Schlumberger Breakthrough Performance Center—Sponsors

Schlumberger welcomes collaborative efforts with technology leaders, like Barco, EMC, HP, and Microsoft, to make the Schlumberger Breakthrough Performance Center the industry leader in the area of next-generation E&P technologies. The Center provides a strong customer proof of concept of the ability of software technologies and solutions and its partners to transform businesses. The wide variety of advanced technologies in the Breakthrough Performance Center demonstrate Schlumberger's technology leadership and open and collaborative approach.

Barco

Barco is the world leader in high-end visual display solutions for Oil & Gas. We specialize in large-scale, stereoscopic visualization for a wide range of applications, such as upstream oil&gas, Real Time Operation Centers, production, and corporate/technical boardrooms. Our high resolution, 3D stereoscopic, and accurate color display technology helps geologists and geophysicists to better visualize seismic data, complex reservoir models, well logs, and geologic cross sections. Barco's solutions are designed to enhance real time interaction and collaboration for increased insight and more accurate decision-making to improve bottom-line results.

From our US, European, and Asian, headquarters, we continue to offer new technologies, systems, and services that constantly confirm our position as the visualization industry's premier system solutions provider. Barco completes hundreds of display system projects each year. As an original equipment manufacturer, we've seen more situations and have been involved in more projects than most display companies. Every day Barco systems play an important role in helping companies visualize their solutions so they can be more productive and realize bottom-line advantages. From a simple projection system to complex immersive stereo visualization environments, Barco has the experience and resources to deliver a complete system solution to meet the customer's unique application needs.

Barco has gained an international reputation for its customer-driven application engineering and projection system optimization expertise. Barco is committed to providing world-class, worldwide service and support including after-sales technical support, product and application training, and documentation services.

Company Contact:

Yoav Nir
Market Director Simulation, V&AR and O&G, Barco
Telephone: +32 56 368 415
E-mail: yoav.nir@barco.com

EMC

EMC has been serving the oil and gas industry for over 25 years. Information is a business's most important asset. EMC provides the tools that can help you capitalize on it. By bringing our systems, software, services, and solutions together, we can work with you to put a comprehensive information infrastructure to work for your business.

We help customers design, build, and manage intelligent, flexible, and secure information infrastructures. These infrastructures are the versatile foundations on which organizations can implement their information lifecycle strategies, secure their critical information assets, leverage their content for competitive advantage, automate their data center operations, reduce power and cooling costs, and much more. With an information infrastructure, the oil industry can mitigate some of the inherent risk in the business and reduce the significant costs associated with managing information, while fully exploiting its value for business advantage.

For more information, please visit www.emc.com.

Company contact:

Jason Knudsen
Global Partner Manager, EMC Corporation
Telephone: +1 713 403 5157
E-mail: jason.knudsen@emc.com

EMC Solutions for the Oil and Gas Industry (4.15 MB PDF)

HP

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. As a trusted information technology partner for the oil and gas industry, we help companies optimize business outcomes and execute more effectively to achieve operational excellence. HP offers one of the largest portfolios of technology products, services, and consulting solutions, and an uncompromising commitment to quality. We collaborate with industry leaders to help drive innovation that will enable them to meet the challenges of increasing demand in the face of diminishing reserves. We help E&P organizations capture, process, visualize, and manage structured and unstructured data to optimize operations, retain and exploit knowledge, and collaborate effectively to lower cost and reduce risk. HP delivers on its commitment to the oil and gas industry with a worldwide organization dedicated to providing solutions that meet today's challenges and fulfill the promise of energy for tomorrow.

For more information, please visit www.hp.com

Company contact:

Robert Delaneo
Global Account Manager
Tel: +1 832 585 0344
E-mail: robert.delaneo@hp.com

Microsoft

Microsoft, a leading technology provider to the oil and gas industry, is committed to help amplify the impact of people in the oil and gas industry to better seize opportunities, improve predictability, & compete under dynamic market conditions through innovative use of technology.

• In the Upstream, we are delivering mission-critical solutions focused on these 5 key business challenges: Digital Oilfield; Upstream Intelligence; Capital Project Intelligence; HSE & Compliance; and Supply Chain.
• In the Downstream, we are delivering mission-critical solutions focused on these 5 key business challenges: Refinery Intelligence; Supply, Trading & Risk Management; Capital Project Intelligence; HSE & Compliance; and Supply Chain.
• For Oilfield Supply Companies, we are delivering mission-critical solutions focused on these 5 key business challenges: Plant floor Operations, Lean Practices, Capital Project Intelligence; HSE & Compliance; and Supply Chain.

Microsoft along with its partners strives to help people achieve business gains through cost-effective, standards-based solutions that capitalize on existing IT assets and establish the foundation for next-generation technologies.

For more information, please visit www.microsoft.com/oilandgas.

Company contact:

David Barret
Energy Industry Marketing Manager, Microsoft US Enterprise and Partner Group
2000 W. Sam Houston Parkway South, Suite 350
Houston, Texas 77042
E-mail: dbarret@microsoft.com
Tel: +1 832 252 4334

Craig Hodges
Energy Industry Sales Director, Microsoft US Enterprise and Partner Group
2000 W. Sam Houston Parkway South, Suite 350
Houston, Texas 77042
E-mail: chodges@microsoft.com
Tel: +1 832 252 4480

Additional links

• OilGas Highlights
• High Performance Computing- Windows Compute Cluster Service 2003