ECIM - The E&P Community for Information Management

ECIM, the E&P Community for Data and Information Mangement, is a non-profit foundation, establisehed by the industry to promote Data Management / Information Management Profession, competence and Best Practices within E&P Industry.

ECIM is a foundation established with the purpose to strengthen the focus and competence within IM for professionals. One of the main tasks is fascilitating processes that will improve methodology measuring business value and identifying best IM practice for the E&P Industry.

ECIM initialized it's first activities in 2002; A Data Management conference with focus on value measurements, initially sponsored by Equinor, NPD and Schlumberger. Representatives from these companies also formed the ECIM Management Committe pluss representatives from ConocoPhillips and Landmark. From the beginning ECIM was organized as a Project Group with administrative support from the Norwegian Computer Association (Dataforeningen). In 2006 ECIM Project was organized as a formal and indenpendant non-profitt foundation. 
 

ECIM is primarily a fascilitator for processses, projects and tasks in order to improve and develop competence and best practice towards the E&P Industry. ECIM is an instrument for the industry to operationalize and manage Information Management processes and networking. A typical task executed and managed by a dedicated resource group within ECIM, was the development process and operationalization of the Information Management Study Program at the University of Stavanger.