Oil industry awards Barco for unique data visualization technology
Houston, United States, 18 October 2007 – Barco, a world leader in advanced digital visualization, is pleased to announce that its XDS-1000 display management system has taken the top prize in “Best Data Application / Visualization” at the 2007 World Oil Awards. This award confirms, once again, Barco’s pivotal role in the petroleum industry.
The annual World Oil Awards applauds the innovations and innovators of the global upstream petroleum industry, demonstrating the technological feats that are the hallmark of the industry. This year's program featured 12 award categories that covered the spectrum of the upstream oil and gas industry, and drew candidates from around the globe. Barco accepted the prestigious award from Rusty Meador, President and CEO of Gulf Publishing Company.“Barco is extremely proud to have been recognized for its achievement in developing the XDS-1000 system, our contribution to the future of data visualization,” says Al Herman, vice president and general manager for Barco’s simulation business. “We are constantly striving to provide more powerful tools for decision-making and risk analysis in the oil and gas industries. This award reflects our ongoing commitment to this goal.”
Barco has a long history of partnership with the petroleum industry, helping geologists and geophysicists of the world’s leading oil organizations to visualize complex seismic data and other critical information. The XDS-1000, a display management system for multi-channel projection systems and display walls, represents the next generation of technology by creating the ultimate immersive, collaborative working environment. Its integrated Windows XP desktop, simply controlled by mouse and keyboard, seamlessly and simultaneously displays various data and video sources in multiple mono and 3D stereo windows. Because these sources can be locally stored or networked, geographically distributed teams are able to share, distribute and update content in real time. They can also connect to the internet, DVDs, 3D workstations, satellite TV, laptops and high-resolution videoconferencing systems - all vital tools for effective global communication.
“With its unique ability to display up to six stereoscopic sources simultaneously, or even display mono and stereo sources at the same time, Barco has ensured that engineers and analysts need to spend less time correlating data or looking for hidden details,” says Dr. Herman. The XDS-1000 has the power to handle displays with a resolution of millions of megapixels in bright colors, zoom in on images without loss of detail, and eliminate blurry overlap zones where projections converge, so that one continuous image is generated. With its easy source and layout selection, this user-friendly product helps the world’s leading Oil and Gas organizations explore and produce new oil and gas supplies faster and more efficiently.
The XDS-1000 system is currently being used in Shell’s visualization centers across the world and in Schlumberger’s Training Center. Major organizations such as Norsk Hydro in Norway and ADMA and ADCO in United Arab Emirates also use Barco’s display management system.
About Barco
Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
Barco (Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with about 3800 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of euro 751 million in 2006.
