Monday May 21 is the last day for members to submit comments on the ‘What Is A Completion’ toolkit. As you know, our ‘What Is A Completion’ Work Group has been hard at work disambiguating the term ‘Completion’ over the past year. This team has hit a significant milestone in completing the toolkit and is currently seeking member reviewers to provide feedback and respond to a survey. All contributions, feedback, and suggestions are appreciated as this toolkit will be for a broad audience (note, any reviewer must be a PPDM member due to intellectual property concerns). Once we have everyone’s feedback, the Work Group will review and update the toolkit as appropriate prior to finalizing, with an estimated release mid-2018.
Excitement for this piece of work is building and appreciate the hard work of the ‘What Is A Completion’ Work Group and our volunteer member reviewers. Learn how you can become a sponsor of this group now in our Sponsorship Kit. For more information, please contact projects@ppdm.org.
Join PPDM's Certified Instructor Pat Rhynes for a two and a half day special edition of Business Life Cycle of the Well, Levels 1 and 2 – May 29, 30 and 31 at geoLOGIC systems. This course will start with Business Life Cycle of the Well 1.1: Introduction (Level 1), followed by Level 2, which takes a more in depth look at asset life cycle stages planning, drilling, completing, producing and disposing. You will also review key objectives, business processes and activity, groups involved in each stage and decisions and data categories for each activity. More information on the class is available in the attached sample, or on our website.
The Dallas/Fort Worth Data Management Community convened at XTO Energy on April 26, 2018 and enjoyed a presentation by Steve Cobb with CB Technologies entitled “The Refinery of the Future: A Real-Time Use Case”. His talk described how recent evolutions in the technology industry are allowing the Oil and Gas Industry to alter the way they tackle current business problems. Edge computing, IIoT, Digital Twin, field augmented reality and remote virtual reality have become the foundation for a new wave of Digital Transformation initiatives. They seek to capture the tribal knowledge of experienced professionals as they leave the workforce, allowing companies to work smarter and enable companies to capture and use the vast amounts of data that they possess today for better decision making. Seizing this business inflection point and the opportunities it offers, CBT has teamed with multiple technology partners to integrate the latest information sciences into “The Refinery of the Future” at Texmark Chemical, providing use cases supported by real operational needs. We will discuss five solutions for a chemical plant: Predictive Maintenance, Video Analytics, Worker Safety, Connected Worker, Asset Maintenance & Integrity. Many thanks to Stonebridge Consulting for providing a delicious lunch and XTO Energy for a fabulous venue. Drawing winners, Andrew Belschner of XTO Energy and Brooke Granger with Jetta Operating, each won a free one-year membership to PPDM. Our next luncheon is planned for September 12th at Pioneer Natural Resources.
The CPDA designation is a globally recognized achievement, unique to the petroleum data management industry. Certification demonstrates to employers, clients, and colleagues that a CPDA professional possesses data management knowledge, experience, and skills to navigate the unique challenges of data management specific to the exploration & production industry.
We are holding a CPDA Information Session virtually May 3, 2018 at 1:15pm Denver, USA, local time, for those interested in learning more about the CPDA Program and how they can take the next steps to earn this credential. We will walk through the application process, provide tips to study for the exam, and present information concerning taking the exam and becoming certified. You can also visit our Certification page at www.ppdm.org/certification. Details on how to join the GoToMeeting will be distributed upon receipt of registration. This session is free, so that we can track interest, please ensure that all attendees register. Register now to attend on our website.
The PPDM Association is delighted by the tremendous turn out at our first Houston Professional Petroleum Data Expo, which took place at the Westin Houston Memorial City on April 17 & 18. Nearly 300 folks joined our speakers, sponsors and exhibitors for two days of presentations, interactive discussions, networking luncheons, cocktail reception and more. Presentations ranged from very technical to very interactive, with something for everyone in attendance. Highlights included our Keynote Speaker, Jim Claunch, the Well Status & Classification Training with Trudy Curtis, Bollywood dancing with Abhijeet Narvekar and more. This new style created a lot of energy and excitement, and the team is excited already for the 2019 Houston Expo. Thank you to all our sponsors and exhibitors for making this event possible. Presentations from this event will be available on May 1st on our Past Events page.
Foundations, the Journal of the Professional Petroleum Data Management Association, Volume 5 Issue 1 is now available! Including great articles on Green Data Management, and several articles on the Professional Development topic. Foundations is free to access, simply visit the page and login to view your copy now! Hard copies will be available at PPDM events including the upcoming Houston Expo.
The Professional Petroleum Data Management (PPDM) Association announces that Katalyst Data Management has achieved Gold Compliance with their iGlass subsurface data management solution. The official Compliance Score is: KATALYST, PPDM3.8_300_159_iGlass5.8.X_159_Gold_100%. Read more in the Press Release
The Early Bird Deadline to attend the upcoming Houston Professional Petroleum Data Expo is coming up on March 16! With five stages of presentations, more than 50 speakers, and a variety of themes, attendees will be able to create their own experience tailored to their goals. The agenda and additional information about this event are available on our Houston Expo Page. Thanks to our wonderful Sponsors and Exhibitors, registration starts at $79 USD for this must-attend event.
We are holding a CPDA Information Session virtually March 27, 2018, at 10am Perth local time, for those interested in learning more about the CPDA Program and how they can take the next steps to earn this credential. We will walk through the application process, provide tips to study for the exam, and present information concerning taking the exam and becoming certified. You can also visit our Certification page at www.ppdm.org/certification.
This information session will be taking place at 10:00am in Perth, Australia via our GoToMeeting conferencing system. Details will be distributed to you upon your registration. This session is free, so that we can track interest, please ensure that all attendees register. Register now to attend on our website.
As you know, our ‘What Is A Completion’ Work Group has been hard at work disambiguating the term ‘Completion’ over the past year. This team has hit a significant milestone in completing the toolkit and is currently seeking member reviewers to provide feedback and respond to a survey. All contributions, feedback, and suggestions are appreciated as this toolkit will be for a broad audience (note, any reviewer must be a PPDM member due to intellectual property concerns). Once we have everyone’s feedback, the Work Group will review and update the toolkit as appropriate prior to finalizing, with an estimated release mid-2018.