'Cloud' Computing Gives Digital Oil and Gas Fields Giant Advance

摘要

A year ago, cloud computing was a concept that was the hot buzzword among IT specialists and the techno crowd. Now, a year later, this concept has helped the concept of the digital oil or gas field take a quantum leap forward. "It really is a case of something new, cloud computing, and something old, the digital oil or gas field," said Oscar Teoh, chief knowledge officer for iStore. "The digital oilfield concept has been around for 10 to 15 years, but now, with cloud computing, we are taking a giant step forward."