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Source: Aker BP

No lists: illustration of Cognite software finding and illustrating a fault for crews to examine.

“Big data will not deliver direct value,” he declares, adding known partners providing wireless solutions to oil and gas, there that storage and choices on what to monitor are crucial at the are other, more speci? cally life-extension digitizers emerging. beginning. His presentation, The Big Data Fallacy, prompts Software tools once aimed only at ef? ciency gains excel instant soul-searching, as he reiterates, “Liberating data cre- when applied to life extension: “It just so happens that by mak- ates no value. Data is not knowledge. Data is an enabler. It ing these (digitizing) improvements asset owners can work will not tell you what to do next.” more (ef? ciently) allowing the asset to run more economically

His best advice on data is not to start at diagnostics and then which helps the business case for asset life extension,” DNV move to predictive data and ? nally prescriptive data — but the GL spokesman, Neil James Slater, tells Offshore Engineer. reverse. “We need to do the prescriptive data at the start” of Several digital tools have emerged out of Veracity data.

decision-making, he says. PSV Manager Tool uses pressure safety valve certi? cation

For contrast, Hervik says digitizing is “easy to buy, easy to and failure rate data to determine the right certi? cation inter- implement and easy to use.” And liberating more data osten- vals for platform supply vessels (PSV). DeepSearch Cogi- sibly generates commercial value thrice: as management tool tive Search engine will dig up handwritten docs, engineering for the operator; as data sold to the OEM by the digitizer and drawings or “the needle in the haystack” that might “extend by the OEM selling maintenance as a “smart service” based the life of a ? eld,” Slater says. on uptime. DNV GL has been at structural safety for years. Now, it of- fers digitally its Oreda reliability database in an older trouble spot ? nder called Corrosion Under Insulation (just the thing

IOT

While Internet of Things (IoT) reports we’ve read suggest for life-extension). With life extension projects adding up, oil and gas lags other industries in IoT, Cognite may be ahead those able to offer digital structural and downhole monitor- when it comes to life-extension management, if only because ing; legacy equipment digital harmonization or remote pump and reservoir control ? nd a sales edge. it was ostensibly commissioned to be a data-aggregating soft-

Some operators we talked to in Norway with high-pro? le ware suite by its current majority owner, Aker ASA. life-extension projects are content not to be the poster people

Similar offerings — DNV GL’s Veracity Data Fabric, ma- of digitization despite wanting to keep marine infrastructure rine-savvy Kongsberg’s Kognifai and multi-industry Cogni- working to 2050. “It’s a strategic decision. We’re not ? rst zant of New Jersey — all offer improved data visibility, in- movers, so we’re catching up with some of the others after sights and access security.

leading (until recently),” an operator source says.

While Cognite seems to have pre-sold a long list of well-

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