Starlink Will Cause Large Change in Seismic Oil and Gas Exploration
June 15th, 2020Oil companies use tape to store information collected from reflection seismology. A lot of tape. A lot of bulky, slow, expensive tape.
Starlink will allow for the fast movement of terabytes of data from remote exploration vessels to cloud storage for analysis. Currently, the data moves by crates in helicopters and trucks.
Via: BigMarker:
For decades, seismic exploration has operated with little to no access to the internet in the field. A network of low-Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites are to become one of the game-changing events of the 21st century. Starlink is offering, the world’s most advanced highspeed broadband internet; performance designed to surpass traditional satellite internet. A revolutionary project of this scale presents great opportunities; what will this mean for seismic exploration projects to have instant access to real-time data from remote fields? Will it become a paramount shift? How will it transform seismic exploration and what will this game-changing event mean for the oil and gas industry?
Join Guy C. Holmes, CEO of Tape Ark as he discusses how low-earth orbiting satellites will open up seismic exploration, and how it will become a breakthrough event that shifts the industry.
