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Cloud Data Storage for Oil and Gas Companies: A Complicated History

The energy industry can no longer afford to delay cloud adoption. Oil and Gas technology has seen tremendous advancement over the past 20 years, which has resulted in accelerating increases in production and operational efficiency. But when it comes to digital technologies, the industry lags behind. Why? The capital-intensive operations found in the upstream sector don’t lend well to the trial-and-error approach typically used with new digital technologies. With an unpredictable oil price, operators are […]

Seismic Data Quality: The Big Scary Monster

Seismic data quality means having the solid foundation of a complete reliable dataset in your subsurface database, an ongoing quest for oil and gas companies. How can you stand behind your projects and investments if you’re not certain that they’re built upon quality seismic and well data? Oil and gas companies with assets in multiple countries around the world manage many petabytes of seismic and well data. If there are data quality issues, it can […]

Oil and Gas Data Analytics: When Subsurface Data Becomes a Natural Resource

The volume of new subsurface data that is being acquired and made available is rapidly increasing. Meanwhile large digital transformation projects are also unlocking legacy data. Many oil and gas companies are finding themselves with data assets from multiple countries that are being transformed into digital resources that could be used for oil and gas data analytics. Further complicating the asset trail, some of these companies are still acquiring and merging with other companies, requiring […]

Cloud Storage for E&P Data: Lessons Learned

It is increasingly clear that oil and gas companies are ramping up their efforts to put more and more E&P data into cloud storage. The current industry dynamics are pressuring them to continue to drive down cost, declare a digitalization strategy and compete with companies in other industry verticals for capital. So what are they learning as they make the journey? Cloud Storage Cost According to the eighth annual State of the Cloud survey by […]

Revealing Your Oil and Gas Exploration Data to the Right People

As oil and gas exploration databases become larger and more complex, energy companies are challenged with regulating access to certain datasets. Oil and gas exploration companies use the Internet and social media on a daily basis to get news, share data and connect with others. On our personal time, many of us take part in online games, quizzes and personality tests on social media for fun. The questions that we respond to in those ‘fun’ […]

Making it Work: Remote Seismic Data Loading for Interpretation Projects

Loading seismic and well data into projects when working from home Making things work while working from home has become a reality for many of us. Everyone is working through the practical issues that need to be addressed, such as setting up a home office or making sure you have enough bandwidth for a household suddenly full of workers and students. In addition to these, there are numerous other challenges associated with gaining access to […]

Cloud Storage for E&P Data: Drivers and Benefits

Cloud computing for subsurface data is part of a shift in our industry the likes of which may have never been seen. The scope, speed, and consistency with which oil and gas companies are pursuing digital transformation and digitalization strategies – and declaring them as strategic for them – could completely rewrite what an oil and gas company looks like within the next 2 – 5 years. It’s a wild, fascinating, scary disruption, and it’s […]

Wells and Well Data Management: Where to Begin?

Wells and well data management encompass such a broad spectrum of data types, files and historical issues and challenges, it’s tough to know where to start improving the program. The Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM) alone has invested many man years of work gathering input from industry experts to create whole publications focused on “What is a Well?” and “What is a Completion?” These are just definitions, so the question really is, “where to […]

National Data Repositories for Subsurface E&P Data in the Oil and Gas Industry

National Data Repositories (NDR) for the oil and gas industry contain the broad scope of data volumes that are acquired to aid in decision-making in each phase of the business, from upstream to midstream to downstream. For upstream, the subsurface data used for exploration and production (E&P) comprises of multiple disciplines of science and engineering, such as geology, geochemistry, geophysics, geomatics, geomechanics and geoengineering, petroleum engineering, reservoir engineering and well engineering. Managing these various data […]

Data Sovereignty and Subsurface Data Management for National Oil Companies

Data sovereignty and the control of the subsurface data is an all important role of the nation state. Sovereignty is a well-known word these days and in common usage with initiatives in association with royalty, political movements and the desire for self-rule. The dictionary definition defines it as ‘supreme power or authority’ or ‘the authority of a state to govern itself or another state.’ In the context of our discussion here, we shall consider sovereignty […]