VGO About Us

Using learnings from Nature's complex systems we can optimize your operations.

VGO Oil & Gas can take a complex business problem, e.g., oilfield operations, and apply our unique Complexity Science and Evolutionary Computation techniques using a systematic and rigorous approach to give you excellent operational efficiencies with improved asset performance, cost reductions, and decreased safety incidents. The key to our success is that we give you a working simulation model which takes into account the uncertainity and risk inherent in the oil & gas business environment. This allows you to keep on track strategically with your business, providing sound business alternatives when the unexpected happens. No other modeling, simulation, and optimization company can do a better job at this than VGO Oil & Gas.

Oil and gas fields operate in an environment of risk and uncertainty.

The operational processes are highly non-linear and multi-faceted. To improve the performance and sustainability of oil and gas assets is complex. There are often competing objectives and restraints to be balanced.

Based on Complexity Science and Evolutionary Computation techniques, our software products and methodologies use proven scientific approaches to model, simulate, and optimize operational and production processes. These tools are proven in practice to yield dramatic improvements in profitability, production, and operational efficiency. By taking advantage of recent developments in oilfield data capture hardware and information technology practices, we not only analyze what has happened and what is happening, but we also forecast what is going to happen. This ability provides operators with timely diagnostics and recommended remediation actions in time to make a difference.

With our technology, we combine "industry expertise" and "scientific know-how" to form a uniquely qualified approach for solving highly challenging, non-linear business problems with tangible operational results.

What does a termite mound in Australia have to do with the production of oil and gas?

The article by Peter Miller in the July, 2007, edition of National Georgraphic on Swarm Theory pointed out that a single ant or bee or termite is not intelligent, but their colonies are. It went on to say that the study of this so called swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help us understand and manage very coomplex systems from trucking to shipping to robotics - and for that matter to oil and gas production. The concept that simple creatures following simple rules, each one acting on local information, can accom- plish complex tasks and produce virtual intelligence is very powerful.

Complex operations, from infill drilling of a coal bed methane gas field to open water berthing of a LNG tanker to the operations of a FPSO in deep water, can be understood by identifying its basic operating elements and the rules they are following. Once under- stood, the operations can be modeled and computer simulated, including uncertainties and risk, to yield answers to important ques- tions not possible using a traditional ap- proach.

VGO Oil & Gas develops unique software based on these principles that enables an oil and gas company to achieve operation effici- ency and integrated optimization. Our con- sulting software tools have been proven in practice to dramatically improve perform- ance and profit.

High oil prices have led oil and gas compan- ices to produce hydrocarbons in more and more complex environments under more com- plex conditions. Artificial Intelligence can help companies manage in such conditions.