SXSW Interactive 2011: Semantic Web Unlocks Shale Gas Plays

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SXSW Interactive Panel Title: Semantic Web Unlocks Shale Gas Plays
Where-When: Austin Convention Center Level 3 Rm. 5abc 5:00 p.m. Austin, Texas March 12, 2011
Presenter: Arthur Keen, PhD, Chief Software Architect, Object Reservoir, Inc. http://objectreservoir.com
Video Specifics: Arthur Keen discusses shale fracturing technology relating to natural gas recovery, as well as changes that have taken place in recent years.
Video Length 3:07 mins.

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Official SXSW Website Event Overview: "The Semantic Web and Shale Gas may seem like strange bedfellows. It may also come as a surprise that the United States has more gas reserves than the rest of the world combined, but most of it is locked up in immense and well known shale gas fields stretching for hundreds of miles at a depth of about 10,000 feet. These clean burning resources were considered junk until technologies for horizontal drilling and fracturing the rock under high pressure made them viable, however these techniques are expensive and poorly understood. Semantic web technologies enable companies to pool knowledge, collaborate, and gain a shared understanding of what works and what doesn't. This accelerated the "learning curve" to reduce risks and increases profits. The more flexible representation enables deep auditing of decision processes by tracking data provenance. It also integrates disparate data sources, facilitates collaborative data fusion, collaborative modeling, and is able to forecast the results of decisions based on physics and the evolving understanding. This system built on semantic web is expected to be processing thousands of wells by the end of 2011 and be used by over 20 independent and major oil and gas companies. The ability to unlock shale gas will have a major impact on the United States Economy for 50 to 100 years, freeing dependency on foreign oil and, providing clean burning fossil fuels."

Presenter Particulars: Arthur Keen PhD Chief Software Architect Object Reservoir Inc
Arthur serves as the Chief Software Architect for Object Reservoir, Inc. He has led multiple commercial products from concept through general availability and has been awarded 27 federally funded projects as principal investigator. His focus for the last ten years has been in leveraging semantic web technologies for model-driven architectures. He has applied model-driven semantic architecture in a number of domains, including intelligence informatics, cyber offense/defense, software anti-tamper anti-reverse engineering, information operations, diagnostics, logistics, automated document classification/de-classification, and oil and gas reservoir characterization. He was awarded a patent for a model-based strategic cyber threat analysis in 2009 and has a patent pending in distributed network security. Dr. Keen is an expert at facilitating collaborative systems engineering, and is the author of the IDEF4 object-oriented design methodology. His interests include semantic web technologies, social network analysis, network security, and wine. Arthur lives in South Austin.

Presentation photos (along with others from SXSW Interactive 2011) may be viewed at
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