TRENDS: INTEGRATING COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Marc de Buyl Petrosystems Houston The oil industry has been sailing rough seas for some 7 years, and now, more than ever, the emphasis is being placed on making best use of assets by sound resource management. An oil company's assets include hydrocarbon resources in the ground and the available data needed to efficiently discover and produce them. Therefore, like tangible assets, such assets need to be managed using the most reliable subsurface model.