DELFI Cognitive E&P Environment
A new era in E&P
A new E&P environment for the evolving world
Market dynamics have challenged the oil and gas industry to evolve. Digital technology now stands to bring its own disruption to our industry. It is fundamentally changing how we work—to enhance performance and enable unmatched value creation along the way.
Schlumberger is delivering the DELFI cognitive E&P environment for this evolving world. It is a multidimensional environment that unites planning and operations. Bringing together advances in technical disciplines such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and automation—underpinned by decades of unrivaled domain knowledge—the result is an E&P experience like no other.
Everything working together, continuously
The DELFI environment defines a new standard in cross-discipline collaboration. For the first time in one place, users can see and understand the connections and dynamic effects from exploration to abandonment. More than individuals collaborating, the DELFI environment is everything working together continuously: teams, systems, software, legacy data, and live inputs—all feeding into a unified environment that grows to become greater than the sum of its parts.
The environment amplifies the individual capabilities and expertise of people working at each stage of the hydrocarbon life cycle. Whether explorationist, driller, or production engineer, the DELFI environment augments every connection and interaction, enabling you to arrive at better outcomes sooner.
What is DELFI?
A secure, cloud-based environment
The DELFI cognitive E&P environment is a secure, cloud-based space built on key premises that make it unique in our software portfolio. It harnesses data, scientific knowledge, and domain expertise to fundamentally change the way of working in every part of the E&P value chain. The DELFI environment makes applications and workflows accessible to all users and allows team members to build common workspaces for data, models, and interpretations while respecting proprietary information boundaries.
Built on deep science to automate and accelerate complex functions
At its heart, the DELFI environment utilizes powerful software built on deep science to automate and accelerate complex functions such as modeling, simulation, analysis, and forecasting. These advanced computational capabilities have been developed using insights from lab and field measurements, drawing on datasets across a range of diverse sources from flow assurance studies to fiscal libraries. It is this scientific dedication that ensures the engines driving the environment will always be fit-for-purpose and best-in-class.
Trusted to solve the industry’s most complex challenges, the DELFI cognitive E&P environment is supported by the collective knowledge of the world’s largest body of petrotechnical experts. Now the DELFI environment’s cognitive approach amplifies the capabilities of every expert; enabling you to automate tasks, use learning systems, interrogate richer data sources, and enable better and faster decisions.
Features
Secure: no compromise in security, using the best-in-class standards. Schlumberger has protected customer data for more than 90 years and the DELFI environment is fully compliant with all regulations. It is also fully supported by cloud vendor security, operational procedures, and audits.
Liberated data: available, shareable, ready for you—whenever you need it, wherever you are.
Open and extensible: seamlessly integrating your data, workflows, applications, and intellectual property.
Access to technology: best-in-class science directly from your platforms, simulators, and engines.
Cognitive: harnessing the power of data analytics and the full spectrum of cognitive technologies available that deliver real insight fast.
Automated: more time for what you do best.
Scalable: instant access to the processing power you need to get the job done.
Evergreen: a shared, living model of the surface and subsurface, from pore to process.
Integrated and collaborative: cross-domain workflows that span the entire life cycle in one environment.
The DELFI cognitive E&P environment will be available from Q4 2017, with the first native solution DrillPlan in DELFI environment released in the North American market from September 2017.
DELFI Experience
A personalized E&P workspace engineered for your tasks
The DELFI cognitive E&P environment is enriched with embedded, continuous, and ubiquitous support, whether you are drilling a land well or planning a subsea project. Your unique DELFI solution knows what you need, and launches only the relevant tools, data feeds, and other connections to build a personalized E&P workspace engineered for your task. Removing the need to familiarize yourself with additional functions and navigate through software layers, the DELFI environment offers direct access to exactly what you need to get the job done from the word go: without distraction or delay.
Flexibility and control of your E&P workflows
Global access to your workflows, with the flexibility and control of a cloud platform, expanding the functionality and openness of the Schlumberger Software technology.
Fast upgrades and deployment of new technology
With automatic upgrades to the latest technology in the DELFI environment, users can stay ahead of the game. It opens new options and workflows at the same pace as technology moves forward. By seamlessly integrating data, domain, and processes to enable end-to-end workflows across the E&P life cycle, you can elastically scale your service, including high performance computing to achieve limitless compute.
Explore DELFI Experience
DrillPlan
Digital well construction planning solution that maximizes the results from drilling teams in a single, common system.
Integrated well construction
DrillPlan in the DELFI cognitive E&P environment forms part of a fully integrated well construction solution, which transforms the planning and execution performance, efficiency, and quality of every well drilled.
DrillPlan in the DELFI environment, unites data, technology, science, and expertise from Schlumberger and the industry. The introduction of enhanced domain capabilities boosted by digital technologies and further integration with Microsoft Office 365 will lead to higher levels of collaboration and productivity among teams and stakeholders, across E&P disciplines.
A radical new way of working
The digital well construction planning solution ensures planning is completed, honoring the highest standards in the most efficient way through project management, in-built engines, concurrent collaborative engineering, and automated design validation. This radical new way of working gives quicker and better quality drilling programs. The iterative workflow means plans improve as new data are added, and future programs can learn from prior experience.
The fully integrated well construction solution will be driving the Schlumberger Rig of the Future, which through knowledge capture, mechanization, and automation will deliver a further leap in performance, making sure that each well is better than the last.
Efficiency gains and quality impact
The solution has demonstrated efficiency gains and quality impact, generating hundreds of plans through more than a year of testing in various locations. In West Texas and Canada, oil and gas companies extensively evaluated the solution for months, making it fit their well construction process. DrillPlan proved to be comprehensive and powerful to deliver a well planning program in days rather than weeks. The companies acknowledged the ease of access—it takes only a few hours for engineers to use it—as well as its ability to enable stronger collaborative work among team members and departments.
DrillPlan will be available in North America land operations from Q4 2017, with continuous development of functionalities that will meet the needs of the global development and exploration market in 2018 and beyond.