The oil industry uses quite a bit of computing power, mostly to process seismic data. Here's some "sponsored content" (found via a quick Google search) about B

The oil industry uses quite a bit of computing power, mostly to process seismic data. Here's some "sponsored content" (found via a quick Google search) about BP's computing center in Houston: [1] Some statistics extracted from the article (written by a non-technical journalist, I suspect, so treat them accordingly): 5,200 servers, 115,000 CPUs, 3.8 petaflops, 27 petabytes. Bear in mind that BP is only one oil company, and by no means the largest (you probably think Exxon is the largest, but Saudi Aramco is much bigger [2]). [1] http://www.politico.com/sponsor-content/2015/12/journey-to-the-subsurface-of-the-earth http://www.politico.com/sponsor-content/2015/12/journey-to-t... [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-07/too-big-to-value-why-saudi-aramco-is-in-a-league-of-its-own https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-07/too-big-t...