Brownfield Assessment Workflow Manager
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Solution Overview
Problem
Brownfield redevelopment assessments in the oil and gas industry are lengthy, inconsistent, and fail to systematically capture and enforce expert knowledge and best practices, leading to variable quality and prolonged completion times.
Innovation Solution
A computer-based method and system utilizing a workflow manager that standardizes and streamlines brownfield assessment tasks by incorporating expert knowledge and best practices, automatically enforcing the optimal set of engineering tasks and their order based on previous assessments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional multidisciplinary team studies are conducted for brownfield assessment, then comprehensive data analysis and expert knowledge are achieved, but assessment completion time becomes excessively long (4-18 months)
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the brownfield assessment process into distinct workflow stages (project framing, data collection, data analysis, results interpretation) with standardized task templates for each stage. This segmentation allows parallel processing of multiple assessment projects simultaneously while maintaining comprehensive analysis quality, thereby reducing overall completion time from 4-18 months to a more manageable timeframe.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining standardized task templates, data collection protocols, and analysis methodologies before assessments begin. These pre-established frameworks eliminate the need to develop assessment approaches from scratch for each project, enabling immediate execution of comprehensive analyses and significantly accelerating the assessment process while maintaining reliability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If individual engineers perform brownfield assessments using their own expertise, then flexible and adaptive analysis is achieved, but deliverable quality and reliability become inconsistent across engineers and projects
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms through standardized workflow templates that capture best practices and expert knowledge from completed assessments. These templates provide feedback to future assessments by encoding lessons learned, ensuring that adaptive engineering expertise is systematically transferred across projects while maintaining consistent deliverable quality and reliability across different engineers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates universal standardized task templates that can be applied across all brownfield assessment projects regardless of which engineer performs them. These multi-functional templates encapsulate adaptability and versatility requirements while ensuring consistent application of expert knowledge, thereby achieving both flexibility and reliability across diverse engineering teams and projects.
3Loss of information
If extensive data collection and analysis studies are performed, then thorough assessment results are achieved, but the process becomes prohibitively lengthy and resource-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamics by making the data collection and analysis process adaptive rather than static. The standardized workflow templates allow the assessment scope and depth to be dynamically adjusted based on project-specific requirements, data availability, and risk factors. This dynamic approach ensures thorough analysis of critical data elements while avoiding unnecessary analysis of less relevant information, thereby maintaining data completeness while improving assessment throughput and productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
Computer-based method and system are disclosed for conduction a brownfield assessment. The system/method involves a workflow manager that standardizes the tasks needed to be performed during the brownfield assessment and streamlines the completion of these tasks. The workflow manager incorporates expert knowledge and best practices identified over time for previous brownfield assessments. The expert knowledge and best practices are then applied automatically through operation of the workflow manager. Such an arrangement can result in significantly reduced completion time as well as more consistent deliverables from engineer to engineer and project to project.