PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
Award winners recognized Equipment, software solutions get the thumbs up Oil & Gas Engineering’s annual product of the year awards recognize significant innovation and advancement in technologies and best practices. In this December issue we announce the award winners. To any observer, what first impresses is the sheer scale and scope of the oil & gas industries, entailing more information than anyone could absorb in a lifetime. The selections below demonstrate how incremental but telling innovation in automation and information technology is being applied to processes or equipment categories that have been with us for quite some time.
These innovations include a new generation of machinery management software for proactive monitoring of equipment, especially the rotating kind; digital twins for use in risk evaluation management; advances in pressure pumping and in portable data collection; and incorporation of machine learning into connection integrity evaluation. While what matters most is the efficacy of the solutions in the real world of dollars and cents, the satisfying of our collective curiosity about how things unfold pays for itself.
IIoT & process control
∠ GOLD AWARD WINNER Condition monitoring, diagnostics software The System 1 version 19.1 software platform offers a modern and intuitive interface that enables users to establish, manage and improve their plant-wide condition monitoring programs. Bently Nevada’s System 1 has achieved broad adoption around the world in process-intensive industries. The platform has been continuously enhanced since its launch and has been redesigned to meet the cybersecurity requirements, diagnostic expectations and user experience of engineers and information technology professionals. System 1 upgrades adhere to a bi-annual release rhythm with user-driven enhancements, expanded connectivity and compliance with the most recently updated operating systems and security patches.
https://bently.com
∠ SILVER AWARD WINNER
∠ BRONZE AWARD WINNER
Operational risk management software
Cyber threat detection software
Operational Risk Management (ORM) Digital Twin software brings together the data collected from enterprise systems, mobile applications, sensors and human-derived inputs as part of an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) strategy to produce a computer-generated risk map. This allows companies to obtain a simulated view of their operational risk in real time on SpheraCloud. The technology includes an early warning system that makes all risk exposure visible, prominent and available in real time. This is designed to help reduce organizations’ vulnerability to high-potential near-misses and major hazards. ORM Digital Twin technology allows companies to improve their risk management capabilities while improving productivity and managing costs.
Guardian version 18.5 protects control networks from cyber attacks and operational disruptions. It provides superior operational visibility and rapid detection of cyber threats, plus processes risks through a passive network traffic analysis. Guardian automatically discovers an entire industrial network, including assets, connections, protocols and topology. It monitors network communications and behavior for risks that threaten reliability and cybersecurity, and provides the information needed to respond quickly. Guardian delivers asset identification, network visualization and real-time monitoring, industrial control system (ICS) threat detection using a hybrid approach, enterprise-class scalability when deployed with the Central Management Console, and easy integration and sharing of ICS and cybersecurity information with information technology/operational technology infrastructure.
https://sphera.com
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16 • DECEMBER 2019 OIL&GAS ENGINEERING
