Repsol YPF wanted to increase their competitive advantage and generate new business opportunities more expeditiously. They were looking for a solution to deliver processed seismic data more quickly to their interpreters and make faster and better business decisions. Panasas’ fully integrated software/hardware solution helped achieve up to 11X performance improvement. Here’s how.
The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers - Heather Hedden.pdf
Repsol YPF Increases Competitive Advantage with Panasas
1. Customer Success Story
Maxus US Exploration
“Out of the box, the
system was integrated
Maxus US Exploration
Repsol YPF [NYSE: REP] is an international integrated oil and gas company
effortlessly into our
engaged in all aspects of the petroleum business, including exploration,
infrastructure.” development, production, refining and marketing of crude oil and natural
Francisco Ortigosa gas. Repsol YPF is one of the top ten private oil companies in the world and
Chief Geophysicist,
the largest private energy company in Latin America, with an average daily
Maxus
production of 1.2 MMBOE. The company and their subsidiaries place a high
value on technological innovation to support their business goals, and
views the continuous search for excellence in technology as a key
competitive advantage.
SUMMARY The Challenge would soon become a bottleneck. “As
Industry: Repsol YPF, through their American we were building our system, we quickly
Oil and Gas subsidiary Maxus US Exploration, recently realized that we needed an exceptionally
began subsalt exploration in the deep and fast storage system,” said Ortigosa. In
THE CHALLENGE ultra-deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. addition, the company understood that
Repsol YPF wanted to increase their “We quickly realized that proprietary Pre- as data capacity grew, eventually the
competitive advantage and generate Stack Depth Migration (PSDM) provides local disk would complicate system
new business opportunities more management. Because of this, the need
the competitive advantage necessary
expeditiously. They were looking for a
solution to deliver processed seismic for success in the Gulf of Mexico,” said to scale capacity in a single namespace
data more quickly to their interpreters Francisco Ortigosa, Chief Geophysicist at became critical to the solution. Finally,
and make faster and better business Maxus. The company decided to create knowing that the system needed to be
decisions.
an in-house seismic processing solution installed and running in a short period of
in its Houston, TX, office to maximize the time, made seamless integration into the
THE SOLUTION value added to the PSDM processing of existing Maxus infrastructure essential.
The fully integrated software/hardware 3D seismic data. “We believe that the
solution included the Panasas®
best value added during PSDM process The Solution
Operating Environment and the PanFS™
parallel file system with the Panasas comes from the time spent by our Maxus purchased Panasas® Storage
DirectFLOW® protocol. interpreters building the velocity model because it packages the highest
and adding geological significance to it,” performance in the storage industry
THE RESULT said Ortigosa. “The goal was to maximize with a scalable, easy to integrate
• Up to 11X performance improvement the compute power in an effort to and manage storage system. Maxus
• A single namespace for simplified minimize the amount of time necessary to deployed a Panasas Storage Cluster,
cluster management process the data, thus leaving ample time and immediately saw the performance
• Ease of integration to our interpreters.” benefits. “After an exhaustive search,
it was clear that Panasas delivers the
For the compute side of the solution, fastest storage system in the industry,”
Maxus deployed a powerful Linux cluster. said Ortigosa. Panasas does this by
The cluster provided fast access to the leveraging an object-based architecture
data, but it was quickly determined that to provide direct disk to client access.
the local disk attached to the nodes This enables exceptional bandwidth
1-888-panasas www.panasas.com