Information Sources on the Web
By
Steve Allen
Data by Design Limited
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Background
• Historically used mainly for promotion
• Passive information about companies
• Indexes and directories
• Sites providing information
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Example of Static Page

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E xample Directory Web Site

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Example E-commerce Site

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Example of Subscription Site

UK LIFT Web Site
• Licence Information For Trading
• Result of Oil & Gas Industry Task
Force (DTI and Industry)
• Facilitate trading of asset, blocks & licences
• Included review of legal documents
(JOA, preemption rights etc.)
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• Tendered in July 1999
• Contract awarded to GeoQuest
August 1999
• Pilot site displayed at AAPG in
September 1999
• Site launched 1st Nov 1999
UK LIFT
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UK LIFT Home Page

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UK LIFT User Registration Page

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UK LIFT Search Options Page

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UK LIFT Text Search Page

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UK LIFT GIS Search Page

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UK LIFT Non-Java Search Page

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UK LIFT Search Results Page

Detailed
Asset
Bulletin

How to Add Assets to LIFT
• Determine assets to be disposed
• Licence holders in UK already have
Login to LIFT
• Submit details to LIFT on-line, e-mail or fax
• Use Summary Asset Page (ASP) or
Detailed Asset Bulletin (DAB)
• Interactive on-line or download
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Asset Summary
Form

Detailed Asset Bulletin
• Detailed description of asset on offer
• May be submitted on-line & hosted on LIFT site by GeoQuest
• May be created & hosted by Oil company
• May be created & hosted by other web provider
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Detailed Asset Bulletin Form

Asset Removal Notification Form
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Additional Information Pages
• Asset trading web site
• Details of company policy, mission statements, environmental policy, health and safety etc.
• Assets company may be interested in acquiring/trading
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Costs
• Basic £250/company/month to have any asset opportunities on LIFT
• Creation of Detailed Asset Bulletin
• Hosting of Detailed Asset Bulletin
• Creation and hosting of Asset
Trading web site/pages
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Status of UK LIFT
• No. of companies pre-registered - 172
• No. of Assets posted on LIFT - 95
• No. of assets currently live - 64
• No. of assets viewed - 3120
• Total no. of registered users - 505
• Total no. of hits for home page - 8,600
• 1200 USA, 364 UK, (Europe, Scandinavia,
Australia, Japan, Middle East) 255
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List of Licence Holder Companies
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Details of Licencees

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List of Fallow Acreage

Fallow Acreage with Discoveries
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UK DEAL
• Data Environment Associated with
LIFT
• Shop window to browse available data in UKCS
• Catalogue of wells, seismic, reports and other data
• Links to vendors sites
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• Well: 2/5-1
UK DEAL
– Microfiche - IHS
– Paper logs - IHS
• 3D Operators Survey
– Field tapes - Conoco
– Processed tapes - Conoco
– Scanned Images - IHS
– Scanned Images - RRI
– Digital Logs - RRI
– Digital Logs - IHS
– Core Reports - RR
– Processed tapes - RRI
• 2D Spec Seismic Survey
– Field tapes - Western
– Processed tapes - PGS
• Regional Reports
– RRI
– IHS
– Geochem
– Asset Database
– BGS

Conclusion
• WWW is exciting and ever changing source for information
• WWW.UKLIFT.CO.UK &
WWW.UKDEAL.CO.UK are only two of the latest uses of the WWW
• Many more will follow with ever increasing functionality & value
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Steve Allen
Data by Design www.databydesign.co.uk
Making information work for you.