UK Regulator Claims Upstream Data Success
UK upstream regulator Oil & Gas Authority has claimed success in making the offshore more transparent for explorers. It said July 23 that the automated release of data – well reports, wire logs and so on – from the National Data Repository (NDR) has enabled much faster analysis of upstream possibilities.
The OGA's objectives include maximising the economic recovery of the UK Continental Shelf's reserves of oil and gas, which have become a little less than they were at today's prices. Fast access to third-party geological, seismic and other information can quicken the decision-making process.
The Application Programming Interface (API) provides access to more than 4.8 terabytes of information, allowing users to connect to certain data types and then download it from the NDR when it has become available.
"This means that API users no longer need to search for, download and manage available data. They can be confident that, as it is disclosed by the OGA, they can have automated delivery of data to their organisation’s systems and devices without the need to log into the NDR."
Since going live 20 companies have signed up to use the NDR API, including Neptune Energy. It downloaded over 650,000 files in just eight days, achieving what all NDR users combined had managed in the first five months of the year using the established user-driven download method.