ARCHIDEX

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ARCHIDEX

• A Seismic Corporate Data Store
• with
• Epicentre

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The Business drivers

• 1. PRESERVE OUR DATA
• Deterioration of 9 tracks tapes (mainly from 79
  to 83 and from 88 to 91)
• compaction of data available with HDM (gt 1 to
  50)
• 2. IMPROVE ACCES TO THE DATA
• on-line, fast and comprehensive access
• quick delivery of data
• 3. REDUCE COSTS
• of data management, access, and handling
• 1995
  1999 .
• 750 000 magnetic tapes gt 6 500
• 1 200 000 observer reports gt about 50 to
  100
• 200 000 moves / year gt network access

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Degradation of tapes
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Cost reduction by 30
IT Costs 100m Hard 63 Soft 25 DB mgt
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Geoscience Study 300m Interpretation
50 Data mngt. 30 Misc. 20
A reduction of 10 on Geoscience studies means
30m
Elf ep Production 1 mboe/d, Reserves 3,300 mboe
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Technical IS Strategy
TIS Strategy
- Speak the same language - Capitalize
corporate data - Use the best in class
application - Share data
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Elfs target
Multidisciplinary Project Data Base One base per
project
CDA (UK)
Multidisciplinary corporate Data Base One base
per Geographical area
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EP GEOBANK
Data delivery
Corporate Data Base
Seismic
PetroVision Client
Record Mngt
Intranet Client
Data Manipulation tool
Logs
etc.
EP GeoBank Epicentre
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Seismic archive project
750.000 tapes and cartridge
1.200.000 documents
on line access
6000 high density media (70 Tera-Octets)
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What the others did - 1- (up to mid 96)
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What the others did - 2 - (up to mid 96)
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The main dates

• The pre-project March - August 1995
• The call for tender Sept 1995 - April 1996
• Management approval May 1996
• Choice of IBM 3590 media August 1996
• Contract award August 1996
• Choice of CGG/Petrosystems/PECC and Petrovision
• Subject to a Pilot phase
• Pilot phase December 1996 - February 1997
• Production Phase Since march 1997
• Expected duration of 2.5 years

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Conclusion

• Business drivers
• Integration within a global IT strategy
• Use of a marketed product based on Epicentre
• Petrovision a good choice so far
• CGG-Petrosystems/PECC remastering know-how and
  Epicentre competences