Statoil selects GE solution for upstream software and services

GE Intelligent Platforms announces that Statoil has chosen GE’s Proficy® SmartSignal predictive-diagnostic software and services from GE’s Industrial Performance & Reliability Centre (Industrial-PRC) to improve the uptime and increase the reliability of heavy rotating equipment such as gas turbines, generators and compressors.

Statoil, the largest oil and gas operator on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, operates more than 30 offshore platforms, in addition to onshore facilities such as gas treatment, crude oil reception, refinement and methanol production.

Technical solution

Statoil was looking for a solution with a proven track record that demonstrated timely payback while ensuring consistent implementation quality. As a result of a competitive proposal process, the operator chose the Proficy SmartSignal solution, with a strong focus on the technical solution as well as the commercial aspects. GE completed the rollout and ‘go live’ of the 50 equipment items (assets) in the initial phase in a little more than eight weeks.

Software for the offshore fleet

The company intends to implement GE’s software as part of its ‘Condition Monitoring Predictive Analytics’ (CMPA) solution, initially for its offshore fleet. It is currently considering expansion of the solution to onshore and across its other regional business units.

“With Statoil’s fleet of gas turbines and its large Bently Nevada installation, adding Proficy SmartSignal provides the greatest value solution for providing the foresight to help Statoil move towards becoming a fully proactive organisation,” said Brian Courtney, General Manager for GE Intelligent Platforms’ Industrial Data Intelligence business. “The Industrial-PRC is staffed with oil and gas experts, which provides low risk and high value to Statoil by ensuring the proper adoption of the SmartSignal solution.”

Proficy SmartSignal matched well with existing work processes and software tools used by Statoil’s Condition Monitoring Centre.

Monitoring and diagnostic capability

Proficy SmartSignal predictive-diagnostic software identifies equipment problems and helps avoid unexpected shutdowns. The software identifies developing faults utilising exception-based, prioritised, ‘apparent cause’ diagnostics. This monitoring and diagnostic capability runs, 24 hours per day, seven days per week. GE’s Industrial-PRC monitors more than 50 sites and 4,000 high-valued assets worldwide processing terabytes of data to predict equipment failures.

Edited from press release by Cecilia Rehn

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