Now we will also have the option of licensing the software on a standalone basis throughout the industry. Shell to use Linux supercomputer for oil quest . Seitel currently keeps its data on magnetic tape and hard drives in Houston and Calgary, Alberta. The amount of information the company will make available in the database will be equal to 1.1 quadrillion bytes, or 1 million gigabytes. To offer the information online, Seitel's data storage network will use hundreds of IBM's largest data storage servers.
State accepts Houston smog plan .
As expected, the smog plan orders sweeping cuts in industrial emissions, lowered speed limits, expanded tailpipe testing, morning bans on the use of certain equipment, plus many other measures. U.S. Hopes to Spur Gas Drilling By Creating Royalty Incentives . Coming as natural-gas prices hover at historic highs, the incentives are aimed at encouraging producers to attack the bigger and more prolific deposits thought to be buried deeper underneath the floor of the relatively shallow Gulf shelf. The gas is needed to satisfy an expected boom in demand during the next decade. Similar incentives started in 1995 are widely credited with spurring a flurry of exploration for oil in the Gulf's deeper waters.