What is Azure Energy Data Services?
Azure Energy Data Services (also Microsoft Energy Data Services) is a managed cloud platform for the energy industry based on the OSDU Data Platform standard. The service enables central management, search and analysis of exploration, production and energy data in an open, standardized format.
The platform addresses a central challenge of the energy industry: data exists in numerous proprietary formats and isolated systems. Energy Data Services breaks down these silos and provides data through standardized OSDU APIs, allowing applications from different vendors to access the same data repository.
The service supports both traditional oil and gas companies and renewable energy organizations in digitalization and data-driven decision making.
Core Features
- OSDU R3 compatible data platform as a fully managed Azure service
- Standardized APIs for accessing seismic, well and production data
- Integrated search and cataloging across all data types
- Support for common energy data formats such as LAS, DLIS, SEG-Y and WITSML
- Connection to Azure analytics services like Synapse Analytics and Power BI
Typical Use Cases
Subsurface Data Management: Central management of seismic data, well logs and geological models for exploration and production teams.
Renewable Energy: Analysis of wind measurements, solar radiation data and site assessments for planning wind and solar farms.
Data Integration and Analytics: Consolidating data from various sources and formats into a unified platform for cross-cutting analyses and AI-powered predictions.
Benefits
- Open OSDU standard avoids vendor lock-in
- Fully managed service without infrastructure overhead
- Scalable for petabyte-scale data volumes
- GDPR-compliant in European Azure regions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the OSDU standard?
OSDU (Open Subsurface Data Universe) is an open data standard for the energy industry, developed by The Open Group. It defines a vendor-neutral data model and APIs for exchanging energy data. All major energy companies and software vendors support the standard.
Is the service only relevant for oil and gas companies?
No. Energy Data Services is suitable for the entire energy sector, including renewable energy, geothermal and carbon capture and storage. The OSDU standard is increasingly used for wind, solar and hydrogen data as well.
How is existing data migrated?
Energy Data Services provides ingestion APIs for common energy data formats. Existing seismic data (SEG-Y), well logs (LAS, DLIS) and production data (WITSML) can be imported through standardized workflows.
Integration with innFactory
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, innFactory supports you with Azure Energy Data Services: from migrating existing energy data to analytics platform integration and developing data-driven applications on the OSDU platform.
