Historic agreement expands access to DELFI
cognitive E&P environment to address customers’ deployment
preferences
Schlumberger, IBM and Red Hat, announced today a major
collaboration to accelerate digital transformation across the oil
and gas industry. The joint initiative will provide global access
to Schlumberger’s leading exploration and production (E&P)
cloud-based environment and cognitive applications by leveraging
IBM’s hybrid cloud technology, built on the Red Hat OpenShift
container platform.
Collaborative development will initially focus on two key
areas:
- Private, hybrid or multi-cloud deployment of the DELFI*
cognitive E&P environment enabled by Red Hat OpenShift to
significantly expand access for customers.
- Delivering the first hybrid cloud implementation of the OSDU™
data platform (the open data platform for the industry).
Through the agreement with IBM and Red Hat, Schlumberger
has committed to the exclusive use of Red Hat OpenShift. Using the
container platform will enable the deployment of applications in
the DELFI environment across any infrastructure, from traditional
data centers to multiple clouds, including private and public. This
new way of hosting will offer the possibility to use multiple cloud
providers and will address critical issues for customers,
facilitating in-country deployments in compliance with local
regulations and data residency requirements.
The DELFI environment incorporates cutting-edge data analytics
and artificial intelligence, drawing upon multiple data sources,
automating workflows, and facilitating seamless collaboration for
domain teams. Many more oil and gas operators, suppliers and
partners, from all regions of the world will be enabled to work
from the industry’s leading digital environment—built on a
standard, open platform—where they can ‘write once and run
everywhere’ when creating new applications.
“By expanding market access to the DELFI environment we take a
major step forward on the journey to establishing the open and
flexible digital environment our industry needs,” comments Olivier
Le Peuch, chief executive officer, Schlumberger. “Our collaboration
with IBM and Red Hat complements our established digital
partnerships to produce an industry-first solution to overcome our
customers’ challenges. Together, we are enabling seamless access to
a hybrid cloud platform in all countries across the globe for
deployment in any basin, for any operator.”
“The logic, purpose, and differentiation of all businesses can
now be rendered in code, which is why digital innovation has become
the most powerful way to drive transformation and hybrid cloud is
the lever that unleashes it,” said Arvind Krishna, chief executive
officer, IBM. “Together with Schlumberger, we are empowering a much
broader group of participants to play a role in driving that
transformation and helping the energy industry solve some of the
world’s toughest challenges to emerge stronger.”
"The energy industry is transforming as organizations look for
efficient new ways to power their operations, adopt digital
technologies to create a competitive advantage, and innovate and
integrate workflows to make faster and better decisions,” said Paul
Cormier, president and chief executive officer, Red Hat. “A hybrid
cloud foundation built on open source offers the flexibility,
acceleration and innovation this digital transformation requires.
Schlumberger has long been an industry leader and is bold in its
vision for digital transformation in the energy industry. We look
forward to working closely with Schlumberger to make the DELFI
environment available everywhere with Red Hat OpenShift."
Schlumberger supports many of the world’s most vital oil and gas
operations and is on the forefront of digitalization across the
energy sector. It has established the DELFI environment as the
industry-leading cognitive E&P environment where today energy
professionals access open APIs to work together, independent of
role, workflow or physical location, and create solutions that
significantly improve business operations.
The organizations intend to further their collaboration with the
creation of a differentiated data management and operations
solution for the OSDU™ data platform, enabling oil and gas
operators to build, deploy and transition digital solutions with
hybrid-cloud data infrastructures. This will foster wider
collaboration and greater efficiency across many professionals in
the E&P value chain.
Prior to this announcement, Schlumberger, IBM and Red Hat
successfully piloted the new hybrid cloud deployment of the DELFI
environment on Red Hat OpenShift, the leading Kubernetes platform,
working with Red Hat and IBM Services, the world’s largest team of
Red Hat certified consultants. The two organizations focused on
demonstrating the flexibility and portability for compute, storage
and data intensive exploration and field development
applications.
IBM’s collaboration with Schlumberger is part of the company’s
new commitment to invest in accelerating adoption of hybrid cloud
and open architectures. IBM is targeting essential industries, such
as energy, running the crucial processes of the world. These
efforts are increasing in importance as organizations navigate the
impacts of the pandemic and economic downturn, which is creating an
acute need for speed to market, flexibility and nimbleness to
encourage innovation.
About Schlumberger
Schlumberger is the world’s leading provider of technology for
reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to
the oil and gas industry. With product sales and services in more
than 120 countries and employing approximately 85,000 people as of
the end of the second quarter of 2020 who represent over 170
nationalities, Schlumberger supplies the industry’s most
comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration
through production, and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that
optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance
sustainably.
Schlumberger Limited has executive offices in Paris, Houston,
London, and The Hague, and reported revenues of $32.92 billion in
2019. For more information, visit www.slb.com.
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open
source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to
deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud,
container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers
integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native
applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system,
and automate, secure, and manage complex environments.
Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red
Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to
cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors,
customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help
organizations prepare for the digital future.
About IBM
IBM combines technology with industry expertise to help Oil
& Gas clients digitally reinvent their businesses for
resilience and sustainability. Pioneering advances in materials
science from IBM Research accelerate energy transition. Data
science and AI take the guesswork out of exploration. Predictive
asset management raises production throughput. Supply chain
insights and blockchain build trust and transparency across the
downstream ecosystem. Customer experience experts reshape consumer
connections at the gas pump or electric charge station. Through
these solutions IBM helps Oil & Gas clients emerge smarter. For
further information visit:
https://www.ibm.com/industries/oil-gas
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