In today's world of digitalization the amount of available data is growing significantly every minute in real-time. Data produced by a vast amount of sensors poses challenges for the historically grown data infrastructure in many enterprises. Often data sources are not interconnected and are holding their data hostage. A scalable tool to interconnect and correlate a company's data sources and make their information transparent to users is needed. Then, data-driven strategies can help to innovate, compete, and capture value. In the oil and gas industry, data pioneers analyze drilling and production data for optimization and efficiency savings, in addition to reliability and tool performance data for design and process improvements. Managing the production of a field rather than delivering individual solutions (such as drilling, formation evaluation, completion or stimulation) requires integrated workflows. These workflows are supported by integrated software and data management platforms with high cross-product-line dependencies. This article describes an integrated data management system called the Baker Hughes Information Reservoir (BHIR) that represents a fast, single-access portal to enterprise well data. BHIR enables users in large enterprises to increase their operational efficiency through quick offset well data analysis and data analytics, and to further develop and optimize subsurface or production models. In addition, BHIR accelerates automation of processes through a data interface for distributed software applications.
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