Petroleum Agency
Petroleum in Cape Town

The Procurement Section establishes and manages Preferred Supplier agreements for the provision of Indirect goods and services to the Petroleum Agency SA.

Background Open or Close Oil and gas exploration in South Africa, began in 1965 and since then a great volume of data have been collected and managed by the Agency. These volumes include all exploration data like seismic surveys, borehole data, technical reports and geological sample data. Numerous legacy databases and data sets were migrated into a suite of Oracle databases. The primary users of the databases are internal Geoscientists who interpret the data with the aim of marketing petroleum business opportunities to oil companies. Having migrated all data to an integrated system, Petroleum Agency SA is able to produce various catalogues of available data within specific areas of interest. The aim is to eventually establish portal access to the data repository where interested parties can search on and select required data. Data Management Services Open or Close Using industry standard software coupled with years of experience in dealing with data transcription services, we can carefully copy the data onto a variety of modern media to suit the client's needs. High resolution scanning of seismic sections for vectorisation projects. Large volumes of reports and diagrams have been scanned to make them online available and improve accessibility. Utilise rapid advances in storage technology to ensure the long-term archival of the data. Industry related textbooks on oil and gas, Legal, IT, HR, etc. Archive and maintain database on petroleum exploration & production data. Add value and incorporate new as well as interpreted data into database.