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Re:UK Releases 130 Terabytes of Oil and Gas Data by convivialdingo on Monday March 25, 2019 @10:28PM (#19488799)
When I worked at CGG long ago, we worked with a lot of the proprietary E&P analysis software - it was primarily old UNIX but surprisingly quite capable and scalable.

I think there’s a lot of unknowns in terms of capabilities and algorithms to go after that in that market.

I’d thought of going back into it and developing some front end visualization software - but the amount of secrecy and magic sauce put me off.

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Re:UK Releases 130 Terabytes of Oil and Gas Data by doodlebugging on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:18PM (#19489004)
One contractor I worked with took their original software designed to run on IBM TSO/JES2 type mainframes and added a rough "GUI" to it. The parameterization of the modules was identical but instead of entering everything into columns and rows like a set of digital punchcards the user could simply fill out a field and the new software would insert that information into the correct row-column. Then they rewrote all of it from the top with a genuine GUI and sweet graphics and we all laughed when the only thing that worked at their initial demo to the processing groups was a band-pass filter. Minor problem for them but a real hoot for us.
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