Offshore staff
PERTH, Australia – Woodside Energy has joined the band of companies that have simultaneously used more than 1 million virtual central processing units (vCPU) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.
Late last month, the company executed the million-vCPU scale computing workload across three AWS regions in the US to perform full-waveform inversion on 3,200 sq km (1,235 sq mi) of 3D seismic data from the Greater Sunrise gas resource, offshore Timor-Leste.
According to Woodside, the extra capacity provided by the AWS infrastructure allowed analyses to be run in parallel, delivering results in less than 2 hours.
Chief technology officer Shaun Gregory said: “Three years ago, I challenged our subsurface and digital teams to get seismic delivered in days, not weeks.
“They met the ‘days’ challenge last year and have now surpassed it. Being able to get seismic results in hours – about 150 times faster – means that we can be decision-ready sooner.”
AWS vp Engineering Bill Vass claimed that Woodside “is the first energy company to reach this scale.”
Earlier this year AWS agreed to become the company’s strategic cloud provider.
12/02/2020
