Improved asset management with network-centric visualization

Today’s oil and gas industry is faced with a growing need to not only find and explore new<br>energy reserves, but also to manage existing assets more efficiently and in an integrated way.<br>This involves multiple teams and people with various backgrounds and skills working<br>together to share information, collaborate and make faster and better decisions. The key issue<br>in this is usually not the collection of data but the amount of available data that is ever<br>increasing. This presents a considerable challenge to companies striving to exploit this<br>information for competitive advantage.<br>This paper explores how recent breakthroughs in professional visualization can help improve<br>the collaboration process by visualizing and sharing various types of data, and how this<br>ultimately leads to better asset management.