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ONGC unveils 3D virtual reality center
MUMBAI: The state-of-the-art centre was inaugurated by Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Ram Naik. ONGC chairman and Managing Director Subir Raha said the company plans to introduce three more such centres in Dehradun, Ahmedabad and Jorhat in Assam.
Set up with an investment of Rs 34.5 crore these centres will be used for exploration and production activities including surveillance of producing oil and gas fields.
The Third Eye will now help ONGC network all its centres together by parallel computing technologies for all the major projects, Raha said.
"We are already having seven offshore survey ships collecting data, which will be interpreted in this centre... ONGC's future finds of 100s of million tonnes now depends on it", the CMD said.
The application softwares for this technology have been developed during last 4-5 years. Geoscientists and engineers have harnessed it for imaging of sub-surface, identification of prospects, planning of difficult drilling trajectories and designing of offshore platforms and process facilities.
The centre comprises of large graphic engine with high end machines powered with computing capacity, large memory, disc capacity and large screen visualisation system.
Source: IANS