OUR SERVICES
Six areas of expertise built on a foundation of model-driven thinking
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MODEL-DRIVEN DATA ARCHITECTURE, SEMANTIC MODELLING & STANDARDS
Good data architecture starts with a schema. It is the difference between data that gets used and data that gets ignored. Using Model-Driven Engineering principles we build single source of truth semantic models that automatically generate consistent outputs across API layers, relational databases, knowledge graphs and platform schemas. This eliminates the structural fragmentation that occurs when different teams maintain different representations of the same data concepts. Our subsurface domain depth means we understand not just the technical requirements but the business workflows that depend on getting the architecture right.
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DATA STANDARDS GOVERNANCE & INTEROPERABILITY ADVISORY
The value of subsurface data does not live in the data itself. It lives in the context around it. Who made this decision and why. What assumptions sit behind this model. What data was used to derive this outcome and how was it transformed. We help organisations design and implement the governance frameworks, technical workflows and data standards that capture this context systematically, preserve institutional knowledge and ensure that complex, derived and calculated datasets remain meaningful and auditable long after the people who created them have moved on. That is what real interoperability looks like.
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DATA PLATFORM STRATEGY, EVALUATION & ADOPTION
Choosing and adopting a data platform is one of the most consequential decisions an energy or resources organisation makes. We help you cut through vendor noise, evaluate your options honestly and design an adoption strategy with data standards compliance built in from day one. Having been inside the OSDU Forum since its inception in 2019, we understand what modern data platforms can deliver and where the gaps still are.
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NATIONAL DATA REPOSITORY STRATEGY & ARCHITECTURE
National Data Repositories are strategic national assets that serve governments, regulators, industry and future generations. Getting the foundation right determines whether they deliver lasting public value or become expensive data silos. We bring specialist experience in NDR strategy, open standards adoption and data architecture for government bodies and national regulators, with a clear understanding of the sovereign data, stakeholder and technical requirements that make these programmes succeed.
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STRATEGIC DATA ADVISORY & INDEPENDENT TECHNICAL REVIEWS
Strategy is only as good as the independence behind it. Our advisory draws on direct participation in the governance bodies that write the standards, combined with 25+ years of operator domain experience across oil and gas and mining. We review architectures, evaluate vendor claims and assess platform strategies with no commercial interest in the outcome. You get our honest assessment, not a recommendation shaped by who we are partnered with.
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AI READY DATA FOUNDATIONS & TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY
AI does not fail because of algorithms. It fails because the data underneath it is not ready. Subsurface data is particularly vulnerable. It is complex, multi domain, historically inconsistent and rarely documented in ways that machine learning can interpret. We help organisations build the structured, standards aligned and well governed data foundations that make AI actually work with their subsurface data. We also advise technology vendors on standards alignment and product architecture, ensuring their tools are built on foundations the market will trust and adopt.
We are not inventing anything, we are formalising what industry and the scientific community already use.
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Always have a schema. Everything else follows.
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