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BP Uses Visualization Technology to Drill Better Wells in Alaskan Fields.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2000
Oct. 26--In what looks like a small theater at BP's Alaska headquarters, petroleum engineers, geologists and geophysicists are using sophisticated 3-D visualization technology to drill better wells at the company's North Slope fields.
The Highly Interactive Visualization Environment -- or HIVE -- technology was installed 10 months ago and already has saved the company at least $1.5 million in drilling costs on the North Slope, said Steve Jones, a geologist with the company's Prudhoe Bay operations.
"We're able to go for targets that are more complicated and drill them with a greater chance of success," Jones said.
The company demonstrated the system for reporters Wednesday.
The darkened virtual-reality workroom is loaded with $650,000...
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