Manufacturing
Microsoft hosts Dubai oil and gas forum
1 May 2008
The first Microsoft Middle East and Africa Global Energy Forum brought more than 300 decision-makers from oil and gas companies across the region to the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. With a keynote address from Gerald Doucet, secretary general of the World Energy Council, the Global Energy Forum explored how Microsoft and partners’ technology solutions can empower the industry as well as address global and regional aspirations.
The Global Energy Forum combines the experience of global and regional partners, including Accenture, Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS), The Information Store, OSlsoft, GE Fanuc and WellPoint Systems, to showcase Microsoft technologies that integrate with partner expertise, encompassing solutions for exploration, logistics and marketing.
“With today’s global reach for energy security, sustainability and efficiency, IT plays an ever-mounting role in empowering the industry,” said Omar Saleh, a sales manager for Middle East and Africa at Microsoft. “With our partners, through our Peak Performance Initiative, Microsoft is specifically addressing priorities in the oil and gas industry – including digital oilfield, integrated supply chain, health and safety performance, upstream integration, and capital projects intelligence – delivering solutions that are fully integrated across people, processes and technology.”
“Microsoft’s proven technologies and Accenture’s expertise deliver industry-leading information connectivity – the key to maximising output in today’s tough production environment,” said Alexandre Oliveira, global upstream lead at Accenture. “Accenture, in using Microsoft’s integrated software solutions, delivers high-performance asset management programs focused on managing and optimising the performance of existing reservoirs, wells and surface facilities.”
Microsoft and SIS are collaborating to integrate business and technical work flows to reduce uncertainty, improve decision-making and accelerate technology adoption. SIS leverages Microsoft technologies to provide an open innovation framework, allowing oil and gas companies to incorporate proprietary applications into integrated SIS work flows, providing customisation for competitive advantage in complex reservoirs.