Why 1% Is Crucial To Your Subsurface Data Management Strategy

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In my last thread, I have posted about Few Things To Hate About Subsurface Data Management (http://www.andhrafriends.com/topic/611256-few-things-to-hate-about-subsurface-data-management/). And it’s clear from that list that subsurface data management needs to change. But it’s scary to admit that you need to make changes. So, let’s take it a step at a time. Everyone’s heard of the 80/20 rule and Stephen Covey’s “big rocks” approach – but have you heard of “aggregation of marginal gains”?

This approach hit the headlines with the success of Team Sky (Great Britain's professional cycling team) in the Tour de France. When Dave Brailsford took the role of General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky, he implemented a concept that he called the "aggregation of marginal gains” – making a 1 percent improvement in everything you do. He believed these small gains would together add up to remarkable improvement.

Brailsford started by optimising the things you might expect: nutrition, weekly training program, the ergonomics of the bike seat, and the weight of the tires. Then they searched for 1 percent improvements in areas that were overlooked by almost everyone else: the best pillow to optimise sleep, the most effective massage gel, the best way to wash their hands to avoid infection – they searched for optimisations everywhere.

Brailsford believed that if they could successfully execute this strategy, then Team Sky would be in a position to win the Tour de France in five years time. He got that wrong – they won it in three years.

So what’s that got to do with subsurface data management? Well, when people talk about optimising company performance, they usually concentrate on the core activities and deliver “good enough” on the rest. But Dave Brailsford was talking about optimising all areas for excellence – wherever he found them. The smallest improvements within data management can have a large effect on the overall performance of our company.

 

 

Aggregation of Marginal Gains

And this approach could have unexpected advantages in our cost-focused world. As Brailsford puts it: “You’ll get more from a £900,000 rider with a coach than you would from a £1m rider without one.” It’s the same with data management. Data underpins any business, use it to your advantage.

Here are some 1 percent improvements you might consider making in subsurface data management:

• •Store your bulk data – seismic surveys, raw logs, core photos – in a Hadoop system so you have access to parallel compute power right where your data is – no need for separate application servers and the resulting I/O issues.
•  Keep metadata with your data at all times. One approach we have seen for raw data is storing the raw files together with their operational metadata in key-value pairs in Hadoop so they never get separated. When data is transformed from one format to another, consider tools like Loom to track the transformations.
• Build a corporate store on an MPP database platform, so that as it grows you keep linear performance and your beautifully curated data store does not turn into an unusable data dinosaur.
•  Combine data stores wherever possible, removing the possibility of error through master data issues and alternative conversion engines, while also making analytical queries easier and faster.
•  Implement a discovery platform, so you are ready to run any analytics against any data. Then when the business comes up with an interesting data question that has been keeping them awake at night, you can help them answer it in days, not weeks (or months).
•  Incorporate text analytics on drillers logs, operations logs and maintenance logs and analyse in combination with the structured data. There are nuggets of gold in these text fields.
•  Automate a constant quality check on unit conversions and coordinate conversions across disparate systems.
•  Choose an area where lineage is lost today (user exports data to Excel to make calculations, then emails the Excel file, for example) and implement a better solution.

What's your first 1 percent improvement going to be?

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