Learn about digital oilfields and discover six steps to successfully implement digital oilfield technology!

1. 6 Steps to Successfully Implementing
Digital Oilfield Technology

2. What is Cimation?
An operational intelligence company delivering secure
technology solutions to the global energy industry.
Larnell Nolan
Technical Lead and Strategic
Account Manager

3. What is a Digital Oilfield?
Technology
ProcessPeople
• Measurement
• Telemetry
• Data Analysis
• Visualization
• Control &
Optimization
• Integration
• Corporate Culture
• Change Management
• Training
• Mission & Objectives
• Job Definitions
• Workflows
The use of technology to holistically manage production, personnel and safety,
allowing for reduced costs, increased production, and improved efficiency in the
oil and gas sector.

4. What a Digital Oilfield is NOT
• NOT using technology for technology’s sake
• NOT recreating existing data on a new platform
• NOT moving data from point A to point B
• NOT only about data accessibility
….it's about using technology in
a way that directly reduces cost
or increases revenue.

5. The Competitive Digital Oilfield
A properly configured Digital Oilfield enables you to compete
more effectively with other businesses in the following areas:
• Productivity
• Efficiency
• Risk Mitigation

6. • Empowers your workforce to be more proactive
• Harnesses the data you have to inform better
operational decision-making so it is:
• Pre-emptive
• More informed
• Faster
The Competitive Digital Oilfield: Productivity
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7. • Focuses resources on high-priority issues
• Reduces time required to resolve issues
• Promotes higher site-to-operator ratios
• Improves communication
• Better management of materials & labor
• Reduces error
The Competitive Digital Oilfield: Efficiency

8. The Competitive Digital Oilfield: Risk Mitigation
• Reduces employee exposure to dangerous
environments
• Reduces windshield
• Combats aging workforce through knowledge
retention
• Facilitates compliance requirements
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9. Avoid Common Mistakes
• Don’t Overstretch Yourself
• Don’t Choose the Wrong Projects or Technology
• Don’t Compare Yourself to Others
• Don’t Forget About Sustainability

10. 6 Steps to Ensuring Successful
Implementation
1. Understand Your Baseline
2. Categorize and Prioritize Based
on Expected Return
3. Define the Steps to Implement
Your Solution
4. Implement Your Solution
5. Develop the Reporting Tools to
Measure Your Results
6. Optimize Performance

11. Understand Your Baseline
• Document existing KPIs for a pre-project snapshot
• Catalog existing challenges and areas of
improvement
• Document deferments and cause
• Understand the current process and systems used
• Include all metrics and measurements

12. Categorize & Prioritize Based on
Expected Return
Technology Solutions in the Digital Oilfield should accomplish
two goals:
• Address existing issues and deficiencies in production or
work processes
• Surpass current benchmarks
The project should always focus on at least one of the
justification classes:
• Productivity
• Efficiency
• Risk Mitigation

13. Define the Steps to Implement Your Solution
• Incorporate a phased pilot approach by creating a developmental or
prototype system before applying changes asset-wide.
• This prototype approach is comprised of the following components:
• Phased development
• Pilot sites
• Iterative rollout plan

14. Benefits of the Iterative Approach
• Minimizes cost-prohibitive, after-the-fact changes
• Reduces the number of deployment issues
• Helps achieve goals in shorter period of time
• Provides better user experience

15. Implement Your Solution
• Choose the right technology & service providers
• The project team should consist of two functional categories:
• Operational
• Technical
• Solutions can include a blend of competencies and
technologies:
• Field Instrumentation
• Industrial IT Professionals
• System Integrators
• Cyber Security Professionals
• Proprietary or off-the-shelf software

16. Develop Reporting Tools to Measure Your
Results
• Create reports that document post-project KPIs
• Compare results against baseline data
• Design reports to assess adherence to project objectives

17. Optimize Performance
• Test and measure gaps between results and objectives
• Validate asset-wide design specs
• Refine and create solutions to address gaps and add features

18. Examples of Digital Oil Field Technology:
Mobility Solutions
Mobility solutions play a key role delivering results in the Digital Oilfield.
• Offers optimal interfaces for user input & system interaction
• Provides better connectivity for communication & collaboration
• Extends office applications into the field
• Enhances safety for workers in remote or hazardous locations
• Enables real-time access to more data
Photo credit: Flickr/ebayink.

19. Examples of Digital Oil Field Technology:
Remote Operations
• Remote monitoring and control of an artificial lift apparatus
• Solution benefits include:
• Decreased windshield time & Increased safety
• Increased efficiency: Allows for more time spent troubleshooting and
addressing performance issues
• Better prioritization: Helps focus on the largest opportunity for production
improvement.

20. For more information visit:
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