Background: After the liberation of Kuwait in 1991, the country faced a big challenge of rebuilding its production facilities. During the invasion of Kuwait, operating databases of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) were damaged and data was scattered in different locations. In addition, the Exploration & Development (E&D) Group of KOC was given the task of achieving a substantial increase in production in the following years. Several studies were required to generate the production development plans for each reservoir. In order to carry out the required studies, engineers and geoscientists needed vast amounts of reliable quality data. It was realized that what was absolutely vital for the company was a comprehensive integrated data management system, which could provide reliable data, and that the same version of data was available to all throughout the company. The data management system would have state of the art features and would satisfy the demand of quality data throughout the company. The various databases existing within the company would be migrated to the new system. In order to accomplish these objectives, a joint alliance was made with Schlumberger-GeoQuest to provide KOC with a state-of-art Integrated Data Management System.
Objectives & Goals:Everyone is able to share the data, without compromising security.
The general objectives towards an efficient data management system were identified as: Data Management Strategy:The ability to efficiently manage large volumes of acquired and processed data The data management strategy of KOC required the providing the basis for high quality business selection of the state of the art software and then decision making forming an alliance with the vendor to carry out the
Implementation of processes and systems to work to build and operate the system while transferring build an integrated database for long-term technology from the vendor to KOC. reservoir simulation work and associated field development studies The strategy was expected to result in the following:Integration of data at one place of various petro-technical disciplines
when complete, would cover the entire
Implementation of industry wide standards history over which data has been collected and practices to enable the efficient
would have a large scale, i.e. will contain management of KOC data data from all of Kuwait
Connectivity with major E&P applications
should contain only cleaned, validated, and from several vendors. approved data Prior to starting the project, the strategy was to conduct When completed the database will have the a study of the current work practices (mainly following features operational and E&D related) through formal interviews, informal meetings and questionnaires.
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