time reservoir surveillance and management as well as significant business value to our various upstream disciplines,” said Mohammed Y. Al-Qahtani, executive director of Petroleum Engineering and Development. “Every producing field will be instrumented with real-time technologies in the near term for optimal efficiencies and increased recovery.”The webinar highlighted the technologies, people and processes involved in integrating real-time data in the upstream business processes as well as the value attained from its real-time collaboration centers. “SPE's selection of Saudi Aramco's Intelligent Field Centers for the first webinar highlights our strong leadership in intelligent field developments,” said Yousef A. Al-Ulyan, acting general manager of EXPEC Computer Center, “and is rewarding for the many teams dedicated to these projects.” Key technical support professionals also participated in addressing the webinar participants' questions: Mike Williamson from the Reservoir Management Department, Maher Mashhadi from the Reservoir Characterization Department, Majid A Shehry from the Petroleum Engineering Applications Services Department and Mazin M. Abbas from the Exploration Applications Services Department. The webinar, the first of three in the series, was selected from 136 papers presented at the Intelligent Energy 2010 Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands, according to a latest report carried today by Saudi Aramco's web-site.
