The energy industry continues to rapidly acquire, develop and indeed crave information about its exploration and production assets in order to ensure effective development and operatorship.

As the volume of data increases and our understanding of reservoirs and assets deepen, those companies who harness information to effectively and efficiently provide trusted, quality data to decision makers will improve business performance and efficiency. Organizations can expect the explosion of data to continue; it’s the systems, processes and capability of the organization to harness this information that provides competitive advantage.

Putting harnessed information readily into the hands of decision makers is critical, because high quality geoscience and engineering information is fundamental to exploration and development.

Information architectures at EP companies today include master repositories containing trusted and validated information. The processes of aggregating data, increasing data quality, reducing data duplication and making information management more efficient, are the benefits and values that organizations are delivering today thanks to data management programs using solutions like the Petrosys dbMap® enterprise data management framework.

In this article we explore a new edition to the Petrosys dbMap framework – dbMap/Web which brings enhanced levels of information search, access, maintenance and reporting to your corporate information architecture. The bottom line is that dbMap/web helps more decision makers to find quality information quickly from a trusted, master repository – let’s explore.

More readily provide information to decision makers

The Petrosys dbMap/Web application provides fast access to a comprehensive range of data in petroleum master databases built on the dbMap/PPDM data model, through an easily accessible web browser interface. It provides:

  • a range of data corporate search capabilities: free text, user defined & stored query, stored lists and map based spatial data finding capability;
  • a rich ‘drill down’ capability with smart query building for structured knowledge including key well, seismic, lease, asset and culture data;
  • optional editing and creation of data, protected with standard Oracle privileges;
  • simple distributed deployment with minimal browser requirements;
  • access to unstructured data, including scanned reports and other online/digital and physical data assets;
  • tailoring to meet client needs and workflows; and
  • ability to run queries, reports, selection lists and export data which is shared and complementary with the Petrosys dbMap® desktop environment.

Search & find corporate knowledge – easily and quickly

The ‘Search’ function helps to readily find key data. The context of information can be refined using a combination of free-text, advanced search options, structured queries/list and map based area of interest searches of your master repository. This gets you to your information quickly and easily.

Free text search has been used to quickly find all of the wells operated, sourced or named RMOTC.

The user can quickly and easily define searches for corporate data, using the richness of the structure and data or simply find information in an area of interest.

Drill down to harness, report and visualize information

Once a relevant collection of information has been found by searching, drill down into the information details is fast and easy. For example, review log curves, checkshots, directional surveys and more for wells. Explore acquisition, processing, survey and other parameters for seismic. This helps you understand the detail you are interested in.

All wells with log curves have been found. Subsequently a list of curves and associated data can be seen for a selected well.

A variety of reports can be produced on the information collection. This data is easily sorted, filtered and even exported. This helps you take advantage of the information.

A formation picks or tops report has been run against the corporate repository for a collection of wells.

Quick overview maps and graph based analysis is possible. Below a production history chart is shown, while the map shows a combination of well and seismic knowledge in an area of interest for quick reference. This helps a wide range of users to qualify and utilize key corporate information.

Production charts allow users to see key corporate production data, while quick look maps help us to put data in a spatial context.

Maintain and increase data quality

If a suitably authorised user is accessing the system, they are able to open the data screens in an ‘edit’ mode, allowing existing information to be updated and new records to be added to the corporate repository.

Mandatory fields are highlighted using specific colors and a range of smart pop-up tools is provided for robust, quality and user-friendly editing or creation of new data.

The dbMap/PPDM audit history process can be enabled for any columns in the database to allow comprehensive tracking of changes on key fields in the system. This ensures you create a living, high quality master data store.

Working with unstructured external data and reports

The asset extension, which helps to catalogue online and analogue reports, maps, logs and other data sets, can be browsed and edited through the web interface.

Links can be established from the structure wells, seismic, lease and culture to reports, maps, etc.

When an online copy of a report is discovered it can be viewed using client-supplied viewing tools configured into the application. There is potential for this functionality to be configured to work with other unstructured data and document management systems at a client site.

A search of our asset register has revealed a well completion report among many other digital and physical asset records.

It’s YOUR information. Tailor solutions based on your process and needs

To meet different operational requirements, the layout of the query and edit screens can be tailored to include different combinations of information and to work with extended versions of the data model. This configuration can be rapidly performed either on or off-site to tailor to your process and needs. dbMap/Web provides an administrative screen configuration tool that helps to rapidly tailor or create new dialogs to meet your company’s workflows.

Our interactive screen configuration dialog helps to quickly make layout changes or additions to dbMap/Web screens.

Rapid deployment. Collaborative access. Lower total cost of ownership

An Oracle instance of a dbMap/PPDM database is required as the data store for dbMap/Web.

dbMap/web is shipped as a Java ‘war’ file that can be easily installed in any of the following web server application environments: WebLogic, JBoss; TomCat; and Jetty. This works in conjunction with a Java runtime environment version 1.5 or later.

Once installed, dbMap/Web can be accessed from most modern browsers that can access its http:// location. There is no need to install client-side software, client side Java, or applications specific browser plugins. This provides rapid deployment and low total cost of ownership in distributed working environments.

How much does it cost and how do I learn more?

To find out more about pricing, functionality and to arrange a demonstration, please just ask by sending an email to us at info@petrosys.com.au. Your account manager and regional technical specialists will be happy to provide you with further detail on dbMap/Web and the enterprise data management solutions Petrosys provides.