23rd and 24th May 2018

NORSOK Z standards
for Technical Information (Z-TI)
ROLV WERNER ERICHSEN/ROBERT SKREDE
BJØRN BERLI
 The NORSOK Z-TI initiative addresses the challenge that current
documentation requirements and way of working with standards drive
cost on NCS

• Oil and Gas operators pay 20%-30% more for the same
products, compared to other industries

• A significant share of this difference is related to

specifications and documentation requirements

• The additional cost on NCS was NOK 50 billion in 2016

• Several examples also show that requirements does not

sufficiently improve safety

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Opportunities to improve quality and efficiency in existing work processes and cooperation
through digitalization has not been captured widely in the industry

Recommendations for Digital field development

“This initiative is important for achieving lasting process
improvements. I would urge the industry to support • Purpose full collaboration to harvest effects of
the project.” digitalisation
• Standardised digital plant information
Terje Søviknes Oil and Energy Minister, Norway • …accelerating the current digitalisation of the
NORSOK standards – particularly NORSOK Z-TI

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 NORSOK Z-TI – Current status
• Current NORSOK Z-TI standards are basically outdated (from the late 90'ies)
− Revision of these standards recommended as high priority in the NORSOK analysis
• NORSOK Z-TI revision objective: Enabling requirements distribution and information flow through the value
chain, over the life cycle of installations
• Initial scoping has identified an opportunity to fully digitalize these standards to create a competitive advantage
for the Norwegian oil & gas industry
• The project will be demanding and the funding requirements will exceed the Sector Board of Petroleum
Standardization's budgetary limits
• Work is in progress to establish a JIP with broad industry participation and DNV-GL as the project manager
− JIP funding approx. 20 – 30 mill NOK in cash with equivalent in-kind amounts for a two year duration
− DNV-GL very experience in managing JIP's and will also participate in this JIP
• Targeting Sector Board of Petroleum Standardization endorsement of the JIP in the March 2018 meeting
− Governance
− Participant fees
− IP
− etc
• JIP launch May 2018

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 The problems are……

Authorities, public, society Requirements Information

Review/Verification • Requirements are analogue and company specific
Owners & Operators
• Documentation is company specific
Documentation
Review/Verification
EPCs
• Software solutions are proprietary
Documentation
Review/Verification
• Verification of requirements are manual
Vendors & Suppliers
• Re-use of concepts and solutions are analogue
Documentation

Detailed Procurement
Exploration Feed Operation Modification Decom
engineering and const.

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From document centric to data centric requirements management
Current Practice Desired future state

 Requirements represented in a language understandable

 Requirements and standards are available
to computers and humans.
as text in documents, hence only
understandable to humans not computers.  Individual requirements are uniquely referable and
identifiable.
 Requirements are translated manually into
systems and software to make them  Complete consistency checks using automated reasoning.
understandable to computers.  Systematic support for automated verification.

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Solution: Common digital requirements for Technical Information

 Requirements represented in a language understandable to computers and

humans.

Operators
 Individual requirements are uniquely referable and identifiable.
Suppliers
Digital
requirements
 Digital Information can be linked directly to digital requirements

 Complete consistency checks using automated reasoning.

 Enable automated verification

Contractors

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 NORSOK Z-TI: Digital requirements and exchange of technical information through the value chain

• Reduced and standardized requirements, enabling automation of knowledge work and being an
opportunity for increased value creation through digital services.
• Competitive advantage for Norwegian industry, removal of established, but undocumented
requirements, and establishing methodology and tools for traceability and consistency in
requirements.
• Addressing digital requirements will also include requirements for information management and
information transfer. This digitalization will be important elements in automation of work
processes and decision support.

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 Steps from company specific requirements to international standards
(Definitions alone is not sufficiently precise, and requirements must be based on discipline knowledge)

ISO/API

IOGP
JIP 33

NORSOK

Company
Specs

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 NORSOK Z-TI provides a common foundation for change

• A common language for digital requirements and asset vocabularies

• A scalable way of capturing and structuring true digital requirements
• Information sharing in line with Konkraft’s recommendations for the
digital field development process

• Updated and digitalised NORSOK requirements to Technical

Information(Z-TI standards)

• Relevant parts of the deliverables will be fed into international standards

like ISO/IEC

It’s up to the participants and the industry to realise the potential values

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 Z-TI Z-TI Sektorstyre
Q4-2017 GAP1 JIPZ-TI Petroleum

Z-TI stafettpinne fra GAP1 (1.1.2018-1.5.2018) til JIPZ-TI

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 NORSOK Z-TI timeline acording to decition in Sector Board Petroleum September 2017
Milestone #0 Milestone #1 Milestone #2 Milestone #3 Milestone #4
20.09.2017 Q1/2018 Q2/2018 Q1/2019 Q4/2019

2017 2018 2019

#0: Project
Definition

#1: Requirements methodology for

technical information

#2: Requirements
governance and
distribution

EPIM STANDARDIZATION PROJECT (STI)

#3: Z-018 Requirements for
equipment specific
information

#4: Z-001 Establishing requirements

for asset information

#5: Final structure for Z-TI (Z-001, Z-018, Z-003, Z-

DP-002 and Z-CR-002)

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Why Standardize?

Concept for STI (Standardization Initiative) delivering to Z-TI:

Standard information and documentation for equipment

Eng. Contr. 1
Oil&Gas
Oil&Gas Supplier 1 Operator
Supplier 1 Operator Eng. Contr. 2
1
1
Common Eng. Contr. 3
Industry Oil&Gas
Supplier 2 Requirements Operator Oil&Gas
for Supplier 2 Supplier 2 Operator
Equipment 2

Oil&Gas
Supplier 3 Operator Oil&Gas
3 Supplier 3 Operator
3

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STI working method: Working group participants from the whole value chain

WG1-Instrument WG2-Electro WG3-Valves

ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips
Statoil Shell AkerBP
Aibel Statoil Statoil
Aker Solutions Aker Solutions Aibel
Aker Solutions
Emerson Aibel Score
ABB Siemens MRC Solberg & Andersen
Siemens ABB

WG5-Telecom WG6-Mechanical
ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips
Statoil Statoil
Repsol Aibel
Aker Solutions Aker Solutions
Aibel NOV Kran og løft
Intelecom Air Products
Jotron

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STI WG3-Valves
Requirements matrix

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 Z-TI deliverables: Digital framvwork for requirements management and requirements distribution
Eksempel på
selskapspesifikk løsning:

• Digitalt rammeverk for

kravforvaltning

• Katalogbasert

• Søkbart innhold

• All informasjon om ett

produkt tilgjengelig på en
plass

• Kravdistribusjon i form av
brukergrensesnitt,
eksport av krav og
generering av
kravdokument (PDFs)

• Hvert selskap kan ha

sine egne verktøy for
presentasjon og
integrering av felles krav.

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 NORSOK Z-TI timeline acording to decition in Sector Board Petroleum September 2017
Milestone #0 Milestone #1 Milestone #2 Milestone #3 Milestone #4
20.09.2017 Q1/2018 Q2/2018 Q1/2019 Q4/2019

2017 2018 2019

#0: Project
Definition

#1: Requirements methodology for

technical information

#2: Requirements
governance and
distribution

EPIM STANDARDIZATION PROJECT (STI)

#3: Z-018 Requirements for
equipment specific
information

#4: Z-001 Establishing requirements

for asset information

#5: Final structure for Z-TI (Z-001, Z-018, Z-003, Z-

DP-002 and Z-CR-002)

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