The latest trend in oil and gas companies including some of petrochemical players are setting the horizon for the upcoming age of abundance, and possibly replacing most engineers and skilled individuals in the oil and gas industry by the supercomputers. The likes of BP has spent millions of dollars of building its supercomputer, aimed at seismic imaging and interpreting geological data previously done by groups of skilled geologists.
BP datacenter in Houston houses 2 petaflops supercomputer which is also used for drilling activities. Already
around the globe supercomputers are taking over the jobs of skilled workers with IBM is in the lead in introducing its Watson capability in understanding raw unstructured data which is now learning medicine and finance. The usage of computing power in oil and gas is not new but the new age of supercomputers is predicted by the industrial analyst is what will be becoming the game changer.
around the globe supercomputers are taking over the jobs of skilled workers with IBM is in the lead in introducing its Watson capability in understanding raw unstructured data which is now learning medicine and finance. The usage of computing power in oil and gas is not new but the new age of supercomputers is predicted by the industrial analyst is what will be becoming the game changer.
The usage of supercomputers in plant design will expedite a project where lab data, pilot plant data and automation can be quickly learnt and put in place in a petrochemical or any chemical plant designs. As most design engineering work becoming software related, more computer engineers will be needed instead of process engineers in such engineering work.
Other oil and gas major following the same footsteps include Gazprom which is in planning to build a 1 petascale supercomputer for seismic and oil reservoir determination simulation. Petrobras of Brazil is also in the midst of building its own commercial supercomputer under the works of Bull, an European company specializing in Information Technology.
This new trend of employing supercomputers will be seen contagious towards all other major oil and gas including petrochemical players such as Sinopec of China. There will be talks on companies consolidating the works of production engineers via centralized control rooms for its plants through automation. The supercomputer opportunity is vast which will include chemical science all the way to plant design and operation.
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