Oil and Gas

	BRIEFING NOTES »Accelerating Subsurface Offset Gathers for 3D Seismic Applications »Accelerating 2D FFTs and Convolutions for Seismic Processing »Acceleration of the Lattice Boltzman Method for Fluid Flow

With total world petroleum consumption approaching 100 million barrels a day, discovery of new oil and gas reserves is more important than ever. New software tools such as Anisotropic Forward Modeling, Reverse Time Migration and Waveform Inversion can have a significant impact on seismic data interpretation for exploration but at a considerable computational cost. Maxeler's technology can be deployed to deliver the next generation of algorithms at a cost comparable to lower fidelity approaches, as well as to increase throughput and decrease turnaround times for current applications.

Algorithms that can benefit from acceleration include Shot Profile Migration, Common Azimuth Migration, Narrow Azimuth Migration, Reverse-time Migration, Elastic/Acoustic Forward Modelling, 2D/3D SRME, Waveform Inversion, Wave-equation Migration Velocity Analysis, Reservoir modelling and Electromagnetic inversion.

We are collaborating with the Center for Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) at Stanford University to accelerate key algorithms in the seismic computing domain. Pushing forward the frontiers of computational geoscience, CEES is engaging computer scientists and architects to design software and hardware targeted to solving Earth and environmental science problems.