acquire.com.au T: +61 8 9316 6600 F: +61 8 9316 6699 AUSTRALIA | CANADA | CHILE | SOUTH AFRICA GIM Suite used for Complex Oil Sands Projects For Canada’s oil sands producers, maintaining costs is fundamental to the long-term viability of current projects. Total E&P Canada uses Geoscientific Information Management (GIM) as an essential tool to increase the profitability of their oil sands exploration and production. Marc Nolte, GeoInformation Manager at Total, is tasked with normalising lab analysis documents for Total’s Joslyn asset. In order to do this, his team conforms thousands of documents to capture Joslyn’s legacy data. The team’s challenge was to find new GIM soſtware that was fully automated and included models of bore holes for sand, water and oil with workflows for managing the information. “acQuire Technology Solutions’ GIM Suite fully satisfied our requirements,” says Nolte. “We found that we could easily load data from Excel spreadsheets into the Suite which made our processes more efficient.” Workflows to support loading, quality assurance and quality control are fully automated. Modules for reporting and displaying data are easy to use, and the vital GADAMA data format is supported so that Total can share soſtware and data throughout the organisation, with its affiliates and subsidiaries. In short Company: • Total E&P Canada Industry: • Oil Sands Exploration and Production Solution: • acQuire GIM Suite for Geoscientific Information Management The Challenge: • Capture hundreds of thousands of bore hole data points • Conform thousands of lab analysis documents stored in spreadsheets created by various labs spanning multiple years. The Results: • Preservation of legacy data from multiple sources • Clear audit trail of data migration • Combined financial and geoscience data storage • Improved automated and standard reporting
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AUSTRALIA | CANADA | CHILE | SOUTH AFRICA
GIM Suite used for Complex Oil Sands Projects For Canada’s oil sands producers, maintaining costs is fundamental to the long-term viability of current projects.
Total E&P Canada uses Geoscientific Information Management (GIM) as an essential tool to increase the profitability of their oil sands exploration and production.
Marc Nolte, GeoInformation Manager at Total, is tasked with normalising lab analysis documents for Total’s Joslyn asset. In order to do this, his team conforms thousands of documents to capture Joslyn’s legacy data. The team’s challenge was to find new GIM software that was fully automated and included models of bore holes for sand, water and oil with workflows for managing the information.
“acQuire Technology Solutions’ GIM Suite fully satisfied our requirements,” says Nolte. “We found that we could easily load data from Excel spreadsheets into the Suite which made our processes more efficient.” Workflows to support loading, quality assurance and quality control are fully automated. Modules for reporting and displaying data are easy to use, and the vital GADAMA data format is supported so that Total can share software and data throughout the organisation, with its affiliates and subsidiaries.
In short
Company:• Total E&P Canada
Industry:• Oil Sands Exploration and
Production
Solution:• acQuire GIM Suite for
Geoscientific Information Management
The Challenge:• Capture hundreds of
thousands of bore hole data points
• Conform thousands of lab analysis documents stored in spreadsheets created by various labs spanning multiple years.
The Results:• Preservation of legacy data
from multiple sources • Clear audit trail of data
migration • Combined financial and
geoscience data storage• Improved automated and
standard reporting
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As Nolte’s team began to use the acQuire GIM Suite, they observed that the Suite allows for a well-developed data model with built-in workflows that are easily customised to suit specific business rules, QA/QC procedures, and requirements that are specifically implemented to manage geoscientific information.
Because of the documented data migration process, data is preserved through an audit trail that traces back to the origin, even in the event of staff movement.
As a result of the acQuire GIM Suite, Total has been able to decrease costs and substantially increase productivity.
“We’ve had really good support from the local acQuire team. Costs have not escalated. New product is being offered all the time. The acQuire GIM Solution has been good value for us,” Nolte concludes.
GIM observations
Costs savings and productivity gains
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Marc Nolte is the GeoInformation Manager in the Geoscience Department, Technology & Development at Total E&P Canada Ltd based in Calgary, Canada. Written: October 2014
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