From November 2008 till July 2009, S-OIL built an enterprise-wide communications and collaboration platform. S-OIL not only upgraded its existing groupware but also from an integration perspective, chose to a method to link a single platform for portal, collaboration, groupware, mobile, search, messenger and video conferencing as well as IP telephony utilizing Microsoft’s technologies and solution. In addition, it deployed 2007 Microsoft Office System in the business user environment and laid the groundwork for comprehensive enterprise security system with Active Directory and Forefront product families. With this project, S-OIL achieves more about 121% of ROI effects including innovation of conference culture, improvement of payment related work processing speed and real time support of decision making.

The Information Store® helps global petroleum companies access exploration and production data irrespective of where the data resides and presents it in a useful and familiar form. To maintain its competitive advantage, the company was eager to find a cost-effective way to extend its industry-leading PetroTrek® solutions to independent oil producers. The company evaluated two “software as a service” offerings and selected the Windows Azure™ platform—an Internet-scale “cloud services” platform that is hosted in Microsoft® data centers—as the foundation for its online Digital Oilfield solution, along with Microsoft SQL Azure, the Silverlight™ browser plug-in, and Bing™ maps for enterprise. The company expects to increase the operational efficiency of its customers by reducing upfront capital costs, reducing deployment cycles from months to days, and lowering ongoing operating expenses.

Medco Energi Internasional (MedcoEnergi), a global energy company, wanted to improve communications for its mobile work force. Employees traveled frequently to remote locations, and relied on e-mail to collaborate. However, an e-mail outage could stall communications for hours. To avoid downtime and improve access to information, MedcoEnergi is deploying Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 and integrating it with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. By creating a Database Availability Group, it can increase uptime and restore service within seconds instead of hours. Employees have improved Web-based access to multiple communications tools, and they can find and organize information more efficiently. In addition, MedcoEnergi expects to cut costs by consolidating server hardware and taking advantage of built-in communications capabilities.

StatoilHydro, an international energy company based in Stavanger, Norway, wanted to make sure that workers in its increasingly global operations could fully collaborate with their colleagues. Operating in a fiercely competitive market, StatoilHydro recognizes that delivering the information that employees need to do their jobs helps give the company an edge. To address remote access issues that could hinder employee productivity and collaboration, the oil company is implementing the Windows® 7 operating system and the Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating system, which together offer features such as BranchCache™ to improve data access at branch offices and DirectAccess to simplify remote connectivity. As a result of the upgrade, StatoilHydro will deliver seamless access to the corporate network for traveling employees, improve information access at branch offices, and enhance IT security.

StatoilHydro is an international energy company based in Norway. Operating in a fiercely competitive market, the company needs to give its 40,000 users access to the information they need, wherever they are. StatoilHydro is planning to deploy the Windows® 7 operating system to help employees collaborate and be productive anywhere, safeguard business data, and maintain better control over its tens of thousands of portable computers.

Based in Norway, DeepOcean specializes in subsea services as part of the Trico Marine Group. In an effort to enhance security for its portable computers and to address challenges with its virtual private network solution, the company decided to migrate to the Windows® 7 operating system. As a result of the upgrade, DeepOcean has simplified IT management, enhanced IT security, and improved employee productivity.

PetroChina wanted to maximize the operational efficiency of its IT system. To do this, the company upgraded to Windows Server® 2008 R2 to take advantage of the enhanced Hyper-V™ technology and features such as Cluster Shared Volumes. As a result, the company expects to reduce server hardware by more than 40 percent, increase performance and availability, and reduce IT management time.

Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), the state-owned oil and gas company based in Mexico City, has 150,000 employees and generated U.S.$98.2 billion in 2008. Some years ago PEMEX Exploration and Production, the company’s largest business unit, created its own document processing and workflow management application using early versions of Microsoft® SQL Server® database software and Microsoft BizTalk® Server. As success of the internally developed application spread, response times declined. To gain scalability, PEMEX Exploration and Production upgraded the solution to SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit) and BizTalk Server 2006 R2. CPU utilization has dropped and the company has gained the scalability it needs to roll out the solution to the rest of PEMEX. The company also plans to take advantage of SQL Server 2008 Transparent Data Encryption to enhance document protection.

Gassco is responsible for operating the Norwegian gas transport system on behalf of joint ventures and companies in Europe. In an effort to improve employee productivity and simplify management of its aging IT infrastructure, the company upgraded to the Windows® 7 operating system. As a result of the upgrade, Gassco has increased employee productivity with improved system performance, enhanced IT security, and simplified IT management.

By implementing the Microsoft Hyper-V technology, Gazprom Neft Company, not only succeed to increase reliability, flexibility and scalability of its IT infrastructure, but also to significantly reduce expenditures, while substantially increasing work efficiency. At the moment, 15% of all operating corporate applications have been transferred to virtual machines hosted on Hewlett-Packard BL 680 servers.