Data Repositories Trends and Threats

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Data Repositories Trends and Opportunities

• Alan H Smith
• Paras Consulting
• Presented by
• Flemming Rolle

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Agenda

• What is a data repository?
• Usage of repositories
• Case studies from South America
• Benefits realised and yet to find
• Conclusions

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What is a data repository?

• Data
• known facts or things used as a basis for
  inference or reckoning (Concise Oxford
  Dictionary, 9th edition)
• Repository
• A place where things are stored or may be found,
  esp. a warehouse or museum
• In E P industry
• A digital system for managing data and
  information
• Often shared

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What types of repository are there?

• Bank Vault
• Market Stall
• Club

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Agenda

• What is a data repository?
• Usage of repositories
• Case studies from South America
• Benefits realised and yet to find
• Conclusions

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Usage of Data Repositories
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Agenda

• What is a data repository?
• Usage of repositories
• Case studies from South America
• Benefits realised and yet to find
• Conclusions

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Experiences in South America

• Argentina
• Peru
• Colombia
• Brazil

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Argentina

• Economic stability???
• New regulations
• Provinces responsible for own licenses data
• Federal Gov responsible for offshore
• Federal
• Scanning everything from offshore
• But what next?
• No Money!
• Interested in offers

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Peru - Base de Datos Tecnicos para Hidrocarburos

• Perupetro
• Government regulator
• Data clean up over the last 6 years
• Prioritised open exploration areas
• Small market
• lt100,000 b/d whole country
• Single service provider
• Moving to Internet
• Indigopool.com marketing opportunities
• Own presence/ website
• Data information online
• Must go to Lima (available electronically)
• Plans in next 3 years

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Colombia Banco de Informacion Petrolera

• Ecopetrol
• Government department
• Regulator
• Company
• Large data clean up carried out
• US 30 40 million spent
• Seismic, Wells, Production
• Limited service sector market
• Single contract running Bank
• Result
• 2001 more licenses awarded
• Despite

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Brazil

• Original work by Petrobras
• Now with ANP (Regulator)
• Data clean up
• Access in Rio only
• Single provider
• Highly attractive
• What about (oil cos) value added data?

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Agenda

• What is a data repository?
• Usage of repositories
• Case studies from South America
• Benefits realised and yet to find
• Conclusions

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Benefits of Vault

• Costs reduced
• Shared
• software
• hardware
• staff
• Speed??
• No real difference between a vault outsourcing
• Digital version of a Hays warehouse

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Marketing systems - Benefits

• Fast preview of data
• Speed of data delivery
• Known quality of data
• Less need for sales visits
• Improved investment in countries

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Realised benefits of Clubs

• Manage Data ONCE!
• Share cost of infrastructure
• Standard ways of storing and retrieving data
• Original format
• Common formats
• Secure storage (data integrity assured)
• Data on demand
• Fast access

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Yet to find

• Many companies still duplicate data
• Historic data not yet destroyed
• Clubs slow to develop
• Mixed use
• UKDEAL
• Peru Colombia

Why?
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What are the blockers?

• Psychology
• Loss of control over data
• Going to external data providers is slower than
  looking internally

• Communications bandwidth cost
• High bandwidth now available
• Costs coming down

• Technology Standards
• Maturing (XML SOAP)
• Used in other industries

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The way repositories are used
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The next steps?
Contractor(s)
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The next steps?
Contractor(s)
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The QC step?
Club System
Contractor(s)
User Company
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The End Game?
How?
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Web services
UDDI
XML SOAP
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Agenda

• What is a data repository?
• Usage of repositories
• Case studies from South America
• Benefits realised and yet to find
• Conclusions

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Conclusions

• Change will happen
• Exact model still unknown
• Change driven by
• Demographics
• Need for speed
• Economics
• Enabled by the Web
• Possibly by Web services / ASP services

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