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information came from which became very topical and popu- source? Different techniques lar because we were trying to allow us to do this separation.” do fast-track seismic process- Beasley says having two ing and (send via) satellite that sources active allows for record- information back to the offce, so it could be worked on in ing more data in the same time more detail,” Dopkin notes. frame. “In the geophysical “The disc costs and technology industry, time is money,” he says.

Geology & Geophysics were not able to keep up. “By compressing the data at the acquisition phase, this allows us “That changed in the 2000s to gain factors of effciency that with affordable storage and you wouldn’t with just a single improved technology, but now source active. the industry has a full appre- “We believe that compressive ciation for high density and

Deploying an air gun umbilical. Photo from OceanGeo.

sensing will revolutionize the high resolution seismic data,” data acquisition world in general, Dopkin says. “Improved com- not just seismic,” Beasley says. “The Duane Dopkin, executive vice president puter assisted technologies are needed to need for compressive acquisition will be of geoscience at subsurface software interpret, model, and validate these vast extremely important.” developer Paradigm. “The volume of volumes of seismic data. New ways to metadata that has to be managed and ref- manage, reference, and query all of the

Handling big data erenced, the diversity of data that has to petrotechnical metadata associated with

Big data affects all aspect of the oil and be consumed in our software platforms, active conventional and unconventional gas industry and the and the volumes of data that needs to be felds has to be addressed by our soft- software develop- visualized, interpreted, and modeled, ware. That’s just one general topic, but it ment business is no puts a lot of pressure on software devel- has a huge impact.” exception. opers to accommodate that.” Halliburton’s Landmark is dealing with “Data size and Dopkin notes the need for compression the same big data issues, and is attempt- data diversity is a and the need for software to comply with ing to tackle the need for a common huge challenge in this technology. platform.

Duane Dopkin “In the 1990s, data compression our industry,” says “The oil and gas industry is a huge

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