Under the agreement, Hess will deploy Schlumberger’s GeoFrame reservoir characterization, Petrel seismic-to-simulation, Eclipse reservoir simulation, Merak project economics, as well as OFM and Drilling Office software.

Scott Heck, senior vice president for exploration and production technology at Hess, said: As a global player in the upstream petroleum industry, we need a comprehensive suite of software tools for our geoscientists and engineers to optimize their decision-making ability in a wide variety of conditions.