24 September 2008

Comprehensive information access is essential in the oil-and-gas production environment, which is awash with information from diverse sources and often reliant on employees working in remote locations

Wade Brawley, vice president of land administration, Chesapeake Energy Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy has deployed an enterprise solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The new solution integrates the US company’s intranet, extranet and Internet presence to streamline collaboration across project teams, including remote employees. This is hoped to create a foundation for business intelligence applications, stronger content management and consistent communications with external stakeholders.

“Managers say it has been easy to instruct users on how to find information through the new solution,” said Lori Garcia, manager of IT business systems at Chesapeake. “As a result, training usually takes no longer than a single afternoon.”

The solution runs on a server farm consisting of two front-end Web servers, an index server, a search server and a database server running a 64-bit version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database software along with Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Chesapeake IT team used the Microsoft .NET Framework to deploy custom code and integrate the intranet with other Microsoft applications and technologies.

“Comprehensive information access is essential in the oil-and-gas production environment, which is awash with information from diverse sources and reliant on employees often working in very remote locations such as field offices and rig sites,” said Wade Brawley, vice president of land administration at Chesapeake. “Now, through SharePoint sites, field-based employees can access the same information, with the same ease, as employees working at corporate headquarters. This is a real productivity booster.”

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