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Innovations
Shell, C3 AI, Baker Hughes, Microsoft launch OAI
Egypt’s new Upstream Gateway
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THE EGYPTIAN MINISTRY of Petroleum and Schlumberger have launched the Egypt Upstream Gateway, a national project for the digitalisation of subsurface information. This digital platform will enable access to the country's subsurface data, unlocking Egypt's exploration and production potential.
SHELL, C3 AI, Baker Hughes and Microsoft have announced the launch of the Open AI Energy Initiative (OAI), an open ecosystem of artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions for the energy and process industries. The OAI provides a framework for energy operators, service providers, equipment providers, and independent software vendors for energy services to offer interoperable solutions, including AI and physics-based models, monitoring, diagnostics, prescriptive actions and services, powered by the BHC3 AI Suite and Microsoft Azure. “This initiative is about combining the efforts of global leaders to accelerate the digital transformation of the energy industry to new, safe, and secure energy and to ensure climate security,” said C3 AI CEO Thomas M. Siebel. The first set of OAI solutions provided by Shell and Baker Hughes are focused on reliability and designed to improve uptime and performance of energy assets and processes. These reliability solutions will serve as extensions to the current BHC3 Reliability application, an AIbased application that provides reliability, process, and maintenance engineers with AI-enabled insights to predict process and equipment performance risks for the energy industry.
The AOI will bring together AI-based solutions for the industry.
BP joins IBM Quantum Network BP IS THE latest industry partner of the IBM Quantum Network, giving the oil and gas giant access to IBM’s quantum expertise, software and cloud access to some of the most advanced quantum computers available. This includes the industry’s largest universal quantum system, a 65-qubit computer. The partnership hopes to explore how quantum computing can be best applied to solve engineering and industry challenges in the oil The network brings together Fortune 500 and gas sector. A notable aim of the network is companies. exploring the potential applications for driving efficiency and reducing carbon emissions of worldwide oil and gas companies’ operations. Senior vice president, digital science and engineering for BP, Morag Watson, commented: “BP’s ambition is to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner and help the world get to net zero. Next-generation computing capabilities such as quantum computing will assist in solving the science and engineering challenges we will face, enabling us to reimagine energy and design new lower carbon products.” Quantum computing’s potential applications include: modelling the chemistry and build-up of clay in hydrocarbon wells; monitoring and managing fluid dynamics in wind farms; optimising autonomous facility inspection; and creating opportunities to deliver clean energy.
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Speaking at the launch event in Cairo on 17 February, HE Tarek El-Molla, Egypt’s minister of petroleum and mineral resources, highlighted the importance of digitalisation as a ‘pivotal enabler’. “Digital transformation is playing a significant role in driving efficiencies at both a strategic and operational level in oil and gas, and becoming a critical factor for success in the post-pandemic period,” said El-Molla. “As the oil and gas industry is Egypt grows, there will be a great opportunity to leverage big data, the use of data science and new and emerging technologies that will accelerate opportunities. The Egypt Upstream Gateway is a unique and innovative national project that significantly enhances the national data repository solution by digitalising all subsurface information and putting data at your fingertips.” “The Egypt Upstream Gateway is the embodiment of the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum's vision, leveraging digitisation to modernise the country’s petroleum sector,” said Rajeev Sonthalia, president, digital and integration, Schlumberger. The Egypt Upstream Gateway provides digital access to over 100 years' worth of accumulated national onshore and offshore seismic, non-seismic, well-log, production, and additional subsurface data under a single platform. This data, which empowers de-risked decisions through the ability to explore multiple basins and evergreen data, can be accessed virtually from anywhere using the platform’s online portal. At the event, Egypt’s first digital international bid round was launched through the EUG. 24 blocks are being offered by EGPC and EGAS in the Gulf of Suez, Western Desert, Eastern Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Egypt Upstream Gateway was launched in Cairo.
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