1. Moving Toward A More Open Oil & Gas Data Future
“Challenges and Solutions for Integrated Management of Environmental, Health, and Community Impact Data Pertaining to the Oil and Gas Industry”
A NSF-funded workshop held March
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Steve Hamburg, Adam Peltz & Beth Trask, Environmental Defense Fund
Kelly Rose, US DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory
Melissa Dozier & Mark Williams, AirWaterGas/University of Colorado
Paul Jehn, Groundwater Protection Council
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2. Moving Toward A More Open Oil & Gas Data Future
At the workshop a diverse group of stakeholders gathered to:
Assess the current landscape of oil & gas data and the current gaps and challenges in that landscape
Learn about solutions from other sectors that have successfully improved discoverability, data sharing, regulatory context, and integration
Share projects that are changing the future of O&G data management
Envision a more open, integrated data system
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3. Moving Toward A More Open Oil & Gas Data Future
Who attended? Representatives from:
Alberta Energy Regulator
National Science Foundation
Consortium for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science
NCAR
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
U.S. Energy Information Administration (U.S. DOE)
NRDC
Environmental Defense Fund
Osage Nation Energy
Esri
Professional Petroleum Data Management Assoc.
FracTracker Alliance
Sonoma Technology, Inc.
Groundwater Protection Council
Texas Bureau of Economic Geology
Harvard Environmental Policy Initiative
The Nature Conservancy
Houston Advanced Research Center
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
IBM
University of Colorado
IRIS Data Management Center
University of Maryland
National Energy Technology Laboratory (U.S. DOE)
University of Pittsburgh
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4. Moving Toward A More Open Oil & Gas Data Future
Next Steps
Create materials (website, slides, short reports) for outreach about the benefits, challenges and recommendations for a more open oil and gas data future.
Create a forum for the O&G data community to interact and an initial online platform for cataloguing existing data sets and documenting data gaps.
Form a steering committee to guide future projects and recruit additional partners.
Identify funding sources needed to formalize and support a new open data community and build the technical framework for a more open and networked system.
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5. Moving Toward A More Open Oil & Gas Data Future
For more information on the workshop and our next steps:
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