Abstract: The difficulty of integrating data from many data sources has persisted in a variety of businesses. As a result of the advancement of technology in the upstream sector (i.e., petroleum exploration and production), the petroleum industry must struggle with technological silos from many service providers and endure the resulting time loss in locating specific pieces of information. This article discusses the current research state and methodology utilized to construct a domain ontology for defining offshore petroleum production system facilities, based on an exhaustive set of industry-developed criteria and a series of competence questions. The ultimate goal is to establish a consistent, well-defined reference language to assist engineers and IT experts in identifying and linking production plant monitoring and simulation measures and facilities. The ontology employs BFO as its top-level ontology and an evolving version of the core ontology created by the Industry Ontology Foundry (IOF) and GeoCore as its middle-level ontologies. This study is a part of the Petwin project, which studies the most effective techniques for constructing a digital twin for petroleum industry monitoring and simulation. As well as the results of conceptual modeling, a set of demands expressed as competency questions are examined.

Keywords: Applied ontology, Petroleum production and Offshore plants.

Author: Nicolau Oyhenard dos Santos
Advisor: Mara Abel

Dissertation: Master thesis

Publication: coming soon