Abstract: This article outlines the approach used to create a domain ontology for characterizing the facilities in offshore petroleum production plants. The ontology is being built using a comprehensive set of requirements gathered from industry and defined using a series of competency questions. The ultimate objective is to provide a standard, officially defined reference vocabulary to assist engineers and information technology professionals in categorizing and connecting facilities and measures used in production plant monitoring and simulation. The ontology uses GeoCore and a continuing version of the core ontology created by the Industry Ontology Foundry (IOF) as middle-level ontologies and BFO as a top-level ontology. This study is a component of the Petwin project, which investigates the best methods for creating a digital twin for the industry’s use in monitoring and modeling petroleum output.

Keywords: Petroleum, Ontology, Production plants, Offshore, Digital twins

Authors: Nicolau Oyhenard dos Santos, Fabrício Henrique Rodrigues, Daniela Schmidt and Mara Abel

Journal/Conference: Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS).

Publication: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3346/wtdo4.pdf