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
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15 Data Quality

Data quality has a significant impact on corporate results. In addition to the fact that poor quality data is more expensive to manage, a more significant impact comes from the fact that misunderstanding the key subsurface features increases the risk of unwelcome outcomes.

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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 15:

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New Item 15.8
Doing a good job with data quality requires a wide range of concepts
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New Item 15.7
When documenting quality rules both the intent and the implementation should be available
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New Item 15.6
ETL article on Data Quality in Oil and Gas
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Gartner study on measuring the impact of data quality
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AHIMA (2012) "Data Quality Management Model (Updated)" Journal of AHIMA 83, no.7 (July 2012)
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Once data is corrupted it can only be fixed if the system has redundancy
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A review of data quality dimensions as defined by various authors
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New Item 15.1
A short article about data quality dimensions, and how they relate to fish and ska music

Bibliography

In the book Chapter 15 contains references to the following related material:

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Book Ref 41
Turner, N. Harvey, N. & Husband, Z. (2012) "Successfully selling the case for data quality" presented at the UK DAMA meeting
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Curtis, T. (2009) "Business Rules & Data Quality" presented at PNEC
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Radhay, R. (2008) "Facilitating Data Quality Improvement in the Oil and Gas Sector" SPE Asia Pacific Conference - Perth
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Duller, P.R. (1995) "The quality assurance of geological data" from Giles, J. R. A. (ed.) 1995, Geological Data Management, Geological Society Special Publication No 97

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