81 INTERNATIONAL IHS | www.ihs.com FIELD DATABASE The International Field Database comprises more than 28,300 fields and discoveries dating back to the very early start of the oil industry up to the latest announced discoveries of the day. It covers historic and current E&P activities in all the international regions monitored by IHS. The Field Database contains a comprehensive coverage of exploration stages, geological descriptions, development and production projects which mark the field life cycle. The key information in the field database includes: »» Development activities and related costs »» Detailed production history (monthly, annual and cumulative) at field and at country level (monthly and annual) with detail split onshore/offshore »» Reserves volumes at field and reservoir level, including both in-place and recoverable figures »» E&P participants and contractual details and history »» Full reservoir geological description (trap, seal, geology, source rocks), PVT characteristics as well as full information on hydrocarbon characteristics and composition »» Spatial and graphical elements (e.g. field outlines, field illustrations) Raw data is captured worldwide from a diverse range of sources and languages, including scout reports, websites, journals, press, public domain, Government reports and Company reports. Our experts capture, standardize, transform, validate and ultimately integrate this information into the database to deliver critical information essential to our customers’ business. Throughout this process, IHS Field Researchers establish Quality Goals and carry out in depth quality control on completeness, correctness and consistency, focusing on delivering up-to-date data content in a timely manner. This rigorous data management requires a robust validation quality program which runs automatically on data entry. Our Field Data is used by a multitude of industry professionals for numerous purposes including exploration program, secondary recovery and production profiling, cost analysis and EUR reserves estimation.
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