I attended the workshop by Mike Ilgen and Patrick from Santos on SANTOS Brisbane Primary Control Center – A Collaborative Environment for the Intelligent Field.
SANTOS has been embarking on their Intelligent Field Vision for the past 4 – 5 years. The Intelligent field combines intelligent field devices with applications that use this data to enable better decisions about how to best operate their fields. Intelligent Fields is also a highly collaborative environment where multi-discipline teams work together to solve difficult problems. In order to achieve this vision, SANTOS built the Brisbane Control Center in 2010. This new Control Center allows them to monitor and control all their upstream facilities and collaborate with teams in the field which thousand kilometers away.
During the session I also got to know about the Australia's biggest iPad !
Huge transformation in business – starts with pervasive sensors at well head, then transmit the info and then intelligent application uses to turn this data to make better business decision !
And moreover Santos experienced Project payback in less than one year !
It was killer talk by Mike Ilgen ! Impressive !