Houston, Tex.-based geo technology firm Schlumberger (News - Alert) Limited is a company that provides natural gas and oil companies across the world with technological solutions that can maximize their productivity. Recently, the company launched a program called Studio Manager, which it says will “empower information management professionals to work interactively with geoscientists to improve productivity.”
Many other companies are testing out this program as well, which could lead to some inter-firm collaboration via this platform.
How Studio Manager differs from others currently on the market is that instead of storing information on a database and then an information tabulator/driller/geoscientist needing information would consult the database, Studio Manager offers real-time updates of data and ways to find and store that data, so the parties involved can collaborate on it later on. Company officials want to seamlessly integrate this product with the platform called Petrel, a program where scientists, IT technicians, and oil drillers can collaborate and make sure they have the best plans of attack for carrying out the procedures necessary to drill properly. The new indexing technology makes it so that it is not necessary to compile the data beforehand to put it in a database, allowing for raw data to be used thereby making planning for the vicissitudes of natural resources more informed.
In line with data trends of the past few years, the design of Studio Manager looks to be very rooted in app design, which would be useful for making databases because while a typical program like Excel would leave you with a mishmash of different and disparate graphs usually all lumped into the same location, this separates them and quantizes them in order for the scientists to use them most effectively.
Schlumberger Ltd. has been offering technological innovations in tracking oil deposits for the past 80 years, ever since Founder Conrad Schlumberger started logging the equipotential curves of ore and oil deposits on his estate in Caen, France. Over the past century, the business has built up an impressive pedigree of firms it has worked with and has continued to be a quick adopter of new technology, as evidenced by the company’s focus on computers now. Further, the creation of Studio Manager, uses the existing program infrastructure and just tweaks it in order for the scientists and data compilers in the offices to get the most amount of benefits out of it.
Edited by Jamie Epstein