Implementing Data Management Solutions within a Massive Greenfield Start up –A Case History, Onshore UAE

Abstract

Abstract Startup green-field assets go through exponential growth of structured data and unstructured documents and records in core E&P domains. With simultaneous rapid evolution on infrastructure, information security and compliance fronts, this poses considerable challenges in supporting end-user beneficiaries—from real-time drilling operations through to operational improvement and better-informed and auditable decision-making. The data management function needs to be far more adaptive, resilient and agile than its counterpart in matured assets. This paper describes the Al Hosn Gas journey, over the past few years of existence, down the critical path of E&P data management. Transition from users' local storage to network shared drive-based file management on one hand, and distributed architectures for applications' project data management on the other, constitute important milestones. A hybrid approach to ensuring data availability and optimum throughputs, while complying with fast evolving information security/protection and governance norms, has provided a robust driving mechanism. We discuss the Al Hosn Gas model of integrating "gold" standard data, generated through applications' value chain, to ADNOC’s national data repository. Challenging though it can be, efficient & effective implementation of data management best practices in a green-field asset environment, as early as possible and as widespread as practical, can result in enormous value addition to end-users & management alike. High degrees of adaptability and resilience of architectures and accompanying processes have enabled Al Hosn Gas to foster a robust and agile data management paradigm.