Supporting your digitalisation journey from the edge to the enterprise

As the oil & gas industry strives to produce more energy at lower cost with less emissions, companies are increasingly turning to new digital technologies to make their operations smarter, safer and more sustainable – and profitable.

But the digitalisation process can be challenging, as operators wrestle with a range of technical, logistical and financial barriers. In this article, we explain how Sensia can help oil & gas companies of all sizes overcome these challenges and harness the power of digital technology to optimise production, realise efficiencies, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals.

“Like every other region, our customers in the Middle East need to produce oil & gas more efficiently than ever before,” explains Jean-Christophe Vasseur, Regional Sales Director EMEA. “Connecting and monitoring individual assets is essential to achieve this, but those assets are usually widely distributed, often in remote locations. As well as connecting these assets, the challenge is to gather and utilise data effectively to optimise workflows.”

Through a comprehensive portfolio of digitalisation and automation solutions, Sensia connects assets across production, transportation and processing, from the most remote edge devices to central enterprise systems and beyond. By adding a digital infrastructure and applying domain expertise, Sensia has built a unique ecosystem that enables operators to achieve a step-change in energy asset performance, productivity and sustainability.

Scalable and Flexible

The digitalisation of an entire operation can seem like a daunting and costly challenge, at a time when all oil & gas companies are trying to do more with less. But Sensia enables a gradual transition, from the digitalisation of a single asset to the automation of your entire production operations, one by one.

“Digitalisation doesn’t have to happen overnight,” says Safwat Wahba, Middle East & Turkey Regional Sales Manager. “We are currently monitoring over 2,500 ESPs for a Middle Eastern NOC, but this is a project that started with just a handful of assets four years ago, providing surveillance for the well operations. We have gradually added more assets and solutions each year, enabling the customer to stagger investment while achieving a continuous evolution in asset performance, productivity and sustainability.”

The open and flexible nature of Sensia’s ecosystem with the Avalon digitalisation and automation platform at its core also allows the connectivity and optimisation of any asset, and OEMs or asset Operators can develop and add their own workflows and applications to the system. 

Harnessing AI and Machine Learning

It’s hard to keep pace with the continuously changing technology landscape, which is why many operators struggle to realise the full potential of AI and machine learning to translate insights into actionable business decisions. But Sensia’s Edge to Enterprise ecosystem comes with artificial intelligence/machine learning AI/ML capabilities built in, enabling predictive analytics that can anticipate issues before they arise.

For example, Sensia’s Ai Response Prioritization (AiRP) for ESPs uses the latest advances in AI and the most powerful data visualisation to automate the incident prioritisation process, meaning critical ESP events distinguished from potentially hundreds of alerts or alarms can be addressed in minutes rather than hours.

Secure and proven

The oil & gas industry’s growing reliance on digital technologies and interconnectivity means systems need to be secure and dependable. As the energy industry’s first digitally enabled, integrated automation solutions provider, Sensia’s comprehensive, reliable and secure framework ensures data integrity, protection against cyber threats, and trust in the technology stack.

A complete picture

Avalon, Sensia’s open digitalisation platform underpinning a range of connected solutions integrates easily with your current IT/OT investment, unlocking the hidden potential of your existing assets to put you on the path to full digitisation.

Once in place, Avalon allows you to visualise and control all aspects of your oil & gas operation. By collecting the right data and contextualising it into real-time diagnostics, operational trends and KPIs, you gain a complete overview of your operations. This enables people and functions across your organisation to make more informed decisions that lead to better resource management, and reduced waste and operational costs.

Discover how Sensia can help you achieve smarter and more sustainable production today at: www.sensiaglobal.com