The National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) recently announced a pioneering robot, called Hermes, for the reception and storage of all data generated by the oil industry in Brazilian territory. The system, which relies on IBM technologies, is unprecedented in the country in terms of stored petabytes and embedded intelligence, and represents greater process optimization for the agency.
Among the IBM solutions adopted are data storage, management and orchestration technologies. The benefits of adopting the platform include lower costs of researching exploration and production data, as well as more security and speed in delivering this information to companies that use the ANP Exploration and Production Database (BDEP), resulting in more effective strategies and improved business generation.
According to Rafael Vicente, a specialist in storage sales at IBM Brazil, the technology, based on software defined storage and comprising more than 40 petabytes of storage, is of the private cloud type, in which there is an orchestration of hardware and software to allow large capacity. storage at an extremely attractive price. It's how streaming platforms work. The solution manages all the data, migrating it between fast media such as Flash or traditional and slow Storage (tape cartridges in robots) with no impact for those who access the data on it. The migration functionality allows, over time, to migrate from HW (media, servers, networks) in a transparent way, and optimize data storage costs, which improves the search and delivery time of the data. , which used to take days and, with technology, now takes minutes.
"Before, the entire process of searching, assembling and registering a storage tape with seismic and digital well information, for example, took an average of 20 days. With the new IBM technologies, ANP customers can now access the platform and extract the seismic data in just a few minutes", explains the executive.
From these results, oil companies are able to map possible unexplored oil wells, work in new regions of the Brazilian coast and have a better understanding of the quality of the extracted oil. With the technology, the ANP is already considering sending data directly from companies operating areas for exploration and production and from data acquisition companies, through dedicated links.
Juliana Coimbra, Storage Solutions Area Leader at IBM Brazil, explains that "IBM's storage solutions offer customers the possibility to choose the best data strategy for their competitive model and extract all the value they need to differentiate themselves in the market through AI and hybrid multi-cloud projects. This, always putting security in the foreground".
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