Linux in oil exploration & production

Increasingly volatile and unpredictable oil and gas prices coupled with regional and global economic downturns make the ability to find and develop oil and gas deposits cost-effectively even more critical.

Information technologies have played a key role in exploration and production-important drivers of past success in the oil and gas industry.

Now, with intensifying competition for prime exploration acreage and, in a price-competitive market, the need to improve productivity of existing fields, the deployment of faster, more powerful technologies is crucial.

IBM, Linux solution

IBM and Linux provide cost-effective ways to address current challenges to the petroleum industry.

Leveraging the power of Linux on IBM hardware as a platform for leading-edge ISV (independent software vendor) solutions helps build revenue and cut costs in many ways, including high-performance computing, streamlined operations, and distributed enterprise, all provided at a low total cost of ownership.

The Linux in Exploration and Production solution provides high performance computing to the petroleum industry. The solution is available world wide to large enterprises and to small- to medium-sized businesses.

Linux can potentially improve your productivity by enabling you to improve performance and lower the cost of high performance computing.

The improved productivity, as well as scalability, available on Linux can also help reduce the cost of exploration and production for customers who deploy the Linux in Exploration and Production solution.

Compagnie Générale de Géophysique

CGG performs geophysical surveys and provides three-dimensional images of the earth's subsurface that enable oil companies to pinpoint reserves before committing drilling dollars.

To help grow its share of the $multi-billion seismic services market, CGG is relying on massive computing capabilities provided by IBM.

The Linux in Exploration and Production solution uses Landmark Graphics running on Linux on a high performance IBM. Landmark Graphics provides seismic data processing, geophysical interpretation tools, and 4D reservoir modeling.