SAS has licensed the OpenSpirit Software Developer Kit:

CONTACT
Fred Haubold
+1 919 531 2194

PARTNER PROFILE
SAS is a pioneer in the field of integrated operations, along with O&G companies based on the Norwegian continental shelf. With regional hubs for the Americas, Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Middle East, as well as representation in many industry bodies, SAS is well-positioned to support the evolution toward integrated operations by helping O&G companies:

• Create integrated operating and strategic plans with time horizons spanning from a few days to decades.
• Harness the vast data and knowledge sources within O&G companies.

SAS is the first company to call when you need to solve complex business problems, achieve key objectives and more effectively manage your information assets. As the leader in business analytics software and services, we provide a technology platform and market-leading analytic applications to help you not only navigate today's challenges but capitalize on tomorrow's opportunities.

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Data integration, risk assessment and quantification of uncertainty are key issues in the oil and gas upstream arena, and as the problems become too complex and the cost associated with poor predictions (dry holes) increases, the need for proper integration of disciplines, data fusion, risk reduction and uncertainty management become very important.

Soft computing methods proposed by SAS offer an excellent opportunity to address all these issues, particularly integrating information from various sources with varying degrees of uncertainty, establishing relationships between measurements and reservoir properties, and assigning risk factors or error bars to predictions.

BENEFITS
SAS is leveraging the OpenSpirit integration platform to enable end-users to build workflows with improved viewing and visualization capabilities. Selected data can then be transferred into the SAS environment for precision data-analysis, and then to OpenSpirit-enabled geotechnical applications or data stores for use in interpretation workflows.

The major benefits to petroleum reservoir engineers, geophysicists and geologists encapsulate the ability to better understand reservoir characterization and flow modeling by applying geostatistics, in addition to the fact that such technology is numerically based. Thus, another benefit is the shared responsibility for the construction of static models, such that a numerical model that characterizes reservoir heterogeneities is able to improve the mechanistic understanding of fluid flow.

Exploratory data analysis that is not geostatistics per se, but probably takes about 70% of the time allocated to reservoir characterization projects, is one task SAS can excel at with its platforms and frameworks. In essence SAS can help find spatial consistency of multivariate reservoir properties by integrating and consolidating GGRE data across multiple disciplines, even incorporating data from various databases and other niche market applications through the OpenSpirit interoperability framework.