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these innovations as basis for international standardization initiatives.
Relationship with other activities. Our work in NORSOK Z-TI builds and extends upon engagement in the READI JIP, predominantly through Mina Hagshenas PhD project. We also have an ongoing PhD project on digital tool support for early-stage design of subsurface facilities. This PhD is funded through the BRU21 program.
Further reading
Haghshenas, M. and T. Østerlie (2020). «Coordinating innovation in digital infrastructure: The case of trans- forming offshore project delivery», in Agrifoglio, R.,
R. Lamboglia, D. Mancini, and F. Ricciardi (Eds.), Digital Business Transformation: Organizing, Managing, and Con- trolling in the Information Age, Springer Verlag.
Haghshenas, M. and T. Østerlie (2020). «Navigating towards a digital ecosystem: The case study of offshore infrastructure industry», in Proceedings of the 11th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS2020)
Haghshenas, M. and T. Østerlie (2019). «Digital infrastructure innovation vs. digital innovation in infrastructure: Digital transformation in the offshore construction industry», in Proceedings of the 6th edition of The Innovation in Information Infrastructure (III) workshop.
Geological data preparation
This project is a collaboration with the Sirius research programs on semantic integration and digital geoscience, with Equinor as industrial partner.
Background. Analytics applied on vast quantities of digital data holds the potential for faster and better decisions. However, this is of limited use ifthe time it takes to prepare the data exceeds the decision window. This is the situation facing oil and gas companies in transitioning from traditional subsurface evaluation techniques towards data-driven decision-making. While existing data preparation techniques work perfectly with traditional (small data) subsurface evaluation, they do not scale to big data settings.
Results. This project is a continuation of our sustained en- gagement with transitions towards data-centric approaches in oil and gas exploration. This is a topic we have been en- gaged with since the beginning of Sirius; initially through the Geological Assistant demonstration that we initiated together with Equinor and Schlumberger, and later through sustained collaboration with Equinor’s data management community. Our output from this has been predominantly theoretical results, but has formed and continues to form the basis for innovations developed by the other research programs.
Future work. We will contribute to evaluating and improving the prototypes to be delivered by the other research pro- grams as part of this study.
Further reading
Parmiggiani, E., T. Østerlie, and P.G. Almklov (2022). «In the backrooms of data science», Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23(1), pp.139-164.
Monteiro, E., T. Østerlie, E. Parmiggiani, and M. Mikalsen (2018). «Quantifying quality: Towards a post-humanist perspective on sensemaking», in Schultze, U., M. Aanestad, M. Mähring, and K. Riemer (Eds.), Living with monsters? Social implications of algorithmic phenomena, hybrid agency, and the performativity of technolgy, Springer Verlag.
Østerlie, T., Parmiggiani, E., and Monteiro, E. (2017). «Information infrastructure in the face of irreducible uncertainty», in Proceedings of the 5th edition of Innovation in Information Infrastructure (III) workshop.
Team members
Thomas Østerlie Eric Monteiro Elena Parmiggiani Mina Haghshenas
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