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SAS Delivers Critical, Timely Insight to the Upstream Oil and Gas Market

Posted on: Wednesday, 16 June 2004, 06:00 CDT

Companies reduce decision cycle significantly, lessening risk and enabling better use of development funds with SAS business intelligence and Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor / Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processor-based servers

SAS, the leader in business intelligence, is delivering critical and timely business insight to the upstream oil and gas market with an end-to-end business intelligence platform running on Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor and Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processor-based servers. Customers will benefit from the new SAS(R)9 Intelligence Platform, Intel's mobile computing capabilities, the Intel platform and the market expertise and global presence from both SAS and Intel.

Traditionally, it takes months for companies to make decisions after initial seismic, drilling and production signals are received. Through using SAS' analytic, data processing and data delivery capabilities, the decision making process has been reduced to days. These results can be improved even further using SAS Data Quality, SAS Enterprise Miner(TM) and SAS Process Intelligence solutions and combining SAS and Intel(R) Centrino(TM) mobile technology-based clients and Intel Itanium 2 processor and Intel Xeon processor-based servers. This approach leads to better recovery rates and increased production, allowing customers to lessen their risk and make better use of development funds. Companies can quickly create a logical data model that integrates all relevant data from simulations, process, product and equipment-related systems at multiple sites. The data is managed, modeled and presented in a way that enables managers and engineers to intelligently monitor performance, surface key issues, navigate hierarchical views of the data, and make selections, perform targeted analyses, and collaborate within and between teams, resulting in better and faster decisions.

Mr. Valois, responsible for Reservoir Evaluation at TOTAL in Pau, France commented: "We needed to implement quick and intensive reservoir management studies to accelerate our evaluation process at our mature field operation. For this purpose we engineered a reservoir management application using the SAS analytic, data processing and data delivery capabilities, which enabled us to reduce the time to decision."

"Mobile computing is creating new usage models and faster access to information across all industries, including oil and gas," said Dick Bland, director of worldwide manufacturing and energy industry solutions at Intel. "Intel client and server technology can enable remote analytical access to the data center and scalable processing capabilities in order to crunch the large amounts of data utilized by SAS, an industry leader in business intelligence. This allows customers to make more timely decisions across their global enterprise."

The information is processed on Intel Itanium processor and Intel Xeon processor MP servers and delivered to mobile and remotely based reservoir managers on laptops powered by Intel Centrino mobile technology. Mobile and cooperative computing is essential to making the information accessible where and when it is needed, as well as to improving the upgrades and stimulations effect on recovery rate, risk and investment performance.

Added Horia Orenstein, business development manager for energy and utilities at SAS International: "Many large oil and gas companies use SAS solutions to solve problem areas efficiently through their organizations. At the field operation level, SAS and Intel technology quickly process and deliver the large-scale information on which remotely based reservoir managers and geologists need to make more timely, accurate and profitable decisions."

Today's announcement came at SAS Forum International 2004 (http://www.sas.com/sasforuminternational), the most extensive business intelligence conference outside the United States. Formerly known as SeUGI (SAS European Users Group International), the name was changed this year to better describe the conference's role as a forum for exchanging ideas, best practices and future directions in business intelligence.

About SAS

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites -- including 96 of the top 100 of the 2003 Fortune Global 500 -- to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know(R). Visit us at www.sas.com.

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