Example Case for SOA in Upstream Oil

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Example Case for SOA in Upstream Oil Gas

• Rusty Foreman BP
• EP Digital Communications TechnologyService
  Oriented Architectures, Program Manager

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The Move to Smart Fields

• Monitor and take action on real-time
  operations data
• Electronic meters or gauges
• SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
• Remote servers and data historians which are
  increasingly linked to wide area networks
• Advanced analysis, visualization and process
  control tools

• The number of systems supplying and consuming
  real-time data is rapidly expanding

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The Spaghetti Effect

• Historically
• Point (custom solutions) used to address each new
  request
• Minimal reuse Each connection rebuilt from
  scratch

IT becomesTHEbottleneck
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Start With Web Services

• Real-time data transfer
• Automated notification service

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Results

• As of mid-2005, RTAP
• 30 locations
• At least a dozen applications providing data and
  about the same number consuming data

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U.S. Onshore Example
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Moving from Web Services to SOA - from Spaghetti
to Lasagna
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Most Significant Benefit of SOA? - IT
Customers Focused on Core Business Processes
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The Journey to SOA

• Experiment with Web Services
• Begin wrapping legacy applications
• Define / establish internal Service Oriented
  Architecture
• Significant Issues
• - Maturity of underlying standards
• - No common definition of SOA
• Expand the established SOA beyond the firewall