How Energy Development Corporation, Philippines, manage, visualise and communicate their data

See how EDC use Seequent technology, Leapfrog Geothermal, to manage, visualise and communicate their data.

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<v ->Energy Development Corporation, or EDC,</v>

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is a total renewable energy company.

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We have existing geothermal fields

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that are operating in four different areas

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of the Philippines with a total aggregate

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of close to 1,200 megawatts.

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EDC have also been expanding its operations,

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and we are basically just looking at

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geothermal prospects outside of the Philippines.

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Our largest field in Leyte has been operating since 1983.

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Also, our Dumaguete steam field is been in the industry

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for more than 35 years.

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The challenge for us in the industry

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is how to bring our costs down.

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What we have been doing at EDC

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is we’re looking at ways on how to bring this cost down

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by being more efficient.

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Looking at new technologies that will allow us

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to invest a little bit more,

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but will significantly reduce

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our number of days of drilling.

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<v ->I’m mostly in charge of the geologic data,</v>

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both the well data and surface data.

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As the main modeler in the company,

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I also collate data from the other disciplines

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like the geophysics, chemistry, and also the reservoir data.

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It’s really good that there’s one platform

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where we put all of these data together

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because it’s easier to look at the data holistically

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and correlate them with each other.

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<v ->Going into a big data platform and putting all data</v>

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into one system that incorporates all that information

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and provide this data to our scientists

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and our decision makers is the way to go.

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We have extensive data.

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We have 35, almost 40 years of exploration

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and production data, and we need to be able to capitalize

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on what that data can give us.

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<v ->When I first came here to EDC,</v>

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we used to deal with the printouts of data.

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And then that’s when EDC started to digitize

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all of these data.

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And I was one of the people involved

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in that endeavor of the company.

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Once something is uploaded into the Cloud,

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it will automatically go into the model.

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So the model will evolve with the data.

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<v ->Leapfrog has revolutionized our way of thinking</v>

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by visualizing the information, all of the reservoir

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and surface information into one platform.

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It provides information and analysis

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from a different perspective that we have not seen before.

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It’s giving us confidence, it’s optimizing our targets,

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and it helped us in pinpointing where to extract

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the greatest value from the wells that we drill.

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Leapfrog has made the decision making

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and well targeting easier for us.

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<v ->Leapfrog has provided us with a very robust platform</v>

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where it’s really easy to gather

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different kinds of data sets

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and put them all together in one area.

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I think it’s a very intuitive software,

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and it allows the users to feel comfortable

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in manipulating the data and producing models

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out of these data.

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<v ->It provides the platform for our scientists,</v>

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our engineers, to discuss and eventually find out

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what’s the challenge in the data that is not consistent

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with the other information.

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<v ->It helps us communicate better</v>

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especially with the management.

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It helps non-scientists to have an idea

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of how the resource looks like.

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<v ->And at the end of the day,</v>

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we determine which option would provide us the best value.

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By incorporating the drilling data with our resource data

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that was generated through Leapfrog,

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it provides the best value for our buck.

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