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Q: Could you briefly explain your role, involvement and experience with regards to this seminar?
Live Fornes (LF): I am the Project Leader for the barrier management project in Eni Norge. I have been driving project progress by ensuring a high level of engagement and involvement internally in Eni Norge.
Nathaniel Edwin (NE): I play key role in the engineering and development of the barrier status panel in Eni Norge. I also work on multiple digitalisation projects for Safetec, one of which is Safetec Insight (insight.safetec.no), which is a web portal for real-time visualisation of accident statistics across various industries.
Q: In your experience, what is the number one challenge facing the industry when it comes to digital technologies?
LF & NE: We believe that the biggest challenge before us is sense-making. Data is all around us today and data availability is no longer a challenge. However, using data to make informed decisions is a challenge. The second biggest challenge is adapting to change. The offshore oil and gas business has existed for close to fifty years now. Adapting the wave of digitalisation requires us to be open and willing to adapt to change. We see this as two of the biggest challenges facing the industry today.
Q: What is the most exciting development in this field at the moment, either within your company or in the industry in general?
LF & NE: Digitalisation has been an inspiring force that has allowed us to look at new ways of doing things. Simplified, streamlined and efficient processes are three keywords that are driving the digital revolution in the oil and gas business. Digitalisation has in some ways brought the oil and gas sector out of the challenging market situation – allowing us to work more efficiently.
Q: Where do you see for the future of digital technologies heading over the next 5–10 years in oil and gas?
LF & NE: Digital technologies are going to be integrated in every work process in the industry. We already see major players in the Norwegian sector looking to consolidate their data portfolio across multiple assets. Slicing and filtering through large data volumes can potentially provide us with insights we never knew existed before. We hope that within the coming decade that all players in the industry will open up more to data sharing and exchange, especially with regards to improving safety.>
Q: What are you most looking forward to by presenting at this seminar?
LF & NE: We’re both looking forward to interesting discussions and exchanges with other players in the industry.
Q: Why is it important for engineers to join this seminar?
LF & NE: Working with digitalisation always requires us to be up-to-date. In this field, large changes happen over a short space of time. Seminars such as this are an excellent platform that allow different companies across different parts of the value stream to present their work and discuss the challenges they face. You never know, a challenge we have today might already be solved by someone else!
Key programme highlights:
- Eni Norge share lessons learnt on the latest barrier monitoring technology for offshore production platforms
- OneSubsea introduce their monitoring methods and discuss its application for subsea oil and gas
- ABB highlight key areas to unlock production efficiency improvements
- Petrofac discuss their application of predictive analytics and compression to support uptime improvements
- DNV GL share case studies on improving major hazard awareness and real-time asset integrity management.
With insights from Eni Norge, Petrofac, ABB, OneSubsea, DNV GL and others, explore the latest digital technologies on offer to improve the integrity and performance of existing assets. Hear lessons learnt from the application of technologies and data analysis techniques to develop best practice in your organisation. Gain insight into the latest condition monitoring technologies to anticipate and avoid potential production problems and reduce costs. To book your place for our event on 17 October, please visit The Digital Oil Platform.