MODELING METHODOLOGY FOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY

摘要

A modeling framework configured to facilitate integration of complex software applications in the petroleum industry including: (a) a graphical modeling language including: (1) classes including a plurality of oil field asset components and connectors and a grammar defining the allowed and necessary connections between the asset components configured and adapted for making a plurality of graphical models compliant with the graphical modeling language where the graphical models represent a plurality of oil field asset components and the connections between them and each model having a plurality of levels of detail; (2) the graphical modeling language configured and adapted for modeling the asset components of different oil fields having different numbers, types, and configurations of asset components; and (b) a model interpreter for each of a plurality of software applications domains specific to the oil field for storing, analyzing, displaying, or manipulating oil field data associated with at least one of the oil field asset components, each model interpreter configured and adapted for passing information between the plurality of oil field asset components.