News

An updated version of the Seismic Data Release Guidelines document has now been pulished and is available on our website under the 'CDA Documents' section.
27 Jan 2012
As of Monday 28th November, CDA’s primary seismic contact has switched from Chris Hynd to  Mark Alldred. If contacting CDA via email,  please direct all enquires to Mark (malldred@cdal.com), but ensuring that Chris (chynd@cdal.com)  is copied in all correspondence.
28 Nov 2011
The annual CDA Data Management Workshop 'Sharing Data Management Solutions' was held in London on October 4th.  It was attended by 50 delegates who discussed topics including DM Competency, Data Quality, Data Retention Policies and GIS implementation priorities. More than half of the delegates believed that the workshop had advanced their Read more
22 Oct 2011
Welcome to the new CDA website As you can see, the new CDA website is now up.  We will add more content over the coming weeks. Please let us know what you think  
21 Oct 2011
Seismic field data for 7 surveys has been received and is currently being transcribed and remastered onto duplicated modern media.  This work represents the initial batch of a trial being conducted at CDA’s expense and will be concluded late this year or early in 2012. Contact Mark Alldred (malldred@cdal.com) or Read more
20 Oct 2011
We are proud to announce continuing strong growth in CDA participation. Atlantic Petroleum and the Parkmead Group became CDA participants during the third quarter of the year.  Aberdeen University successfully applied for and were granted subsidised membership for the Well DataStore.  Reach Oil and Gas was acquired by Trap Oil, now a CDA Read more
14 Oct 2011
Mark Alldred has joined CDA as Seismic Data Manager and is based in the London office.
10 Oct 2011
CDA’s report on the value of Data Management has now been published and is available from the Oil & Gas UK website - www.oilandgasuk.co.uk/datamanagementvaluestudy/
15 Feb 2011
CDA is working with participants, contractors, DECC, PPDM (Canada) and ECIM (Norway) to develop and define E&P Data Management competencies and other building blocks leading to professional recognition of E&P Data Managers.
11 Oct 2010