Thursday 14 June 2018

For the first time all subsurface and production data from a field on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) will be disclosed.

The operator Equinor has, together with the Volve licence partners, decided to disclose all subsurface and operating data from Volve. This will be the most comprehensive NCS data release ever made.

Starting in February 2008, the Volve production lasted for about eight years. At peak, the field produced 56,000 barrels per day, and a total of 63 million barrels of oil were produced before the field was shut down in 2016. The field was developed when the oil price was low, and an unconventional concept was chosen to recover the resources in an easy and profitable manner. The field data will now have a new life. The Volve licensees were ExxonMobil and Bayerngas.

One of the specific goals of the data release is to allow students from relevant fields of study to train on real data sets from the NCS.

This is the most comprehensive and complete data set ever gathered on the NCS. It covers a total of around 40,000 files, including both static models and dynamic simulations; well data, real-time drilling data, production data, geophysical data including interpretations, various reports etc.