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Easy and Quick Access to Subsurface Data – Simplify While Partnering with Your User Community #bigdata #bestpractices #collaboration #people #analytics

Easy and quick access to Brazil Core Basin data: The Brazil Technical Data Management Team started a journey in 2016 to enhance supporting Brazil Exploration to reach excellence through efficient data management. Introduction: In 2016, Shell Brazil Technical Data Management Team started a journey to enhance supporting Brazil Exploration activities. Team aim was to achieve excellence through efficient management of corporate data and critical interpretative analysis. Access to critical validated data – “single version of truth” was made possible by designing and developing a Spotfire integrated visual portal and analytical tool. As the portal has been proven success, the original scope was expanded to include data supporting participation in bid rounds. Main body: Shell Brazil Leadership had strong notion that Data Management is key contributor to Shell’s success in the bid rounds. Data Management teamed up with the Exploration team and agreed on main principles for data quality and data access. These three focus areas were considered as pillars: 1. Completeness, to have all data available in the project when needed for evaluation. 2. Quality, to minimize uncertainties on different data types either from data packages or early purchase 3. Quick and easy access for all the team users in all locations, mainly Rio de Janeiro and Houston All parties agreed that, to achieve success the geoscience community must work together with Data Managers, each party assuming respective responsibilities for achieving data standards. Joint efforts and partnership was perceived as a critical factor for success. In summary: • Agreement with geoscientists on their most critical data types and their priorities; • Collaborated with the Exploration staff across several locations to ensure inclusiveness and global approach; • Partnered with the Corporate Data Management support teams to promptly load priority datasets, address quality issues and have early communication to deliver the most complex seismic volumes and velocity models. This resulted in data loaded in the working projects with optimum quality on the first delivery. Learnings were leveraged from initial phase of the portal design and deployment to expand to include: • Ability to quickly view to available government data (Shell purchases and bid-round data packages), adding access to assured interpretation and the capability to launch to other web-based tools (including in-house and commercial solutions) to view more detailed contents; • Access to seismic live trace outlines for all available data, either in depth or time, including quality scores; • have easy access to the most relevant well data stored in the project repositories; • Added features that allow to quickly identify quality issues for prompt fixes, for example well trajectories and time-depth tables. The value was immediately recognized by the team: agility, reliability, knowledge sharing and time savings, which represented the equivalent of USD $500K saving per year. The Brazil Technical Data Management team and the geoscience community are now encouraged to add more data types in upcoming phases, including the visibility of production, pressure and geochemical data for other types of analysis. Conclusion: Success can be measured in several ways, the most important being that Shell portfolio in Brazil significantly grew and diversified. Collaboration between Data Management, Assets, IT teams and other stakeholders made the difference and was a key to success. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Shell Brazil Exploration team for being our partner in this data integration journey