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NDR2014 Conference
Baku, Azerbaijan
29th September – 3rdrd October 2014
Proceedings
Foreword and
Summary of the Meeting
Contents
Foreword by Tirza van Daalen
Summary of meeting
Keynote speech from Dr Khalik
Introductory presentation by Malcolm Fleming
Country talks
Breakout sessions
Feedback on conference
Running future meetings and the next Conference
Annexes
A Delegate list in alphabetic sequence.
B Agenda of conference
C Breakout sessions
1 Using Regional Groups to enable Regulatory Collaboration
2 How to handle data rights and entitlements
3 How to manage distributed repositories
4 Standardised Reporting and Data Submission standards
5 How to archive for posterity
D Evaluation forms : feedback summary and analysis
E NDR committees
NDR2014 SPONSORS
Foreword
I was delighted when I was asked to be chair of NDR2014 as I believe that there are major
advantages if Regulators can work together and the NDR meetings are an ideal place to foster
this collaboration. I was pleased that the friendly nature of NDR2014 in Baku seems to have
generated a potential level of collaboration, greater than in previous meetings. In particular
the possibility for regional NDR meetings similar to that we have started in Europe is a
positive trend.
Meetings such as NDR2014 rely a lot on volunteer effort and it is invidious to identify
specific individuals so a big thank you to all the committees mentioned in Annex F. Also a
big thank you to SOCAR for all their efforts and the sponsors without which the nature of the
conference would be significantly different.
For this conference we tried to take account of the feedback from last time and we changed
the way we ran the country reports and the breakouts. I am pleased that the feedback this time
on out changes was positive.
My summary of the conference, which obviously is a personnel one, is that NDRs do make a
difference. The range of issues raised in the country reports was fascinating. From the mature
NDRs in Norway, Netherlands and UK to the emerging NDRs in Oman and Mexico to those
just starting such as Greenland we had a series of positive messages. There has been real
progress on production data and data quality since NDR11. Importantly the more focussed
breakouts identified a real desire to try and cooperate between meetings.
Finally Jerry Hubbard presented our thoughts on the way that the NDR movement can
continue, it is difficult to continue with the current volunteer situation. I know he will be
contacting you all with proposals early in 2015.
The presentations are on the NDR14 web site
http://www.energistics.org/calendar/2014/9/29/ndr2014
Country templates are on the Energistics site http://www.energistics.org/regulatory/country-
index.
Onward to NDR16 which will be held in North America, the exact location not yet agreed,
and I gratefully hand over to Lee Allison.
Tirza van Daalen
(Deputy Director at Geological Survey of the Netherlands)
Summary of meeting
The meeting was opened with a keynote speech from Dr Khalik Mammadov
(Vice President of SOCAR)
Dr Mammadov remarked “ .. given the rich history of the oil industry in Azerbaijan it was
appropriate that the conference was being held very close to the world’s first commercially
drilled oil well. (Delegates were to visit this later in the conference). This was a foundation
for offshore drilling and a significant contribution to the world’s oil and gas industry. In the
early 20th century Azerbaijan accounted for nearly half of the world’s production.
Following the defeat of the Nazis significant advances were made in production and safety.
Oil and gas pipelines were built which helped to provide energy security for the European
Union. Azerbaijan is now one of the fastest growing countries in the world. SOCAR are the
Azerbaijan national oil company.”
This opening was followed by an introductory presentation by Malcolm Fleming
(CEO of CDA). His presentation “Making Data Management a Discipline” was to set the
tone and philosophy for the conference. His theme was that data is a National asset and that
well managed data improves efficiency. Regulators need to manage the gamut of data
associated with the oil industry, very importantly the meta data. Everyone needs to manage
data and Data Management IS NOT IT. Knowing the quality of the data is an important
factor in understanding the subsurface, in particular knowing what data is missing is vital. His
argument was that Data Management should be regarded as a discipline and a recognised
profession. He outlined the work that is currently proceeding with CDA/PPDM/ECIM that
should lead to both undergraduate and master’s qualifications in the near future.
Following this sound introduction the conference took a familiar form of country
presentations, breakout sessions and opportunities for the delegates to network.
At NDR2014 it was decided that, following feedback from NDR11, we would change the
nature of the Country Reports. We would offer countries two options. The first option
was the traditional one of telling the delegates about their region, numbers of wells and
seismic etc., status of NDR, problems, and issues using a template. This is the approach
recommended for new countries. The second option that was adopted by most of the
countries was to give a quick update and then focus on a specific topic, something done well
or a problem that needed to be solved. These talks were then presented in generic groups:
Country session 1 : Resolving data issues
Resolving problems with loading legacy well data Aliya Huseynova - Azerbaijan
Scanning legacy seismic data Mary Verrall - Canada (Nova Scotia)
Going green with data Hamka Ibrahim - Malaysia
Building a new offshore data management regime Mark Ducksbury – Australia
Country session 2 : The Digital Age and NDRs
Linking an NDR to an electronic permitting system Phil Harrison - UK
Running a bidding round electronically (eBID) Lucia Vaz - Brazil
Data Integration between State & Federal Agencies Lee Allison - United States
A web site for marketing O&G exploration data Uffe Larsen – Denmark
Country session 3 : Contracting an NDR
Re-tendering an NDR Eric Toogood - Norway
An innovative funding solution Eunice Kilonzo - Kenya
NDR as a service rather than a packaged solution Oscar Flores – Mexico
Country Session 4 : Data and the environment
Forming and enforcing standards Ali Alyahyaee - Oman
Exploring in extreme weather conditions Jan Adolfssenn - Greenland
An expanded NDR with environmental data Rico Tonis - Netherlands
Govt investment in Geoscience data and knowledge Malcolm Flowers - New Zealand
Country session 5 : Country reports
South Africa Johanna du Toit
Uganda Denis Ariko
Venezuela Victor Bruley
Feedback on this approach was very positive and we will take account of the comments for
next time.
The Breakout Sessions were also different. At the last few conferences we have run the
breakouts in the same way. Some have been popular, others not as popular. One on
production data has led to an active group and we are near to defining a Regulatory Standard
for exchange of production data. The hope is that we could identify other areas such as this
that will emerge as areas of collaboration. For NDR2014 it was not thought there would be
any new topics that had not been discussed at last few meetings. We analysed the breakouts
in the last few conferences and identified the popular sessions by attendance and feedback.
We thought we would take the “top five” and run these again but in a slightly different way.
Each session would be introduced in the main conference by an “expert” and then everyone
would discuss that topic in parallel sessions. This will allow everyone to contribute and
hopefully would generate an active group for each topic that will allow it to be taken forward
after the conference. The breakout topics and nominated expert were:
Using Regional Groups to enable Regular Collaboration Stephan Gruijters
Defining and Measuring Data Quality Philip Lesslar
People Issues are key to success Malcolm Fleming
Standardised Reporting and Data Submission standards. Stewart Robinson
Significant issues managing Seismic Data. Rico Tonis
This approach appeared to be both successful and popular, with some comments that will be
taken into account for next time. The results of all the work is in Annex D and we are
confident that the potential for future collaborative work is real.
Annex E contains the detailed feedback on the conference and the committee are
grateful to all delegates who responded. In brief summary there were more positive than
negative statements and from that we conclude we are heading in the right direction. The
most favourable comments were made about the conference content and the networking
opportunities. There was also strong support for the new format adopted for the Country
Reports and there was significant praise for the conference organisation.
Traffic and noise in the conference room were notable criticisms but there were also
mutterings about the overall duration of the conference and insufficient free-time (but these
are probably minority opinions). The majority of ideas for Improvement were around the
breakouts and the general conference organisation (where managing PowerPoint files and
time-management were mentioned in particular).
It is impossible to do justice to all the comments here and what we propose to do is to address
the comments by topic, e.g. breakouts, country reports etc., and include them in future
newsletters in advance of the planning for the next conference.
During the conference Jerry Hubbard (CEO of Energistics) gave a presentation of how future
meetings may be run. He explained that to date the conferences had been run effectively by
volunteers, often the same ones, and that these volunteers were aging and a Successions
policy for the future needs to be put in place. It is necessary to make the running of the
conferences more formal and to involve more people. The Executive Committee have
investigated several options and believe that the only viable option is to subsume the running
of the meetings into an enhanced Energistics Regulatory Special Interest Group.
They will work on this suggestion and make a proposal in the early 2015.
The next conference, NDR16, will follow the tradition of moving around the continents
to allow different countries to participate. It will be held in North America and two venues
are being investigated. An announcement will be made by early 2015. The Committee are
very pleased to announce that Lee Allison, State geologist and Director of Arizona
Geological Survey, has agreed to chair the next Conference.
Overall a successful conference and thank you to all who took part.
NDR Executive Committee
Annex A - Delegate list in alphabetic sequence.
[Emails have not been included for security reasons but are available from either Stewart
Robinson or Jerry Hubbard.]
Aleksandre Abaiadze Georgian Oil & Gas
Corporation
Asker Abbasov SOCAR Chief of Oil & Gas
Field Development
Division
Azerbaijan
Kamal
Olarewaju
Adebisi Mayor Oil Limited Nigeria
Jan Schulz Adolfssen Ministry of Industry
and Mineral
Resources –
Geological
Department
Geologist, Project
Manager
Greenland
Bankole Afolabi
Rotimi
Roya Wrown Nigeria
Limited
General Manager Nigeria
Erdem Akyag TPAO Turkey
Faisal Al Farsi Ministry of Oil And
Gas
GIS Specialist Oman
Ugur Algan Volantice Ltd. UK
Lee Allison Arizona Geological
Survey
State Geologist &
Director
USA
Khalid Alshidi Ministry of Oil and
Gas (MOG)
Geophysics Data
Specialist
Oman
Ali Alyahyaee Petroleum
Development Oman
OGDR Manager Oman
Ferdinand Aniwa Ghana National
Petroleum
Corporation
Manager, Info. Sys.,
Data Mgmt. &
Communication
Ghana
Daniel Arthur Petroleum
Commisssion of
Ghana
Asst. Officer Data
Management
Ghana
Hassan Asheg CGG VP Business
Development
UK
Ilham Aslanov SOCAR Director, IT&C Azerbaijan
Eric Atherton Data Horizon Ltd. Managing Director UK
David Atta Peters Petroleum
Commisssion of
Ghana
Nikoloz Beruchashvili Georgian Oil & Gas
Corporation
Kerry Blinston CGG Global Director of
Technology Solutions,
Data Management
Services
UK
Henri Blondelle CGG VP Business
Development
France
Dale Blue Halliburton Global Practice
Manager - Information
Management
USA
Victor Bruley Scan Geofisica CTO Venezuela
Stuart Byford BP UK
Eduard Cherednik I H S
Nwafey
Cajethan
Chukwujekwu Ifasam Ventures Nig.
Limited
Technical Manager Nigeria
Carrie Clarke Troika International Company
Administrator
UK
Paul Coles Schlumberger Business Development
Manager
UK
Angus Craig Katalyst Data
Management
VP, EAME UK
Trudy Curtis PPDM Association CEO Canada
Tracey Dancy Dancy Dynamics Managing Director UK
Murat Demiray TPAO Turkey
Abdelkader Djeddou Aygun VP Geomarket –
Central Asia & Turkey
UK
Johanda du Toit Petroleum Agency
SA
Manager, E&P Assets South Africa
Mark Ducksbury National Offshore
Petroleum Titles
Administrator
(Australia)
Assistant Manager,
Compliance and
Operations Support
Australia
Vidadi Ehmedov SOCAR Chief of IT
Department
Azerbaijan
Echebi Emeka Friday Ifasam Ventures
Nigeria Ltd.
Instrumentation
Engineer
Nigeria
Muharrem Emeklioglu TPAO Turkey
Adalat Eminov SOCAR Chief Geologist Azerbaijan
Malcolm Fleming Common Data Access
Ltd. (CDAL)
CDA, Chief Executive UK
Malcolm Flowers New Zealand
Petroleum and
Minerals
Senior Technical
Advisor
New Zealand
Elmir Garagozov SOCAR Chief of Exploration
Division
Azerbaijan
Simon Gitau National Oil
Company of Kenya
Systems Administrator
Infrasture
Kenya
Varun Gowda EGI - University of
Utah
Chief Technology
Officer
USA
Stephan Gruijters TNO - Geological
Survey of the
Netherlands
Senior Project
Manager
Netherlands
Alexey Gurevich IHS Director Business
Development
Russia
Marianne Hansen Geological Survey of
Denmark and
Greenland
Archive Manager Denmark
Philip Harrison Department of Energy
& Climate Change
Senior Geoscience
Data Manager
UK
Jerry Hubbard Energistics President & CEO USA
Rena Huseyn-Zada BP Azerbaijan
Bahram Huseynov SOCAR Vice to First VP Azerbaijan
Inayat Huseynov SOCAR Azerbaijan
Irada Huseynova BP Azerbaijan
Aliya Huseynova SOCAR Azerbaijan
Farhad Ibadov SOCAR Chief of Geology
Division
Azerbaijan
Hamka Ibrahim Petronas General Manager Malaysia
Ebichi Ifeanyi Prince Ifasan Ventures Nig.
Ltd.
Planning Engineer Nigeria
Olga Ilyushkina I H S Senior BD Manager
Vahid Jafarov SOCAR Chief of Geology
Division, Drilling
Trust
Azerbaijan
Norzilah Jaffar Petronas Senior Manager,
Regulatory
Compliance &
Technical Assurance
Malaysia
Richard Johnston Schlumberger USA
Kapil Joneja Schlumberger Services Sales
Manager
Indonesia
Joesph Justin Petronas Manager, Geoscience
Data
Malaysia
William Kasasa Petroleum &
Exploration Uganda
Geological
Assistant/Data
Custodian – Wells
Uganda
Onu Ogonna Kennedy Ifasam Ventures Nig
Limited
Project Manager Nigeria
Gleb Khanutin Gazprom
International
Chief Specialist
Technologies
Eunice Kilonzo National Oil
Company of Kenya
GIS Coordinator Kenya
Michael Kinyua National Oil
Corporation
Petroleum Engineeer Kenya
Alexander Kosolapov Geoleader Branch Manager
Zubeyir Kucuk TPAO
Uffe Larsen The Geological
Survey of Denmark
and Greenland
System Developer Denmark
Philip Lesslar Petronas Head, Technical
Assurance
Malaysia
Jill Lewis Troika International Managing Director /
CEO
UK
Mikhail Leypunskiy Schlumberger
Maria Lysenkova Zebra Data Sciences
Aygun Mamedova BP James Dury registered
for Aygun Mamedova
UK
Edem Mawuko Petroleum
Commission of
Ghana
IT Officer Ghana
Khalik Mammadov SOCAR Azerbaijan
Ugonna Michael
Chima
Ifasam Ventures Nig.
Ltd.
Data Entry Operator Nigeria
Ngwako Mnguni Petroleum Agency
SA
Sr. Technical
Compliance Officer
South Africa
Gianluca
(Giovanni)
Monachese Kadme AS Director Business
Development
Norway
Ian Moores CGG Head of Integrated
Solutions
UK
David Mulinde Petroleum &
Exploration Uganda
Senior Geophysical
Technician/Database
Engineer
Uganda
Sabina Naghiyeva Halliburton
Sylvestre Nguessan PETROCI (National
Oil Company of
COTE D’IVOIRE)
Petroleum
Engineer/Data
Management Service
Cote D'Ivoire
Calisto Nhatugues
Junior
Instituto Nacional de
Petroleo
Geologist Mozambique
Timothy Njoroge National Oil
Company of Kenya
Business Systems
Database
Administrator
Kenya
Abraham Obeng GNPC IT Support Officer Ghana
Afolabi
Micheal
Ojo Akinade Nigeria
Limited
Operations Manager Nigeria
Adebayo Ige Okunade Mayor Oil Limited Branch Manager Nigeria
Patrick
Olalekan
Omojebe Edge Concept Nigeria
Limited
Engineer Nigeria
Hammed
Gbenga
Owopade Intercontineatal
Connect Agency
Oil Products Marketer Nigeria
Maria Pariani Registros Mineros
Argentino S.A
Gerente Operaciones -
Banco Datos
Hidrocarburos
Argentina
Julian Pickering Geologix SI Limited CEO UK
Natalya Rakhmanina Geloeader Geologist
Melissa Ray Energistics Operations Manager USA
Tom Riley Energy & Geoscience
Institute, University
of Utah
Chief of Industry
Relations
USA
Oscar Roldan Flores National
Hydrocarbons
Commission Mexico
Director General of
Planning and Data
Management
Mexico
Stewart Robinson Energistics NDR Vice Chair UK
William Saldana Schlumberger -
WesternGECO
Geophysicist and Data
Management Specialist
Angola
Ahmed Salmanov SOCAR Vice Director,
Oil&Gas Project
Institute
Azerbaijan
Richard Salway Common Data Access
Ltd. (CDAL)
Well Data Manager UK
Vladimir Sedukhin SIBNAC
Kevin Selby Landmark EAME Ltd Global IM Practice
Manager
Malaysia
Samit Sengupta Geo+C101:D103logix
Limited
Managing Director UK
Abdulgafar
Adebayo
Shaaba Folayshad Nigeria
Limited
CEO Nigeria
Aleksei Shcherbich Halliburton Vice to Geophysical
Department Head
Russia
Yusif Shikhaliyev SOCAR Azerbaijan
Robert Siahaan Petronas Manager, Geoscience
Data
Malaysia
Mikheil Sidamonidze Georgian Oil & Gas
Corporation
Christine Skagerberg Schlumberger Technical Marketing -
Software Services
USA
Alan Smith Luchelan Ltd. Director USA
Monica Smith Petroleum Agency
SA
PA/Administrator:
Information Services
South Africa
Dmitry Sokolov Halliburton
Jacqueline Spalding Dancy Dynamics Account Manager UK
Helen Stephenson Stephenson & Director USA
Associates
Luis Tavares Schlumberger Sonangol NDC Project
Consultant
USA
Gustavo Tinoco ANP Brazil Deputy Manager of
Technical Data
Brazil
Luis Tognon Independent
Consultant
Independent
Consultant
Argentina
Rico Tonis TNO - Geological
Survey of the
Netherlands
Account Manager
Dutch E&P Data
Netherlands
Eric Toogood Norwegian Petroleum
Directorate (NPD)
Diskos Manager Norway
Pawel Ulatowski Zebra Data Sciences Director Russia & Far
East
Malaysia
Zeyneddin Umarov SOCAR Chief Geologist, Field
Geophysics
Department
Azerbaijan
Tirza Van Daalen TNO - Geological
Survey of the
Netherlands
Deputy Director Netherlands
Michiel van der
Meulen
TNO - Geological
Survey of the
Netherlands
Chief Geologist -
Research Manager
Geomodelling
Netherlands
Tatiana Vassilieva Schlumberger
Lucia Vaz ANP Brazil Deputy CIO Brazil
Friso Veenstra TNO Senior Business
Developer Petroleum
Exploration
Netherlands
Mary Jean Verrall Canada-Nova Scotia
Offshore Petroleum
Board
Supervisor, Geoscience
Research Centre
Canada
Jack Walton Interica
Namaz Yusubov SOCAR Advisor to Director,
Exploration
Geophysics
Department
Azerbaijan
Mehman Yusufov SOCAR Chief Geologist,
Drilling Trust
Azerbaijan
Khoshbaht Yusufzade SOCAR First VP Azerbaijan
Annex B - Conference agenda
Monday 29th September –Day 1
Time Session title Person
08:00 Registration
09:00 Welcome Tirza van Daalen – TNO
09:10 Keynote speech Khalik Mammadov - SOCAR
09:40 Outline of conference Stewart Robinson - Energistics
09:50 Making Data Management a Discipline Malcolm Fleming - TNO
10:20 Coffee
11:00 Introduction to Breakout 1 – “Regional Groups” Stephan Gruijters - TNO
11:10 4 parallel breakouts on Regional Groups
12:15 Lunch
13:45 Quiz Malcolm Fleming
14:15 Platinum Sponsor - CGG Kerry Blinston
Country session 1 : Resolving data issues
14:35 Resolving problems with loading legacy well data Aliya Huseynova - Azerbaijan
14:55 Scanning legacy seismic data Mary Verrall - Canada (Nova
Scotia)
15:15 Going green with data Hamka Ibrahim - Malaysia
15:35 Building a new offshore data management regime Mark Ducksbury - Australia
15:55 Coffee
16:15 Report back on Breakout 1 Panel of facilitators
16:45 Running future meetings - Successions Jerry Hubbard - Energistics
17:15 Close
Tuesday 30th September - Day 2
Time Session title Person
09:00 Chairman’s remarks Tirza van Daalen - TNO
09:10 Introduction to Breakout 2 – “Data quality” Philip Lesslar - Petronas
09:20 Introduction to Breakout 3 - “People issues are key
to success”
Malcolm Fleming - CDA
09:30 2 x 3 parallel breakouts on 2 and 3
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Platinum sponsor - Schlumberger Paul Coles
Country session 2 : The Digital Age and NDRs
11:20 Linking an NDR to an electronic permitting system Phil Harrison - UK
11:40 Running a bidding round electronically (eBID) Lucia Vaz - Brazil
12:00 Data Integration Between State & Federal Agencies Lee Allison - United States
12:20 A web site for marketing O&G exploration data Uffe Larsen - Denmark
13:20 Lunch
Wednesday 1st October - Day 3
Time Session title Person
09:00 Chairman’s remarks Tirza van Daalen - TNO
09:10 Platinum sponsor 3 - Landmark Kevin Selby
Country session 3 : Contracting an NDR
09:30 Re-tendering an NDR Eric Toogood - Norway
09:50 An innovative funding solution Eunice Kilonzo - Kenya
10:10 NDR as a service rather than a packaged solution Oscar Flores - Mexico
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Feedback on Production Reporting from NDR11 Stewart Robinson – Energistics
11:20 Introduction to Breakout 4 – “Significant issues
managing seismic data”
Rico Tonis - TNO
11:25 Introduction to Breakout 5 – “Reporting standards” Stewart Robinson - Energistics
11:30 2 x3 parallel breakouts on 4 and 5
13:00 Lunch
Country Session 4 : Data and the environment
14:15 Forming and enforcing standards Ali Alyahyaee - Oman
14:35 Exploring in extreme weather conditions Jan Adolfssenn - Greenland
14:50 An expanded NDR with environmental data Rico Tonis - Netherlands
15:10 Government investment in Geoscience data and
knowledge
Malcolm Flowers - New
Zealand
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Feedback on breakouts 2 and 3
16:30 Quiz results and prizes
17:00 Close
Thursday October 2nd - Day 4
Time Session title Person
09:00 Chairman’s remarks Tirza van Daalen - TNO
09:10 Feedback on breakouts 4 and 5
Country session 5 : Country reports
09:40 South Africa Johanna du Toit
10:00 Uganda Denis Ariko
10:20 Venezuela Victor Bruley
10:40 Coffee
11:00 “Strategic role of an NDR” Malcolm Fleming – CDA and
Tirza van Daalen - TNO
11:30 Looking forward to NDR2016 in Houston, Texas Lee Allison – AAPG
11:50 Review of conference Tirza van Daalen - TNO
12:30 Lunch
Annex C – Breakout sessions
Breakout 1 - Using Regional Groups to enable Regulatory Collaboration
Introduction
Following previous NDR meetings four Regulators in Europe from UK, Norway,
Netherlands and Denmark decided, in 2012, to meet informally and see if there were any
areas in which they could collaborate to mutual benefit. This has proved useful and they now
meet 6 monthly discussing common challenges but also informing each other what they are
doing. The purpose of the breakout was to tell others how successful this had been, to gauge
whether there was any enthusiasm for similar collaborations in other regions, to identify any
blockers to collaboration and determine what was needed to get something going.
It was decided to run the breakouts by regions of the world, crudely as follows:
The Americas, Africa, Central Asia and Middle East/Asia.
Results of breakouts
There was general enthusiasm for collaboration on a regional basis between NDR meetings.
There will be a number of issues to be resolved such as travel costs, location and leadership
but there seem to be a number of topics in areas such as technical, organisational and cross-
border issues that would easily establish agendas.
The key is establishing leadership and initially stimulating activity. At the breakouts
delegates, even from neighbouring provinces, were meeting each other for the first time.
Follow-up action
Clearly there is enthusiasm for regional NDR meetings between the bi-annual gatherings.
There was general agreement that an informal organization could be created around the
Energistics Regulatory SIG and that a simple Action Plan should be established to enable
initial meetings to be held, possibly using conference calls or video conferencing.
Energistics will consider this.
Breakout 2 – Defining and Measuring Data Quality
Introduction
There are common issues of Data Quality for Regulators and Oil Companies. Some of these
are: Well header and other meta data.
Data completeness
Communications between parties and helping new comers.
This was a key breakout at NDR11, work had proceeded since then and the intention was to
take the work forward.
Results of breakouts
There were three separate breakouts.
Building and adding to a business rules library.
Understand what business rules are.
Review existing rules list.
Define additional rules.
Tools with a focus on an NDR data quality dashboard.
Understand the working model of a Data Quality tool.
Understand how business rules are implemented and used.
Develop and agree on a dashboard for NDR purposes.
Addressing data quality improvements.
Discuss the data correction workflow.
Develop and agree the workflow necessary to ensure corrections.
Follow-up action
Establish the Working Group on formal basis.
Consolidate all discussions on Energistics Collaboration site (if appropriate).
Increase global participation in project.
Continue development of Business Rules Library (data types, activity type etc.)
Develop documentation.
Develop “Data Quality Metrics Starter” kit.
Breakout 3 – People issues are a key to success
Introduction
People are the most important element of an NDR when considering success but there are a
number of issues:
People issues Do we have enough Data Managers
There is a growing demand but an ageing community.
Recruitment Where do we get new entrants, academic background but what skillset needed.
Retention Is Data Management regarded as a career.
Organisation Where is Data management placed, it is NOT IT.
Results of breakouts
These issues were discussed in three separate breakouts.
Recruitment
• Have to convince geoscience graduates to apply.
• Geoscientists tend to be creative. Data management may require different basic skills.
Retention
• Need to have professional recognition.
• Need an acceptable career and reward structure.
Organisation
• Should be recognized as at least equal to IT and definitely not a part of IT.
Follow-up action
The main purpose of the breakouts were to share experiences but the following actions were
identified that could form part of an agenda of regional NDR meetings.
• Develop a set of relevant personality profiles for Data Managers (cf. Myers – Briggs).
• Develop training guidelines for recruits.
• Have academic qualifications for Data Managers
• Ensure the work being done by CDA/PPDM/ECIM is widely publicized.
Breakout 4 - Standardised Reporting and Data Submission standards
Introduction
All Regulators have more or less the same business processes, they:
Issue concessions, run licensing rounds.
Have basic permitting systems for seismic, wells, production etc.
Monitor drilling and production.
Store and release data.
To support these they need data and set up NDRs. The data needed is twofold: Admin / Meta
data and technical data. The Admin / Meta data is used to build indices and create “triggers”.
The technical data is seismic data, well data, drilling data, production data etc.
Data problems are regularly identified at NDR meetings; it is not possible to rely on the
Admin / Meta data and there are no global standards for data quality of this data.
The breakouts were asked:
What are the key areas you have problems with ?
What major problems have been resolved or are outstanding.
What are the key areas you need help with ?
Result of breakouts
There are problems with almost all data and many problems ensue.
Major problems: knowing what data to expect, what data is missing, poor well header data.
How do regulators know what information was even collected by oil companies.
Decided to focus on End of Well data.
Develop a global standard of what to report, how to report and the quality parameters.
Getting regulators globally to agree on a data submission standard is key – even where
standards (and associated templates) exist these can be misused and mismanaged.
How do we ensure quality attributes and business rules are distinguished and more
importantly; adhered to; for both physical and digital data?
A major issue to how to get adopted anything developed.
Follow-up action
Stimulate activity globally around End of Well report.
Initially define top level report and “perfect” set of data items.
Select and drill down a few data set e.g. drilling details, hole details.
Define data using WITSML, if possible.
Engage with Energistics WITSML team.
These actions should neatly fit into actions from breakouts 1 and 2.
Breakout 5 – Significant issues managing Seismic Data
Introduction
Managing seismic data has been discussed at almost every NDR meeting. The issues are:
Seismic data is a very important data type.
Regulators always have a need to understand the sub-surface. Seismic data contains a lot of
sub-surface information based upon delivery methods based on cutting edge technology.
The complexity of the data causes some significant headaches in the mind of data managers.
How can Regulators keep track of the latest seismic technology.
How can they deal with the growing seismic volumes.
How can Regulators gain control of the legacy data.
How can seismic data be QC’d before storage in an NDR.
Results of breakouts
The breakouts were separated into three tracks and discussed the following:
Issues concerned with seismic data intake.
How to define the quality of the data.
How to deliver the data.
How to determine if data acquired is in correct jurisdiction.
Issues concerning seismic data delivery.
Legal framework of requirements.
Data security
Issues applying seismic standards.
Follow-up action
Work together to define a Seismic acquisition checklist.
Annex D - Evaluation forms: feedback summary and analysis
Annex E – NDR committees
1. Executive Committee
Tirza van Daalen – TNO (Chair)
Stewart Robinson – Energistics (Vice Chair)
Malcolm Fleming – CDA (Past Chair)
Jerry Hubbard – Energistics (Executive Sponsor)
Aliya Huseynova – SOCAR (Host)
2. Planning Committee
Melissa Ray – Energistics
Christine Skagerberg – Schlumberger
Monica Smith – Petroleum Agency South Africa
3. Steering Committee
NDRs
Phil Harrison – DECC
Hamka Ibrahim – PETRONAS
John Lotara – South Sudan
Rico Tönis – TNO
Eric Toogood – NPD
Sponsors
Kerry Blinston – CGG
Kevin Shelby – Halliburton
Kapil Joneja – Schlumberger
Operators
Stuart Byford – BP (Iraqi Ministry of Oil)
Experts
Ugur Algan – Volantice
Tracey Dancy – Dancy Dynamics
Alan Smith – Luchelan, Ltd.
Helen Stephenson – Stephenson & Associates