Shell to Use New AI Technology in Deepwater Oil Exploration
;The technology would generate subsurface images using fewer seismic data scans than usual, helping with deep sea preservation, the companies said. Seismic technology sends sound waves to explore subsurface areas. Fewer seismic surveys accelerate exploration workflow and would save costs in high-performance computing, they added.(Reuters - Reporting by Stephanie Kelly; Editing by Richard Chang
CGG Joins UK Research Assessing Ecosystem Impact of Offshore Wind Farms
, among others. The £2M, four-year ECOWind-ACCELERATE project is funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and The Crown Estate, with support from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) as part of the ECOWind program.CGG will provide high-performance computing resources, from its global capacity of 310 petaflops, for complex climate and sediment transport modeling to determine the impact of offshore wind farms and climate change in the East Irish Sea.In addition, CGG will provide machine learning (ML) expertise drawing on experience from previous
Shearwater GeoServices, ConocoPhillips 'Reveal' Tech Collab
of Shearwater’s Reveal seismic processing and imaging software while Shearwater has committed to support future development and use of the CSI technology, and to provide ConocoPhillips with potential future seismic acquisition design and imaging services. The agreement also involves high-performance computing infrastructure with over 4,500 compute nodes and 50 Petabytes of storage, which will be deployed throughout Shearwater’s seismic acquisition fleet.According to Shearwater, CSI uses algorithms to optimize the process of selecting nonuniform data collection points instead of the traditional
Seismic Data Firm CGG Launches Pollution Monitoring Solution
French firm CGG, best known for its seismic data services for oil and gas exploration, has now launched a maritime pollution monitoring solution named SeaScope."Combining expertise in remote sensing science, Earth observation data, machine learning and high-performance computing, SeaScope provides critical sea surface slick intelligence for a range of industries to strengthen situational awareness of the interaction between offshore assets, coastal facilities, local vessel activity and the natural marine environment," CGG said.For energy companies with offshore assets, CGG said, SeaScope&rsquo
Equinor Taps into DUG's Tech for Seismic Processing
deal with supercomputer group DUG Technology, covering seismic processing and imaging technology.Under the agreement, DUG says, Equinor will replace existing third-party technology with an integrated solution using DUG McCloud, a platform that allows clients to mix and match DUG's high-performance computing as a service (HPCaaS), seismic processing and imaging (P&I) services, and the DUG Insight geoscience software.DUG McCloud includes disk storage and an online archive facility that allows web-based data visualization. DUG Managing Director Matthew Lamont said the team at Equinor
MTR’s “Top 10” Ocean Influencers
of ocean research by providing state of the art technological and informational support to pioneering marine science and technology development projects at sea. SOI prides itself on providing facilities aboard research vessel Falkor that help to propel marine science forward such as its high performance computing system, global internet connectivity, dedicated custom-built remotely operated vehicle (ROV SuBastian) and advanced shipboard sensors. SOI also encourages the development and integration of video data management systems, collaborative image annotation programs, and shipboard data infrastructure
ThunderFish AUV Program Gets $745,000 Boost
to RDC for their support of our efforts and appreciate their thorough review of our development program. This funding will help maintain the excellent momentum we have been building over the past two years in underwater robotics.” “Technological innovations in sensors, high performance computing and robotics now enable next generation underwater vehicles that are highly autonomous, cost effective, light weight and easier to operate. We look forward to continuing to develop advanced marine technologies and products to meet the ever-evolving demands of our growing customer base.&rdquo
Five UC San Diego Professors Named AAAS Fellows
in the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, and founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a partnership of UC San Diego and UC Irvine. In naming him a fellow, AAAS cited Smarr for “leadership in scientific computing, high-performance computing, and cyberinfrastructure.” Prior to joining the UC San Diego faculty in 2000, Smarr spent 20 years as a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was also the founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Lloyd’s Register, TCOMS Partner on Technology Development
and digital modelling of marine and offshore assets. TCOMS will house one of the largest ocean basin test facilities in the world, which will be capable of simulating complex and extreme sea states at water depths of up to 3,000 meters. This state of the art facility will also invest in high performance computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics and cloud computing to push the boundaries of marine and offshore operations. LR’s Technology Radar survey highlighted that digitization is one of the most effective ways of improving operations, increasing speed to market
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