India's Hydrocarbon Outlook – 2022-2023

98 DGH: 3 DECADES OF UNLOCKING INDIA'S HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL on 28th June 2017. The establishment of the NDR has facilitated the efficient management and utilization of E&P data and has helped to promote exploration and development activities in India's hydrocarbon sector. The NDR is a key enabler of Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) and Discovered Small Fields (DSF) rounds under the Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP) regime. It provides E&P operators with the freedom to carve out blocks of their interest and size, facilitated by the NDR. The NDR is a valuable resource for the Indian energy industry, offering a centralized repository of E&P data for reliable decision-making and future development. Since inception, NDR has been contributing significantly towards further streamlining standards, procedures, and workflows pertaining to data submission, cataloguing, viewing, retrieval, and dissemination for all the stakeholders including inter alia E&P companies and service providers, government agencies, academia. NDR is equipped with Physical Data Room with graphic intensive workstations to facilitate detailed study / evaluation of the Oil and Gas databyprospectivebidders during theOALPand DSF rounds, as well as by DGH’s internal team. These graphic workstations have visualization & interpretation capability for the data residing in NDR using specialized software like ‘Decision Space Geo-science (DSG)’ from M/s Halliburton and ‘Petrel’ from M/s Schlumberger in addition to other similar software from M/s. AspenTech for seismic data processing and well log data processing/visualisation. 3.2.1 Secondary Data Centre DGH established its Secondary Data Centre (SDC) in high-tech Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) Building, at Bhubaneswar. SDC is located in a different seismic zone and geography than Primary Data Centre (PDC), NOIDA. STPI is a Tier-III data centre built under the aegis of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY). Data replication and synchronisation is maintained by 1 GBPS dedicated link between PDC and SDC. SDC would work as Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Centre of Primary Data Centre (PDC) of National Data Repository of DGH, Noida. The Secondary Data Centre (SDC) is fully operational since 4th August 2018. SDC will be able to resume essential business operations in case of a disaster at PDC. Apart from being data repository and recovery centre, SDC is also involved in providing quality industrial and educational trainings to the students of various academic institutions and organizations. These training programs are intended to give a domain-specific and industry- oriented approach for knowledge to the trainees. The course content of these training programs has rigorously been worked out by technical experts keeping in mind the syllabus of various institutions and its linkage to E&P industry. Objectives of NDR To assimilate, validate, archive, preserve, reproduce, and disseminate data relating to prospecting, exploration, development, and production of hydrocarbons. To create and maintain a modern state of the art platform for reporting, managing, mapping and visualization using the latest technologies. To ensure that industry, academia, research bodies and other users have ready access to the E&P data in NDR for promoting E&P research To ensure transparent access to quality E&P data and promote conditions for innovation and investment in exploration and production to discover and drive development of new discoveries