Meana Petro
DF-04FoundationalWave 1ITDomain

Well Master Data Management

In one sentence

Establishes one authoritative record per well that every other system agrees with, including a single answer to how deep it is and where the top of the reservoir sits.

The problem

Ask four systems for a well’s total depth and you get four answers. Each is defensible — different datums, different vintages, different definitions — and the disagreement quietly corrupts every analysis built on top of them.

How it works

A golden well record is built with explicit survivorship rules: for each attribute, which source wins and why, recorded rather than assumed. Every attribute keeps its source system and timestamp, so a disagreement between systems becomes a visible, resolvable data issue rather than an argument in a meeting.

Data required

  • Well data extracts from every system that holds it, with source identifiers
  • Agreed survivorship rules per attribute from the data owners
  • Geodetic reference definitions and datum conversion parameters
  • Regulatory well identifiers and their history

What you get

  • Golden well record with attribute-level lineage and source
  • Conflict report listing every attribute where sources disagree, ranked by impact
  • Synchronisation feeds to downstream systems from one source

What it cannot do

Master data management is an organisational commitment more than a technical one. Without named data owners empowered to decide survivorship rules, the golden record becomes a fifth disagreeing copy. We do not start this work without those owners appointed, because the failure mode is well documented.

Every capability page states a real limitation. If a vendor cannot tell you where their product stops, you are not being told the truth about where it starts.

Related capabilities

  • DF-03Foundational

    Archive Auto-Tagging & Classification

    Works out what each document is and which well, field and date it belongs to, so the archive becomes navigable rather than a folder tree.

    Data FoundationAI
  • DF-05Intermediate

    OSDU-Aligned Data Model

    Adopts the industry data standard so that your data is portable between vendors, without requiring the full OSDU platform on your own infrastructure.

    Data FoundationIT
  • DF-08Foundational

    Data Lineage & Catalog

    Answers "where did this number come from" for any figure in any report, and lists what exists and who owns it.

    Data FoundationIT
  • DR-14Foundational

    Well Trajectory & Anti-Collision

    Checks the planned and actual well path against every other well on the pad, with the survey uncertainty included.

    Drilling IntelligenceDomainIT
  • SR-07Foundational

    Well Log QC & Missing Log Synthesis

    Finds the bad intervals in the log archive and reconstructs curves that were never run, so the field has a complete set to work from.

    Subsurface & Reservoir IntelligenceAI