Statoil is an international energy company. This talk will highlight some important business challenges and issues related to data utilization. Analysing seismic reflections is the main exploration tool for an oil company, this is largest data volume in the company. Environmental monitoring is essential for Statoil in order to achieve its target of zero harmful discharges, the sensor data needs to be collected, analysed and distributed. The size of computer security logs explodes, the need to understand and detect events related to security increases.