Oh! The Places You’ll Go!

Steve Philp

“Except when you don’t. Because, sometimes, you won’t.”  I don’t think there will be a lot of “in the real world” travelling this year – not until we get a vaccine. But still, Dr Seuss gives some of the best advice in the world, and he also says:“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” And here I fina…

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Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)

Steve Philp

My previous post here was a re-post of an old article I wrote about what’s been wrong with subsurface data management for the longest time.  Since writing that, I have been waiting for the day when I can write a follow-up happy article about how we have successfully changed the world (of subsurface data management, at least). And here I finally am, on the OSDU Marketplace blog, writing …

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10 Things I Hate(d) About Subsurface Data Management

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I’ve been given the honour of writing the first blog for the new OSDU Marketplace website. It seems fitting to start with some history about why the whole OSDU endeavour exists, so I thought I would re-post an old article of mine called “10 Things I Hate About Subsurface Data Management”. You might have seen it before. I wrote it back in 2015, not long after I’d joined Teradata.…

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