The Subsurface and Wells Emergency Response Organisation (ERO) Portal

Abstract

Abstract A Subsurface and Wells Emergency Response Organization (ERO) Portal has been developed to provide European subsurface and wells emergency response duty team personnel with immediate access to a critical, trusted subsurface and wells data set. The rapid availability of such a data set is linked to the speed and efficiency of the overall wellsite emergency response procedure. The ERO Portal is a web based application. It is a simple and easy to use one-stop-shop that provides the subsurface and wells emergency response duty teams with access to 21 critical, high quality data types at field, well and wellbore level. The data types have been selected to provide a holistic understanding of the status of the assets (wellbores, wells, fields or Assets (groups of fields)), thereby enabling a highly informed emergency response based on the conditions of the assets involved. The ERO Portal not only provides access to the 21 critical data types but differs from conventional data retrieval portals in that it indicates the availability or absence of each data type – thus saving time in the data gathering process. The user friendly home page connects to quality checked, published corporate data held and managed within corporate data stores. On and offline back-up systems have also been developed to ensure full data availability at all times and duty team personnel are trained in how to use the tool. The sustainability of the ERO Portal involves continual input from a number of teams throughout the year to ensure that data is quality checked and published in a timely manner into the corporate databases, that duty team personnel are trained in its use and that the IT technology is working at all times. However, there is no question that the investment in this tool is essential. The ERO Portal is significant in that it offers an example of how providing a critical, trusted and quality checked data set from a single source in the event of a wellsite emergency can prove a vital step in a timely and well informed response to a wellsite emergency.