CEPCOLSA, a subsidiary of CEPSA S.A.U., began their activities in Colombia in 2001. Throughout these years, the Company has carried out numerous exploratory and production activities (seismic acquisition and exploratory wells); in the geological basins of the Llanos; Lower, Middle and Upper Valley of Magdalena and Catatumbo, located in the departments of Meta, Casanare, Cundinamarca, Santander, Tolima, Huila and Vichada.
One of these contracts corresponds to the exploration, production and development of the CARACARA block, operated in association with ECOPETROL; located in the basin of the Eastern Llanos, in the municipalities of Puerto Gaitán (Meta) and Maní (Casanare). It is a stable field, with a daily production of 20,000 barrels from its stations Jaguar, Toro Sentado and Caracara Sur; the crude is transported through a pipeline to the Maní Station
On the other hand, they have the Casanare projects, located in the municipalities of Aguazul, Maní, Tauramena, Paz de Ariporo and Yopal; some are in the exploration phase, others in development and/or production. These are fields with high growth potential, in the process of being endorsed by the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH).
Its administrative headquarters is located in Bogotá, it has a team of 240 direct collaborators and approximately 60 temporary ones, including contractors and consultants. And in the field operation, Meta and Casanare, we find approximately 200 employees.
The IT area is aimed at supporting the Company's processes at a transversal level, throughout the Bogotá and Campo (Meta and Casanare) operation, and at making business processes more efficient.
Six years ago, the Company's corporate and business growth began, therefore, the technological platform had to be adapted and strengthened with the support of SERBAN GROUP as a supplier throughout the data storage and information line.
The team is a data structure manager; SAN, NAS and back up are the 3 verticals of SERBAN GROUP, which support CEPCOLSA in storage solutions.
Solutions that show the improvements in the service going towards the critical areas of the business and the support areas have been very positive; NetApp technology offers the Company benefits that generate value, such as:
- Savings in the amount of space available in effective TB; if these solutions were not available, the amount of it would have to be increased.
- Easy access for users without requiring the IT area, since they can access and recover a damaged or lost file; this improves the basic maintenance operation by virtue of being more efficient.
With regards to the technical part, 3 years ago when the company switched to the FAS 3240 solution supplied by SERBAN GROUPprovided support and review of the project, and both companies jointly reviewed what was the best alternative in storage that NetApp had developed for Schlumberger; manufacturer of software Petrel that the company uses as a basis for its seismic exploration. The solution was reviewed in detail and almost tailored so that the software worked optimally, with this the best result could be obtained; far superior to any other solution on the market.
In a span of 5 years, the company went from having 3 TB of effective storage capacity, to having 30 TB, 6 times more than its initial capacity. It started with the backup drive storage robot, then moved to a two-drive robot and grew from 4 to 30 servers, accompanied by SERBAN GROUP in a virtual environment. All this growth has been accompanied by partner SERBAN GROUP.