Henk Tijhof is a geophysicist who has worked for >30 yrs in Shell. Following geophysical assignments in NL and Nigeria, he moved to the UK and worked in technical and integrated subsurface and field development roles before returning to NL.  He then further broadened into global field development, assurance and discipline roles. In the last 7 years he worked as the global manager for subsurface and wells software deployment and head of techncial data management since 2017. He currently works as advisor in the subsurface data and digital team to support the transition to OSDU, with focus on the integration between data and applications to the benefit of the users.

Tuesday 09:20  The Shell OSDU Strategy and experience to data
- Henk Tijhof, Sr. Advisor Subsurface and Wells Digital Ecosystem, Shell
The importance of OSDU in Shells strategy for Subsurface and Wells workflows and decision making.

Abstract: For the past decades, subsurface and wells users in Shell have been well-served in their data requirements via a connected, on-premise network of data bases and tools that combine 3rd party vendor products and in-house applications. This data environment can no longer cope with the demands of the business or the explosion in data volumes that we are seeing today. New cloud based data architecture with stronger separation between the data and the applications and workflows is the direction the industry is going and Shell has advocated strong support for OSDU initiative from the start. Shell has chosen to replace the entire subsurface and wells data ecosystem with the OSDU data platform. This presentation will cover the vision Shell holds for the OSDU platform, our journey so far and it will explore some of the benefits we expect to see from this major transformation as well as challenges the industry working together in OSDU has to resolve.