National Data Repositories: From a service company perspective

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National Data RepositoriesFrom a service
company perspective

• Duncan Junor
• Managing Director
• Landmark Consulting Services
• NDR6 Conference
• Utrecht, Netherlands
• 2005-09-20

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Contents

• Introduction
• National and EP industry information management
  challenges
• To what extent NDR can help address these
  challenges
• Questions to be considered when designing the
  NDR
• Drivers of the various players in the NDR arena
• Model showing 3 possible design options for the
  NDR
• Conclusion

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Open Information Reservoir Solutions

• The value of our company is based on its
  reserves, its barrels of oil equivalent. They
  are all virtual. We cannot count them, they
  are a projection of our data. Which really are
  our assets -- barrels of oil equivalent or data
  describing the barrels we think we have?
• Quiet Revolution, CERA, 1996, p. 5

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Oil Field Data Life Cycle
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NDRs Questions to consider

• Questions and issues to consider when designing
  the NDR
• What are the government objectives?
• What are the industry objectives?
• Who is going to fund the initiative?
• What is required to build a long-term sustainable
  operation?
• Will the NDR be government or service company
  operated?
• Are the incumbent oil companies expected to
  actively use the NDR or only report data to it?
• What are the success criteria for the NDR?

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NDRs Possible Roles
Oil Companies
Service Industry Technology Provider and/or
Operator
Regulatory Body/Government
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Role of the Oil Companies

• Agree on operational and technical framework for
  the NDR
• Define own data management solution within the
  context of the NDR
• Scale back own data management systems if
  required
• Use NDR as hub for all data sharing
• Support concept of one source for all data
• Owner of license held data in the NDR
• Timely reporting/submission of data to NDR
  operator
• Actively follow up QC of own operator data in
  NDR
• Funding

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Output from the DISKOS PetroBank
16th Round
USD 10/bbl
4 Tb in PetroBank
60 Tb in PetroBank
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Role of the Government

• Provide legislation and regulation as foundation
  for NDR
• Play leading role in defining standards and
  guidelines for NDR use
• Reporting dead-lines
• Reporting standards
• Routines for release of public data
• Owner of public data in NDR
• Enrol oil companies into joining NDR
• Provide financial incentives for NDR
  participation
• Tax relief (if relevant)
• Implement in Production Sharing Agreements or
  License Work Programmes (if relevant)

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Role of the Service Industry

• Provide technology and processes for efficient
  QC, storage, retrieval and distribution of NDR
  data
• Develop procedures for data handling in
  accordance with government regulations
• Provide service level in accordance with oil
  industry needs
• Serve core needs as defined by industry consort
• Serve specific needs of oil companies beyond the
  level defined by industry consortium
• Commercial player Market driven

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Alternative NDR Models

• Compliance Model
• National Data Archive
• Government driven
• Limited use by incumbent oil industry
• Primarily used to distribute public data for
  licensing rounds
• Government or service company operated

• Hub Model
• National Data Hub
• Jointly industry and government driven
• Exensive use by all EP industry players,
  including data acquisition service cos
• Used as replacement for industrys own internal
  data management solutions
• Service company operated

• Sharing Model
• National Data Bank
• Government driven, industry supported
• Some use by incumbent oil industry
• Used for data sharing between production
  licenses/PSAs as well as access to public data
• Service company operated

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Global trends in oil and gas
Petrobank data centres around the world
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Conclusions

• When designing your National Data Repository
• Approach the incumbent oil companies to solicit
  their need/support for the initiative
• Carefully determine your objectives for the NDR
• Consider who is going to fund the initiative
• Consider the alternative NDR models and decide
  which one is best suited to fit the nations
  needs
• Investigate what the service industry has to
  offer
• What is going to make your NDR a success?