Understanding Energy

Industry Oil and Gas

By Suvradeep Rudra
 PPDM - Public Petroleum Data Model
Association
(PPDM)

PPDM Association (PPDM) is a not-for-profit organization

that develops data model defines the structure and
relationships of data
It maintains standards for the energy industry. With over 100
member companies comprised of petroleum businesses, data
vendors, software vendors and service firms
PPDM Association provides a roundtable process to bring
experts together to build useful and business-driven standards
 PPDM - Public Petroleum Data Model
Association
(PPDM)

Current version 3.8

Based on entry level SQL 92 standards
PPDM can be implemented in any fully using SQL*92
database (Oracle, SQL*Server, POSTGRE and others).
PPDM cover 53 subject areas
1238 tables
 PPDM light weight model

PPDM Lite 1.0 based on entry level SQL 92

requirements.
This model contains 79 tables that summarize important
Exploration and Production information for use in a GIS
PPDM Lite 1.1 includes a greatly enhanced Well Table
PPDM Subject Areas Bottom up
Approach
 PPDM - Public Petroleum Data Model
Association
(PPDM)

PPDM is focused on the needs of the upstream oil and gas

community. The subjects included in the current production
model version are:
Wells
Production
Seismic
Land mineral rights
Data management
Lithology
Support
 PPDM Architecture Rules

Rules and guidelines that govern the development of the

PPDM data model
Establish procedures for naming tables, columns and
constraints
Guidelines for columns format, reference tables subject
areas management
 Impact - Changes to PPDM

Adherence to open standards

Impact on users of various data base platforms (Oracle, Sybase, etc.)
Integration or modification required to existing model structures
Effort needed for development or conversion of software by members
Effort required for implementation or conversion of data models by
members
Effect on performance, usability and understand-ability of the model
Cost to implement recommendation in the model
 Data model Artifacts -
Structure

The structure of a table names is: SUBJECT

AREA + MODIFIER1(sub-area) +
MODIFIER2(grouping)...
Example:
WELL
WELL_PRESSURE
WELL_PRESSURE_AOF
WELL_PRESSURE_AOF_4PT
 Data model Artifacts -
Structure Rules

Maximum of 24 characters is used for PPDM table names.

Table names are singular and in present tense.

Intersection / associate tables will be named according to business

usage and by borrowing from the names of the intersecting tables.
Example: WELL_TEST

Cross-reference tables created from a single parent table are named by

adding an XREF qualifier to the name of the table.
Example: BA_XREF
Internal sites / External site

Internal Sites
Wells and related assets, areas/lands,
pools/basins, fields, stratigraphic units,
Facilites, production entits, Eco-zones and
environnements
Production facilites (pipelines, batteries,
compressor stations, gas plants, meters,
separators, and more),
Support facilities (rigs, roads, transmission or
radio towers, airstrips, an more), logistic sites
Internal sites / External site

External sites
Include partners locations
Facilities
Suppliers locations and facilities, etc.
 PPDM lite - Tables

Wells - Well name and desc .

Applications and Area identifier for Application/Area

Business Associate - Person ,Company, Agency etc

Contacts contract
 PPDM lite - Tables

Land all rights for the land and land Sale details

Licenses all approval granted

Production production entity

Projects Project Details

 PPDM lite - Tables

Reserves Confidence /producing status of res volume

Fields and pools Details of a field ,country /state

Financials All financial components od the business

Entitlements Seismic Lease data entitlement

Facilities Storage, Company, Person

 Advantages to the Energy
Community

Exploration geophysicists and geologists get Quality

exploration data
Drilling engineers also will have timely access to relevant
drilling data, and therefore decisions are made with more
accurate data
Production engineers can use a Single Source of Truth for
production and reserves data and oilfield KPIs
Oilfield Operation are able to share well, land, maintenance
and production information
Finance has single version of truth as in oilfield and ERP
records, revenue recognition, reserves and less credit
collection risk.
 Bibliography/References

PPDM Manages Oil & Gas Data Better, Faster By Yogi Schulz, Dave Fisher and Trudy
Curtis
Oracle - http://
www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/master-data-management/mdm-for-digital-oilfie
ld-304647.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Petroleum_Data_Management_Association