Case Study Well Information: Records Management in the Key Business

In May 1988 a new Information Support Unit (ISTJ) was created in the Southern Business sector of Shell UK Exploration and Production Limited (Shell Expro), to implement corporate Records and Information Management (RIM) policies into a (hitherto fragmented) informally controlled record group: all records relating to the company's subsurface activities. The records concerned were classified as VITAL to continuing business success.