Energy
Case Studies
Development of an Intelligent Reservoir Monitoring System
Overview
The customer is one of the world's largest oil field services companies. The company provides a range of oil and gas services, including drilling, completion and production systems. As part of its completion offerings, the customer has developed a precision optical sensing technology to gather down-hole pressure, temperature and flow parameters. At the time of development, this was the first and only one of its kind all optical passive down hole sensor technology.
Business Need
The optical sensing technology was built as a Greenfield Venture and it
started off with a proof-of-concept model and over a period of 5 years
it has matured into a mainstay product line for the customer. During
the course of this development from proof-of-concept through production
version, the customer wanted to focus on the core technology, domain
expertise and marketing while outsourcing the embedded and application
software development to a world class partner.
The Challenge
When Infosys started off as a partner, the product was not fully defined and went through much iteration from concept through production stages. Due to these ongoing changes, it was important to lay out a robust and flexible technical architecture at the base and build the various layers above that foundation. Apart from this, Infosys had to understand this brand new technology, functionalities required due to changing product definition and customer needs. The initial scope of prototype development changed into multiple product line definition and development.
Infosys Solution
Infosys developed the embedded software that consists of device drivers, Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Firmware, DSP algorithms and Graphical User Interface based application software for this product line. Infosys team was involved in architecture definition, development and on-going testing of the application. Using distributed architecture, the product was enabled for access from onshore while the product is deployed in an offshore environment. The system can handle both 'well monitoring' and 'well test' modes. The fault-tolerant architecture provided extremely low down time and the surface application was enabled to handle multiple well data. Infosys also built various plug-ins for connecting to SCADA systems.
Benefits
Rapid, predictable and high quality software development helped customer the to bring this cutting-edge product to the market at the right time, ahead of competition. High-quality software ensured that the product can be deployed in mission critical production environments such as unmanned remote oil fields in many parts of the world.
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