Patent ID: 9633067
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: E21B,G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-based system for creating and maintaining data sets for a hydrocarbon exploration or production operation, comprising: a central processing unit mounted within the computer-based system; a publication database connected to the computer-based system, the publication database containing a published data set and a gold data set, each data set being composed of predefined data components, the gold data set including a designated data component that is preferred over a data component of the published data set for use in performing the hydrocarbon exploration or production operation; a data input unit connected to the central processing unit, the data input unit receiving a processed data set that has been published or is to be published in the publication database, the processed data set being composed of predefined data components; and a storage device connected to the central processing unit, the storage device storing therein a gold data module executable by the central processing unit, the gold data module executed by the central processing unit to determine whether a data component of the processed data set matches the designated data component of the gold data set, perform a comparison of a quality of such data component of the processed data set to a quality of such data component of the gold data set, and replace such data component of the gold data set with such data component of the processed data set based on the comparison; wherein the gold data module is further executed by the central processing unit to perform one of the following: designate the processed data set as a new gold data set in the publication database if no data component of the processed data set matches a data component of the gold data set or replace the gold data set with the processed data set in the publication database if the predefined data components of the processed data set match the predefined data components of the gold data set.