Saudi Aramco uses the latest supercomputers, data communications networks, workstations and applications software to support its exploration and producing operations.

These technologies support seismic processing, interpretation and mo1deling, reservoir simulation and description and information management.
Advanced visualisation systems enable multi-disciplinary asset teams to effectively and efficiently analyze large data volumes.
This allows for timely E&P decision-making, adding value through opportunity enhancement and risk avoidance.
Advances in IT enable newly optimized and computer-intensive image processing Pre-Stack Time Migration (PSTM) and Pre-Stack Depth Migration (PSDM) techniques. Computing power at Saudi Aramco is second to none in the oil industry.
Saudi Aramco has developed its own simulator: POWERS (Parallel Oil Water Reservoir Simulation). POWERS is capable of handling more than a million cells of reservoir description, with fifty year (and longer) prediction runs accomplished in a matter of hours.
It is no longer necessary to scale reservoir attributes.
Saudi Aramco's upstream operations use Numerical Reservoir Simulation to manage its reservoirs. Strategic decisions on facilities planning and reservoir management issues are made using reservoir simulation models.
Saudi Aramco has also developed the Simulation & Modeling Advanced Reservoir Technology System "SMARTS" environment to facilitate model development.
Advanced Visualization Centers were implemented by Saudi Aramco in 1998.
Remote collaboration in conjunction with advanced visualisation technology brings geoscientists from numerous disciplines and locations together in the same virtual space.