Transcript Our Workshop: Five Slide Deck 2016-04-01

Moving Toward A More Open Oil & Gas Data Future
“Challenges and Solutions for Integrated Management of Environmental, Health, and
Community Impact Data Pertaining to the Oil and Gas Industry”
A NSF-funded workshop held March 7-8 2016
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Steve Hamburg, Adam Peltz & Beth Trask, Environmental Defense Fund
Kelly Rose, US DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory
Melissa Dozier & Mark Williams, AirWaterGas/University of Colorado
Paul Jehn, Groundwater Protection Council
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Moving Toward A More Open Oil & Gas Data Future
At the workshop a diverse group of stakeholders gathered to:
- Assess the current landscape of oil & gas data and the current gaps and challenges in
that landscape
- Learn about solutions from other sectors that have successfully improved
discoverability, data sharing, regulatory context, and integration
- Share projects that are changing the future of O&G data management
- Envision a more open, integrated data system
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Moving Toward A More Open Oil & Gas Data Future
Who attended? Representatives from:
 Alberta Energy Regulator
 Consortium for the Advancement of Hydrologic
Science
 U.S. Energy Information Administration (U.S. DOE)
 Environmental Defense Fund
 Esri
 FracTracker Alliance
 Groundwater Protection Council
 Harvard Environmental Policy Initiative
 Houston Advanced Research Center
 IBM
 IRIS Data Management Center
 National Energy Technology Laboratory (U.S. DOE)
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National Science Foundation
NCAR
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
NRDC
Osage Nation Energy
Professional Petroleum Data Management Assoc.
Sonoma Technology, Inc.
Texas Bureau of Economic Geology
The Nature Conservancy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
University of Colorado
University of Maryland
University of Pittsburgh
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Next Steps
- Create materials (website, slides, short reports) for outreach about the benefits,
challenges and recommendations for a more open oil and gas data future.
- Create a forum for the O&G data community to interact and an initial online platform for
cataloguing existing data sets and documenting data gaps.
- Form a steering committee to guide future projects and recruit additional partners.
- Identify funding sources needed to formalize and support a new open data community
and build the technical framework for a more open and networked system.
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Moving Toward A More Open Oil & Gas Data Future
For more information on the workshop and our next steps:
https://data.airwatergas.org/workshop/
[email protected]
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