Exploration & Production (E&P)

Exploration and production companies deal with unique technologies and processes for exploring and producing Oil and Gas. The E&P value chain consists of the following areas:

The E&P scope encompasses the applications in the domain of Seismic Acquisition and Processing, Surface Interpretation, Reservoir Simulation, Visualization, and overall management of business needs of the organization.

The work and workplace continues to change. Competition for hydrocarbons has driven companies to analyze, explore and produce in harsh and remote locations, where even the simplest logistical tasks can be difficult, dangerous and costly. High crude oil prices and the high demand for oil has increased the E&P activity, resulting in new exploration and production techniques, enhanced recovery operations, and increased oil and gas production. E&P data has been the key for finding and producing oil. The intense growth in E&P activities combined with cost reduction and sparse workforce has resulted in more opportunities in the following areas:

• Data Management related services.
  
  
• Upstream Applications integration with field systems and ERP.
  
  
• Information Management
  
  
• Reservoir Modeling and Simulation.
  
  
• Integrated oil fields

Industry Challenges

Upstream oil and gas companies continue to face a substantial cost and price squeeze, because of increasing competition for access to left over regions for exploration. According to a leading consulting firm, the factors behind the industry's perpetual focus on costs are: (1) Maturing production fields, (2) declining size of reservoirs, (3) Proliferating environmental protection regulations (4) Increasing government royalties.

The focus on costs has in turn put pressure on information technology, resulting in creating new set of challenges. Statistics demonstrate that geoscientists spend 50-60% of their time finding and validating data. Managing ever increasing data volumes continues to be the biggest challenge. The remote and harsh working environments pose challenges for component / tool safety and reliability. Workforces are aging and knowledge residing with experienced engineers, commercial specialists and managers need to be captured and managed. E&P businesses must also cope with new security threats, safety and financial compliance requirements as well as growing environmental pressures.

Satyam's Exploration and Production Competency

Our exploration and production practice leverages Satyam’s Information Technology capabilities, built over 20 years to help enterprises achieve higher customer satisfaction and enhanced operational efficiency. This team consists of domain experts, with rich industry experience, and technology experts. We constantly leverage our strong relationship with global oil majors, ENERGISTICS and PPDM to be at the forefront of all technological trends.

Service Offerings

Technology Alliance and Relationships

Success Stories

• Developed LAS to WITSML and LAS to WellLogML conversion tools for ENERGISTICS
  
  
• Processed and loaded mapping data into PPDM metadata module, for a global oil major
  
  
• LAS file processing for an integrated oil major
  
  
• Developed a Executive Information Workspace, to manage E&P projects, for an Asian Oil major
  
  
• Developed ESS portal for a middle east based natural gas producer
  
  
• Unified and integrated all websites, using oracle 9iAS, for a major E&P company
  
  
• Provided common usage experience by utilizing best of Service Oriented Architectures on Microsoft Smart Client Architecture
  
  
• Comprehensive IT Service support, covering onshore and offshore operations, for a Scottish E&P company
  
  
• Converted the Physical Well Files into Electronic Format to optimize space and security for an O&G major in US
  
  
• Well Control and Production Safety assessment tool for an O&G major in US
  
  
• Provided a common usage experience to the user with Service Oriented Architecture for an O&G major in US

For more information contact: rfi@satyam.com

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