Interpretation process is creative. Projects are created on the fly for different purposes and abandoned frequently without specifying either creation purpose or abandonment reason. In an average Oil Company the number of open projects per active interpreter can increase exponentially while using such innovative products like Petrel. This situation, although ideal for creativity, in a time span of 2-3 years presents a risk of low efficiency in terms of not reusing the work that is done.

Whereoil Project allows to improve this situation without restricting interpreters and distracting them with heavy-weight Data Management tasks. It allows to capture basic project metadata in a very easy and friendly way. It works for any type of interpretation project indexed by Whereoil. You can capture creator and contributors for the project, the extent of the project in terms of it’s relation to fields, blocks or licenses, creation and tentative archival dates, relationship to other projects. Whereoil Project suggests correct names for wells, surveys, licenses and fields based on the official corporate naming conventions. It gives hints on metadata population making it more simple, unambiguous and user friendly. All captured metadata immediately become accessible to all interpretation team.

Whereoil Project is a tool for both interpreters and data managers. While interpreters capture the basic metadata as they go, Data Managers add information about the Digital Media Hardcopy Items (e.g. tape or disk with project backup or printed map of an interpreted horizon) and relate it to the project by simply specifying a project name or names in one of the metadata fields. Search for a project and you’ll get all related information found at once. Search for a well or survey and you will find all projects that have it loaded or interpreted.