中国石化新闻网讯 据油气技术10月7日消息称,下游和油气行业正急速进入数字时代。正在进行的转型将最终影响到该行业全球供应链的各个方面。
壳牌首席数字产品经理Claudia Zuluaga说:“这个行业正在经历双重转型。一个是脱碳,另一个是数字转型。”
她说:“尽管石油和天然气行业正在经历历史上最具活力的技术变革时期之一,但现在该行业的责任是为实际上已经到来的未来准备劳动力。她概述了壳牌基于机器学习的全球性预测性维护战略,并将其作为在整个壳牌运营过程中使用人工智能(AI)策略的一部分。
“与人脑相比,人工智能可以在几秒钟内计算出大量数据。但企业拥有数字化,而为了获得价值,数字化转型所产生的结果和见解的核心是人。”
能源行业理事会首席执行官Stuart Broadley主持了“数字颠覆”晨会,他指出了以各种方式塑造了石油和天然气行业的各个里程碑。
“2014年,一切都与‘石油’有关。为为了应对这次危机,2015年和2016年的重点是降低成本。然后,在2017年重点是关停。在2018年,数字化成为主流。然而,2019年的重点是能源转型。在低碳能源的未来,数字化的机会就在这里。”
这一转变将要求油气行业从对股东负责转向对利益相关者负责。
Braskem数字变更管理负责人Marcos Abech表示:“化工行业可以从其他行业学到很多东西。”
不缺少数据。一个大型的精炼厂每天可以产生高达1tb的数据。但是,提高生产率的关键是确保对生成的数据的最佳利用。
英国石油下游数字公司的数字产品和合作伙伴关系总监Elena Cinquegrana表示:“数据应被用作决策工具,而不是交易工具。我们的宗旨是在最大的知识点上做出决策-这意味着您在正确的时间拥有正确的数据以传递价值。”
与此同时,与亚马逊等数据丰富的公司之间的协同效应正日益显现。哈里伯顿技术研究员兼首席数据科学家Satyam Priyadarshy博士说:“他们正在进军油气行业,因为他们是更成熟的技术平台的推动者。”
但数据公司与油气公司之间的往来不是一条单行道。事实上,代表们讨论了石油和天然气公司现在是否可以被视为“数据”公司。
因此,数字化的未来已经触手可及。而这给低碳能源企业带来的机遇,正在油气行业掀起一股真正的热潮。
曹海斌 摘译自 油气技术
原文如下:
Industry transition accelerates digitalisation drive at Future Downstream
The downstream and oil and gas industry is rushing headlong into the digital era. And the transformation that is underway is one that will eventually affect all aspects of the industry’s global supply chain.
Keynote speaker Claudia Zuluaga, Principal Digital Product Manager at Shell said “The industry is going through a double transformation. One is decarbonisation, the other is digital transformation.
“Even as the oil and gas industry goes through one of its most dynamic periods of technology transformations in history, the responsibility is now for the industry to prepare the workforce for a future that is in effect already here,” she said. She outlined Shell’s global strategy for predictive maintenance based on machine learning, as part of a deliberate strategy to use artificial intelligence (AI) right across Shell’s entire operation.
“AI can compute vast amounts of data in a matter of seconds when compared to the human mind. But business owns digital, and the human being is at the centre of the outcomes and insights produced by digital transformation in order to obtain value,” she said.
Chairing the morning panel on digital disruption, Stuart Broadley, CEO of the Energy Industry Council pointed to the various landmarks that have in their various ways shaped the oil and gas industry.
“In 2014 it was all about the ‘oil crash’. In response to this crash, 2015 and 2016 was about cost reduction. Then, in 2017 it was about decommissioning. In 2018, digitalisation became the buzzword. However, in 2019 it is all about energy transition. And the opportunity for digitalisation in the low carbon energy future is where the action is now.”
This transition will require the oil and gas industry to move away from a situation where it is answerable to its shareholders to one where it is answerable to its stakeholders.
Marcos Abech, Head of Digital Change Management at Braskem said “The chemicals industry can learn a lot from other sectors.”
There is no shortage of data. A large refinery can generate up to 1 terrabyte of data per day. But the key to improving productivity is ensuring the best possible use of the data that is being generated.
Elena Cinquegrana, Director of Digital Products and Partnerships, BP Downstream Digital said: “Data should be used as a decision-making tool, not as a transactional tool. Our motto is to make decisions at the greatest point of knowledge – this means you have the right data at the right time to deliver value.”
Meanwhile, synergies are increasingly created with data-rich companies like Amazon. “They are moving on to the oil and gas industry space as they are enablers with more mature tech platforms,” said Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy, Technology Fellow and Chief Data Scientist, Halliburton.
But movement between the data companies and the oil and gas companies is not a one-way street. Indeed, delegates debated whether oil and gas companies could now be considered ‘data’ companies in their own right.
So the digital future is already at hand. And the opportunity this brings for low carbon energy companies is creating a real buzz of excitement in the oil and gas sector.