How do you manage your E&P Physical & Electronic data volumes?

The challenge of the modern E&P Industry, on how to best manage the rapid growth of physical and electronic data volumes, is considerable.

The outcome of decisions made during hydrocarbon exploration and production has a direct impact on the bottom line; therefore quick and easy access to valuable information during the E&P life cycle is critical. For this information to be useful, it is imperative that you find what you’re looking for as and when you need it.  Information can take many formats – ranging from digital files to hard copy logs, files, maps and more. How you access, manage and use this information is critical to the success of your business.  More than ever, E&P organizations must ensure that they have a robust solution to manage, index and catalogue their physical and electronic information, allowing them to make the best decisions at the right time.

Our solution is called PetroHive.

PetroHive is a web based physical and electronic data indexing and cataloguing solution that allows you to effectively store, manage and use your E&P information.  You can access a variety of information from reports, logs, seismic sections and core rock samples to data stored on different mediums and locations through a single, easy to use graphical interface.

PetroHive utilizes best of breed technology, including Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0, and Internet Information Server. It is fast, efficient and easy to use, a must have for any E&P Organization! PetroHive can provide numerous benefits to your organization including:

• Configure and generate tags and identifiers for physical assets according to organizational standards.
• Configure and manage warehouses and storage locations.
• Manage metadata information of each physical asset stored in a warehouse.
• Search and locate data quickly.
• Visualize wells and seismic data through a GIS representation.
• Guarantee data security on a physical level as well as application level through authentication and authorization.

To facilitate the effective management, storage and retrieval of your E&P Information, PetroHive offers a range of features outlined below:

• Comprehensive Data Management: PetroHive is capable of managing metadata or attributes related to a variety of seismic data, maps, core samples and hardcopy data.
• Library Management: You can monitor data order and related transactions so that the location of your information assets is always known. PetroHive automatically generates email notifications for returns that are overdue.
• Search & Retrieval: Real time search and retrieval capabilities, including different search types: Basic Search, Query Manager and Open Text Search.
• Reporting: Generate and export customized reports for all data components which are indexed and catalogued within the application, in industry standard formats such as Microsoft Excel and Word as well as Adobe PDF.
• Data Migration: Import your legacy data into the data store from spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel format, enabling seamless transfer of your information stored in other data stores.
• GIS Visualization: Select and view data within an area of interest and get details in PetroHive’s form based views.  You can export spatial data into shape file format; making your datasets viewer independent.
• Access and Security: PetroHive supports Radio-frequency identification (RFID) as well as barcode tagging for physical data. With RFID, PetroHive can efficiently monitor the unauthorized movement of any asset from the warehouse automatically generating security alerts.

To find out how PetroHive can impact your organization, feel free to ask questions in the comment section below. I will be monitoring all posts and will provide feedback as quickly as possible.

Stay tuned for future posts where I will highlight how PetroHive is being deployed in E&P companies in different regions of the world.