Authors:
            
                    Ismael H. F. Santos
                    
                        
                                1
                            
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Carla Valle
                    
                        
                                2
                            
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Alberto B. Raposo
                    
                        
                                3
                            
                    
                     and
                
                    Marcello Gattass
                    
                        
                                3
                            
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliations:
            
                    
                        
                                1
                            
                    
                    Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, FhG; CENPES, Petrobras Research Center; Tecgraf, Computer Graphics Technology Group, PUC-Rio, Brazil
                
                    ; 
                
                    
                        
                                2
                            
                    
                    Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, FhG, Germany
                
                    ; 
                
                    
                        
                                3
                            
                    
                    Tecgraf, Computer Graphics Technology Group, PUC-Rio, Brazil
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Collaborative Engineering, Workflow Systems, Collaborative Virtual Environments.
        
        
            
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                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Enterprise Information Systems
                    ; 
                        Human-Computer Interaction
                    ; 
                        Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
                    ; 
                        Robotics and Automation
                    ; 
                        Virtual Environment, Virtual and Augmented Reality
                    ; 
                        Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                In this paper we discuss the scenario of Petroleum Engineering projects of Petrobras, a large Brazilian governmental oil & gas company. Based on this scenario, we define a set of requirements and system architecture to guide the construction of a Collaborative Engineering Environment for assisting the control and execution of large and complex industrial projects in oil industry, specifically tailored for Petroleum Engineering. The environment is composed by the integration of three different technologies of group work: Workflow Management System, Multimedia Collaborative System and Collaborative Virtual Environments.