PDS's people are distinguished by their customer focus, creativity, persistence, passion for doing good jobs, and hard work. (If you can describe yourself in these terms you may want to visit our Employment page.)

We have an extraordinary breadth and depth of talent for a company with only a few people and only recently began operations in 1997. We have 50+ years combined industry skills in 3D seismic imaging R&D, which demands both high computing power, high I/O throughput and complicated parallel systems setup.

Table of Contents

• Management Team
• Credentials of the Company
• History of the Company
• 3D PreSDM and PreSTM Project Track Record
• Case Histories

Credentials of the Management Team

Chen-Bin Su, CEO

CEO - Parallel Data Systems, Inc. 1997 - present

Industry Consultant - IBM 1989 - 1997

Researched in parallel computing in 3D seismic applications, published numerous papers in parallel 3D seismic imaging and conducted industry wide parallel courses.

New Tech. S/W Development Manager - GSI 1979 - 1989

Worked on 3D poststack depth/time migration projects, 3D DMO, 3D MVA (migration velocity analysis), 3D interpretation, wavelet projects.

Main interests

Parallel high performance computing in "distributed resources" or "shared memory processors", 3D seismic imaging (prestack, poststack imaging and velocity analysis), 3D seismic systems.

Zhiming Li, Senior Vice President of Operations

Senior Vice President of Operations - Parallel Data Systems 2003 - present

Consulting Geophysicist - UNOCAL 1998 - 2002

Worked on depth imaging, deepwater.

Senior Advising Geophysicist - UNOCAL 1991 - 1998

Worked on depth imaging/AVO.

Visiting Professor - Colorado School of Mines 1990 - 1991

Worked on Li's 3D finite-difference wave-equation migration.

Senior Research Geophysicist - Western Geophysical 1986 - 1988

Worked on time/depth imaging.

Associate Professor/Geophysicist - China Petroleum Industry and Academics 1974 - 1978, 1988 - 1990

Worked on university teaching and research consortium.

Main interests

3D pre-stack depth imaging case histories, Gulf of Mexico Regional 3D velocity model, AVO analysis of fluvial systems (East China Sea), AVO analysis (South Caspian Sea), Li's correction to one-pass finite-difference waive-field migration and modeling, enhancement to pre-stack time migration, wave-field extrapolation

Wes Bauske, Vice President

Vice President - Parallel Data Systems, Inc. 1997 - present

Senior Scientist - IBM 1992 - 1997

Designed and implemented high performance distributed I/O for 3D seismic applications. Worked on parallel and serial tuning for 3D seismic applications and UNIX seismic system infrastructure.

New Tech. Senior Development Project Leader - GSI 1981 - 1990

Worked on 3D poststack depth/time migration projects, 2D prestack finite difference migration.

Main interests

Parallel computing, high performance distributed I/O, open networked systems, seismic graphic system and 3D seismic system design.

Credentials of the Company

Honors and awards:

• Industry Consultant Engineer, IBM
• Senior Member of Technical Staff, IBM
• Senior Member, Technical Staff, Texas Instruments
• Member, Group Technical Staff, Texas Instruments
• "Best OTC Geophysical Paper Award" of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists(SEG) (1992)
• "Distinguish Technical Achievement Award", IBM, for distributed networked tape access
• "World Class Technical Achievement Award", IBM
• 3-D Distributed Depth Imaging, UNOCAL
• Offshore China Resource Evaluation, UNOCAL
• Science and Technology Outstanding Accomplishment Award, UNOCAL
• 3-D Prestack Time Migration of Offshore Indonesia, UNOCAL
• Migration Workstation, UNOCAL
• Prestack Depth Migration and Velocity Analysis, UNOCAL
• Distributed Processing on Workstation Network, UNOCAL
• Outstanding Scientist Research Award, Fok Yingtong Educational Foundation, Hong Kong

History of the Company

PDS founded at Dallas in 1997
PDS was founded in 1997 by Chen-Bin Su and Wes Bauske. Currently, the Dallas office provides these services:

• volume 3D pre-stack depth imaging
• parallel 3D seismic processing
• high performance computing
• multiple vendors tape and distributed I/O support

Expanded Business to Houston in 2003
In 2003, we expanded it's business to Houston by an opening of a new branch. In addition to the new office, we welcomed Zhiming Li to our company. Currently, the Houston office provides these services:

• full service of 3D pre-stack depth and timing imaging
• velocity model building and updating
• post-migration processing
• well calibration

Company Track Record

Previous work:

• 30+ Projects, over 30,000 square kilometers area
• High quality and fast turnaround pre-stack depth imaging
  • 72 OCS blocks, 5 iterations in 3 months in 2001
  • 250 OCS blocks, 3 iterations in 3 months in 2002-2003
  • 100 OCS blocks, 5 iterations in 2 months in 2003
• Exploration and production areas we have worked on
  • US GOM: Deep Water - Mississippi Canyon, Atwater Valley, Green Canyon, Walker Ridge, Garden Bank, Keathley Canyon, East Breaks, Alaminos Canyon
    Shelf - Ship Shoal, Vermilion
  • US Alaska
  • International: Canada, North Sea, Indonesia

Case Histories

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