Recent Work
Value delivered to our clients.
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Petrotech Support
With a clear understanding of the needs of both G&G and engineering staff, NDB
have put in place a strong support organisation with its customers.
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Data Management
We have all heard that the typical geoscientist has been recorded spending 40% of
the working day looking for or manipulating data.
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Project Management
A key competency of NDB, we offer experienced project managers, attuned to the language
of the E&P and a much lower price than the 'full service' companies.
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Consultancy
We are world experts in Petrotechnical tool choice, both applications and associated
data stores. Having worked in this field for decades, we are constantly evolving
the ideas of best in breed and fit for purpose.
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Subsurface Consultancy
We are world experts in Petrotechnical tool choice. Having worked in this field
for decades, we are constantly evolving the ideas of best in breed and fit for purpose.
With tools comes responsibility:
- We must ensure that the tools talk with each other
- the amount of dialogue will depend on need. sometime decent ASCII I/O is all that
we need, other times tools like OpenSpirit might be appropriate. At other times,
full integration using systems like Petrel will allow best inter technical communication.
- We must have a plan for the data. How much duplication
is reasonable in your organisation. Most E&P companies can cope with lots and
lots. The test comes when either work is repeated or work is assigned a lower confidence
value because no one can be sure of the provenance of the original input data.
- We should perform good basic housekeeping. this means
some nomenclature rules for finished projects. These rules must not be proscriptive
but have 'owners' that guide our disparate staff to a common goal of accountability
and auditablity.
- We must reduce process to the minimum (and no further)
Recently we have looked at:
- Is best in breed now a better strategy versus the 80/20
solution provided by a single vendor? Can OpenSpirit really connect all that we
need? Is it worth it? Can the Petrel functionality really now outperform IESX and
Eclipse Office? How does Kingdom sit in the market with new functionality it offers
with geomodelling?
- How does a master data store help us with SOX compliance?
Do external data stores make the transfer of data to interpreters slow - or expensive.
How have other companies fared? What is the migration route from FINDER to Seabed
/ ProSource CDS and what portal tools do we need to view our data?
- Does the ASP (Application Service Provider) model work
for anybody out there? How is Landmark's Stavanger Hosting Centre working? How can
competing technologies be hosted by one vendor? How far does my data have to be
from the ASP servers? What can we do to reduce Latency from our Megacentres?
- How can we integrate new grav & mag technologies
with seismic interpretation? Do these new technologies really have comparable resolutions?
- How does Linux now fit with mainstream E&P work
practices? Where is the maximum gain in using Linux and what is the price performance
ratio of Linux vs PC for Petrotechnical apps?
