB, Deloitte and BG Group.
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