Country NDR Report: United KingdomMalcolm Fleming Chief ExecutiveCDACommon Data Access Ltd

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The UKCS Virtual NDRPresentation Outline

1. The UKCS NDR and CDA2. Key Challenges 3. Initiatives

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The UKCS NDRand CDA

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The UKCS NDR and CDA Generic NDR Model

Regulations & Standards

Regulations & Standards DECC Oil & Gas UK/CDA Existing

LicenseesPromotion

Prospective Licensees

Promotion DECC DEAL CDA Seismic Data CDA Well Data Vendors

• DECC’s Release Agents

• Speculative Seismic• Value-added Data

Regulations & Standards

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The UKCS NDR and CDA Generic NDR Model

Existing LicenseesPromotion

Prospective Licensees

Active Data ManagementAccess

SystemsStorage

Systems

Active DM Licensees DECC DEAL Contractors Data Release Agents CDA Seismic

DataStore CDA Well DataStore

Archival Preservation

Archival Preservation

British Geological Survey

NHDA Licensees

• Nexen Petroleum• Nippon Oil Exploration• NORECO• OMV• Perenco • Petro-Canada• Premier• Reach Oil & Gas • RWE Dea • Shell • Statoil• Sterling• Summit • Talisman • TAQA• Total E&P • Valiant Petroleum• Wintershall

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The UKCS NDR and CDACDA Full Members

• Encore Oil• EnQuest• EOG Resources• EON Ruhrgas• ExxonMobil• Fairfield Energy • Faroe Petroleum• First Oil• Hansa Hydrocarbons• Hess Limited• Idemitsu• Ithaca• Maersk Oil • Marathon Oil • Mitsui• MPX • Murphy Petroleum• Nautical Petroleum

• Agora• Antrim• Apache • ATP Oil & Gas• BG Group • BP Exploration• Bridge Energy• Britannia Operator• Carrizo Oil & Gas• Centrica• Chevron• Cieco • CNR International • ConocoPhillips • Dana Petroleum • DONG UK • Endeavour• ENI

CDA members account for:96% of all UKCS wells93% of all proprietary surveys95% of UKCS production

Companies participating also in the Seismic DataStore are indicated in Red

Key Challenges

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Key Challenges Data Quality & Completeness

• Missing data– Weak regulatory enforcement– >40 years of data– Data does not follow asset sale– Poor curation practices:

• Media management• Cataloguing/labelling• Physical deterioration

– What does ‘complete’ mean anyway?• Clean-up work• Well/wellbore modelling

– PPDM’s “What is a well?”– Macondo response

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“Keep everything forever”

• Regulatory Obligations– Licensees must retain data ‘in perpetuity’– NHDA escape clause (archiving option)

• Challenges– NHDA archiving is unaffordable for seismic– Regulations default to ‘retention in perpetuity’– Significant legacy holdings on ‘old media’– Survey redundancy not accepted

• CDA Seismic DataStore – Field data trial

Key ChallengesSeismic Field Data

Oil & Gas UK | Exploration Forum Slide 9March 2011

At least 500,000 9 track tapes

are still held

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Initiatives

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Data 38.5%People 32.7%Tools 15.1%Processes 13.7%

• Interviews• Research• Roundtable

• Reason for the Study

• Data Managementwww.oilandgasuk.co.uk/datamanagementvaluestudy/

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InitiativesDM Value Study

• Findings:1. 73% of the value of E&P activity comes from

an understanding of the subsurface2. 38% of this understanding comes from data3. Therefore combining 1 and 2:

28% of E&P value comes from Data

• Initiative led by CDA in the UK– Oil companies– Service companies and consultants– Academia– International scope

• Competency Map (by the end of June 2011)

• Accreditation Scheme (by the end of 2011)

InitiativesProfessionalising DM

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Contactsmfleming@cdal.comhttps//www.ukdeal.co.ukhttps//www.cdadatastore.comhttp//www.cdal.com

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