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SPECIAL REPORT Automation

Automation: Big Data,

AI takes paper to digital ffshore oil and gas is among the many indus-

In the engineering world, a large amount of data used for tries in the midst of a vast technological shift being driven by rapid advances in new digital design and maintenance activities in both green? eld and brown? eld projects exists only in the form of paper draw- technologies and methodologies. Big data, ar-

O ti? cial intelligence (AI), digitalization . . . The ings. Compared to digital drawings, paper are dif? cult to list goes on and on. But, how are these technologies being extract information from, and converting these drawings used across the offshore industry today – from exploration – which often contain between 10,000 and 200,000 docu- to design and all the way through production operations – to ments, depending of the size of the project – to digital for- mats can be extremely time intensive and costly.

boost safety, security and ef? ciency?

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