# Well Insight

> By David Bingham · https://studiobing.com/davidbingham/work/well-insight/
> Work by David Bingham.

In September 2014 GE had four oil and gas applications doing overlapping jobs, Field Vantage, Z-Sight, iWellSCADA and Smart Signal, and about two weeks on an imposed schedule to align them into a common interface. GE and Accenture ran the work together. We flew to Houston for a two-day co-creation workshop with the O&G team, who helped us understand the industry while we helped guide the process: a user journey in sticky notes on the glass wall, every application's screens printed, cut out and mapped onto it, then the common interface sketched on the same wall. In the second week we built wireframes, reviewed and refined them, and took the design to high resolution: a dashboard for a site and an analysis view for a single well. The deck records nothing beyond that delivery.

- **Period:** 2014

## Well Insight

Block `well-insight/opener` · https://studiobing.com/davidbingham/work/well-insight/#opener

I had about two weeks to align four of GE's oil and gas applications into one interface. This page follows that fortnight in the order I presented it: the schedule, the four applications, the Houston workshop and the design that came out of it.

- Image: A laptop showing the consolidated application's Dashboard for Fort Anderson in the Permian, its notifications and cases tables above the production, well failure rate and energy use figures.

Align 4 disparate applications into a common interface in ~2 weeks.

## Schedule

Block `well-insight/schedule` · https://studiobing.com/davidbingham/work/well-insight/#schedule

The brief arrived on 11 September 2014 and the deliverable was due on the 30th, so the calendar was the plan: a co-creation workshop in Houston in the first week, a week of wireframes in the second. I show it because the constraint shaped every choice that follows.

- Image: A September 2014 calendar with nine orange entries, from 'Yes, can do work!' on the 11th to 'Deliver.' on the 30th, the Houston trip in the middle week.

## Applications

Block `well-insight/applications` · https://studiobing.com/davidbingham/work/well-insight/#applications

These are the four applications as they stood: Field Vantage's well detail, Z-Sight's gauge dashboard, iWellSCADA's grid view and Smart Signal's fleet view, each with its own visual language and a different piece of the operator's job. Side by side they are the problem statement: an operator had to swivel between all four.

- **Field Vantage** — A 360-degree view of each ESP well; alarms ranked across the field.
  - Image: Field View well detail for Colewell 1H: a green status panel, pump curve, downhole configuration, performance and production charts, a location map and the well team.
- **Z-Sight** — Live downhole gauges; models estimate unmeasured values and calculate pump set points.
  - Image: The Jaime1 site dashboard in Z-Sight, a dark window of six round gauges for temperature, flow rate, pressures and water cut beside a trend chart and a list of gauge readings.
- **iWellSCADA** — Field-wide communication and control of rod pumps, read through dynagraph cards.
  - Image: iWellSCADA's grid view in a browser: a table of seven wells with their communication status, a pumping-unit diagram for JohnHome1 and its dynagraph snapshot.
- **Smart Signal** — Predicts equipment failures from sensor patterns across a whole fleet of assets.
  - Image: Smart Signal's fleet view in GE Proficy Vision: four turbine cards, each with an active alarm count, an alarm summary and four values with small sparklines.

## Workshop

Block `well-insight/workshop` · https://studiobing.com/davidbingham/work/well-insight/#workshop

The working session in Houston: GE and Accenture with the O&G team in a conference room, the printed screens of the four applications already pinned to the glass wall behind them. We guided the process and the O&G team taught us the industry.

- Image: A conference room in the workshop: four men standing in discussion before a glass wall pinned with printed screens, two seated in the foreground, laptops open on the table. — Initial collaboration by GE and Accenture.

## Workshop walls

Block `well-insight/workshop-walls` · https://studiobing.com/davidbingham/work/well-insight/#workshop-walls

The workshop's four stages on the wall: the flipcharts that set the method, user, problems, tools and functionality, then the sketch; the user journey in sticky notes on the glass; every application's screens printed, cut out and pinned onto that journey; and the common interface sketched over the same wall, three pages, a site dashboard, the wells and an ESP analysis view.

- We guided the process while the oil and gas team helped us understand the industry.
  - Image: Two flipchart sheets taped to a wall: a numbered four-step method, user, problems, tools and functionality, UI sketch, and a design, operate, analyze loop drawn round the oil and gas well.
- User journey stages (green), new feature (red), existing feature (pink).
  - Image: A glass wall of pink, red and green sticky notes in loose columns, a first screen sketched in marker at the left and 'Failure is always imminent' written top right.
- Printed screen shots of each application, mapped to the user journey.
  - Image: The glass wall with printed screenshots from the four applications cut out and pinned in groups, annotated in red marker, above a row of pink and green sticky notes.
- Aligned and combined application functionality sketches.
  - Image: The glass wall wiped and drawn over in black marker: three page wireframes for the site dash, the well and ESP analysis, with blue and red annotations and a printed sheet taped at bottom left.

## Interface

Block `well-insight/interface` · https://studiobing.com/davidbingham/work/well-insight/#interface

The finished design, built as wireframes in the second week and taken to high resolution: a Dashboard for a site and an Analysis view for a single well, following the pages sketched on the wall. One header, one navigation and one set of components in place of four applications.

- Image: The consolidated application's Dashboard for Fort Anderson in the Permian: notifications and cases tables, three bar-chart figures for production, well failure rate and energy use, and a well map round Midland. — Dashboard
- Image: The Analysis screen for the well Chapman B7: a well list, its notifications, parameter tick boxes, a parameter graph with a timeline scrubber and three plots for motor and pump curves, gradient and IPR. — Analysis. Credit: Kate Menkhaus

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