Digital oilfield news

Developed in collaboration with TechnipFMC, DNVGL-RP-A204: Qualification and assurance of digital twins sets a benchmark for the sector’s varying approaches to building and operating the technology.

The Azeri Central East platform is the first of its kind to be designed through all phases, from concept to FEED and detailed design, to fully utilise KBR's Digital Twin technology.

The new service aims to help operators enhance asset performance, eliminate downtime, and reduce maintenance costs.

Shell’s Deepwater business has selected Bentley’s digital twin approach to streamline its capital projects process and accelerate time to first oil.

Emerson has been awarded a contract to provide automation technologies for the new Azeri Central East offshore platform.

Neptune Energy has announced it will adopt Halliburton’s DecisionSpace 365 well construction suite of cloud applications.

Khurais is Saudi Aramco's second facility, after the Uthmaniyah Gas Plant, to be included in the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network.

The joint initiative will provide global access to Schlumberger’s exploration and production (E&P) cloud-based environment and cognitive applications by leveraging IBM’s hybrid cloud technology, built on the Red Hat OpenShift container platform.

Joanna Mainguy, Energy Industry Solution Manager for EMEA at Microsoft, and Sak Nayagam, Global Marketing Director, BakerHughesC3.ai, look at the benefits of a more collaborative approach to the digital transformation business by bringing energy technology expertise together with solutions that optimise productivity and accelerate the industry transition.

The Bonga Main FPSO, which became operational in 2004, has a capacity of 225 000 bpd and weighs over 300 000 t, making it the largest asset in the world to be protected by a structural Digital Twin.