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To: Roebear who wrote (54733)	11/14/1999 9:17:00 PM
From: Tomas	Respond to of 95453

Drilling down on costs with virtual discoveries High-tech innovations, such as 3D seismic reflection, have helped revolutionize the field of oil and gas exploration "For decades, seismic work has been some of the most computer-intensive activity in the world, employing more mainframes and supercomputers than any sector except the military. Data from seismic shoots are measured in the hundreds of gigabytes (one gigabyte is one thousand megabytes), and seismic processing companies must maintain memory capability measured in terabytes (one million megabytes) or even petabytes (one billion megabytes). We've taxed every bit of the computer industry's improvements in memory and speed". Full article: nationalpost.com From National Post: Calgary's Boom, November 12