The Management of Oil Industry Exploration & Production Data

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1 Introduction 12 Physical data
2 Value of data 13 Documents
3 Subsurface data 14 Auditing
4 Current practice 15 Quality
5 DMBoK 16 Other elements
6 Governance 17 Assessing
7 Architecture 18 Glossary
8 Development 19 Figures
9 Operations 20 Bibliography
10 Security 21 Index
11 Corporate data 22 Further info
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2 The value of data to oil companies

Measuring the value that data, and data handling, deliver to oil companies is crucial. Obviously no investment in new projects or services will be made until the senior managers are convinced that it will improve the overall business results, but, delivering iron-clad proof of the business benefit is not a simple matter. This chapter explores three examples of different approaches that have been applied in the past to prove the connection from data handling to business value in different companies.

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New Material

Since the book was written we have identified a number of new items that help illuminate the material in Chapter 2:

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Data management should be considered a core competency for all oil companies
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Should oil companies be expanding or cost saving?
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Noah Consulting's 'Industry Insight: IM Benchmarking' event April 2013
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A paper from the Molten group about the value of good sub-surface data management
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A comparison of how different industries manage their data, from Oracle
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Detailed models often deliver the most accurate results
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Sometimes a strategic model delivers better results than a detailed one
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Why using decision trees has limited strategic application
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Using a time budget approach to showing value is of limited utility
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Five different models that have the potential to demonstrate data's value
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Changing scale means doing things differently
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Eggert, J., Tidemann, S. & Kozman, J. (2011) "Communicating the Value of Data Management to Non-Technical Stakeholders"
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How do you work out the value of a single process?
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The benefits of being just a little bit better than the next guy
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Short introduction to data, information and knowledge
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The lessons that a TV Gameshow teaches about risk
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Should you be telling other oil companies about your data handling successes?

Bibliography

In the book Chapter 2 contains references to the following related material:

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Book Ref 1
Common Data Access Limited & Schlumberger (2011) "The business value case for data management" available for download free from the web
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Haines, P. & Wiseman, M. (2011) "Quantitative Value of Data & Data Management" presented at PNEC 15
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Kozman, J.B. (2005) "Data on Demand: The Emerging Business Case" SPE93625 presented at 14th SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference
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Kozman, J.B. (2008) "The Value of Data in Multiple Repositories" SPE118451 presented at SPE Gulf Coast Section Digital Energy Conference and Exhibition
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Smith, A.H. (2002) "The Economic Advantages of Managing Data, ONCE!" SPE78337 presented at the SPE European Petroleum Conference
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Porter, M. (1985) "Competitive Advantage"
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Dunn, M.D. (1992) "A Method To Estimate the Value of Well Log Information" SPE24672 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
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Shearer, D. & Garcia, D. (2006) "Burlington: Improving technology investment planning with metering" Presented at PNEC conference Houston
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Shearer, D. & Garcia, D. (2006) "Burlington: Improving technology investment planning with metering" paper explaining the slides

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