Data Management Petroleum Agency SA

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Data ManagementPetroleum Agency SA
Jack Holliday Viljoen Storm
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Petroleum Agency SA

• Responsible for facilitating exploration
  investment
• Management of the national data base
• Adding value to the data
• Monitoring operations

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Outline...

• Reporting Structure
• Legislation Issues
• Business Model
• Exploration Data
• Standardization
• Types
• Systems
• Projects
• Access to Data
• Cost of Data
• Industry Relationship and Involvement
• Lessons Learnt
• Future Challenges
• Summary

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Reporting Structure
Ministerial Directive
Agency Board
NDR is a division of Petroleum Agency SA
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Legislation Issues...

• No Separate Oil Gas Legislation
• Contractual Framework
• Agency established under Ministerial Directive
  (April 1999)
• Promotion of Exploration and Exploitation of
  Oil and Gas
• Agency Responsible for
• Data Management
• Promotion
• Monitoring

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Legislation Issues...

• Data Belongs to the State
• Existing Available Data
• To View in Data Room
• Can be purchased
• Is Provided to Licensees
• All New Data to be supplied to Agency
• Field data after Survey
• Regular reports /data/interpretations on
  completion thereof
• All Data to be returned at Relinquishment

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Legislation Issues...

• Confidentiality
• Data is held confidential for four years or till
  relinquishment
• Reporting
• Monthly and Quarterly Reports
• 6-monthly Meetings
• Daily Progress on Operations via e-mail

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Business Model...

• Funding
• of Oil and Gas Production
• License Fees
• Data Sales
• Right to manage 3rd Party data
• Yearly budget approved by Agency Board

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Exploration Data Standardization

• Finder DM System is PPDM POSC Compliant
• Reporting Guidelines Document
• Approved by OPASA
• Convention of line and well names
• Samples, reports and diagrams
• Seismic data
• Well data
• Formats SEGD, SEGY, LIS, LAS, PDF and TIFF
• Media 3480, 3590, DLT, 8mm Exabyte, DAT
• WGS84 Spheroid

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Exploration Data Types...

• Seismic Data (2D and 3D)
• gt 300 000 Kms
• Field Data 8 TB Near-line
• Processed Reprocessed Seismic Data 2 TB
• Loaded into Projects (SMT) - 200 GB
• Well Data
• 290 Wells
• Geophysical Logs 8.5 TB
• GG Well Reports and diagrams (20 000)
• Samples, Cores and Slides

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Finder Data Management System
Direct PC Access
Forms / Reports
GeoWeb
SmartMap-GIS
Project Data Base SMT
F i n d e r Master Index
Finder On-line Master detail options
RAM/VIDS Seismic Archival
other databases
Project Archival
LogDB Log Archival
AssetDB Physical Inventory
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Physical Inventory System...
Catalogue, Query, Order Transmittals
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Access to Data ...

• Data Viewing Sets
• Confidentiality Agreement
• Review/ Presentations
• Data Catalogue
• Real time generation
• User defined Area
• Digital
• Online via Private Network

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Catalogue Generation Workflow
Select AOI (Area Of Interest)
Select List Name
Finder
AssetDB
ORACLE
Generate Reports
Digital Reports
RAM/VIDS
Physical Data Catalogue
Template(s)
Print Collate Reports
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Cost of Data ...

• Philosophy
• To encourage exploration activity by making high
  quality data available quickly and at reasonable
  cost.
• Want funds spent in drilling of wells rather than
  purchasing of data
• Free to research institutions
• Copy cost to licensees
• Catalogue price to others

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Current Projects...

• Transcription of Seismic Data
• Rescue data from old media
• Reduce volumes
• Encapsulation into RODE Format
• Retrieve information
• 100000 9 trk tapes to 850 DLT Cart
• Specialized systems
• 95 Complete

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Current Projects...

• ScanIt
• Scan Reports, Diagrams Seismics
• Archive on suitable media
• Reduce delivery time
• Reduce storage space
• Prepare for access through NET
• 500 000 documents
• 25 Complete

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Current Projects...

• WGS84 Conversion
• Seismic SP Locations from Clarke 1880
• Spheroid to WGS84
• All Navigation data converted in database
• New Data only accepted in WGS84

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Data Volumes and Statistics

• Seismic data including field, processed and
  scanned seismic images 13 TB
• Well Logs 8.5 TB
• Well reports, diagrams - 1 TB
• Monthly delivery to clients 5

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Industry Relationship

• Excellent
• Have a first class record for
• Delivery of data
• Professionalism
• Integrity
• G G Data maintained by PA is very
  comprehensive and well-organized, so that it can
  be easily retrieved and expeditiously provided to
  clients

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Lessons Learnt

• Understanding of database, quick access and
  speedy delivery of data is essential for
  marketing of acreage
• Transcription of old seismic data to modern media
  essential for keeping data available
• User defined area catalogue generation is
  essential for identification of the availability
  of data
• Data must not be prohibited it is a bait to
  good fishing

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Future Challenges

• Availability of Onshore Data
• Access to Data through Net
• National Data Repository

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Summary...

• Well organised database is key to success in
• marketing acreage
• Projects are constantly reviewed
• to keep data available in Industry Format
• Good track record in the supply and
• availability of data
• Systems are in place for the establishment
• of a NDR

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Marketing...
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