Oil companies face increasing requirements to improve productivity, to build better, more accurate reservoir models, to reduce time spent on value-adding decisions in a near real-time environment and to support new fields and developments in remote and often environmentally hostile regions. Grid computing, a service oriented architectural approach that uses open standards to enable distributed computing over the Internet, a private network or both provides the necessary access, data and processing power to rapidly solve complex business problems, conduct compute-intensive research and data analysis and engage in real-time business on demand.
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