SMi E&P Data Management, London

摘要

The 15~(th) edition of SMi's E&P Data Management London conference offered a good snapshot of the state of the art, underscoring the trend to maturity of recent years. A good example of such was Jeanette Yuile's presentation of Shell UK's approach to data management in support of emergency response. Moving the data discipline into such a mission critical area involved changing culture. Data management used not to be perceived as a good career path compared with geoscientists and other 'fancy people.' Users were in general 'too tolerant of bad practices.' So Shell has now elevated the profession with better career paths and used a Kaizen-inspired approach to address data 'waste,' effect small changes and measure the results. Yuile's vision is of DM as a 'formal garden' with clear boundaries and patterns and the data managers as gardeners working to 'evergreen' the data. The result is quality data and documents served from a central file plan and data atlas backed up with information quality metrics and a business rule repository. It was then feasible to leverage this ordered dataset on an emergency response portal with access to 20 key data types providing immediate access to a standard set of verified subsurface and facility information for use in case of a well emergency.