A day in the life of a petroleum professional - Part III - shorthand

[2018 Update -  presented at AAPG Visiting Geoscientist Program in Budapest in 2015 and Szeged in 2018 with open data for 2014 and 2018.

2016 Update - PUGonline Geospatial Workflow catalog summarised this as: Development & Planning > Mapping Well Data

2015 Update - A higher level article is published by PPDM Foundations in its Q4 2015 issue]

This is Part III of a "A day in the life of..." posts, to introduce basic petroleum data management for professionals who generate prospects. This is a yet even simpler workflow that helps rapid project start-ups for prospectors rather than data managers.

It is even simpler in that it cuts out Excel altogether - Safe FME helps read the government data files directly from the internet repository - furthering our aim to create as easy and simple to use as possible, whilst preserving data integrity and fostering sound data management principles.

The resulting workflow uses Extract - Transform - Load (ETL) at its simplest:

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The rest of the workflow is pretty much the same, and is detailed in the Mind the Map companion blog.  A business-oriented synopsis will be published by PPDM Foundations in its Q3 issue.

STOP PRESSES: Safe Software just published a new eBook, that guides you through  publishing and accessing this sort of data through ArcGIS Online and other services. Stay tuned for further parts of this exercise...

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