The new center will help the team get a better view of the data collected in the initial development phases of a deposit.
“The readily accessible oil is gone. We are now trying to find the oil we couldn’t at first,” explained Ruth Rusby, senior geophysicist with Petrom’s exploration and production unit since 2008.
Petrom officials said the new 3D visualization center will shorten the time it takes to make a decision to drill a well significantly. Whereas the company would need about three weeks to make such a decision in before, it can now make it in one week, said Gary Ingram, head of Black Sea development with Petrom.
The project comes shortly after Petrom announced it had begun a new phase of the deepwater exploration of the Neptun block in the Black Sea and the drilling of a new well, Domino-2, in partnership with ExxonMobil.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)