6 Technical IT Innovation in Shell: Subsurface Insights to Locate More Energy Resources

Title: 6 Technical IT innovation in Shell: Subsurface insights to locate more energy resources Duration: 3:59 minutes Description: Shell's IT-based innovation in subsurface technology is enabling major breakthroughs in locating and producing more energy resources from unexpected areas in increasingly challenging locations.

6 Technical IT innovation in Shell: Subsurface insights to locate more energy resources

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[Text displays] Oil & gas will still make up two thirds of the global energy supply. But they will be harder to find and more challenging to develop. To overcome these challenges, Shell is delivering integrated technology solutions.

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“Innovation in technology and application of technology

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We are continuously pushing our portfolio into new frontiers,

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“It's getting the most out of your existing oil and gas reservoirs through, essentially, better seismic imaging”.

[Text displays] Seismic Data Acquisition: To find what others can't, Shell pushes the envelope on state of the art seismic technologies. These are critical to gathering high-quality insights into the earth’s subsurface.

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“If you look at the current exploration practice,

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[Text displays] Fons ten Kroode Manager, Seismic Technology, Shell it's going after deeper and deeper targets under ever more complex geologies”.

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“The innovation is so vibrant. For example, by introducing new sensor systems coming out of the computing industry,

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[Text displays] Dirk Smit Vice President Exploration R&D, Technology, Shell

We can really turn upside down the whole concept of how we would acquire seismic data in the field”.

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[Text displays] Linda Hubner Vice President Exploration Excellence, Shell

“It was a revolution in how we were able to acquire seismic data and to be able to see and better image,

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“The recent advances that have been made in seismic data acquisition

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And that way we are able to pinpoint

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[Text displays] High performance computing enables Shell to analyse vast amounts of data transforming it into accurate and valuable information.

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“It's essentially creating images of the subsurface from these huge and ever-growing seismic data volume”. [Video footage] Man uses card to enter room. Interior of room with banks of computers. Dirk Smit talking.

“The actual act of turning that data into an image

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[Text displays] David Schweitz Team Leader Subsurface Imaging Group, Shell

“We're trying to build images that allow us to drill a foot-wide hole that basically threads a needle all the way down to that target so we can tap for hydrocarbons.

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“What high-performance computing has enabled us to do is really take a step change in the scope of the data that we can analyse at a given time”. “Without the high-performance computing, we wouldn't be able to manage and handle all the data that we're getting”.

[Text displays] Shell GeoSigns Subsurface Interpretation Workspace Shell’s proprietary subsurface solution lets us see and understand what others can't.

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GeoSigns is a platform that allows people to actually just do better interpretation on... on the seismic that we have”.

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“We get a true 3D picture of what the earth is looking like“. “The results, in terms of image quality, have been phenomenal. It's about seeing things in higher resolution, identifying pockets of hydrocarbons that had been left behind,

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Shell has always made quite some efforts in building interpretation systems to cope with large amounts of seismic data and to turn it into images”.

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“It's basically allowing us to refine the image of existing data”.

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“We want to create better images, and they are eventually used to take better business decisions”.

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How are we going to develop an existing asset, an oilfield”? “There have been examples of locations - for instance, the Gulf of Mexico - where we've been able to come back in

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[Text displays] Integrated subsurface solutions for a sustainable global energy supply. Shell logo.