Managing Oilfield Data Management - …

32 Oilfield ReviewAs oil companies push for greater efficiency, many are revising howthey manage exploration and production (E&P) data . On the way out isproprietary software that ran the corporate data base on a mainframe,and on the rise is third-party software operating on a networked com-puting system. Computing standards are making practical the sharing ofdata by diverse platforms. Here is a look at how these changes affectthe geoscientist s Oilfield data ManagementToday s exploration and production geosci-entist works in a world of untidy , logs, seismic sections and well testreports may be scattered on isolated com-puters. They may exist only as tapes orpaper copies filed in a library in Dubai orstuffed in cardboard boxes in Anchorage(next page).

science backgrounds. Interpretation and data management software evolves rapidly and tends to be from vendors rather than home grown. Sometimes the network con-

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