Legacy Petrel projects have powered subsurface workflows for nearly two decades, but their proprietary formats lock data, limiting access and analysis beyond the native platform.
At the same time, engineers and geoscientists spend more than half their time retrieving and preparing data — time that could be spent on higher-value tasks.
At the Dig X Subsurface 2025 conference in Oslo in December, Adam Watt (Product Manager, Cegal) will present how thousands of Petrel projects can be systematically prepared for the OSDU Data Platform, an open, cloud-native standard that breaks down data silos.
Using automated extraction and tools like Blueback Project Tracker, key project information – such as names, locations, well counts, and model status – is captured and standardised. Projects are broken into discrete, version-controlled data objects that can be ingested into OSDU. This makes it easier to compare projects, run AI analyses, and collaborate across teams in the cloud.
Raphael Peltzer (Senior Data Consultant, Cegal) will demonstrate how conversational AI can deliver secure, explainable answers from OSDU datasets. Leveraging Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI, the solution integrates with enterprise collaboration tools like Teams and M365 Chat.
Users can query subsurface data in natural language, receiving responses that include source references while enforcing strict access control and governance rules. This delivers faster, trustworthy data retrieval, laying a foundation for advanced analysis.
Together, these presentations highlight a complete workflow — from unlocking legacy data to making it accessible and actionable with AI.
Join us at Scandic Fornebu, December 03-04, 2025, to learn more. The program can be found on the conference website.