„The legislation in force must be amended in order to declassify certain types of data and documents that oil companies frequently work with and which, due to their classified status, are difficult to manage and impossible to digitize”, said Oana Bucur, TF Digitization Leader at the Federation of Oil and Gas Employers (FPPG), at Profit Energy.Forum.
„There is a disconnect between the need for digitization of the oil and gas industry and certain elements of the legislation in place, specifically the fact that in the upstream sector, certain data is classified information. This makes it difficult to manage these documents, they are kept in data rooms specifically set up for this purpose, and their transportation and movement is only by military mail. Thus, the most up-to-date technological solutions, such as cloud-based solutions, cannot be used for these documents, which blocks the digitization process in the industry. This is in the context of the fact that, at EU level, there has been a regulation in place since 2018 that expressly provides for the free movement of non-personal data within the EU,” Bucur said.
She added that the industry has been calling for many years for the declassification of this data to make it easier to work with and digitize.
„By declassification, they would change their status from „service secrets” to „confidential information”, protected by both the Petroleum Law and the petroleum concession agreements, so it does not mean that by declassification, these data would become public. We have a lot of discussions on this issue at the level of the National Agency for Mineral Resources (ANRM), but a new classification order was issued in August, which means that this data remains classified. We want to change the legislation,” the FPPG official said.
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