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Jordan Natural Resources Authority
Competes Globally for Investors
Case study: Web-enabled National Data Center opens Jordanian
oil, gas, and mining industries to the world market
Challenge
■Centralize,
manage, and protect
Jordan’s natural resources data
■Increase
global knowledge of local
oil, gas, and mining industries
■Promote
investment opportunities
Solution
■Implement
a user-friendly
National Data Center (NDC)
with Web access to a master
database using DecisionPoint*
and Finder* software
Attract international investors
The Jordanian Natural Resources Authority (NRA) wanted to attract international investors
to further develop its extensive oil, gas, and mining reserves. The NRA recognized the value
of a centralized master data repository with Web-based visualization to secure national assets
and encourage investment from prospective buyers worldwide. This significant goal entailed
streamlining and modernizing the way data is collected, stored, and accessed.
Before posting investment opportunities on the Internet using eGovernment† or a similar
Web portal, it would be necessary to standardize, remaster, and upload (scan) existing
information into a single, comprehensive E&P database. NRA objectives were to ensure data
quality and integrity and mitigate the risk of losing valuable seismic data, because old storage
tapes were starting to deteriorate. An overriding rationale for this project was to enable
more informed decision making by stakeholders in Jordan’s natural resources market—
from governing bodies to operators and investors.
■Remaster
seismic data assets
from magnetic to Linear
Tape-Open™ tapes
■Standardize
information
management processes
Results
■
Consolidated 1 TB of seismic data
■Completed
an efficient, fully
searchable Web-based
national datastore
■Improved
information access
and accuracy for better decision
making by natural resources
authority stakeholders
Single sign-on through a customized DecisionPoint framework simplifies access to
NRA information.
Use leading Information Management technology
Standardize processes
Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) worked with the NRA management to evaluate
and standardize the processes for collecting, collating, validating, correcting, and publishing
geological and geophysical exploration data to different operating companies and the
Jordanian government.
Schlumberger Information Solutions
Case study: Web-enabled National Data Center opens
Jordanian oil, gas, and mining industries to the world market
Incorporate domains and define lease types
A major task for the project team was the incorporation of data from all E&P domains into
an NDC for quick and easy access to categorized types of information. The lease types were
defined as exploration, mining, and quarry, with production rights available for the following
resources: aggregates, basalt, clay, glassy sand, granite, gravel, gypsum, industrial marble,
industrial limestone, iron, kaoline, phosphate, pure limestone, salt, sand, silica, stone,
travertine, tuff, and zeolite.
Recover and protect valuable seismic data
To prevent further deterioration of legacy seismic data previously stored on 9- and 21-in
magnetic tapes, the data was remastered onto new, more reliable (i.e., nonvolatile) storage
media—Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology. Validated copies of all the old tapes fit
on just 32 LTO tapes, which are expected to last through four generations of magnetic
tape technology.
Create a Web-based portal to promote investment opportunities
A Web-based portal was created as the main global gateway to viewing Jordan’s natural
resource data stored in the NDC. This allowed ease of use, personalization, and aggregation
of content sources critical to decision making. The Web data view component of this solution was
specifically designed to give operators and potential investors quick access to oil, gas, and
mining details (including cultural, navigation, well records, oil and gas production, and seismic
facts). To facilitate the process, IndigoPool, a Schlumberger division specializing in setting
up secure online data rooms, was brought in to develop an online data-brokering model for
promoting investment opportunities.
Ensure future growth and development of natural resources
The NDC was delivered to the Kingdom of Jordan on schedule and within budget. SIS had
uploaded seismic data amounting to 1 TB, and the length of all seismic lines in the database
totaled more than 32,000 km. The country’s energy and mineral businesses are now well
positioned to compete successfully in the global economy. State-of-the-art information
management technology will make it easier to reach prospective investors anywhere in the
world. As a result, Jordan is better able to negotiate investments and form partnerships
to more fully develop its vast natural resource reserves.
Geographic Information System (GIS) map
displays regional petroleum blocks and seismic
data from within the NRA Web portal.
“The new National Data
Center really streamlined our
data management processes
while ensuring the quality
and integrity of oil, gas,
and mining data for global
presentation on the Web.”
National Resources Authority
Kingdom of Jordan
Schlumberger Information Solutions
Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) is an operating unit of Schlumberger that provides
software, information management, IT infrastructure, and consulting services. SIS enables oil
and gas companies to achieve breakthrough team performance, unlocking the potential
of E&P teams to step-change their effectiveness and productivity. Through our technologies
and services, oil and gas companies can drive business performance and realize the potential
of the digital oil field.
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†eGovernment
is an Internet technology platform for exchanging governmental information, providing services, and conducting transactions with citizens.
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