NDR9 Country Update Canada Developing NDR

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NDR9 Country Update CanadaDeveloping NDR

• Mary Jean Verrall, Supervisor, Geoscience
  Research Centre
• Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board
• September 2, 2009

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Organization

• The Board is the independent joint agency of the
  governments of Canada and Nova Scotia responsible
  for the regulation of petroleum activities in the
  Nova Scotia offshore area. It was established in
  1990 pursuant to the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore
  Petroleum Accord Implementation Acts (Accord
  Acts)
• The Boards responsibilities include
• Health safety of offshore workers
• Protection of the environment
• Management and conservation of offshore petroleum
  resources
• Employment industrial benefits
• Issuance of licenses for offshore exploration
  development
• Resource evaluation, data collection, curation
  distribution

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Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board

• Nova Scotia Offshore Area 400,000 sq kms
• First Seismic Acquired in 1959
• 204 Wells (127 Exploration Wells)
• Cohasset - Panuke project, produced oil from
  1992-1999 and is now decommissioned. Project
  Operators were LASMO , and Pan Canadian (now
  EnCana). It produced 44.5 million barrels and is
  now abandoned.
• The Sable Offshore Energy Project, operated by
  ExxonMobil and partners, has been producing gas
  since 1999. It has produced 1.4 TCF since 1999.
• The Deep Panuke Offshore Gas Development Project,
  operated by EnCana Corporation and partners,
  which is currently under development and
  expecting first gas in 2010

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CNSOPB Jurisdictional Area
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Purpose of the Geoscience Research Centre-Digital
Data Management Centre (NDR)

• To provide an effective efficient system for
  management of digital petroleum data
• Explorers can efficiently access and evaluate
  large volumes of data via the web
• Data Preservation

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Legislation/Data Release

• Sections 122 and 121 respectively of the federal
  and provincial legislation deal with the
  confidentiality and disclosure of information
  provided for the purposes of the legislation
• Disclosure of Well Data
• Exploratory Well
• 2 years following well termination
• Delineation
• 90 days or 2 years following the termination of
  the discovery well on the same prospect
• Development
• 60 days or 2 years following the termination of
  the discovery well on the same prospect

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Legislation/Data Release

• Disclosure of Non-Exclusive Geophysical Data
• Non-exclusive geophysical work is held
  confidential for at least 10 years following the
  completion date
• Disclosure of Exclusive Geophysical Data
• Exclusive geophysical work is held confidential
  for 5 years following the completion date

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Types of Data

• Current data sets include
• Well reports, Logs Digital Logs
• Seismic Reports, 2D Lines, 3D Lines
• Core Reports, Core Analysis, Plug Analysis,
  Sidewall Core Analysis
• License Reports - Exploration, Production
  Significant Discovery License
• Metadata Well Seismic
• Future Plans Sample Reports, Environmental
  Reports Digital Logs

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Access Methods

• Accessible on the web via a user friendly
  map/report interface
• Access available after the completion of an
  Application for a CNSOPB Digital Data Management
  Centre password.
• On-line download available (time dependent on
  file size)
• Longer term vision includes electronic submission
  of all required data

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Storage Methods

• Digital Data Management Centre (Schlumberger
  Software Technology) houses digital images
  (PDF/TIFF) for well and seismic and, soon to be
  loaded, digital well log data (LAS, DLIS, etc.)
• Data submitted by industry on a variety of
  digital media i.e. DVD, CD, DLT, LTO
• Legacy paper, mylar microfiche
• Only government owned SEGY is accessible via our
  FTP site
• Future Plans include online upload of data from
  industry

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Standards

• The CNSOPB uses widely accepted industry
  standards i.e. LAS, DLIS, SEGY, etc.
• The CNSOPB are continually reviewing data
  standards to ensure they remain current with
  modern technology
• Links To Regulatory Systems
• As the regulator for Offshore Nova Scotia, future
  plans include links to other regulatory agencies
  National Energy Board Canada-Newfoundland and
  Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board in anticipation
  of forming a National Data Repository

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Charging

• The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Provides access
  to all non-confidential geoscience information
  via internet access or on site FREE OF CHARGE

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Problems

• Initial DMC Project Staffing
• Timeline
• Aggressive timeline
• Understanding of Required Functionality
• Poor communication initially between the vendor
  and client resulted in the business requirements
  for the DMC being not fully developed
• Budgeting
• Emphasis not put in the correct place at the
  time. We have since realized that funds should
  have been put in place for scanning and
  cataloguing of data prior to the opening of the
  DMC.
• Recent Problem
• File size issues - converting images to a
  reasonable size in order to view online

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Successes

• DMC live on the Web December 13, 2007
• Software Enhancements deployed in December, 2008
• Project upgrade to increase user functionality
  (search retrieval functions) and implement
  customizations, August, 2009
• Data Availability Update
• 73 of Well Reports and Logs (PDF) loaded to
  Decision Point. This represents 150 out of 204
  wells. Expected completion March 2010
• 7,353 pieces of seismic data, representing 52 of
  350 seismic programs have been loaded and are
  ready for viewing/download
• Over 13,000 pieces of seismic data have been
  scanned with an estimated 17,000 remaining
• Continual improvement

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Lessons Learned

• Excellent communication between the vendor and
  client is critical to success
• Allow more time for the implementation phase, our
  timeline was very aggressive
• Have our house in order with reference to data
  cataloguing and scanning prior to opening the DMC
• Start small then expand as required
• Cost of preparing legacy data was not anticipated
• Time and effort in preparing the legacy data and
  then scanning was much more than expected and is
  ongoing

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THANKS A BUNCH!

• Any Questions?
• MJ
• Supervisor, Geoscience Research Centre
• Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board