Oil-Field Services' Data Acquisition System – A Globally Distributed Development

Oil-Field Services' Data Acquisition System – A Globally Distributed Development

Natural gas industry

Companies

Testing

Software testing

Data acquisition

Project management

Software systems

Schlumberger's Oilfield Services' (OFS) data acquisition system is an integrated software system for acquiring, processing and delivering data from downhole tools, either during drilling or through wireline (i.e., electrical) cables. The project is largely distributed across six R&D centers in the US, France, Japan and China. Each center has sub-projects that have a clearly defined responsibility with either framework or application-components developments. All sub-projects share the common master plan for both development and testing. Furthermore, all unit tests and "Level-1" application-component tests for particular applications are globally distributed and owned by each sub-project team. Together with the master test plan, a rigorous application-component test procedure/process is also in place to guarantee the success of the final system integration tests. Results from the distributed developments and the distributed first-level tests are finally assembled in one place, Beijing, for system integration and acceptance tests.

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2008 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference

2008

D. Cao

conferencePaper

0730-3157

10.1109/COMPSAC.2008.227