Cloud computing as a new engine for oil and gas exploration and development

2013 is the key year for the "Landing" of the cloud computing center expected by the Stone Prospecting Institute. Recently, Sinopec's first exploration and Development cloud Computing Center is officially operating in the hospital. President Jinzhijun said: "The completion of the oil and gas exploration and development cloud, improve the efficiency of exploration and development, enhance the core competitiveness, in China's petrochemical oil and gas information construction has a milestone significance." ”

According to the Exploration and development business at home and abroad on the scale, refined and coordinated development needs, in accordance with the "centralized integration, innovation, sharing services, collaborative intelligence" information work policy, vigorously carry out high-performance computing resources virtualization, variable scale, dynamic allocation and parallel computing technology research, built a exploration and development cloud, In practical application, the production project cycle of seismic data processing, parallel inversion and super large scale reservoir numerical simulation is greatly shortened.

According to Ji Bingyu, chief engineer of the hospital, at present, the total computing capacity of cloud Center reaches 800多万亿次, the total capacity of storage resource pool is 2PB, and the mainstream professional software of covering basin evaluation, zone evaluation, trap evaluation, reservoir evaluation, development design, capacity construction and production optimization is published in "Yun".

It is understood that the cloud computing center developed a set of independent intellectual property rights of the exploration and Development of cloud computing management system platform, to achieve the central management of all types of resources and applications. The platform mainly includes software and hardware resource database, software license floating management, resource dynamic monitoring and alarm, site facilities and environment management.

Cloud computing is quietly changing the institute's scientific research methods, and even in the "Twelve-Five" Economic Development of the Institute, Cloud computing will become a new driving engine.

With the help of cloud management platform, some researchers take the lead to enjoy the convenience of "cloud computing", which is more safe, reliable, quick and convenient, super large amount of information and resource sharing.

Use Cloud Center resources for Project Research. Scientific research personnel from the previous complex hardware and software environment configuration to release, invest more efficiently in core technology research and development, cloud computing drives core technology development, core technology development promotes cloud computing applications, and all team members participate in progress management to enhance control of project progress.

Standing in a new starting point, Jinzhijun said, "to strengthen the application of information technology is an effective way to achieve efficient oil and gas exploration and development, in accordance with the" support of the current, leading the future, "the work of positioning, further strengthen the application of cloud Center, truly provide a strong support for scientific research and production Service Virtualization cost Measurement system development and green energy consumption technology application, for Sinopec's ' big cloud ' construction to explore a way. ”

(Responsible editor: Fumingli)