National Oil Companies in Africa - Best Practices for Sustainable Performance Improvements Emmanuel Emielu Regional Marketing Manager Landmark Graphics Sub-Saharan Africa NOT AN OFFICIAL UNCTAD RECORD
Dec 25, 2015
National Oil Companies in Africa -
Best Practices for
Sustainable Performance Improvements
Emmanuel Emielu
Regional Marketing Manager
Landmark Graphics Sub-Saharan Africa
NOT AN OFFICIAL UNCTAD RECORD
Beginning with the End….
The ability of a NOC to meet its founding objectives is strongly tied to its ability to manage the national hydrocarbon information base effectively.
Information Management holds the key to attracting investments!
The better the national information is managed,
the more attractive the national hydrocarbon assets are to investors,
the more control the NOC has of its resources and exploitation of same
The good news is that technology and innovation has made scalable
solutions both possible and available
Software Technology
Consulting Services
Integrated Solutions
Create and Evaluatethe Hole
Create Infrastructureto Flow Fluids
Locate andManageHydrocarbons
OptimizeProduction ofHydrocarbons
Drilling andFormationEvaluation
FluidsProduction
Optimization
Halliburton -Organizing Around Our Customers Business Processes
Landmark
Landmark Division
Software/Technology
Consulting & Services
Integrated Solutions
What is the Value of an Oil Company?
“The value of our company is based on its reserves, its barrels of oil equivalent.
They are all ‘virtual.’ We cannot count them, they are a projection of our data.
Which really are our assets -- barrels of oil equivalent, or the data describing the barrels we think we have?”
“Quiet Revolution,” CERA, 1996, p. 5
African NOCs - Aspirations
Access to Investment Capital
Independence and Control
Access to Global Business Standards
In-house Capabilities & Competencies
Long-term Asset Optimization
National Development
Political Success
What is a National Data Bank?
A two-stage definition:
An operational, central and secure facility for the management, quality control and storage of a nation’s petroleum related data assets (“The National Dataset”),
which provides ease of access to these data in the “National Data Bank” for all stakeholders as authorised by government policy.
Secure access, and stakeholder buy-in are two key success factors for a a national data bank
High level components of a national data bank
Data deliveries
Bulk datamanagement
On-line catalogue
Data management
service
Bulk data management
Data management
service
Sub-domain Sub-domain
Portal
Data submissions
Sta
ndard
s &
Pro
cess
Govern
ment P
olicy
Operations
Benefits to the Petroleum Sector
The benefits of the introduction of a National Data Bank into the Petroleum sector are both private and public in their nature;
some will accrue to the government and their agents, others directly to the private sector and the participating oil companies.
Shared Value Model
The Value - Government
Focal point for attracting investments:
Providing a source of quality assured data for potential IOC’s moving into a region (Nigerian bidding round)
Reduced cycle times for investment decisions
Managed risk for investors
Basis for monitoring regional exploration and production:
Forecasting and planning
Managing the exploitation of hydrocarbon assets
Easing the reporting of performance
Drive cost out of the system
The Value – Operating Companies
Addresses key data challenges directly:
Finding and accessing the right data, of the appropriate quality, quickly
Sharing data with partners
Meeting regional operational prerequisites: Data submission and release Reporting
Provides basis for effective management of costs:
Total data management costs
$/TB metric
What a National Data Bank Is Not
A low value data storage project,
which costs money to run and,
delivers little or no operational benefits.
• 8 hosting centers• 7 client data centers• 1100+ global
petrotechnical consultants
Houston
London
Stavanger
Perth
Aberdeen
Brazil
China
Indonesia
Moscow
Pakistan
Calgary
Kazakhstan
Sakhalin
India
Nigeria
Data & Applications Hosting Centres
Client Data Centres
National Data Banks - around the world
Brazilian National Data Bank
Problem
Petrobras data represented 100% of E&P Brazilian data
Data was deteriorating and difficult to find
Government wanted to attract foreign investment and was poised to change the monopoly rules
Brazilian National Data Bank
Benefits
Legacy data recovered, organized and quality controlled renewing the data asset value for the future
New investments in Brazilian E&P sector as a result of improved access to quality controlled and secure data
bidding processes prepared more quickly and efficiently thereby improving return on investment for all parties
Brazilian National Data Bank Data content
Tapes
Documents
950,000 tapes
1,000,000 pages
Logs
17,000 logs
Seismicsurveys 600,000 km
• 8 hosting centers• 7 client data centers• 1100+ global
petrotechnical consultants
Houston
London
Stavanger
Perth
Aberdeen
Brazil
China
Indonesia
Moscow
Pakistan
Calgary
Kazakhstan
Sakhalin
India
Nigeria
Data & Applications Hosting Centres
Client Data Centres
National Data Banks - around the world
Project Overview
Master Data Bank location
• Principal data loading site• Catalogue• Near-line digital set• Off-line (tapes) set• Master backup set• Media delivery• Electronic local delivery
Satellite Data Bank location
• NDS catalogue• Near-line digital set• Backup set• Media delivery• Electronic local delivery
Physical storage location
• Off-line (tapes) set• All physical data• Media copying• Transcription/remastering
Lagos Facility
8th Floor, NCR Building, 6 Broad Street, Lagos Island.
Driven by Secure Technology!
Physical & electronic security
Physical integrity
Audited network security
Data security
Shared data versions
Comprehensive item level entitlement
Disaster recovery
Systematic tape integrity management
Secured centre backups
Mirrored centre operations
In the Beginning….
The ability of a NOC to meet its founding objectives is strongly tied to its capabilities to effectively manage the national hydrocarbon information base.
Information Management – The key to attracting investment
The better information is managed, the more attractive the asset is to investors, the more control the NOC has of its resources and utilisation
Availability of scalable solutions