Modeling methodology for application development in petroleum industry

The development of applications for monitoring, control, simulation and diagnosis in the petroleum industry involves a multitude of complex software tools. These tools have their own formalisms, semantics and use different abstractions to represent the system under development. They use different data formats to represent data in the software tools. Each application requires coupling of two or more different such complex software tools. Providing efficient interaction between these complex software tools using different abstractions, formalisms, data formats, etc. becomes a mammoth task. Thus there is a need to provide a unified environment that allows capturing the desired application and provide a framework for interaction between the necessary software tools. This paper discusses the formal metamodels to describe the individual formalisms in the desired unified environment. These metamodels, created by the Generic Modeling Environment (GME), define the domain-specific modeling language for application development in the petroleum industry.