Case Study: Anadarko achieves rapid real-time drilling analytics and operating cost reductions with TIBCO Software

Anadarko Produces Operating Cost Advantages Fast implementation of real-time analytics, answers on the fly

Anadarko Petroleum, an independent oil and gas explorer, needed to lower operating costs and modernize technology to boost shareholder value. Its Advanced Analytics team faced massive drilling data volumes—about 86,000 rows per rig per day, multiplying to millions across sites—and sought contextual, real‑time answers that everyone from drillers to engineers could use consistently.

The company deployed TIBCO Spotfire for visualization and TIBCO StreamBase for real‑time streaming analytics, giving engineers and data scientists a visual, low‑code environment with broad connector support and R/Python integration. A prototype was built in months, latency dropped from ~15–20 seconds to 1–2 seconds, and plug‑and‑play analytics modules now send automated, actionable guidance to drillers—delivering faster decisions, lower implementation costs (3 months vs. 10–12 with open source) and improved operational and shareholder outcomes.

Anadarko

Dingzhou Cao

Data Scientist