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Project:

Remediation of the Operational PODS Data Model

Client:

BP North Sea

Contract:

PODS & One Map Support for BP North Sea

Contract Award / Completion:

2019

/

2020

Contract Value:

Category C

Project Description:

The Schiehallion Area incorporates the Schiehallion, Loyal and Alligin fields located around 175 kilometres west of the Shetland Islands.  Schiehallion and Loyal are developed through the Glen Lyon floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. 


The Clair Field with an estimated seven to eight billion barrels of oil in place, the Clair field is the largest oilfield on the UK Continental Shelf. The field, located 75 kilometres west of the Shetland Islands, was discovered in 1977.


The Foinaven field is located 190 kilometres west of Shetland in water depths of up to 500 metres. The field was discovered in 1990 and sanctioned for development in 1994.  It was the first deep water development on the UKCS and the first west of Shetland.


Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) ranks as one of the largest and most commercially complex North Sea oil and gas developments of the past 20 years; multiple fields with varying ownership sharing a central processing facility (CPF).


The Andrew Area includes the Andrew, Arundel, Cyrus, Farragon and Kinnoull fields which all produce through the Andrew platform. The field started production in 1994.

PDS Scope:

Pipeline Data Solutions was selected by BP to provide a wide range of data modelling services for a client specific implementation of the PODS data model, for their operational North Sea assets.  This complex data model has data covering over 30 years with over 18 million records.  This included:

  • Undertaking a review of the existing operational PODS data model, identifying all spatial and referential integrity issues, inconsistencies within the data and compliance to company standards.

  • Identifying and classifying issues for remediation, with a schedule to carry out this work based on recommendations for remediation.

  • Carrying out all agreed remediation of the PODS data model.

  • Creation of new assets for the ETAP development.

  • Validating the data model for the Alligin field, produced by a third-party engineering contractor and loading into the operational PODS data model.

Award Categories

A < $50,000         B < $100,000          C < $500,000          D < $1,000,000          E > $1,000,000

Clair Ridge - Topsides Installation

Clair Ridge - Topsides Installation (2015) YouTube video, added by BP [Online].
Available at https://youtu.be/JQzmZu1Ybng [Accessed 25 August 2020].

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