Country Report New Zealand

Richard GarlickData Development Manager

Value proposition

• Essential infrastructure

• Ease of doing business

• Informs development of public policy

• Provides fundamental information on which to develop business strategy

Organisational Developments

The Government’s overarching strategic objective is:

“To ensure New Zealand is a highly attractive global destination for petroleum exploration and production investment, such that we are able to develop the full potential of our petroleum resources.”

Organisational Developments…

NZ Government Announces Petroleum Action Plan

Action 1: Positioning Government as pro-active and pro-development

Action 2: Developing a co-ordinated investment strategy

Action 3: Review the Crown’s capability and resourcing Action 4: Improving the quality of information provided by industry

Action 5: Reviewing our regulatory, royalty and taxation arrangements

Action 6: Reviewing the legislative framework of the petroleum sector

Action 7: Realising the potential of New Zealand’s gas hydrates

Organisational Developments…

• Crown Minerals review identifies a significant increase in capability required to fulfil the Governments objectives

• Review recommendations include: Strengthened commercial focus Greater sector leadership responsibilities Enhanced capability in form of specialist skill set and greater

numbers Higher profile

• Final structure announced 16 March 2011• New structure effective from 2 May 2011

Data DevelopmentsNational Core Store Established

• Petroleum store relocated from Hutt Valley to Featherston (63km NE of Wellington)

• All core and samples re-catalogued, photographed and available online

• Regional coal/minerals core stores relocated to national core store

Data Developments…

Legacy Post Stack Seismic Projects

• 85% of seismic project headers loaded and discoverable online

• 25% of seismic projects loaded.

• Outsourced - Technical staff supplied by GNS

Data Developments…

Seismic Field Tape Transcription

• All seismic field tapes transcribed on to LTO4 tape

• Field tape metadata loaded into Petrobank facilitating online ordering

• Scoping the use of a third party to manage field tape storage, transcription and client requests

Data Developments…

Federated Metadata Project

• Collaborative project between Crown Minerals, GNS and NIWA to publish metadata via a single online source to assist petroleum explorers

• Initially limited to marine seismic, swath bathymetry and geochem/geology samples over offshore continental New Zealand

• Data visualisation initially via Google Earth (KML/KMZ) and web/map services

Data Developments…

Government Seismic Data Acquisition

• 1,500 line km of 2D to be acquired this year

• 1,212 line km of 2D acquired over the Bounty trough in 2010

NDR System Developments2005/06 Originally set up

2007 Enterprise version live to public April.

2010 Software upgrade and hardware refresh

• Upgraded Landmark PetroBank / TeamWorkSpace / PowerHub / PowerExplorer to R5000 synchronous software release

• New Data centre. Change in host vendor.

• Complete Hardware refresh. Virtualised architecture

• Stripping of customisation toward “out of box” solution.

• ISO certification of processes

Usage trends

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Lessons Learned• Underestimated the effort required to load legacy data

including share volume, remedial work on poor quality and technical expertise necessary.

• Open access encourages industry participation in data improvement.

• Did not adopt the standard data model when first migrating from legacy access meta-database to enterprise NDR solution. Rather than migrating meta data some data elements could have been fully loaded from the outset and new meta data created.

Future Challenges

• Legacy data quality and loading (content completeness and quality);

• Enforcing data standards on modern submissions;

• Complexity of coal and mineral data types that do not readily fit the petroleum data model;

• Production data management