At RWE Dea´s E&P business the E&P Archive management provides users with descriptive information about data types, data stores and order procedures in order to support the business.
eSearch, the physical asset management system at RWE Dea, is used in Germany, Egypt and Libya. eSearch is a cataloguing and ordering system that is used to store descriptive information (metadata) on physical items that are stored in our storage facilities.
It provides finding data, inserting data, amending data, copying data, deleting data, loading data and exporting data. eSearch software technology allows users to index, search for, and order physical assets distributed across multiple repositories.

Four main groups of data types are administrated within the RWE Dea configured System:

- Well data ? reports, paper logs, well seismic, ?
- Seismic data ? reports, poststack, prestack, navigation, ?
- General data ? field studies, analysies, reports, maps, ?
- Software data (minor important data container) ? special backups, software, ?

About 266,000 metadata records for 234,000 physical items are registered in 5 different storage locations for the instance located in Hamburg.

The presentation will include a description of the design and data structure of the eSearch data management tool. The main functions and procedures of the system will be shown. The duration of the presentation will be approximately 15 to 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion and will touch the following topics:

Data model - Search and order workflows - Technical specifications

First speaker:
Sabine Strohbach, E&P Archive Administration, RWE Dea AG / GeoSupportCenter

Secondary speaker:
Andreas Butzke, Geophysicist, Head of Geodatabases, RWE Dea AG / GeoSupportCenter

Short Bio: 

Sabine Strohbach is responsible for E&P Archive Administration at RWE Dea Operations in the Hamburg main office. Her E&P Data Management career started just two years ago after finishing her business administration graduate. She is now responsible for coordinating all RWE Dea storage locations for physical items.

[Andreas Butzke, Geophysicist, is head of the Department Geo Databases with more than 15 years of experience in E&P Data management.]