1. IT challenge
Statoil Innovate
2012-04-25

2. IT CHALLENGE
Introduction
Photo: Roar Hagen / Statoil
Efficient IT systems are crucial to Statoil. Our IT department is looking for
solutions that can enhance utilization of IT in our daily life, whether it is
offshore, on-shore, sub-sea or sub-surface.
We are interested in technologies that can provide us with efficient IT
solutions, and have listed some examples of the general IT challenges
related to a global energy company.
However, we always look for new step changing technology and ideas, so
the examples are just to get your imagination going. What’s your idea?
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3. IT CHALLENGE: MOBILITY
WHAT: Users located in and constantly moving between many
different types of business locations.
EXAMPLES:
□ App (e.g. for iPad) for operators. Use of compass to guide the user, and augment
the screen with information that may be listed as maintenance systems. Only the
imagination sets the limits (e.g. creative use of camera and compass)
□ Tracking of personnel using wireless technology both offshore and in “hostile
environments”
□ Automatically profile users based on application utilization and use this
information to effectively share remote desktop resources based on
technological demands (e.g. high end, 3D, ring-fenced hardware resources
versus commodity virtual desktop technologies)
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4. IT CHALLENGE: COLLABORATION AND UTILIZATION OF EXPERTS
WHAT: Domain experts need to efficiently cooperate across
business location looking at the same data using similar or
the same tools. Photo: Roar Hagen / Statoil
EXAMPLES:
□ Seamless 3D collaboration across
sites to support collaboration and
global utilization of experts
□ Use of social software to find and
connect competence globally
□ Visualization capabilities utilized for
better, faster and easier perception
and collaboration of the sub surface
models
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5. IT CHALLENGE: NEED FOR SPEED
WHAT: New and existing solutions and data must rapidly be made
available in new locations.
EXAMPLES:
□ Adaptation of new tools and technologies into the subsurface environment. In
particular GPU and emerging CPU technologies will significantly change the
landscape of HPC Seismic Imaging. Streamlining of the processes involving
identifying opportunities, benchmarking new technologies, porting software
and assimilation into the production environment
□ Efficiently scale computing capacity to business needs. For example related
to HPC capacity for seismic imaging or reservoir simulation activities
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6. IT CHALLENGE: TECHNICAL COMPLEXITY AND DIVERSITY
WHAT: Many supported disciplines and associated workflows
resulting in a large and complex application portfolio based
on a multitude of different technologies.
EXAMPLES:
□ How to manage integration, data quality and master data? E.g. Scalable
runtime environments which is capable of running sets of applications on a
local data farm
□ WAN communication offshore. How to better utilize our high-speed
WAN - land-offshore and between installations?
□ How to efficiently integrate solutions across applications and at the
same time keep each systems integrity?
Photo: Roar Hagen / Statoil
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7. IT CHALLENGE: AMOUNT OF DATA
WHAT: Large and increasing amounts of data to be made available
across the application portfolio and business locations.
EXAMPLES:
□ Global availability of huge amounts □ Efficient information search
of data. Communication speed and through all relevant sources (disk
latency between locations makes folders, team sites, wikis and e-
moving data when using data hard. mails). Possibility to narrow and filter
How can this be handled on an search by relevant criteria and
intranet? How can (or can) this be efficient use of meta data used by
handled using the cloud? team sites and wiki
□ Improve document search □ Lifecycle management of data.
through georeferencing How to better administrate storage
systems on computing devices
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8. IT challenge
Statoil Innovate
Email address: idea@statoil.com
www.statoil.com
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