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10 years of data management

From data management to managed data

Neil McNaughton – Oil IT Journal

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Outline

What's in a standard? A bit of history

Business ObjectsPPDM/POSC Epicentre

New Technology adoptionXML, WITSML etc.

Quality and managed data

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What’s in a standard?

De facto de jure (Wikipedia)In computing, de facto standards can sometimes become de jure standards due to market superiority. For example, JavaScript by Netscape (standardized as ECMAScript) and parts of DOM Level 0 (stardardized in DOM Level 1/2 HTML Specification).

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What's standard about 'standard'

POSC – open standardsPPDM – public data modelExxonMobil standard TCSBP ‘standardises’ on Microsoft

Read the fine print

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What’s ‘open’ about ‘open’?

Petrotechnical Open Software ConsortiumOpenSpiritOpenWorks

OpenExplorer OpenJournal etc.

Seabed Open Data Model

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Standard - Open

Can mean anythingMarketing Sub text

Standard promise Plug & play nirvanaInteroperability

Make world a better place?

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A bit of history 1995 - 2005

Legacy – SEGx, RP66, LAS, Geoshare ...Data model wars (POSC - PPDM)Business ObjectsOpen SpiritPOSC/CAESAR - ISO 15926SynergyWITSML

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PPDM & POSC

PPDMThe reference upstream database (Petrosys, IHS Energy, Finder, others …)Current – OpenSpirit link (July 2005)

POSCEpicentre (was)Other projectsEarly XML workWITSML – current – PRODML etc

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POSC & PPDM, the merger

POSC PPDM merger 1993Discovery project 1999Various (ongoing?) initiativesYuan 2005 – 6 year itch?

a new single-point organizationareas covered by PIDX, POSC, and PPDMThis new body …

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Soap #3 Epicentre, Synergy

Epicentre begat PetroVision (CGG) PetroBank (MDS CDS)?Finder Production extensions ??Synergy

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Epicentre’s legacy

Minimal take-upLessons learned

ComplexityDe normalizationLearning process – UOM, CRS …

Plug and play?Marketing legacy POSC ‘compliance

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Epicentre’s legacy

From ‘plug and play’ to whatExpectation managementData management

CRS, UOM, metadataBack to the future …

Look again at file data exchange (RP66 – LIS/DLIS legacy)

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Business Objects

Skunk works in Shell – new CORBASpin-off to Prism TechPOSC Business ObjectsPrismTech reborn in telecomsPOSC BO reborn in OpenSpiritOpenSpirit today

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Upstream IT & standards

We are not aloneProblems sharedLook outside but …Oil a technology laggard?In the forefront (CORBA, XML, SOAP)

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Validation – just do it!http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/#validators

List of Quality-focused W3C softwareW3C MarkUp Validator. - Also known as the HTML validator, it helps check Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML, SVG or MathML. Checklink - Checks anchors (hyperlinks) in a HTML/XHTML document. Useful to find broken links, etc. CSS Validator - validates CSS stylesheets or documents using CSS stylesheets. RDF ValidatorP3P Validator - Checks whether a site is P3P enabled and controls protocol and syntax of Policy-Reference-File and Policy XML Schema ValidatorLog ValidatorMUTAT - a human-centered testing tool (framework)

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POSC.ORG 18 errors

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PPDM.ORG 28 errors

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OILIT.COM – 3 errors

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More validation stats

Total.com 277 errorsBP.com 137 errorsSchlumberger 76 errorsConocoPhillips 63 errorsExxonMobil 49 errorsHalliburton 44 errorsChevron 4 errorsShell 3 – but bad ‘unsW3C no errors!

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Web services’-based DO

Plant ManagementISO 15296

UpstreamWITSML/PRO

DML

Process Control

SCADA/OPC

ERS/SAP

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XML data validation on the fly

DrillersNamespace: knows – ‘feet’, ‘meters’

SOAPRequest

‘Get depth in fathoms’

SOAPResponse

‘Sorry, don’t do fathoms’

SOAP Request <m:GetCurrentDepth xmlns:m=”DrillersNamespace”>

<m:scale>Fathoms</m:scale>

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WITSML lengthMeasure

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WITSML enumerated units

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WITSML manages CRS

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WITSML manages data

Managed CRS, UOMUnambiguous data exchageMachine to machineValidation through SOAP infrastructureall through Open W3C standards ( plus a stupendous amount of work)Leading, not lagging other industries

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Standards landscape

PPDM given us standard data modelPOSC/WITSML given us managed data & web servicesMetadata management

PPDM liteTaxonomy projects

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Technology laggard?

Track record at bleeding edge of technology (Epicentre, BOs)Early adopter of XML and SOAPAdapted to scientific domain –breaking new groundConstant battle to match with IT/reality

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Master Data

Corporate intranet

ERP/ERA Framework

Web-based access, information sharing, document distribution, knowledge management & security.

GIS

DMS

Inventory

CMS

Query by Business Object, Spatial, Textual, Inventory

E&P Framework

Bulk Data

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ConclusionsStandards are as various as data management projectsThey need purpose and planning to succeed and effort to maintain New IT technologies have made a big difference to managed data .. but ..Tendency for IT to look after its own stuff...Still need much more implication of domain specialists Upstream not technology laggardManaged data Master data

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