Kongsberg Digital to digitise Chevron’s global assets

KONGSBERG DIGITAL HAS entered into a strategic agreement with Chevron to digitise its global assets using Kongsberg Digital's digital twin technology. The agreement includes a multi-year commitment.

The contract, which was signed in January 2023, represents expansions of work performed on contracts signed in 2021, with a committed multiple-asset deployment plan and further applications to enrich Chevron’s user experiences. The digital twin solution will aid Chevron in work planning and project execution. The digital twin solution will also enable faster troubleshooting, reduced cost, decision making, and lower personal and process safety risk.

The contract signing.

Shane McArdle, CEO at Kongsberg Digital said, “We are proud to support Chevron in adopting digital twins for its global operations. This agreement represents both at-scale delivery of digital twin technology to Chevron’s global business units, and beyond that a multi-year journey of innovation. We look forward to continuing this exciting journey with Chevron.”

Eni and ADNOC sign MoU for joint projects

ENI AND ADNOC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-operate for future joint projects on energy transition, sustainability and decarbonisation.

Through this agreement, Eni and ADNOC will explore potential opportunities in the areas of renewable energy, blue and green hydrogen, carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), in the reduction of greenhouse gas and methane gas emissions, energy efficiency, routine gas flaring reduction and the Global Methane Pledge, to support global energy security and a sustainable energy transition. In addition, they will evaluate areas of cooperation for sustainable development and promoting the spread of a culture of sustainability within the energy industry and its stakeholders.

Eni CEO, Claudio Descalzi, commented, “This agreement leverages the strategic relationship that Eni and ADNOC developed over the years, to strengthen our cooperation for decarbonisation and for a just energy transition. It comes at a crucial time, in a difficult international juncture and in view of the upcoming COP28, where the UAE, as hosting country, is expected to set out its vision for a clean energy transition agenda.”

Collaboration for emissions management

HALLIBURTON AND SIGULER Guff & Company have launched Envana Software Partners, which provides critical emissions management softwareas-a-service (SaaS) solutions to track greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas industry and beyond.

The Envana digital emissions management solution provides a smarter and more accurate picture of emissions, which gives companies actionable information to manage and reduce their total carbon footprint.

The venture’s first offering, Envana Catalyst, is an SaaS solution that helps increase transparency of the environmental impact of drilling, completions, and production operations. It can improve the visibility of greenhouse gas emissions tracking and forecasting company wide, and can provide support for actionable recommendations throughout upstream asset life, from planning and design through execution.

“Envana provides breakthrough SaaS emissions management solutions and is the latest example of how innovation adds to sustainability in the oil and gas industry,” said Rami Yassine, senior vice president, Halliburton Drilling and Evaluation division. “Envana Catalyst provides digital solutions to generate actionable recommendations for emissions improvement “throughout the asset lifecycle.”