VSG has signed a global partnership agreement with Schlumberger, leading provider of oil and gas software solutions. This collaboration agreement will expand the integration of VSG’s Open Inventor technology across the whole range of Schlumberger software products. This global technological collaboration will make available ultimate 3D high performance and graphics capabilities to all Schlumberger software products, providing oil and gas companies with first-class 3D software solutions to fully realize the potential of the digital oil field.

Open Inventor has been used for more than ten years in various Schlumberger software products, (including Petrel, ECLIPSE, GeoFrame, Ocean software development framework), and this new partnership agreement provides the potential to expand the use of Open Inventor to any Schlumberger software product or application. It also consolidates the partnership between both companies so that they can collaborate more closely to ensure that all Schlumberger products benefit in the most optimal way from VSG’s latest 3D technologies.

Commenting on the agreement, James P. Brady, Schlumberger Information Solutions’ Vice President of Technology says, “Schlumberger is pleased to expand its relationship with VSG. The Open Inventor framework is established in our flagship products, and expanding the use the technology will bring value to our customers”

“We are pleased to become a key supplier for all Schlumberger software products” said Jean Bernard Cazeaux, CEO of Visualization Sciences Group. “As a global 3D technology partner, VSG will leverage its 20-years expertise in advanced visualization and data management to Schlumberger, associating the leading 3D visualization technology to the leading Oil & Gas software applications, for unrivalled solutions in this challenging market.”