Date: 5th - 6th Apr 2023
Start Time: 14:00 BST
Location: Virtual
Instructor: Jürgen Grötsch

RPS Energy has announced a new course on Big Data in the energy industry and the Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU Trademark) platform by Dr Jürgen Grötsch. This cloud-agnostic data platform, developed by a consortium of some 230 companies and public organisations, will revolutionize technical data management and is now considered production ready.

The course will provide participants with knowledge on fundamental elements of the OSDU Trademark data platform, deployment of it in large organizations as well as associated opportunities and benefits.

Managing large amounts of complex data types on a global scale, as with subsurface projects, is a major challenge for the energy industry, regulators, and new geo-energy developments related to the energy transition (geothermal, subsurface energy storage, carbon sequestration). Currently, geoscientists and engineers are spending a large amount of their time to search and collect data for projects and use in various technical applications, which results in inefficiencies. This is not just slowing down project progress significantly but is also a major cost and capability factor for the energy industry and public institutions. In addition, it also hampers development of data-driven workflows and the application of data science tools (AI/ML). Even more concerning, it obstructs the execution of end-to-end workflows and their orchestration. This applies to all of the four major subsurface project workflows, which are exploring for new energy opportunities (PBE), developing and executing such opportunities (FDP), drilling new wells (WDP), and optimising them during long-term operations (WRFM).

In order to address this digitalisation and organisational challenge, the energy industry, service providers, and IT companies have decided to stop competing in the field of technical data management and setup the open-source Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU™) project managed via the Open Group. The newly established cloud agnostic data platform is revolutionising technical data management and is now considered production ready. The roughly 230 consortium members are currently working on the implementation in their organisations, services, and applications.

This course provides participants with awareness level knowledge on fundamental elements of the data platform, data ingestion into it, deployment of it in large organisations, and some use cases for workflow improvements. It also provides insight into future developments around subsurface data and applications.

Participants will learn to:

• Detail the data management challenges in the energy industry and public organisations and the benefits of implementing OSDU™.
• Simplify and standardise technical data management in large organisations.
• Enhance data-driven and technical workflows in subsurface & wells projects via OSDU™.
• Enable data and application interoperability in subsurface E2E workflows.
• Collaborate more efficiently on complex projects with subsurface or wells professionals.

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