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Conference Summary
The annual fall PPDM Association Data Management Conference was held on November 2nd and 3rd, 2004 in Calgary. Nearly 100 participants enjoyed two days of presentations by a host of international experts. In addition, four half-day sessions were held to discuss the Association’s new work groups and ongoing projects.
Participants were treated to presentations by nineteen companies and organizations covering a range of data and information management topics. Presentations by representatives from Geological Survey of Canada, Nexen, Inc., Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd., Rakhit Petroleum Consulting and Corvelle Management Consultants examined geo-science and spatial E&P data issues. Presentations given by the PPDM Association, POSC, and Landmark Graphics focused on implementing XML standards. Industry representatives from Andromeda Computer Systems, BJ Services Company Canada, dataMatters Consulting Ltd., Oilware, Inc., Petris Technology, Talisman Energy, Online Business Systems, Rapid Technology Corporation, SD Processes Inc. and the PPDM Association provided presentations on various implementations of PPDM and related issues data management issues. Finally, Microsoft Canada provided a two part talk on threat modeling. The presentations are available on the PPDM Website in PDF format.
As always, it is the generous support of member companies that make these events possible. The PPDM Association thanks EnCana, Petro-Canada, Intervera and Shell Canada for their financial sponsorship. The PPDM Association would like to extend its appreciation to EnCana and Petro-Canada for supplying meeting space for conference related events. Presentations
The PPDM Association is constantly striving to develop products that the membership find valuable. Several action items arose from suggestions by members that attended the Fall Conference:
- The PPDM Association will establish an area on the PPDM Website where members can contribute to lists of values (reference lists) and/or provide links to reference lists currently published by other organizations
- The Association will solicit suggestions from the members and develop enhanced self-serve capabilities on the Website featuring a new Member Profiles Section
- The Association will accelerate and enhance the discussion forum capabilities
- The Association will explore the potential interest and support within the industry and membership for creating a Heavy Oil Work Group.
Tuesday
“Board of Directors Update”
Arthur Boykiw, PPDM Board of Directors“Threat Modeling, Part 1”
Dan Sellers, Microsoft Canada Corporation“WITSML”
Marcus Ridgway, Landmark Graphics Canada / Alan Doniger, POSC“PPDM Implements PPDM 3.7”
Rick Taylor, Tony Grimes, PPDM Association“PPDM Groups – The Power Within”
Wes Baird, dataMatters Consulting Ltd.“Applied Data Architecture: A Geo-science Perspective”
Doug Uffen, Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd.“Cost Benefit of PPDM Data Model”
Paul Coward, SD Processes Inc.“Update – Units of Measure”
John Heerema, Andromeda Computer Systems“Well Operations Extended PPDM Data Model with Applied Case Studies”
Tim Leshchyshyn, BJ Services Company Canada“Migrating Oil & Gas Survey Data to the NAD 83 Datum”
Yogi Schulz, Corvelle Management Consultants
Wednesday
“PPDM Business Development Review, 2003-2004”
Joe Tischner, PPDM Association“Threat Modeling – Part 2”
Dan Sellers, Microsoft Canada“Attaining Wisdom: A Pragmatic Approach to Geoscience Knowledge Integration”
Jerome Goodman, Bruce Palmer, Rakhit Petroleum Consulting“Work Group/Project Updates”
Trudy Curtis, PPDM Association“PPDM Data Management Work Group Update – Linking Data and Practices”
Wes Baird, dataMatters Consulting Ltd.“PPDM Well Operations Work Group Update”
Pat Rhynes, Rapid Technology Corporation“PPDM Through the Ages”
Pat Rhynes, Rapid Technology Corporation“Introducing NADM (the North American Geologic Map Data Model) at the Geological Survey of Canada”
Peter Davenport, Ping Tzeng, Graham Lai and David Lepard, Geological Survey of Canada“Incorporating PPDM Spatial Into Business Processes”
Peter Boorman, Nexen, Inc.“Reusable Integration Services for Corporate Reference Data”
Curtis Linton, Online Business Systems“Implementing PPDM v3.7 for use in Well Log Archiving and Retrieval”
Lonnie Chin, Talisman Energy / Harry Schultz, Oilware, Inc. / Jeffrey W. Pferd, Ph.D., Petris Technology