POSC Caesar Association (PCA) is an international, open, not-for-profit, member organization that promotes the development of open specifications to be used as standards for enabling the interoperability of data, software and related matters.
POSC Caesar Association
Logo for POSC Caesar Association.
Abbreviation
PCA
Formation
1997-11-14
Legal status
Association
Purpose
Promote the development of open specifications to be used as standards for enabling the interoperability of data, software and related matters
Location
Bærum, Norway
Region served
Worldwide
Membership
36
Official language
English
General Manager
Nils Sandsmark
Main organ
Board of Directors
Website
http://www.posccaesar.org
PCA is the initiator of ISO 15926 "Integration of life-cycle data for process plants including oil and gas production facilities" and is committed to its maintenance and enhancement.[1]
Nils Sandsmark has been the General Manager of POSC Caesar Association since 1999[2] and Thore Langeland, Norwegian Oil Industry Association (Norwegian: Oljeindustriens Landsforening, OLF), is the chairman of the board.
Historyedit
Caesar Offshoreedit
The first predecessor of POSC Caesar Association, the Caesar Offshore program, started in 1993.[3][4][5][6][7]
The original focus was on standardizing technical data definitions for capital intensive projects at the handover from the EPC contractor to the owner/operators of onshore and offshore oil and gas production facilities. The program was sponsored by The Research Council of Norway, two EPC contractors (Aker Maritime and Kværner), three owners/operators (Norsk Hydro, Saga Petroleum and Statoil) and DNV as service provider and project owner.
During that time, POSC Caesar also became a member of European Process Industries STEP Technical Liaison Executive (EPISTLE) where it collaborates with PISTEP (UK), and USPI-NL (The Netherlands) on the development of ISO 10303, also known as "Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP)".[citation needed]
POSC Caesar Associationedit
In 1997, POSC Caesar Association was founded as an independent, global, non-profit, member organization. POSC Caesar Association serves an international membership and collaborates with other international organizations. It has its main office in Norway.
Albeit the name of POSC Caesar Association still hints to its past as a project within the Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation (POSC) (now Energistics[8]), from 1997 onwards, the organization has been independent. Energistics and POSC Caesar Association do collaborate, and are formally member in each other's organization.[9][10]
Membershipedit
POSC Caesar Association has with its current 36 members[11] from around the world and has established an international footprint (with a strong membership in Norway) that includes a variety of backgrounds, from academia and solution providers to engineering contractors and owners/operators. The members are (subdivided by organization type):
Associations: Energistics (USA) and The Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF, Norway);
Engineering contractors and consultants: Akvaplan-niva (Norway), Aker Solutions (Norway), Asset Life Cycle Information Management (ALCIM, Malaysia), CAESAR systems (USA), Bechtel (USA), Det Norske Veritas (DNV, Norway), Information Logic (USA) and iXIT Engineering Technology (Germany), Phusion IM Ltd (UK);[12]
In general, the organization holds three membership meetings a year;[13] one in January / February in North-America (typically USA), one in April / May in Europe (typically Norway) and one in October in Asia (typically Malaysia).
Activities and servicesedit
Initiator and custodian of ISO 15926edit
In consultation with the other EPISTLE members and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), it was decided in 2003 (some say already in 1997[citation needed]) that for modeling-technical reasons it was better to discontinue the development of ISO 10303[14] and to initiate the development of ISO 15926 "Integration of life-cycle data for process plants including oil and gas production facilities."
Over the years, the scope of the standard has increased from the initial capital-intensive projects in the upstream oil and gas industry, to include also relevant terminology for downstream oil and gas industry applications and to deal with real-time data related to the actual oil and gas production.
ISO 15926 has also over the years evolved from a dictionary (a list of terms with definitions), over a taxonomy (added hierarchy) to an ontology (a formal representation of a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts). ISO 15926 is therefore sometimes nicknamed the "Oil and Gas Ontology",[15] for some considered to be an essential prerequisite together with Semantic Web technologies[16] to get to better interoperability, an optimal use of all available data across boundaries and an increase in efficiency. This is what some call the next generation of Integrated Operations.[15]
Reference data servicesedit
Placeholders:
Flow scheme of WIP - RDS - ISO and role of SIGs
RDS
Standards in database pilot (ISO)
Special interest groupsedit
Placeholders:
Overview of SIGs
Drilling and Completion
Reservoir and Production
Operations and Maintenance
Projectsedit
There are a number of projects (co-)organized by POSC Caesar Association working on the extension of the ISO 15926 standard in different application areas.
Capital intensive projects application domainedit
The following projects are running at the moment (August 2009):
The ADI Project of FIATECH, to build the tools (which will then be made available in the public domain)
The IDS Project of POSC Caesar Association, to define product models required for data sheets
A joint collaboration project between FIATECH POSC Caesar Association is the ADI-IDS project is the ISO 15926 WIP
Upstream oil and gas industry application domainedit
The following projects are currently running (August 2009):
The Environment Web project to include environmental reporting terms and definitions as used in EPIM's EnvironmentWeb in ISO 15926.
Finalised projects include:
The Integrated Information Platform (IIP) project working on establishing a real-time information pipeline based on open standards. It worked among others on:
Daily Drilling Report (DDR) to including all terms and definitions in ISO 15926. This standard became mandatory on February 1, 2008[21] for reporting on the Norwegian Continental Shelf by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and Safety Authority Norway (PSA). NPD says that the quality of the reports has improved considerably since.
Daily Production Report (DPR) to including all terms and definitions in ISO 15926. This standard was tested successfully on the Valhall (BP-operated) and Åsgard (StatoilHydro-operated) fields offshore Norway. The terminology and XML schemata developed have also been included in Energistics’ PRODML standard.
Conferences and eventsedit
Semantic Daysedit
Sogndal academic network meetingedit
Collaborationsedit
POSC Caesar is collaborating with a number of standardization bodies,[22] including:
Mimosa: collaboration on open information standards for Operations and Maintenance mainly for the downstream oil and gas industry;
FIATECH: collaboration on open information standards for life cycle data of capital projects;[23][24]
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^W3C (2009-01-13). "W3C workshop on Semantic Web in Oil and Gas Industry - Report". Retrieved 2009-08-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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The Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF) (2008-08-26). "Norway takes a leading role in next generation Integrated Operations". Retrieved 2009-08-05.
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Rigzone E&P News (2008-08-26). "Norway Takes Reign to Provide Next Generation Integrated Operations". Retrieved 2009-08-05.
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Digital Energy Journal (2008-08-27). "Norway developing next generation Integrated Operations". Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
^E&P Magazine (2008-12-02). "Offshore R&D pushes the limits". Archived from the original on 2009-07-27. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
^Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. "Drilling Reporting to the authorities". Archived from the original on 2009-07-26. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
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POSC Caesar Association (PCA). "POSC Caesar - Collaboration". Retrieved 2009-08-05.
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FIATECH & POSC Caesar Association. "POSC Caesar / FIATECH IDS-ADI Projects". Retrieved 2009-08-05.
^"iRING Version 1.0.0 Available Now" (Press release). FIATECH & POSC Caesar Association. 2009-06-05. Archived from the original on 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2009-08-05.