NDR9 Country Report Colombia Adriana Arcila IT Advisor

New Delhi, India 2009

Cultural Background

 In 2003 ANH was founded to regulate and manage the exploration and production of the hydrocarbon resource in Colombia.

 The ANH is the legal owner of all exploration data in Colombia which is preserved in Colombia’s NDR called EPIS – Exploration and Production Information System.

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Exploration activity has increased considerably

TEA E&P PRODUCTION 3

Licensing activity continues to increase and seismic data acquisition activity is high …

Seismic: Km of 2D equivalent No. contracts 80 TEA 70 E&P Association 60 25.000

Onshore Offshore 50 40 Jul: 55 Plan: 50 20.000

15.000

30 20 10 0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 (Jul) 10.000

5.000

0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 (Jul) Plan 14.000

Jul: 10.949

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… the highest number of exploratory wells and high success rates …

No. of wildcats 120 No. of wildcats 100 98 Succes (%) 100 100 80 60 40 20 0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 (Jul) Plan > 70 Jul: 43 80 80 70 51 60 56 60 40 20 0 41 43 1 35 40 28 34 16 21 19 46 10 10 6 4 22 6 11 10 16 22 29 17 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 (Jul) 20 0 Producer Under test Dry Succes

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Growth of the data bank

Growth Data Bases - Gbytes

50 000 45 000 40 000 35 000 30 000 25 000 20 000 15 000 10 000 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009P

Growth Data Bases - Registers

800 000 750 000 700 000 650 000 600 000 550 000 500 000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009P 2008 & 2009 Approximately 2 TB increase mensually 6

History of EPIS

 In 2003 ANH received the exploration database and tapes/documents from Ecopetrol, the state oil company that used to have a dual role of operator and represent the states interest infields operator by third parties. Data is managed by SLB applications  2003-2007 the databank was managed, administered and operated by SLB.

 2007-2009 an IT service company manages the hardware platforms of the databank and SLB manages and operators the geosciences components of the databank.

 In 2009 WhereOil by Kadme is installed to administer and manage the databank. Capabilities for online searches and data deliveries have been greatly expanded.

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Legislation /Data Release

 All operators are required to report exploration data to the NDR  The latest exploration agreements provide for a confidentiality of 5 years for seismic and well log data.

 The ANH releases data in support of license rounds.

 Public data is available to everyone.

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Future EPIS

 A select group of data service companies are allowed direct access to the databank for reception and delivery of large volume datasets.

 The data service companies verify that newly reported data is compliant with the data reporting standards and meet completeness and integrity criteria.

 Data is delivered electronically to the data services companies which in turn provide reformatting, transcription and other services to as required by oil companies requesting the data.

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EPIS -2010

Oil Company A Service Company A Reporting Companies

SUBMISSION

NEW EPIS Oil Company B Service Company A Oil Company B Public Data consumers

RETRIEVAL

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Stimulate local industry

ANH will like to promote:  This new operational model stimulates local service industry to acquire the technology and knowledge to provide data management services.

 Value added services such as work station loading, data preprocessing, log correlation etc provides growth path for local industry in servicing the petroleum industry in Colombia.

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Successes

 New technical possibilities appeared with the division of the contract between the EPIS operator and the Data Center  The response time for the services has reduced.

 Control and tracking of the process has improved.

 Facilitate the accessibility to the information (new web-site search and delivery, VPN) 12

Thank you!

www.anh.gov.co

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Purpose of the NDR

 The main purposes of EPIS are:  Preserve the exploration data of Colombia by design and not by intervention whenever a license operator changes hands.

 Facilitate exploration data to license rounds participants and operators.

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