TGS announced on March 29 a multi-year strategic agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), naming AWS as its preferred cloud provider. The collaboration aims to use AWS’s high-performance computing and generative artificial intelligence to improve how the energy industry explores and extracts resources.
The partnership is expected to bring changes to geoscience by speeding up insights and reducing uncertainty for TGS customers. By using AI-driven seismic imaging on AWS, TGS plans to modernize its Imaging AnyWare platform and optimize processing workflows. The company will use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for large-scale workloads, scaling up quickly with millions of CPUs for faster project turnaround times.
Kristian Johansen, CEO of TGS, said, “This partnership represents the moment when the power of Generative AI meets the complexity of geoscience. By moving TGS Data Verse, the largest subsurface seismic library, and the TGS Imaging AnyWare platform to AWS, we are co-innovating to deliver an exploration-ready atlas of the subsurface. This collaboration translates subsurface data into strategic intelligence with unprecedented scale and speed, marking a fundamental shift that will accelerate prospect generation and create competitive advantages for our customers.”
TGS is also deploying a Subsurface Foundation Model built on Amazon Bedrock and powered by SageMaker HyperPods that can process different types of data at once for better understanding below ground. Uwem Ukpong, vice president at AWS Industries said, “TGS’ selection of AWS as their preferred cloud provider demonstrates how industry leaders are leveraging cloud computing and generative AI to transform energy exploration.” He added that combining AWS’s technology with TGS’s expertise would help companies get more value from seismic data.
The agreement builds on an existing relationship between TGS and AWS; petabytes of data have already been migrated by TGS onto the AWS cloud infrastructure. Advanced projects like elastic full waveform inversion in Brazil have used local GPU capabilities through this partnership.
Both companies say they expect these developments will help clients make better decisions across the energy sector by integrating advanced technologies into traditional workflows.
