CASE STUDY

SNPC Improves Data Delivery

with ProSource Front Office
Fully integrated system efficiently connects
interpretation software with corporate database
CHALLENGE
■■ Update E&P data-delivery system
■■ Improve and streamline database
administration
■■ Introduce modern data-visualization
capabilities

SOLUTION
■■ Introduce ProSource* Front Office
and Studio* E&P knowledge
environment to access and
organize real-time E&P data

RESULTS
■■ Easy user access to varied
well and seismic data
■■ Lease map access from the web
■■ 3D data visualization tools
for easy browsing
SNPC uses ProSource Front Office as the interactive front end for all company departments.
“Our new, fully integrated national
data center platform designed by The Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (SNPC)—the national oil company of the
Schlumberger has streamlined Republic of Congo—needed to integrate over 50 years of exploration, production, and
and reorganized our data delivery reservoir data into a single platform, accessible to its geoscientists through an easily
navigable, web-based front end. It had previously been using an outdated system that
processes. ProSource Front
presented a number of challenges: suboptimal visualization capabilities for logs,
Office provides a quick and easy awkward administration and access, and integration and maintenance issues.
connection to E&P information for
our whole department—even the After meeting with Schlumberger, it became clear that a solution based around
ProSource Front Office and the Studio E&P knowledge environment would deliver
Minister of Oil has direct access
significant process efficiencies.
to corporate data through the
system.” Integrated delivery
The proposed workflow would channel SNPC’s interpretation project data from
Louis Andzouono the Petrel* E&P software platform and the Techlog* wellbore software platform.
SNPC NDC manager The Schlumberger team performed initial system checks and ensured that suitable
configurations and standards were present before upgrading SNPC hardware
to handle the new workflow.

Final installation and testing was then undertaken. The Studio environment was installed
as the project database for the asset team in charge of interpretations, with ProSource
Front Office implemented as the interactive front-end administration system, and used
as the corporate database for all the departments of the company.

Data Management
CASE STUDY: Fully integrated system efficiently connects interpretation software with corporate database

Users now have easy access to data from over 1,700 wells and 20 terabytes of seismic information.

Instant access
With the new integrated data delivery system in place, SNPC users
now have easy access to varied data from over 1,700 wells, as well as
20 terabytes of seismic information. ProSource Front Office allows access
to the lease map, wells, and seismic lines from the web, delivering new
3D visualization tools to display well deviations for easy browsing. Log
information, layer positions, markers, cores, and perforations are all
available in the same view. The workflow is the same to get seismic
traces from the web.
Data access is also more intuitive, allowing new staff to be trained to
use the system within 10 minutes—the previous system required at
least a half-day training course. In addition, administration times
are significantly reduced—user account creation takes around a
minute, compared with 30 minutes in the previous system. General
administration tasks can also be completed easily and quickly, while
data security and integrity are improved with a new backup system
and data-loading procedure.

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