Integrated Operations in the High North (IOHN, IO High North or IO in the High North) is a unique collaboration project that during a four-year period starting May 2008 is working on designing, implementing and testing a Digital Platform for what in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry is called the next or second generation of

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. The work on the Digital platform is focussed on capture, transfer and integration of

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from the remote production installations to the decision makers. A risk evaluation across the whole chain is also included. The platform is based on

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and enables a higher degree of

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. Requirements for the digital platform come from use cases defined within the

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and Completion, Reservoir and Production and Operations and Maintenance domains. The platform will subsequently be demonstrated through pilots within these three domains. This new platform is considered an important enabler for safe and sustainable operations in remote, vulnerable and hazardous areas such as the High North, but the technology is clearly also applicable in more general applications. The IOHN project consortium consists of 23 participants, including operators, service providers, software vendors, technology providers, research institutions and universities. In addition, the

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is working with the project to resolve common infrastructural and

challenges. The project is managed by Det Norske Veritas (DNV). Nils Sandsmark was the project manager during the initiation and start-up phase. Frédéric Verhelst took over as project manager from the beginning of 2009. Financing comes from the participants and the

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(RCN) for parts of the project (GOICT and AutoConRig ).

Participants

The consortium consists of the following 22 participants (in alphabetical order):

References

External links

Integrated Operations in the High North
website *

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workshop o
Semantic Web in Oil and Gas industry
Houston, December 9–10, 2008
Position papers
from several participants in IOHN.
Semantic Days 2009
conference, Stavanger, May 18–20, 2009. On
session
is devoted to IOHN.
IO 09 Science and Practice
conference, Trondheim, September 29–30, 2009. On
session
is devoted to IOHN.

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Participants

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