Speaking at the 2014 PNEC conference last month Marc Nolte revealed that Total E&P Canada found its Schlumberger software stack lacked key functionality necessary for its Alberta oil sands development. Total's data management environment, 'Gadama' includes Finder, ProSource, LogDB and Decision Point, along with extensive processes for data loading and QC. But these did not cater for the new mining data types. As Nolte puts it, 'Oil Sands projects are very different. Data is vast and voluminous and projects are very complex.' In the meanwhile, Total's acquired affiliate was plowing ahead with 'non standard' applications like Minesight, Surpac, and GeoGraphix.
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