Lessons from pan-industry collaborations in the offshore oil and gas industry

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Lessons from pan-industry collaborationsin the
offshore oil and gas industry

• Chris Dudgeon
• OTM Consulting Ltd
• www.otmnet.com

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How important is offshore wind?
Source The World Offshore Wind Database
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Whats unusual about theoil and gas industry?
Competing against nature
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Examples of pan-industry collaboration
What will people share?

• Funding
• Technical expertise
• Data
• Knowledge/ experience

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Collaborative funding

• Joint Industry Projects (JIPs)
• High leverage on RD funding
• Fairly unique to oil and gas sector
• Shared needs and expertise
• Varying sizes of project
• Studies
• Major development programmes

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Sharing technical expertise

• Development of standards
• IWIS
• Intelligent Well Interface Standardisation
• International collaboration
• Section of revised ISO standard
• Members contribute in-house expertise instead of
  money
• Need a neutral facilitator
• Risk of going on for ever
• Saves operators money
• Cuts supplier lead times
• Plug and play
• Standardised interfaces

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Sharing data

• Shut Off Knowledge System (SOKS)
• Members provide case histories
• Powerful knowledge resource
• Benchmarking, reliability analysis
• Effort and time required to find, gather and
  input data
• Independent facilitator good for prodding members
• Remarkable willingness to report successes,
  failures, actual vs planned costs etc

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Sharing knowledge and experience

• Knowledge-sharing forums
• Drilling Engineering Association
• 27 oil companies
• Expandable Technology Forum
• Knowledge and experience sharing
• Ensure narrow technical area
• Time-burden to travel and attend
• Proliferation of forums
• Most successful are focused on narrow issue with
  clear objectives
• EEEGR
• Shared purpose and passion

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How do pan-industry collaborations evolve?

• Critical success factors
• Narrowly-defined topics
• Gamechangers
• Hot topics
• Vital or critical
• Minimum time burden
• Independent facilitation
• Energy
• Relationships
• Constant activity
• Long-term objectives
• Evolving membership

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