New industry visualization tool
Time Chart, a new web visualization tool, expands the capabilities of the PetroTrek tool kit of web parts and services.
The new tool allows users running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to access from a single location information on production, operational, and safety data and view relationships between past and current well events. By making more data easily available and putting information in context, Time Chart facilitates decision-making to help oil companies improve their operational performance, the firm notes.
With Time Chart technology, petroleum information workers are empowered with another level of data visualization, the firm says. As a web part, Time Chart connects multiple data sources through web services, whether the data are stored locally or in a database thousands of miles away. All data can be displayed together graphically to form a composite view of information over any period of time.
The web part solution, with its components that work together to enable developers to create web pages for users to more easily access information, provides the ability to efficiently visualize well events. Among these events are allocated production, annulus pressure, downtime, choke size, flowing and shut in pressures, reworks, recompletions, well treatments, preventive maintenance, flowline temperature, attributed losses, well tests, and production status.
The PetroTrek tool kit is a collection of configurable web parts and services specifically designed to meet the complex information needs of petroleum engineers, geoscientists, and other members of an asset team. In addition to the Time Chart, the tool kit contains web parts for production decline curves, well logs, field maps, well tests, directional surveys, graphs, and tabular views of data. PetroTrek tool kit web parts can be combined and configured to quickly build production dashboards, operations reports, and electronic well files.
The company says its PetroTrek tool kit web parts use Microsoft Silverlight technology to render a graphically rich, interactive user experience. Users can pan, zoom, and manipulate data as well as configure presentation elements from the web part. And because the web parts use AJAX to stream data between browser and server, users don’t have to wait for pages to reload to see changes take effect.
Source: Information Store Inc., 10777 Westheimer, Suite 250, Houston, TX 77042.
