CGG Taps PC Clustering in Oil Hunt - ' CGG AMERICAS BASE CASE ' (
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CGG Americas Base Case
Headquarters: 16430 Park Ten Place, Houston, TX 77084
Phone: (281) 646-2400
Business: Oil and gas research
Top technology manager: Laurent Clerc, information technology architect
Financials in 2001: $720 million in sales; $14 million net profits; $43 million operating profit
Challenge: To control a 6,000-processor cluster of personal computers that is expected to grow to 10,000 in 2003
Baseline goals:
Save $41 million per year through restructuring plan begun in October 1998
Continue to cut operating costs as a percentage of revenues. Operating costs were 83% of revenues in 2000, 80% in 2001
Increase company's worldwide computing power two to four times in 2003 to attract new oil and gas clients that have complex data processing needs
Projects: Networks/Storage 
