FEDERAL DATA BANK FOR OIL AND GAS. RUSSIAN APPROACH

摘要

The government and the whole society are interested in preservation and subsequent use of the subsurface-wealth data, because these data are a basic means for the government to control the rational development of explored natural wealth.An oil production company that develops and produces a field is the chief user of that field data. Such a company is primarily interested in that the data are properly stored and easily accessed for solution of current technical and technology problems.The present state of the oil production companies' data bases in Russia cannot be regarded as satisfactory.Geological and geophysical data for one and the same prospect or field may be in the custody of tens of companies and organizations, large part of the data is recorded on paper, while the digitized part of the data is not subjected to proper quality control and gets lost due to the wear of magnetic tapes. Much of data is copied many times and errors are introduced thereby, and it is very difficult now to locate the original data in the existing archives. Numerous databases created in the recent decade are in different formats and have different data descriptors.Setting up the Federal Databank of geotechnical data from oil and oil-gas fields of Russia is meant to provide for such a technological and legal mechanism that would assist oil companies and enterprises in gathering, quality control, archiving and effective use of large volumes of data in the search for, exploration and development of hydrocarbon fields within the uniform Russian industry standards.