Cross-vendor Integration in Exploration and Production Today Application Interoperability
The second main approach to integrating across vendor boundaries – application interoperability – seems to be gaining momentum in the upstream industry. It nicely complements data-level integration. While data integration links applications by way of a database – sharing or copying and moving data – application interoperability allows software tools to communicate directly with one another.
The primary way this may be achieved is through application connectors integrated with established middleware infrastructures. Just as
It is increasingly important for software developers to find viable ways of ensuring their solutions remain accessible to customers that have multivendor environments.
multivendor applications communicate with databases via connectors through middleware, they can also communicate with other applications when they are properly enabled. Two key sources of E&P middleware exist today. One source is vendor-specific platforms from Schlumberger, Landmark/Halliburton and Paradigm, each of which provides third-party integration via software development kits (SDKs). The other source is independent, vendor-neutral middleware solutions.
While the level of business logic and workflow support improves with application interoperability, there are apparently no published E&P industry standards to govern these interactions today. Therefore, each middleware provider implements application-level integration with its own unique flavour.
How Does OpenSpirit’s Middleware Facilitate Exploration and Production Cross-vendor Integration? Since middleware appears to be the emerging solution to the E&P integration challenge and OpenSpirit appears to be the dominant player in cross-vendor integration, industry leaders were asked to expand on how OpenSpirit works.
Everyone agrees that the company – originally launched in 1997 – provides a well-established middleware infrastructure with an extensive global presence. OpenSpirit enjoys strong relationships with energy companies and all the top upstream technology vendors, as well as many smaller organisations. Both Schlumberger and Paradigm are shareholders. Landmark/Halliburton, on the other hand, has been working closely with OpenSpirit for some time now. “OpenSpirit’s integration framework is used by so many different oil companies and software providers,” observes Kay Sutter, Manager of Data Management and Connectivity for SMT, “it would be virtually impossible for another solution to achieve the momentum and level of connectivity OpenSpirit offers today.”
Historically, observers associated OpenSpirit with data-level integration due to its robust connectors to leading subsurface data stores. Some
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