2015 Rice Oil & Gas HPC Workshop

Seismic Imaging is critical to the success of the BP’s Exploration, Development and Production activities. We will describe some of the breakthroughs delivered through imaging research over the last 15 years, and how these breakthroughs generate new opportunities and value.  We will discuss the contributions that High Performance Computing has made to enable imaging success, both in terms of growing compute power and the collaboration between imaging researchers and computational scientists. Many of the imaging technologies only became practical as computing caught up to our requirements. We will discuss the future directions for imaging, and the computing challenges required to deliver our future.