With a growing body of standards around collaboration and workflow that will be leveraged, Honeywell and Matrikon are transforming control performance monitoring from an isolated effort into a unified and collaborative solution.

Without appropriate real-time surveillance, a lack of data means uncertainty and a lack of timely data means decisions and actions occur too late. Planning is increasingly difficult without the appropriate integrated solution.

Modern-day production provides a complex data environment that can be overwhelming to decision-makers. However, even with thousands of data points from any time zone and in any format, collaboration can still be achieved.

Access to validated production and plant operating information in real time is key to the successful operation of thermal recovery wells. This paper, presented at the World Heavy Oil Congress 2011, examines how the addition of collaboration tools allow plant operational knowledge to be captured as an ever-increasing corporate asset.