Challenge:
A mid-size operator acquired several offshore assets, inheriting decades of well and seismic data, split across Petrel projects, spreadsheets, network drives, and physical media. Different business units used different naming conventions, coordinate systems, and versions of the same wells.
Teams lacked a single source of truth, slowing subsurface evaluations and delaying integration with corporate systems.
Solution:
dbMap ingested the acquired datasets and aligned them to a PPDM-compliant corporate master, consolidating:
- well headers, directional surveys, logs, tops and cores
- 2D and 3D seismic index information
- leases, permits, basins and fields
- associated unstructured records through Records Management
Automated governance rules flagged mismatches, duplicates and missing metadata. Review workflows enabled data managers to validate updates before promoting them to the corporate master database.
Result:
- A unified subsurface reference dataset used across the organisation
- Faster screening of newly acquired blocks with trusted, consistent data
- Reduced rework as all teams accessed authoritative well and seismic information
- Clear audit history supporting regulatory and stakeholder reporting