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and accelerating exploration and production 4.4 Objectives of NDR
activities in the country. Therefore, safeguarding
E&P data is a matter of national significance. The broad objectives of NDR are as follows:

4.3 National Data Repository To assimilate, validate, archive, preserve,
reproduce, and disseminate data relating to
The National Data Repository (NDR) was prospecting, exploration, development, and
established by the Government of India in 2014 production of hydrocarbons.
under the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons To create and maintain a modern state of
(DGH) to assimilate, preserve, and disseminate the art platform for reporting, managing,
a vast amount of data acquired by public and mapping and visualization using the latest
private companies, operators, agencies, and technologies.
contractors during E&P activities over several
decades. The data was previously scattered To ensure that industry, academia, research
bodies and other users have ready access
across different work centres of ONGC, OIL, to the E&P data in NDR for promoting E&P
and DGH, or held by the respective operating research
companies.
To ensure transparent access to quality
The main objective of the NDR is to organize E&P data and promote conditions for
and regulate the data for future exploration innovation and investment in exploration
and development activities, as well as for and production to discover and drive the
research and development by educational development of new discoveries
institutions and government bodies. The NDR
serves as a national-level establishment capable 4.5 Secondary Data Centre
of managing a massive volume of data and
providing access to it for public use. DGH established its Secondary Data Centre
(SDC) in high-tech Software Technology Parks of
To implement the project, the government India (STPI), a Tier-III data centre at Bhubaneswar.
awarded a turnkey contract for the "Build, SDC is located in a different seismic zone and
Populate and Operate" model for the NDR geography than Primary Data Centre (PDC),
to M/s Halliburton Offshore Services in March NOIDA.
2014. After the initial set up and data loading,
the NDR was officially launched for public use Data replication and synchronisation is
on 28th June 2017. The establishment of the maintained by 1 GBPS dedicated link between
NDR has facilitated the efficient management PDC and SDC. SDC works as a Business
and utilization of E&P data and has helped to Continuity/Disaster Recovery Centre of Primary
promote exploration and development activities Data Centre (PDC) of National Data Repository of
in India's hydrocarbon sector. DGH, Noida. The Secondary Data Centre (SDC) is
fully operational since 4th August 2018. SDC will
The NDR is a key enabler of Open Acreage be able to resume essential business operations
Licensing Policy (OALP), Discovered Small in case of a disaster at PDC.
Fields (DSF) exploration for unconventional
resources like CBM rounds by facilitating maps Apart from being data repository and recovery
and providing reliable data to the different centre, SDC also provides quality industrial and
E&P companies & investors. In HELP regime, educational trainings to the students of various
E&P operators have the freedom to carve out academic institutions and organizations.
blocks of their interest and size, accordingly all 4.5.1 Data available in NDR
types of data available to the curved out areas
are provided by the NDR under the new policy Table 4.1: NDR: Data Availability
regime.
Cumulative Data available in NDR as of 31st
In addition to its use in the oil and gas sector, March, 2025
the NDR's data are being utilized for research
and development by educational/ academic 2D Seismic data 4.01 Million LKM
institutions and government bodies. Overall, the 3D Seismic data 1.25 Million SKM
NDR is a valuable resource for the Indian energy
industry, offering a centralized repository of E&P Well data 24,434 No. of Wells
data for reliable decision-making and future Well reports 52,941 No. of reports
development.