Digital and Data Category has seen the largest growth of all the categories, The largest expansion of technologies in any sub-category is “Modelling & Analytics” has seen dramatic growth in 2022 data with multiple operator adoptions on multiple assets – Digital & Data Technologies operators are reporting include.
- Advanced Timelapse 4D seismic data processing techniques and subsurface modelling to better exploit existing reserves and locate missed pay opportunities.
“Connected Worker” technologies to enable on-site workers to communicate receive and record data in the field via mobile networks using ATEX rated Tablets and head-up displays.
Software extracting data directly from documents, a digital well book stores data and workflows to determine well potential. Digital and Database Management systems for wells and subsea, software for operations management improvement. Software driven solutions for production optimisation, Decommissioning Scheduling and plan optimisation, smart rooms linked to digital twins of offshore assets. Technologies that enhance the ability to remotely monitor or inspect Offshore assets, augmented reality for ROV’s subsea for wellhead tubing & tree alignment, automated online valve and actuator monitoring , and waste tracking & Management software.
Summary Findings (CTRL-Click on Sub-Categories for detail)
- Connectivity
Operators are increasingly adopting “connected worker” technologies to enable on-site workers to communicate receive and record data in the field via mobile networks using ATEX rated Tablets and head-up displays, Onshore and Offshore control rooms connected to allow remote operations and reduce offshore manning. - Data Acquisition
Improved methods of Seismic Data Acquisition to increase resolution and improve reservoir sweep, Laser Scanning of assets creating 3D point cloud data with high accuracy. Software extracting data directly from documents ensuring revision history is maintained, a digital well book stores data and workflows to determine well potential - Data Systems
Operators report growth in adoption of Digital and Database Management systems for wells and subsea, software for operations management improvement, Online lean check-in applications , and Asset integrity management databases - Modelling & Analytics
The largest expansion of technologies in any sub-category Modelling & Analytics has seen dramatic growth in 2022 data with multiple operator adoptions on multiple assets – focus is on advanced Timelapse 4D seismic data processing techniques and subsurface modelling to better exploit existing reserves and locate missed pay opportunities, adoption of AI/Machine learning in subsurface modelling. - Productivity & Safety Enhancements
Use of software driven solutions for production optimisation, Decommissioning Scheduling and plan optimisation, production loss analysis, and smart rooms linked top digital twins of offshore assets - Visualisation & Interfacing
Technologies that enhance the ability to remotely monitor or inspect Offshore assets, Improve the assessment and tracking of Anomalies, augmented reality for ROV’s subsea for wellhead tubing & tree alignment, automated online valve and actuator monitoring , and waste tracking & Management software.
Digital & Data technologies
- Over 50 technology plans submitted each year from 2018 to 2022
- Large Increase in number of individual technologies reported, together with the number of operators reporting interest in this area (Participation of 25 Operators in 2022)
- A smaller number (20) of respondents not yet considering this theme (based on submissions)
- Operators are focusing on a larger number of technologies ready for deployment (Early Commercialisation TRL 8) and Existing or in widespread use (TRL 9)
- The pipeline of technologies under development (TRL 1-7) remains healthy
Digital & Data maturity and deployments
Once familiar with the technology the same operator deploys it at multiple assets (over 1100 deployments reported/planned for 2021-23)
1. Connectivity
Operators are increasingly adopting “connected worker” technologies to enable on-site workers to communicate receive and record data in the field via mobile networks using ATEX rated Tablets and head-up displays, Onshore and Offshore control rooms connected to allow remote operations and reduce offshore manning.
- Connected Worker - Digitalisation of Inspection and Anomaly Management - Use of remote connected technology linked to maintenance management system and previous surveys to reduce workload of offshore inspectors and maintenance teams
- BP (Clair), Apache (Beryl) Neo Energy (Donan), Equinor (Mariner), TotalEnergies (Edradour) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
Technology Example :
By enabling workers at offshore sites to request over-the shoulder subject matter expert (SME) support from onshore personnel, a solution with this capability can become vital when a piece of equipment, critical to production, shows signs of fault or breaks down, due to the need to collect photographic evidence, send emails and organize conference calls between offshore engineers and SMEs
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- Onshore/Offshore Control Room linkage (Onshore Smart Rooms) - Set up onshore Operations Rooms where key onshore asset support staff can provide direct and timely support to offshore operations
- CNR International (Ninian) TotalEnergies (Alwyn, Jura) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Remote Technology Centre - Use of Fugro remote working centre for performing integrity assessments during platform based ROV works. Results in bed and seat savings but with no commercial savings
- Repsol Sinopec Resources (Auk) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- 4G installation - Creating a network offshore to enable mobile working and more telemetry to be streamed onshore, 4G LTE to be implemented
- BP (Andrew), Harbour Energy (All Assets), Neptune (Cygnus), Serica Energy (Bruce), TotalEnergies (All Assets) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Mobile private network (MPN) mobility - Provision of EX rated tablets to allow workers mobile access to applications (i.e. reporting system, safe systems of work, maintenance management system). Proof of concept for augmented reality using Hololens & tablet devices to guide technicians through instruction based training. Utilises 4G mobile private network at Easington Terminal.
- Centrica (Rough) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
2. Data Acquisition
Improved methods of Seismic Data Acquisition to increase resolution and improve reservoir sweep, Laser Scanning of assets creating 3D point cloud data with high accuracy. Software extracting data directly from documents ensuring revision history is maintained, a digital well book stores data and workflows to determine well potential
- 4D seismic acquisition - Address the potential for imperfect reservoir sweep in a potentially complexly-connected reservoirs. 4D acquisition and processing in thin injectite sand bodies subject to water sweep
- Harbour Energy (Brodgar, Catcher),Taqa (Harding), TotalEnergies (Jura) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Ultra high density ocean bottom seismic (UHDOBN) - The acquisition of densely sampled seismic data to improve reservoir imaging.
- BP (Clair) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Laser Scanning - Accurate construction data provided by laser imaging scanner to create 3D point cloud with greater than one mm accuracy
- KNOC/Dana (Barra) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Well Activity Reporting Portal (WARP) - Digital Well Activity Reporting Portal - to improve drilling efficiencies and working practices
- TotalEnergies (Culzean) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Digital Well Book - Integration in one single tool of all well information and workflows to determine well potential, compare performance against forecast, register and rank opportunities for improvement.
- Repsol Sinopec Resources (Arbroath) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
- GDI Vision - Automating remote visual inspection. - Reducing offshore POB, reduced time to complete visual inspection, increased data quality and reduced human exposure. NZTC approved stage 2 of the GDI Remote visual inspection project - to fully automate inspection by utilising point cloud data.
- Anasuria Operating Company (Guillemot) TRL 1-4 Early Development
Technology Example :
GDi provides clients with access to a web-based visual platform. Through this technology, we build a digital walkthrough of the asset to view the 360° HD photography. This innovative web based tool enhances operational and engineering functionality whilst delivering material cost benefits to our clients.
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- Brownfield Digital Asset Insights Extraction - IBM has a specific software asset/service that is designed to extract specific and targeted engineering data from documents, engineering drawings and structured or semi-structured files to vastly accelerate the creation of a digital asset that can be leveraged for decommissioning, to help identify and extract key data, recognising the Revision History in a document or drawing and extracting data directly from an authoritative table rather than simply looking for keywords in text.
- CNR International (Ninian) TRL 1-4 Early development
3. Data Systems
Operators report growth in adoption of Digital and Database Management systems for wells and subsea, software for operations management improvement, Online lean check-in applications , and Asset integrity management databases
Modelling & Analytics
- Enhanced predictive maintenance for Drilling - The utilisation of digital data for enhanced predictive maintenance in drilling rigs
- Harbour Energy (Lomond) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
Technology Example :
Artesis e-MCM monitors your rotating equipment continuously, constantly taking measurements and comparing them with the digital twin it created during the self-learning process. Unlike conventional online systems, its unique machine learning algorithm allows it to recognise normal operation in a wide range of conditions, such as different speeds or loads
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- Well & Subsea Databases Management - Amalgamation of various historic Well & Subsea Databases
- Harbour Energy (Brittania, Jasmine) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Operations Management Systems Improvement - Dana continue to develop our Management Systems to improve working effectiveness. During 2020 the Maximo Enhancement programme commenced which included the goals of improving Maximo integration with other sources of business data and managing software obsolescence. This includes a version upgrade and a longer term goal of adding the Oil and Gas Bolt on.
- KNOC/Dana (Clapham) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Asset Integrity Management Database - Offshore/Onshore electronic manipulation of inspection data - ONE Database upgraded functionality
- Harbour Energy (Fleming) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
- MyVantage Online App - "LEAN Checkin E2E process resulting a reduction in check in time. - LEAN process for cascading flight and safety information to Passengers. Allows passengers access to their personal details, training competencies, trip history and to receive electronic messaging on flight details
- Shell (Arran) TRL5-7 Late Development/Pilot
4. Modelling & Analytics
The largest expansion of technologies in any sub-category Modelling & Analytics has seen dramatic growth in 2022 data with multiple operator adoptions on multiple assets – focus is on advanced Timelapse 4D seismic data processing techniques and subsurface modelling to better exploit existing reserves and locate missed pay opportunities, adoption of AI/Machine learning in subsurface modelling.
- 4D Time-Lapse Seismic data processing - Acquire 4D time lapse monitor survey to image oil and water movements within the Forties reservoir. Primary tool used for locating infill drilling targets
- Apache (Bacchus) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Timelapse 4D seismic project with Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh Time Lapse Project) - Developing tools and techniques for timelapse qualitative seismic interpretation / evaluation to monitor the water saturation and pressure changes in the reservoir and identify remaining oil areas. This is now actively used in CNOOC.
- CNOOC (Buzzard, Golden Eagle) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- X-PAS Condition Monitoring & Services for Predictive Maintenance - OPEX Group's Condition Monitoring & Predictive Analytics Services are used for Predictive Maintenance on all 3 CNOOC UK assets.
- CNOOC (Golden eagle, Scott, Telford) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Well analysis for missed pay - NZTC missed pay project to use analysis of well data to identify missed pay and provide new well database ???
- EnQuest (All Asset
- Subsea processing - Apache has ongoing assessment of Seabox water injection treatment for existing subsea well stock to increase water injection capability and overcome platform slot constraints
- Apache (Beryl) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
- AI/Machine Learning in Subsurface Modelling - application of learnings from ongoing collaboration with ENRGeo using Cygnus as an example.
- Neptune E&P (Cygnus) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
- Neptune E&P (Cygnus) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
Technology Example :
AI/Machine Learning in Subsurface Modelling - application of learnings from ongoing collaboration with ENRGeo
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- Gas Compression Analytics - Use of data science methods to improve gas compression up time
- CNOOC (Bittern, Guillemot Harris Pict, Saxon) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
5. Productivity & Safety Enhancements
Use of software driven solutions for production optimisation, Decommissioning Scheduling and plan optimisation, production loss analysis, and smart rooms linked top digital twins of offshore assets
- Improved Production Optimisation through use of GAP/RESOLVE - Dana currently has the Petroleum Experts (PETEX) Integrated Production Modelling software (IPM) composed of GAP, PROSPER, MBAL and PVTP which it utilises to optimise production in the Triton Area.
- KNOC/Dana (Bittern) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Production loss data to Power BI - Production loss data all in one place, therefore reducing time taken to pull data from a variety of sources.
- Spirit (Birch) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Fully integrated 3D model based Asset Management system - Develop a fully integrated 3D model based Asset Management system/platform that enables efficient and effective visualisation of equipment characteristics, using a digital twin philosophy. The system will provide a visual hub, containing tag specific geo-locations, to which multiple sources of engineering data can be assigned.
- CNR International (Ninian) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- YETI - Production & Emissions Optimisation by AI.
- TotalEnergies (Alwyn North) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Digital Oil Field System - Developed an integrated production system optimisation model to monitor well and field performance realtime and optimise production output using the PEtroleum Experts IFM/IVM/IPM tool set.
- CNOOC (Buzzard) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
- Digital Twin & Smart Room - Building a digital twin of Elgin Franklin to enhance efficiency and optimise working practices through a data centric approach
- TotalEnergies (Culzean) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
- Software for Decom scheduling and optimisation - Software development to assess removal options, suitability of equipment and optimised plans.
- Harbour Energy (Alison KX) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
Technology Example :
The concept of Integrated Production Modelling (IPM) was pioneered by Petroleum Experts and it involves the elimination of artificial boundary conditions. A change that is made on a pipeline model for example, will automatically change the behaviour of the wells and reservoirs upstream of that pipe, as well as behaviour of all the elements downstream.
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6. Visualisation & Interfacing
Technologies that enhance the ability to remotely monitor or inspect Offshore assets, Improve the assessment and tracking of Anomalies, augmented reality for ROV’s subsea for wellhead tubing & tree alignment, automated online valve and actuator monitoring , and waste tracking & Management software.
- HoloLens 2 - a pair of augmented reality smart-glasses developed and manufactured by Microsoft. Mariner will use HoloLens 2 in combination with Echo for maintenance
- Equinor (Mariner), BP (Clair), TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Activity Integration Workbench - AiW is a new tool to improve site execution efficiency and change our users experience with the AI process. It will transform the way we get work in our activity schedules ready and how we manage work execution. AiW combines data from the core systems of SAP, Primavera and eCoW to provide users with an integrated view of what’s needed to execute and performance manage work at site.
- BP (Andrew) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- Anomaly assessment and tracking - The AA&T tool is a leap forward in how we manage our anomalies. It provides end-to-end traceability and reduces the amount of duplication in the current process. The cumulative risk profile will be far more visible, both in terms of local asset risk and a wider discipline view, which will hopefully drive continuous improvement to achieve safer and more reliable operations.
- BP (Andrew) TRL 9 Proven Technologies
- COVIZ for 4D visualisation and integration - Integration and visualisation of 4D data - Tools for optimally visualising 4D or testing - reservoir engineers create simulations to more closely depict reservoir structural, petrophysical, fluid, and production characteristics.
- Harbour Energy (All Assets) TRL 8 Early commercialisation
Technology Example :
With volumes of subsurface data and these powerful modelling tools, reservoir engineers create simulations to more closely depict reservoir structural, petrophysical, fluid, and production characteristics. Improved models provide better estimates of reserves and guide economic and operational decisions to maximize recovery.
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- FUGRO Quickview - Quickview ROV augmented reality for Subsea wellhead, tubing hanger and tree installation alignment
- Harbour Energy (All Assets) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
- MCR Valve Watch - ValveWatch is an automated, online valve monitoring system for critical valves and actuators. Users can remotely monitor a valve or actuator?s performance and correct degradation before it effects safe and reliable operation. ValveWatch incorporates sensors attached to or near the valve and actuator assembly to routinely monitor and record their performance.
- Shell (Corvette) TRL 5-7 Late Development/Pilot
- Radtrac - Radtrac by WasteVu. Digitalising the waste tracking & management process. Improve tracking & reduce incidents. Improved transparency & visibility& improved data quality & reporting
- Shell (Curlew) TRL 1-4 Early Development
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