| abstract |
. A modeling framework (120 of fig. 1) 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, connectors, and grammar defining allowed and necessary connections between 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 (150) for each plurality of software applications domains specific to the oil field for storing, analylzing, 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. |