Whereoil/OpenSpirit Integration in a Major Information Access Project

EAGE Vienna, 26th May 2011

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Challenge

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Challenge

• The customer is a major international oil company with multiple office locations worldwide.

• Access to the information distributed across locations and data silos is a major challenge for the Head Office.

• Information is also available in the form of data subscriptions and external data storage facilities such as National Data Repositories.

• The organization wanted a simple, fast, single point of access to those multiple sources of information.

• The system should reduce the time spent to collect and assemble information from different applications, databases and websites.

• The system should be accessed via a web based GIS front-end.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Challenge

• The customer is a major international oil company with multiple office locations worldwide.

• Access to the information distributed across locations and data silos is a major challenge for the Head Office.

• Information is also available in the form of data subscriptions and external data storage facilities such as National Data Repositories.

• The organization wanted a simple, fast, single point of access to those multiple sources of information.

• The system should reduce the time spent to collect and assemble information from different applications, databases and websites.

• The system should be accessed via a web based GIS front-end.

Simple

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Challenge

• The customer is a major international oil company with multiple office locations worldwide.

• Access to the information distributed across locations and data silos is a major challenge for the Head Office.

• Information is also available in the form of data subscriptions and external data storage facilities such as National Data Repositories.

• The organization wanted a simple, fast, single point of access to those multiple sources of information.

• The system should reduce the time spent to collect and assemble information from different applications, databases and websites.

• The system should be accessed via a web based GIS front-end.

Simple Fast

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Challenge

• The customer is a major international oil company with multiple office locations worldwide.

• Access to the information distributed across locations and data silos is a major challenge for the Head Office.

• Information is also available in the form of data subscriptions and external data storage facilities such as National Data Repositories.

• The organization wanted a simple, fast, single point of access to those multiple sources of information.

• The system should reduce the time spent to collect and assemble information from different applications, databases and websites.

• The system should be accessed via a web based GIS front-end.

Simple Fast Affordable

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Challenge

• The customer is a major international oil company with multiple office locations worldwide.

• Access to the information distributed across locations and data silos is a major challenge for the Head Office.

• Information is also available in the form of data subscriptions and external data storage facilities such as National Data Repositories.

• The organization wanted a simple, fast, single point of access to those multiple sources of information.

• The system should reduce the time spent to collect and assemble information from different applications, databases and websites.

• The system should be accessed via a web based GIS front-end.

Simple Fast Affordable Comprehensive

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Information access scenario

internal data

Corporate Geodatabase

(ArcSDE)

Petrel

GIS portal

OpenWells Corporate DB

Task Management application

Whereoil server

Whereoil Search

OpenSpirit

external data

NPD DEAL

IHS GEUS

Petrobank News

send data to search

send data to map

OpenWorksR2300

OpenWorksR5000

Thursday, June 9, 2011

OpenWorks/SeisWorks Crawler

• Metadata contained within an Openworks / Seisworks data repository is scanned and then crawled for inclusion into Whereoil. The metadata extraction process is performed using the Openspirit API

• The following Openspirit Data Model types are supported: Project, Well, WellBore, WellPick, WellVelocity, WellLogTrace, LineGeometry2d, SeismicGeometry3d, PostStack3d, PostStack2d

• Scanning can be a processor and time-consuming exercise, hence the need for an “updated only” scan. Scan commands must be executed as a user with suitable access permissions to the Openworks / Seisworks data repository.

• Therefore we created two Whereoil tools for metadata extraction:

• A Scan tool that undertakes full metadata extraction from a specified Openspirit DataSource

• An Update tool that only extracts metadata modified within a specified time interval

Thursday, June 9, 2011

OpenSpirit data sources and the rest

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Entitlement management in OpenWorks/SeisWorks

• OpenSpirit is normally used at runtime with a named user, so this particular use in this project (check with Igor)

• As Openworks metadata is not available for public access, users must be granted a minimum of "browse" level access to view data. User access is configured on a User/Project basis in Openworks.

• The Whereoil Crawler is setting the corresponding access rights for each extracted record during the crawling phase.

• Individual entitlement properties determine record filtering during querying in Whereoil Search.

• To preserve in Whereoil the user access level defined in Seisworks, data entitlements are extracted from the plist.* text files in the user profile directory.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Using the OpenSpirit API

• To maintain OpenWorks spatial data in the GIS portal, the OpenSpirit Scan Utility was used to convert datatypes to features that can be stored in ArcSDE.

• This data spatialization process is both time and process intensive. As the Scan Utility does not handle selective updating, the need for a batch updating process that only processes changes is of the highest importance.

• This was achieved using a utility developed by Kadme, called SCANXML. The utility determines updated datasource files and generates Scan Utility xml configuration files.

• The Scan Utility is then run in batch mode, invoked selectively with the xml configuration files created by SCANXML to update the ArcSDE datastore and ensuring updated features can be displayed on the GIS portal.

• We understand that this type of functionality will be included in the next release of the Scan Utility.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Integration with the GIS portal

Send to map

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Global Rollout

internal data

Corporate Geodatabase

(ArcSDE)

Petrel

GIS portal

OpenWells Corporate DB

Task Management application

Whereoil server

Whereoil Search

OpenSpirit

external data

NPD DEAL

IHS GEUS

Petrobank News

send data to search

send data to map

OpenWorksR2300

OpenWorksR5000

SDE Whereoil server

OpenSpirit

SDE Whereoil server

OpenSpirit

SDE Whereoil server

OpenSpirit

Data sync

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nc

Data sync

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Future Developments

• Possible new connectors for other OpenSpirit enabled data sources

• Use of OpenSpirit’s Enterprise Service Bus

• To support exchange of events between Whereoil and OpenSpirit-enabled applications, applied for OpenSpirit-enabled data sources.

• Run Time access to applications

• Data transfer workflows

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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Thanks!

For more info about Whereoil, please visit:http://www.kadme.com/solutions/whereoil/

You can see a short video demonstration of Whereoil at:http://www.kadme.com/solutions/whereoil/whereoil-demo-video/

KADME is booth number 1591

Thursday, June 9, 2011