Using PPDM to Improve Geophysical Data Management Presented by: Yogi Schulz Using PPDM to Improve Geophysical Data Management Public Petroleum Data Model Association Geo-Triad ‘98 Convention

Demonstrate benefits of PPDM Use Outline Geophysicists’ data management issues PPDM’s contributions to solving the issues Conclusions Recommendations Explain Show How Demonstrate benefits of PPDM Use

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Data Management Issues - 1 Explain Poor data description on acquisition: inadequate records from the field poor capture of the meta data Difficult/impossible to determine seismic lines owned accurately: poor records management practices inadequate acquisition records poor accessibility to data no GIS display capability

Data Management Issues - 2 Difficult to determine ownership of lines: incomplete ownership records incomplete trading records Difficult to locate physical media: inadequate indexing of media poor storage records

Geophysical Data Technical Issues Difficult to read physical media: media is deteriorating with age no drive available for old media types Slow moving data to workstation Incompatible data formats for application

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E & P Professional’s Time Effectiveness Looking for data 26% Unproductive 5% Vacations 8% Useful work 50% Training 4% Looking for data 60% Meetings 5% Useful work 18% Handling data 24% Source : Oil & Gas Journal Fall 1991 Source : Major petroleum firm Data management consumes too much time

Impact of Data Management Issues Wasted E & P professional time Wasted seismic shooting investment Lost opportunities to sell/trade seismic I calculated the total time that geophysicists have waited for seismic lines to be found and delivered to them . . . D970505

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Geophysicists’ Objectives Improved: data accuracy data reliability Reduced cycle times: faster data accessibility improved data integration Consistent communication Controlled cost for data management

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PPDM’s Contributions - 1 Show How Improves data access, accuracy and reliability supports seismic data integrity reduces cycle times Reduces operating costs industry standard / well understood shared data modeling effort supports data hub concept

PPDM’s Contributions - 2 Simplifies application integration common open data model across well, seismic, land Minimizes application development costs supports buy strategy / shared cost standard data types and structures Enables architected vs. traditional method to delivery IT solutions proactive and opportunity oriented

PPDM’s Contributions - 3 Supports viewing data as corporate asset maximize return on seismic investment Supports cross-disciplinary team work reduces seismic data ambiguity Enhances total work environment reduces time spend finding and fixing seismic data Enables “Best of the Breed” purchasing seismic data sources, interpretation applications Leverages customer, supplier relationships

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Data Management Conclusions PPDM is useful enabling technology for geophysicists PPDM delivers these benefits: enhanced seismic data management improved software price/performance a common vocabulary

Improved Data Management Recommendations Improve quality of field data capture Don’t scrimp on indexing Work to improve records management practices Improve data management software in use: quality functionality integration

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