What data model for the 20th century scout?
(November 1998) Speaking at the AGM of the Canadian Public Petroleum Data Model Association (PPDM), David Richard of IHS Energy (formerly PI/Dwights) gave some pointers to the technological future of data modeling within the new corporation. Now that IHS has acquired just about everything that moves in the international scouting arena, the question arises as to how store and deliver data obtained by the erstwhile competing units. In North America, PI/Dwights has settled on a database P2000 that is derived from the PPDM data model, which has been extended with the Erico well log data model. Elsewhere in the organization, Petroconsultants Iris21 and IEDS PEN data models hold sway. Whatever the relative merits of the different models, and there are significant differences between US and international ways of handling data, the question being asked by many international major oil companies is “why do we have so many data models around here?”. Richard s work-in-progress report on how IHS wa
