UK Agency Releases Upstream Data
The UK upstream regulator Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) launched March 25 what is believed to be one of the largest ever single open releases of data: the Oil and Gas National Data Repository (NDR).
The OGA was set up to maximise the economic recovery of the UK's remaining estimated 20bn barrels of oil equivalent and the data will save producers the money and time they would otherwise have to spend on seismic acquisition or scanning for pipelines, for example.
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Freely available to everyone, the NDR is an online platform which is home to 130 terabytes of well, geophysical, field and infrastructure data covering more than 12,500 wellbores, 5,000 seismic surveys, and 3,000 pipelines. The NDR can be found at https://ndr.ogauthority.co.uk/.
The NDR will play an important role in the energy transition, including for example enabling future carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) projects, thanks to the wealth of reservoir and infrastructure data available, OGA said.
OGA said the NDR "is a UK first and is an important milestone in our vision to enable open, transparent data. The platform makes data available for machine learning and artificial intelligence and offers the opportunity to uncover new prospects and previously overlooked plays.”
It creates research opportunities for both technology and analysis and means access to a huge data pool to harness digital technology; it relieves them of the regulatory requirement to retain information, and enhances collaboration.