Information and Communication Technology
Information and Communication Technology Department
The department's main task is to provide technical support to the systems operating at the company's headquarters and the working seismic crews (SOFTWARE, HARDWARE) that use advanced geological and geophysical applications, as these systems contain databases for all software used in exploratory operation, as follows:
- Processing applications (Echos, Geovation, Omega)
- Geophysical studies applications (Petrel, Geoframe, Hamson Russl)
These applications are used in processing and interpreting seismic information leading to the issuance of geological studies, providing technical support to the working seismic crews that use the (Geoland and Geocluster) systems in field processing operations, preparing and designing software that serves the administrative and financial sides, as well as providing Internet service and supervising interactive networks for systems, supervising the company’s website and saving seismic information (Raw Data) as an electronic archive on several media, as well as providing technical support for the following systems:
- Quality control system at the company’s headquarters using the Geovation application.
- A system for archiving information and studies (Data Bank) using Esearch and Prosource applications.
- Surveillance systems and video cameras at various company’s sites.
- Video communication systems at the company’s headquarters and the seismic crews working on Video Conference.
- Video and audio systems in meeting halls and the 3D Visualization system hall.
- Quality control systems in working seismic crews.
The department consists of:-
Maintenance Section
Providing technical support, maintenance and supervision to all company’s departments and seismic crews for maintenance of computers, printers, copying and electronic plotters, and installing camera systems and sound systems.
The Maintenance Section consists of the following units:
Seismic Crews Support Team: It provides technical support to maintenance of computer devices, as far as the Information and Communication Technology Department is concerned, with regard to the systems operating in the geophysics and surveying units, the camera and the e-logging systems, and the recording unit.
Microcomputer Maintenance Unit: Providing technical support for maintenance of all microcomputer devices in the company, Al-Nahrawan and Al-Waziriya sites, the seismic crews, and the UPS devices attached to them, as well as the UPS devices attached to the operating systems.
Unit of Maintenance of Printers, Copying, and Mapping Devices: Providing technical support to all printers, copying devices, and drawing devices for drawing seismic sections at the company’s headquarters, working crews, CCTV systems, and E-logging system devices at the company’s various sites, and maintaining and operating the meeting and training halls and the 3D visualization hall.
The Programming Section: It performs the following duties:
- Its tasks are to prepare and design software that serves the administrative and financial parts, in advanced languages, in addition to stable databases, and to provide support for beneficiaries in printing the reports and statistics required of them, and to hold development and training courses for members of the company’s departments.
- Following up the programs that were previously prepared by the section via Internet.
- Evaluating research papers, concerned with OEC area of work, received from a higher administration level.
- Providing presentations and workshops of the systems that have been completed.
Communications Section:
- Providing technical support, maintenance and supervision to all the company’s departments, in addition to the seismic crews in everything related to the Internet and communication systems. It is responsible for the company’s headquarters, al- Waziriya and Al- Nahrawan sites.
The duties of the Communications Section include many tasks such as:
- Maintaining and operating video conference systems
- Cooperation and joint work in CCTV systems
- Maintenance and programming of Motorola wireless communication devices
- Supervision and technical support to Internet use in OEC’s sites, daily work and quality of service, and following up cybersecurity.
- Supervision and technical support to network and local servers used in OEC licensed specialized programs.
Systems Management Unit
Its tasks are to provide technical support (checking, operating, activating licenses, downloading information, installing interactive networks, backup) for the systems’ servers.
- Processing systems: OMEGA , GEOVATION , ECHOS
- Geophysical studies systems: GEOFRAME, PETREL, remote sensing (PCI, ERDAS), HAMPSON RUSSL AVO, STRATA
- Geological studies systems: GEOFRAME, PETREL, TECLOG systems.
- Quality control system in OEC headquarters using the GEOVATION application.
- Information management systems: (Data Bank), PROSURCE, ESEARCH systems.
- CCTV systems at OEC various sites.
- Video Conference systems at OEC headquarters and working seismic crews.
- Protecting systems and programs against cyber attacks.
Data Registration and E-mail Unit:
It is one of the head units in the department and performs the following tasks
- Archiving field information of the seismic crews sent by the Quality Control Department and information sent by other companies, recording them on LTO magnetic tapes, numbering them, giving them a store number, and storing them in the tape store.
- Preparing seismic lines (segy field) to the beneficiary departments.
- Following up the emails on the company’s official domain (oil.gov.iq) by creating emails and increasing the storage space for emails according to the request of the beneficiary.
- Providing technical support for the company’s website.