What can I say, this was the largest, most detailed, highest resolution survey ever in the world, even until now. Royal Dutch Shell wanted to make this project the flagship of technology. It was the largest deployment of my oil survey packages ever. The entire inventory Info Express had, plus buying more base computers were placed on one ship. The amount of data produced was phenomenal.
Info Express systems had to process the data from the all other computers that were controlling and acquiring data from various sensors and devices from around the ship. Upwards of 5 gigabytes of data had to be processed and reported on everyday and all data must be available from the start of the project. Over the 320 days of working, some 1600 gigabytes of data was stored and available for interpretation. Another industry first.
This project lasted for several years.