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.

      1. Introduction

        2. Terminology

        History of Acquisition

        Legacy formats

        Documentation and Storage

        Data Management today
      2. Survey of E&P Data Management

        3. End user requirements

        Vendor solutions
      3. E&P Service providers ~ their role in Data Management

        4. Seismic Contractors

        Logging Contractors

        Software Vendors

        Storage Contractors
      4. Non-E&P technologies

        5. Computing, Operating Systems, Architectures & Databases

        Full Text Search Engines

        Inter/Intranet

        Rapid Application Development

        Document Management

        Interoperability
      5. Standards Bodies and relevant standards
        6. SEG AAPG
        EAGE POSC
        PPDM API
        SPE Non E&P standards
        Open Spirit  
      1. Quality in data management

        2. Naming Conventions

        Data Entry procedures

        Sources for codes

        ‘Back door data management’
      2. Data Sharing Initiatives

        3. Databanking

        DISKOS

        CDA

        Distributed Data Sharing
      3. Departmental Analysis & Audit

        4. Workflow

        Analysis

        Recommendations
      4. Tendering and Contracts

        5. Outsourcing

        Buy or build

        Calling for tender

        Bid Analysis

        Contractual pitfalls
      5. Data Management Today

        6. Standards today

        Top down vs. bottom up

        Media and operating systems

        Future-proofing investment

        Interpretation Back-Population

        Interoperability

        Case Histories

        The future
      6. Concluding Remarks
        7.