Oil and gas industry case studiesView case studies for:  StatoilHydro"Using Windows 7 [and Windows Server 2008], we’ll be able to better support our strategy as a global company and more easily share information no matter where our employees and consultants reside." Petter Wersland, Leading Advisor for IT Infrastructure, StatoilHydro  Southern Union"Productivity is the no-brainer benefit of Office SharePoint Server…. It was intuitively clear to us from the beginning that Office SharePoint Server would make us more productive." Magan Yarbrough, Director of IT Customer Service, Southern Union  Medco Energi"We were able to restore service in just nine seconds in our pilot environment with Exchange Server 2010. More reliable e-mail means faster responses to partners and customers." Cecep Saefudin, Manager—Infrastructure Services, Medco Energi Internasional  National Oilwell Varco"With Office Communications Server, we can send one person from the team to Dubai... They can still function as a team for the meetings—but with a third of the travel cost." Scott Duff, Vice President of Internal Audit, NOV  THK-BPSharePoint Server 2007 is the industry standard for creating convenient, easy-to-use enterprise portals that are compatible with other corporate software. TNK-BP's SharePoint portal supports the work of 18,000 users across twenty Russian regions, making it the largest such portal in Russia.  Royal Dutch Shell"Our primary aim in deploying Office Communications Server 2007 is to give greater flexibility to our key employees and add value to what they do through a better working environment." Johan Krebbers, Group IT Architect, Royal Dutch Shell  Chesapeake"Whatever idea we decide to implement on our intranet solution, we are confident that with Micosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 we can meet our needs and maintain our momentum." Cathy Tompkins, Chief Information Officer  Chevron"User Account Control is a solid enabler along the path towards a safter, more stable, and predictable computing experience." Jerry Ham, Design Team Lead, Chevron  Gazprom Neft"Employment of Hyper-V technology has broadened our capabilities in the field of controllability, monitoring and scalability of the IT infrastructure. This, in its turn, has enabled us to satisfy the business's growing needs in computational resources and, at the same time, to cut IT costs." Andrei Khorobrykh, Head of Information Technology, Automation and Telecommunications, Gazprom Neft  Istore"If we compare the upfront cost of the two deployment models, I would estimate that using Windows Azure could save customers as much as 90 percent in some cases."Thinh Pham, Senior Architect, Istore  Petróleos MexicanosPetróleos 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.  SchlumbergerOil and gas companies worldwide trust Schlumberger to deliver services and solutions that support their exploration and production operations. With operations in more than 80 countries, Schlumberger needed a robust and reliable communications system that transcends geographic boundaries. The company is integrating Microsoft® unified communications technologies, including Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, with its industry-leading Petrel reservoir modeling software. In addition, Schlumberger is rolling out Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 internally. Employees use Microsoft Office Communicator to view real-time availability information and share data with colleagues, and they hold effective video conferences with Microsoft RoundTable™. With access to the information they need, employees are better prepared to make critical decisions.  Saudi Aramco"With an improved user experience, we expect to reduce help-desk calls and gain much more productivity." Fahad Aldossary, Project Manager, Saudi Aramco  Exterran"In contrast to our previous portal, Microsoft got our employees collaborating faster and easier - employee use of the portal improved significantly after the migration to Microsoft." Kumar Mantripragada, Project Manager, Exterran Chevron"Using IntelaTrac to accelerate and sustain process improvements, Chevron has reduced maintenance costs, improved availability, and achieved cost-effective regulatory compliance." Mike Brooks, Global Refining IT Advisor  Nalco"We expect to see the solution support a 5 percent increase in our revenues. Given the more than billion-dollar size of our market, that could be a substantial revenue increase." Terry Burleson
Vice President, Downstream Energy Services, Nalco  BP"This solution is changing the way we do business. When the data is presented through a map-based interface, it's amazing. It gives you a richer, bigger, more intelligent picture of what's going on." Steve Fortune, CIO, Gulf of Mexico Strategic Performance Unit, BP  Hercules Offshore"Microsoft technologies support our philosophy of engaging all employees in health and safety practices. Today, more employees are practicing safer behaivor, reducing the potential for serious accidents." Rich McClaine, VP for Health, Safety, and Environment, Hercules Offshore  China National Petroleum Corporation"Windows Server 2008 R2 gives us the capability to make configurations and migrate servers between hosts without disruption to service, so we have higher availability to ensure business continuity." Defu Feng, Project Manager, PetroChina China National Petroleum Corporation"SQL Server 2008 supports formidable auditing so that while official documents are flowing through the process, their status and content changes are permanently recorded in the system." IT Manager, China National Petroleum Corporation  Dubai Petroleum Establishment"DPE now has a highly cost effective set of tools for reservoir simulation. As soon as we tested the Microsoft solution, we were satisfied with its performance and reliability. Ease of use and administration led us to the choice of Windows high-performance computing." Michael Skairjeh, Director, Infrastructure Services, Dubai Petroleum Establishment  LyondellBasell"Microsoft software helps us put data into our people's hands to help make smart decisions faster." Bruce Pollard, Business Solutions Lead, Lyondell Chemical Company, a LyondellBasell Company  NuStar Energy"We had that new service provisioned within a business day, rather than the weeks it would have taken without the flexible, consistent infrastructure that we’ve created." Robert Amos,Manager of Infrastructure Systems, NuStar Energy NuStar Energy"Using Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 to streamline identity management has enabled us to reallocate IT resources with an annual savings of $100,000. The speed at which we can resolve security issues saves us another $60,000 annually." Robert Amos, Manager of Infrastructure Systems, NuStar Energy
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