Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 21 / Trend E.Ismayilov /
Fugro is the main contender in the tender announced by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR ) for the purchase of work, services and software to create a corporate database of geological and oil-field data, a source in the oil and gas market said today.
"Fugro is a leader for the number of points, but it's not all. The results of the tender will be completely summed up after the provision of certain materials by the company and responsiveness to our wishes," the source added.
SOCAR's representatives have visited the company's British office to get clearly acquainted with the system. During the visit, there were proposals to supplement additions. Fugro will need to submit certain documentation to become fully acquainted with the draft project.
SOCAR is expected to sum up the tender in January 2010.
The tender included proposals on establishment of the special database, which means accumulation and storage of geological and production data, installation of necessary software for deployment and management, and its connection to the system, organization of trainings for employees of SOCAR, establishment of a pilot database and software service support.
The source said the winning company will introduce the base for three years, and later, it will act as a consultant on the introduction of a new database, implement innovate and upgraded programs. "This is a long process that requires a lot of time," the source added
Cooperative database of geological and oilfield data of the SOCAR (State oil company of Azerbaijan) will be created three phases over three years. The first phase covers the creation of databases, its downloading and the necessary training for SOCAR's staff. In the second phase employees of SOCAR will be engaged in loading data into the database under the leadership of the company, which will deal with its creation. In the third phase, the company's workers will have to work independently, but with the support of the company, which created the base.
The database will store all the geological and geophysical data on squares, data on drilling and stock assessments. It will include everything that is related to the oil and gas sector. Some economic indicators relating to oil and gas sphere also may be included in the database in future. Foreign companies may also store their data in these databases. The services will be offered to companies on a charged base. The database will provide safe storage of specialized information.
SOCAR will offer (on a charged basis) foreign companies (at their request) the existing data on various sites where a company would like to work. First, the data will be presented to the companies to see, if the same company would be interested in acquiring these data, they will be granted a foreign company on a charged basis. The company needs to view data to examine the sites where it would like to work. Moreover, the buyer company may interpret independently this data.
Access to the database will be limited. Access to data of foreign companies wishing to store their information in the SOCAR's database, will only be submitted to the company owner, located in the database information.
Azerbaijan has 57 oil and gas fields, including 18 offshore wells. SOCAR has more than 62,000 employees.
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