Seismic Processing and Interpretation for Oil & Gas Exploration

Overview

From Initial Idea to First Rev of the Platform in 6 months!

‍Energy veterans saw a market opportunity born out of the ability to drive new revenue, cut cost and avoid mis-steps. From a 100+ page vision document, they needed to bring a new product to the marketplace with no known competitors or comparable capability.

The challenge

• A New Data Challenge
• New seismic acquisition techniques are resulting in very large datasets that can be enlightening only if they can be successfully processed. Existing software was workstation based, unable to scale to terabyte-scale data. Potential billion barrel insights were left to cumbersome batch processing, with month-long timeframes and report-based workflows hostile to intuitive insight.
• Challenges included:
• Creating something “innovative but familiar” with highly gated access to the user community
• Creating a system to work with terabytes of seismic data instead of mere gigabytes
• Deep Geophysics & seismic process flows that required true intimacy with underlying market data
• Web Architecture to view and manipulate the data in near real time that had never been done on the web via a browser and not a fat desktop application
• Designing, building and supporting a complete subsurface visualization and analytics platform with 3D visualization, seismic interpretation and processing, and robust capacity for R&D experimentation

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Our Solution

Real Time Insights

Expero created a novel user experience for the new web-based platform that has far exceeded the customer’s goals! The path was incredibly difficult, but the payoff was immense both from a technology and a new capability level for the Super-Major.

Expero designed a distributed high-performance computer and rendering system, enabling terabyte data to be interactively processed at 10 frames per second on existing compute clusters with users in a remote web browser-based reactive user experience.