The E&P Data Management Pep Talk

a one day seminar

presented by Neil McNaughton

The Data Room

This seminar is modular and can be tailored to suit the requirements of a particular company, or audience. Comprehensive courseware is supplied incorporating a questionnaire/worksheet allowing detailed analysis of a department's data management workflow. The seminar finishes with a study of the applicability of the different tools and technologies to individual circumstances.

Neil McNaughton is an explorationist with a career-long interest in computing and data management. He is the author of several scientific papers on E&P Data Management, the 1995 publication "A Survey of Data Management in the E&P Business" and is the editor of the widely read monthly newsletter Petroleum Data Manager.

• Introduction

Terminology

History of Acquisition

Legacy formats

Documentation and Storage

Data Management today

• Survey of E&P Data Management

End user requirements

Vendor solutions

• E&P Service providers ~ their role in Data Management

Seismic Contractors

Logging Contractors

Software Vendors

Storage Contractors

• Non-E&P technologies

Computing, Operating Systems, Architectures & Databases

Full Text Search Engines

Inter/Intranet

Rapid Application Development

Document Management

Interoperability

• Standards Bodies and relevant standards

SEG	AAPG
EAGE	POSC
PPDM	API
SPE	Non E&P standards
Open Spirit

• Quality in data management

Naming Conventions

Data Entry procedures

Sources for codes

‘Back door data management’

• Data Sharing Initiatives

Databanking

DISKOS

CDA

Distributed Data Sharing

• Departmental Analysis & Audit

Workflow

Analysis

Recommendations

• Tendering and Contracts

Outsourcing

Buy or build

Calling for tender

Bid Analysis

Contractual pitfalls

• Data Management Today

Standards today

Top down vs. bottom up

Media and operating systems

Future-proofing investment

Interpretation Back-Population

Interoperability

Case Histories

The future

1. Concluding Remarks