1. IMPLEMENTING A NATIONAL DATA REPOSITORY IN NIGERIA
DPR
IMPLEMENTING A
NATIONAL DATA REPOSITORY
IN NIGERIA
Department of Petroleum Resources
Lagos, Nigeria
22nd September, 2004
5th NATIONAL DATA REPOSITORY MEETING,
Reston, Virginia, USA
21ST – 23RD SEPTEMBER, 2004
Department of Petroleum Resources

2. Department of Petroleum Resources
OUTLINE
FUNCTIONS OF DPR
CURRENT SITUATION IN INDUSTRY
LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
BACKGROUND OF THE NIGERIAN NDR
OBJECTIVES OF THE NDR
STAKEHOLDERS
GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
BUSINESS MODEL
DATA BANK CONFIGURATION
NDR COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE
INSTITUTIONAL CO-OPERATION WITH NPD
LESSONS LEARNT
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3. THE DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES (DPR)
The Present day DPR, has evolved over the years. Its regulatory and supervisory role in the Petroleum Industry has been performed as far back as the early fifties with the objectivity of ensuring that National goals and aspirations are not thwarted and that oil companies operate in accordance with International Oil Industry Standards & Practises
Employees (Engineers, Geoscientists, Environmental Scientists, IT, Economists, Accountants and Administrators)
18 offices across the country
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4. Department of Petroleum Resources
FUNCTIONS OF DPR
Supervising all Petroleum Industry Operations in order to ensure compliance with regulations and in line with good oil field practise.
Enforcing safety and environmental regulations and ensuring that those operations conform to national and international industry standards
Keeping and updating records on Petroleum industry operations, particularly on matters relating to petroleum reserves, production and exports of crude oil, gas and condensate.
Advising Government and relevant Agencies on technical matters and policies which may have impact on the administration and control of petroleum.
Processing all applications for licenses so as to ensure compliance with guidelines
Monitoring Government Indigenisation policy to ensure that local content philosophy is achievable.
These functions cover all activities in petroleum operations; upstream and downstream, as well as petrochemicals
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5. Department of Petroleum Resources
CURRENT SITUATION
NO OF CONCESSIONS/LICENCES: OPERATIONAL OPEN
NO OF OPERATING COMPANIES
NO OF PRODUCING COMPANIES
NO OF FIELDS DISCOVERED
TOTAL NO OF WELLS DRILLED
DAILY PRODUCTION M BOPD
RESERVES: OIL & CONDENSATE 34 MM BBLS
GAS TSCF
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6. LEGISLATION -Data Reporting
Section 54 of the Petroleum(Drilling and Production) Regulation 1969 specifies that the licensee :
shall submit to the Director, DPR copies of every log or bore-hole survey and seismograms, copies of all geological records, seismic surveys, seismic maps
May be directed by the Director, DPR to keep the records in his custody
Render a report to the Director, DPR upon termination of lease
Keep accurate geological and subsurface plans, maps and records
Section 55 empowers any persons authorised by the Director, DPR to enter into the relevant area :
To inspect and make abstracts or copies of any logs, records, maps, accounts or other document which the licensee or lessee is required to make or keep in accordance with these Regulations
Section 56 specifies that all records, reports, plans, maps :
Required to be furnished under the Act shall be supplied at the expense of the licensee or lessee
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7. HISTORY OF THE NIGERIAN NDR
Arising from the legislative provisions of Petroleum (Drilling & Production) Regulation 1969, the concept for the Nigerian NDR was conceived to enable the Government gain control over the increasing quantum of E&P data
Open tender for the establishment of the NDR floated in Aug. 2000:
20 Companies responded, 3 were pre-qualified
Industry consensus was cultivated through a Data management workshop held with technical support from Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) in 2001
Workshop was a rewarding exercise as the foundation for the Nigerian NDR was established :
NDR project to be jointly funded by the Government and Industry
Two Industry committees which shall be responsible for the establishment of the project were set-up
In Nov 2002, further investigations of the NDR technologies proposed including similar implementations of NDR around the world was carried out by an Industry study group.
Arising from the legislative provision of Petroleum (Drilling & Production) Regulation (1969), the idea for the Nigerian NDR was conceived in the late ’90’s to preserve and maximize the value of all E&P Data assets
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8. HISTORY OF THE NIGERIAN NDR
The findings of the group set-out the road map for the Nigerian NDR:
Data Preparation
Communications
Business Model
Legislative provision for public release of data
Landmark/IDSL Consortium awarded contract to establish and operate a National Data Repository and the associated Communications Infrastructure in June 2003.
Contract agreement executed in December The contract period is for a five year period from Dec – Dec
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9. OBJECTIVES OF THE NIGERIAN NDR Government’s Perspective
Preserve, maintain the integrity and promote the National E&P data assets with improved quality, efficiency and accessibility in the most rapid, secure and reliable manner
Improve the management of National Exploration and Production activities so as to Optimise the National Hydrocarbon potential
Provide source of digital data required to give Nigeria a competitive advantage in attracting new investors in the Oil & Gas sector, through licensing rounds.
Strengthen Government Agencies’, DPR and NAPIMS in performing their monitoring and supervisory roles in the Industry
Provide the basis for public data release practise
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10. OBJECTIVES OF THE NIGERIAN NDR Oil Company Perspective
Improved regulatory reporting process
Source of readily accessible data of known quality
Promote sharing of data amongst stakeholders and their partners in the most rapid, reliable and secure manner
Reduced lifecycle costs of data management practises
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11. Department of Petroleum Resources
STAKEHOLDERS
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
INDUSTRY OPERATORS
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12. Department of Petroleum Resources
GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
NSC
National Steering Committee
Industry
Committees/ Workgroups
DPR
Dept. of Pet. Resources
Technical Working
Committee
Work Implementation
Well Workgroup
Seismic Workgroup
Industry
Stakeholders
LANDMARK/IDSL
NDR Operator
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13. Department of Petroleum Resources
DPR
BUSINESS MODEL
Establishment Costs -
one-off funding
Running Costs -
Subscription & Transaction Fees
LANDMARK/
IDSL
NDR
Petrobank
On line access to all entitled data
Loading & Unloading of entitled data
Secured
Quality Control Data
Entitlement Set
On line access to Company entitled data
On-access to Cultural Data
Loading & Unloading of Company data
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14. Department of Petroleum Resources
NDR CONFIGURATION
Off-Site Tape Storage
BENIN
Cultural Data: Well headers, Concessions & Pipelines
Cultural Data: Well headers, Concessions & Pipelines
Synchronisation
Well Data: Well logs, Well Path Data,Mud Data, Reports & Images
Well Data: Well logs, Well Path Data,Mud Data, Reports & Images
Seismic Data: Navigation, Seismic, Pre-stack meta data & reports
Seismic Data: Navigation, Seismic, Pre-stack meta data & reports
Production Data: Reconciled Production figures
Production Data: Reconciled Production figures
NDR Master Site
NDR Secondary Site
LAGOS PH
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15. NDR COMMUNICATION NETWORK
2 Mbps VSAT
8 Mbps
2 Mbps Fibre
ABUJA
2 Mbps VSAT
2 Mbps
2 Mbps VSAT
WARRI
10 Mbps Fibre link
100 Mbps Fibre link
Synchronisation
2 Mbps
8 Mbps Microwave
2 Mbps DSL
LAGOS
PORT HARCOURT
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16. Department of Petroleum Resources
NDR STATUS
NDR Infrastructure for the Master Site (Lagos) configured
IBM pSeries 650 Server, IBM eServer Blade Servers
Tape Library – IBM 3584-L32 Robotic Tape Library; 70TB
Tape Drives: IBM 3590-B11, IBM 3590-E11
DLT 8000, 8mm Exabyte
IBM TSM – Tivoli Storage Manager
Cultural/Administrative Data
Assembled about 75% of historic data
Constructed Data model for the Cultural Data
Established Cultural Database
Quality control of Data on-going
Target date for loading in NDR :- 1st week of November, 2004
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17. Department of Petroleum Resources
NDR STATUS (Contd)
Well Data loading: Well logs,reports, images etc
Target date :- 3rd Quarter 2005
Production Data loading: Reconciled monthly Production data
Target Date:- 3rd/4th Quarter 2005
Seismic Data loading: Post-Stack Seismic trace data, Pre-stack Metadata
Target Date :- 4th Quarter 2006
Point-forward data loading:- 2nd /3rd Quarter 2005
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18. Department of Petroleum Resources
STANDARDISATION
Seismic and Well data workgroups constituted in April 2004 to develop standards for well and seismic data
Separate projects for loading of historic data and point-forward data
New standards will apply to point-forward data
Naming Conventions:
Unique Well Identifier - DPR issued well Names
Well Logs – POSC standards being considered
Unique Survey Identifier
Reporting Formats
Input Reporting format:
Well Data: LIS, DLIS, lAS, ASCII, SPWLA & SEG-Y
Navigation: UKOOA P1/90
Seismic Data: SEG-Y (32 bit)
Pre-stack meta data : ASCII
Reports: PDF
Images: PDF, TIFF, PDS, CGM, JPEG
Output Format
Post sack seismic data : SEG-Y, Open Works & Geoshare
Seismic geometry and acquisition data: UKOOA P1/90
Reporting Media: 3590, DLT, 8mm, CD
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19. INSTITUTIONAL CO-OPERATION WITH NPD Department of Petroleum Resources
Co-operation between DPR and NPD dates back to late ’90s and has progressed steadily
NPD shared their experience of running a successful NDR with an Industry forum in Nigeria, in August These efforts led to the establishment of an effective governance structure for the NDR project which include the participation of major stakeholders in the Industry
In April 2002, the DPR was enlightened on the best practices for cultural data collection and setting-up of enabling policies for the release of public data at a workshop organised with technical support from NPD
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20. Department of Petroleum Resources
INSTITUTIONAL CO-OPERATION WITH NPD Contd.
The DPR and NPD formally entered into an institutional co-operation agreement in 2004 to establish a base for the further transfer of knowledge and experience in Data Management, Resource management and amongst others. The co-operation is being funded by NORAD.
More technical assistance has been received from NPD in the area of data modeling and establishment of Cultural(Administrative) Database.
On-going efforts towards the development of a draft legislative framework for the public release of data .
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21. RELATIONSHIP WITH THE INDUSTRY
Speculative
Companies
Oil
Marketing Companies
DPR
NAPIMS
Operating Companies
Joint Venture Contract
Production Sharing
Contracts
Sole Risk
NDR
Service Contract
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22. Department of Petroleum Resources
Lessons Learned
Data
Locating historic data is a great challenge
Adopt a phased approach for loading data
Set realistic target dates for loading of data
Quality control is important else users will not have confidence in the data set
Management and Organisation
Regulatory Agency must play a leadership role and demonstrate total commitment to the project
Stakeholders must be fully engaged in the project
Data bank should be managed by the professionals
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23. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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