In the North Sea, data really is the new oil

And it supports ‘weird and wonderful’ projects, says NSTA CIO

Tom Allen
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In the North Sea, data really is the new oil

Instead of a "mad” secretive approach, the UK’s oil and gas companies now share terabytes of open data with each other thanks to regulator the NSTA.

Oil and gas operators rely on high-quality information to find and tap new reservoirs of hydrocarbons, but even giants like Shell and BP find gathering that data expensive. One of the North Sea ...

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