CERA Digital Oil Field of the Future Forum

CERA Digital Oil Field of the Future Forum grew out of our Digital Oil Field of the Future Multiclient Study and the industry's demand for additional debate and research. In our Multiclient Study, IHS CERA analysts documented the economic case for the digital oil field, the technological hurdles facing its realization, and its potentially transformative impact on the established E&P business model and competitive landscape. The Forum aims to take these results further by providing E&P firms with an overarching strategic map for attaining The Prize of the digital oil field.

Membership to the CERA Digital Oil Field of the Future Forum is on an annual basis, during which CERA delivers two research cycles, each culminating in member workshops. At scheduled times through the year, members receive the following products and services:

• Special Reports
• Member Workshops
• IHS CERA Website Access
• Telephone and Email Access to Research Staff
• Forum Member Meetings
• Event Invitations
• Ongoing dialogue

Benefits:

CERA Digital Oil Field of the Future Forum enables you to:

• Participate in a focused global forum aimed at promoting thought leadership and insights concerning the digital oil field
• Find solutions to the fundamental challenges that confront E&P companies in attaining The Prize of the digital oil field
• Tap into a research framework and peer-group discussions indentifying key drivers—business, economic, operational, cultural, organizational, management, regulatory, and technological—affecting the realization of the digital oil field

Digital oil fields promise The Prize of improved reservoir recovery, lower costs, and increased production rates. Yet E&P firms face many roadblocks along the way, including volatile oil prices, more technically challenging asset types, and a shrinking E&P workforce. Success, and thereby competitive advantage, depends upon achieving several key goals IHS CERA Digital Oil Field of the Future Forum has set for its research agenda:

• Refocusing the digital oil field from a tactical to a strategic level, thereby broadening and accelerating adoption
• Deploying and monitoring early implementations to ensure that E&P firms recover their investments and show early success
• Integrating complex technologies that will enable realization of the digital oil field
• Achieving proper alignment among people, processes, organizations, and technologies
• Resolving complex relationships among the E&P firms, major resource holders, regulatory agencies, and oilfield service companies

IHS CERA Digital Oil Field of the Future Forum membership is on an annual basis, during which IHS CERA delivers two research cycles, each culminating in member workshops. At scheduled times through the year members receive the following products and services:

• Two Special Reports based upon the members’ interests, one delivered after each workshop

Member Workshops

• Two seats to each of the four annual Forum workshops (held in the spring and autumn, in each case in both North America and Europe)

IHS CERA Website Access

• Client access to the Forum website, which will include postings on:
  • Selected research analysis and findings
  • Summaries and workshop proceedings
  • Projects schedules
  • Logistics information

Telephone and Email Access to Research Staff

• Telephone and email access to IHS CERA experts during normal business hours to address specific questions related to Forum research and to identify and discuss key topics of interest to members

Forum Member Meetings

• Two annual meetings (spring and fall) via teleconference or on-site with members

Event Invitations:

• Exclusive client - IHS CERA expert gatherings - View upcoming events 
• Seats at IHS CERA spring and fall Executive Roundtables
• CERAWeek, IHS CERA Executive Conference, held annually in Houston - for an additional fee

Ongoing dialogue

• Continuing discussion outside of the member workshops among peers within the E&P industry

Subscribers also receive access to our extensive research archives, available in English, Russian, and Chinese, including these recent titles:

• DOFF-related Production System Optimization
• Achieving Top Asset Performance via Different DOFF Routes
• The DOFF Applied in SAGD Production Environments
• Real-time Data Management—Is There a Right Way?
• Shallow-water Oil DOFF Case Study
• New DOFF Operating Models to Address E&P Human Resource Challenges
• DOFF Considerations for Major Projects
• Making the Transition from Vision to Implementation, and the DOFF Applied in Unconventional Settings
• DOFF Lessons from Other Industries

Future Research

• The DOFF and Continuous Improvement
• The DOFF’s Role in Reservoir Management  

Judson Jacob