The ability to make timely, smart business decisions about operations and production performance directly drives the overall effectiveness, efficiency, and production that comes from a plant, a field, and the equipment and assets supporting them.

Unfortunately, in most chemical and oil production operations, the information needed to make these vital business decisions is often "too little too late" to be truly effective.

Production supervisors, engineers, and operators face many challenges getting the information they need. They do not have timely and contextual visibility of their field assets. They often have to perform their calculations in a piecemeal fashion as their data is delivered in different measurements and formats, with some information barely available at all. Critical business information may be delivered via crude alarms or belated reports, and often not in a context that promotes better understanding or action. Sharing information and acting on it is relegated to unconnected systems and old-fashioned means of communication

We are well on our way to harnessing the power of renewable energy. But we also know it won’t happen overnight. Until then, we need to make the most of the hydrocarbon resources that are still attainable – and that means extracting energy stored in the fossil fuels lying miles beneath the Earth’s surface. Repsol – one of the ten largest oil companies in the world – is breaking new ground in improving the accuracy of deep-sea oil exploration. Working with IBM, they’ve built the most powerful and efficient processing platform on the planet, capable of running next-generation data processing to increase the opportunities for success.