Developing energy in the oil sector requires a set of high-performance technological tools. It relies on detailed geological surveys to find the highest performing drilling rigs to access oil and gas and ultimately the ability to responsibly transport raw or natural gas.

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A ExxonMobil, the US oil major, said energy companies also rely on powerful supercomputers to successfully operate their oil and gas fields. commercially successful.

These complex models, based on large amounts of data, take a long time to build. But a group of ExxonMobil scientists developed innovative software capable of developing the models in minutes rather than days.

This milestone was reached in National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, home to one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world known as Blue Waters. In addition to energy, the platform supports advanced research in fields ranging from physics to the study of volcanoes.

ExxonMobil's research project involved more than 22.000 computers, which together had more than 700.000 processors. That's enough computing power to run 1 quadrillion calculations per second. The computer disk storage space is large enough to store all printed documents in all libraries in the world.

The achievement, however, is not just about the raw power of the supercomputer, but also the ability to refine these individual machines to communicate effectively with each other and ultimately build the reservoir models quickly and accurately.

Innovation will accelerate the development of oil and gas reserves that will help meet the world's growing demand for safe and reliable energy.