Catalogues & Standards for Knowledge, Information & Data Alan Doniger Chief Technology Officer POSC

Catalogues & Standards for

Knowledge, Information & Data

Alan DonigerChief Technology Officer

POSC

Outline• There is a requirement for common vocabularies, syntax,

and classifications within the E&P industry in support of effective knowledge work.

• The current POSC E&P Cataloguing Standards– History– Roles– Future Evolution

• Underlying principles– The K-I-D continuum– Spanning traditional documents and digital data– Context and its capture– Cataloguing as a natural part of our business processes

• Accessing the Standards from the POSC Web Site

POSC E&P Cataloguing Standards• Shell’s request to POSC, Feb. 2002

– “Promulgate, evolve, and support E&P Cataloguing Standards as global industry standards”

• ‘Adopted’ by the POSC Data Store Solutions SIG– The highest priority of five published recommendations

• Developed July – December ’02• Published March ’03

– Ongoing subject for the SIG acting as the (virtual) E&P Cataloguing Standards User Group

• POSC Member Conference Presentations– Houston and London, April – May ’02

• (Shell Expro, Erik van Kuijk)

– London and Houston, Oct. – Nov. ’02 – London, May ’03

• Shell NAM, Hugo Belder• Danish oil company, Christian Hoeier

POSC E&P Cataloguing Standards• Workshops/Seminars:

– Shell Expro Workshop, Aberdeen, Mar. ’02 (DTI/CDA/POSC)– POSC Workshop, Houston, Sep. ’02 – POSC Workshop, Scavenger, Dec. ’02 – PPDM Taxonomy Seminar, Calgary, Sep. ’03– PNEC Data Management Conference, Houston, May ’04– DSS Regional SIG Meetings, Scavenger and Houston, June ‘04

• Material submitted to POSC thus far:– Shell Expro, Mar. ’02– Shell PMI, Business Process Reference Model, Q3 of ‘02– Flare, Q3-4 of ’02– Shell NAM, April – Jun. ’03– Shell Global Taxonomy, anticipated in ‘05

Lord Browne (CEO, BP) has said, "Anyone in the organization who

is not directly accountable for making a profit should be involved with creating and

distributing knowledge that the company can use to make a

profit."

Underlying Principles

Treat Knowledge, Information & Data as a continuum

Understand and capture Information ( K-I-D ) context

Build catalogues that span Information in documents and databases – using standardized

classification schemes

Manage knowledge capture and classification as natural parts of the business process

Catalogue

Portal

GIS TEXT

Reference Data

Ref 1 Ref 2

Source 1 Source 2 Source n

Adapter Adapter Adapter

Catalogue and the DSS SIG Interests Business oriented Requirements and Prioritization

Catalogue attributes Attribute vocabularies Views and mappings Functionality and interaction

E&P Catalogue Attributes

Project/AFE

Control

Retention

Published Status

Security Entitlement

Revision Code

Review Date

Approved By

BibliographicTitle

Recipient

AuthorDescription

Source Organisation

Published Date

Language

Content Owner

Cross References

Unique Ref Tag/EDCC

Relationships

Compound Document

Collection

Coverage

Datum

Scale

Geographical Cords/polygon

Cord System

System

File SizeCreated By

Last Modified System UID

Usage

Media

Location

Logical Format

Representation

Contextual

Info Item Type

Producer Business Process

Customer DisciplineProducer Discipline

Info Item Class

Info Type

Asset Type

Asset UID

The contextual attributes- Consistent, intuitive navigation

- Cross function/business- Use E&P language

Project/AFE

“Control”

Retention

Published Status

Security Entitlement

Revision Code

Review Date

Approved By

“Bibliographic”Title

Recipient

AuthorDescription

Source Organisation

Published Date

Language

Content Owner

Cross References

Unique Ref Tag/EDCC

“Relationships”

Compound Document

Collection

“Coverage”Datum

Scale

Geographical Cords/polygon

Cord System

“System”

File SizeCreated By

Last Modified System UID

“Usage”

Media

Location

Logical Format

Representation

“Contextual”

Product Type

Business Process

Customer DisciplineProducer Discipline

Product Group

KID Type

Asset Type

Asset UID

E&P Catalogue Attributes

“Contextual”

Product Type

Producer Business Process

Consumer DisciplineProducer Discipline

Information Item Class

Information Type

Asset Type

Asset UID

The ‘Information Item Type’ has a unifying role as a Generic Title

Info Item Type

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Contextual Attributes

Information Item Type / (Work) Product Type

/ Standard Title

Information Item Class/ (Work) Product Class

ProducerBusiness Process

Information (K-I-D) Type

Producer Discipline Consumer Discipline

Asset Type Asset Identifier

ConsumerBusiness Process



/ Standard Title







An Information Item Type automatically maps to the other contextualAn Information Item Type automatically maps to the other contextualAttributes (and more). This can simplifying the CATALOGUING process.Attributes (and more). This can simplifying the CATALOGUING process.

e.g.Appraisal Well ProposalWell Rock/Core DataWell Completion ProgrammeActive Well Drilling Process



/ Standard Title






ConsumerBusiness ProcessExamples

StandardsRaw data/as-built recordsLesson LearnedPlans, ProgrammesProposals, applicationsContracts and agreementsOperations ReportCorrespondenceMeeting MinutesAudits and InspectionsAnalysis and Interpretation



/ Standard Title







ExamplesWell DrillingWell Data AcquisitionDetermine Hydrocarbon StructureSeismic InterpretationEvaluate rock/fluid propertiesPetrochemical InterpretationCalculate hydrocarbons in place



/ Standard Title







ExamplesGeologyGeophysicsPetrophysicsReservoir EngineeringProduction Technology



/ Standard Title







ExamplesWellBasinFieldSurveyPlatformPipelineReservoir



/ Standard Title







ExamplesWell:Rock/CoreWell:Equipment:TubingWell:HeaderWell:SyntheticsWell:Strat PickField:ReservesSurvey:Site SurveyPipeline:Ullage

Another thought …

If the product plans for successful projects in this area (inter-enterprise information

exchange) were to be analyzed, the finding would be that considerable time is spent not

so much in defining interfaces but in classifying and providing common terms for

the business aspects in that domain.

Source: Cutter Consortium

Taxonomy Usage Guidelines

Taxonomy Issues

Industry TaxonomyVersion

s

Different names for the same items• local names• languages

Aliases

Different items• regulatory regime• differing business processes• legacy

Company

Unique

Reference Models

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SummaryIn ’02, The Shell Expro experience with Cataloguing was presented to industry. POSC agreed to support

and evolve supporting attribute and vocabulary definitions. Several workshops were held.

In ’03, POSC published the first version of the standards on recommendation of the DSS SIG. Shell

(Holland) expanded Expro’s work. Shell has been working on global integration.

Efforts to enable and align related E&P specifications and standards (e.g. reference value standards) with the E&P Cataloguing taxonomy standards should go

forward.

Summary

In ’05, we hope to achieve enhanced E&P Catalogue standards based on input from Shell and others.

Broad industry participation is essential! Efforts towards practical solutions can be incremental.

Benefits can be realized along the way.

Focusing on taxonomies and cataloguing is an essential part of the trend by large oil and service/software

companies towards data storage and access federation.

Contact

Alan [email protected]

+1 713 267 5124

www.POSC.org

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Catalogues & Standards for Knowledge, Information & Data Alan Doniger Chief Technology Officer POSC