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HP solutions for E&P firms

A. Saye Sekhar

HYDERABAD: Hewlett-Packard, with its Linux-based open source software and highly-integrated hardware solutions, will complement the efforts of oil exploration and production (E&P) companies in bringing down the time between discovery and exploitation of oil and natural gas.

As more and more E&P organisations understanding the potential of large data and information management, they want to take advantage of the technology available, according to M. Douglas Hansen, Director, Global Energy Industries division in HP.

Three components

The company’s software and hardware products for oil and gas have three components of high performance computing (HPC) — computation, data management and visualisation — which enable precision-driven predictions.

Mr. Hansen said in an interaction that a fourth dimension, time, is added to interpret the large data in advanced visualisation. “HP is working on several new technologies and is proposing to rope in gaming technology on to HPC platforms,” he observed. The company’s virtual videoconferencing faci- lity, Halo, provides the real time opportunity for interaction, decision-making and also to observe the oil wells. This would enable the E&P companies reduce the time in analysing the data.

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