GPU-Accelerated Analytics for the Energy and Oil & Gas Sector

Oil & Gas Exploration and Production (Upstream)

There are several areas where Kinetica can be deployed to drive greater efficiency in the energy industry. For example, oil and gas companies need to be able to leverage real-time pipeline, well, and spatial data to determine the most viable oil fields for exploration, to remotely monitor drilling and production performance, and to prevent safety and environmental issues. By using Kinetica’s visualization tools, these companies can perform a faster and richer analysis of seismic, drilling, and production data in order to improve geologic analysis, reduce exploration risk, increase drill and production performance, and improve oil market forecasting.

Energy Service Providers (Midstream)

The midstream component of the petroleum industry involves the transportation, storage and wholesale marketing of crude and refined oil and gas products. Kinetica’s native visualization and geospatial tools make it possible to provide these midstream companies, such as those that build the vast networks of oil pipelines, with the ability to analyze comprehensive data sets for pipeline oil pressure monitoring, supply/demand forecasting, and real-time visualization of pipeline operations. Other midstream players, such as energy traders, rely on real-time analysis of energy market data and asset sensor data to respond to rapidly changing market conditions.

Smart Meter Analytics (Downstream)

Discovering new value from high volumes of streaming IoT data is one of the biggest opportunities in energy today. Energy companies can utilize smart meters to measure how energy resources such as electricity, water, and natural gas are being used. Kinetica’s ability to process streaming data and multi-billion row datasets in real time makes it a perfect solution for analyzing smart meter data to optimize energy generation and uptime, predict and prevent power outages, chart energy trends, understand customer energy usage, and improve load forecasts.

Equipment, Fleet, and Workforce Management

The analysis of streaming data plays a key role in monitoring and maintaining equipment in the energy and petroleum industries. Oil and gas companies can analyze sensor data from equipment and wells to avoid the downtime, costs, and safety issues that stem from equipment failures. Utilities can analyze electrical transmission, electrical distribution, gas distribution, gas transmission, and power pole data to predict, analyze, and minimize failures. In addition, “breadcrumb data” from maintenance personnel devices and service vehicles can be tracked to find the closest crew to a trouble call, identify the most efficient route, predict vehicle maintenance issues, and reduce emissions.