![]() The enhanced capabilities also extend to new applications across Total’s entire business, including molecular modeling to optimize refining processes or improve lubricants’ properties. “Pangea III also contributes to our business efficiency by enabling an early assessment of the value of exploration acreage and asset opportunities, thus enhancing selectivity in our new ventures,” Total management noted. Pangea III’s development and production models would allow Total to use innovative reservoir simulation methods to more efficiently integrate a field’s production history and generate more predictive production models. The exploration and development seismic imaging would be able to process more data at a higher resolution to locate hydrocarbons, particularly useful in complex environments where resources are trapped under salt, as in Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, Angola and the Eastern Mediterranean. “It enables Total to reduce geological risks in exploration and development, accelerate project maturation and delivery and increase the value of our assets through optimized field operations, with all this at a lower cost.”ĭeveloped by IBM, the high performance computer also is expected to enhance energy efficiency, dividing the power consumption/petaflop by 11 to 1.5 MW for Pangea III versus 4.5 MW for Pangea I and II). “Pangea III’s additional computing power enhances Total’s operational excellence,” said Total’s Arnaud Breuillac, president of exploration and production. Power for the system is 31.7 petaflops1, equivalent to 170,000 laptops combined, while storage capacity increased to 73 petabytes2, equal to around 50 million high-definition movies.
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