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Dean Pereira de Melo

Dean Pereira de Melo, SPE, has worked in geosciences since 2007, most recently as data steward for Petrobras, with experience in seismic interpretation, well-log analysis, and geochemistry data analysis. Recently, his role includes business analysis focusing on business process management, glossaries, conceptual data modeling, and data quality, all of them related to well operations and formation evaluation.

  • This article discusses the role of data management in the context of exploration and production from the 1990s, when building centralized databases was the mainstream, to the end of the second decade of the 2000s.