Naming Conventions
Both the exact terms and the content used to describe IO vary between companies. The oil company Shell has traditionally branded the term Smart Fields, which was an extension of Smart Wells that only referred to remote-controlled well-valves. BP uses Field of the future, Chevron has i-field and Schlumberger terms it Digital Energy. The latter term, understood as referring to oil and gas, is adopted in the title of the digital energy journal. This term could have several meanings, as GE Digital Energy for instance, do not appear to use it in the IO sense.
Other terms include e-Field, i-Field, Digital Oilfield, Intelligent Oilfield, Field of the future and Intelligent Energy. Integrated operations has been the preferred term by Statoil, the Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF), a professional body and employer's association for oil and supplier companies and vendors such as ABB. Intelligent Energy is the dominant term in publications revolving around the biannual SPE Intelligent Energy conference, which has been one of the major conferences for the IO movement, along with the annual IO Science and Practice conference which obviously supports the IO term.
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