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© Elnur / Adobe Stock ? eld development, helping to push learnings from offset wells into future planned wells.

There are also off-the-shelf technol- ogies available. Predictive analytics at component and system levels can be used, to see when to maintain equip- ment – or, equally as important, when you don’t need to – and to better un- derstand ? ow assurance, production optimization and to prevent problems.

Another area of opportunity is the digital twin, he says. But, just as lack of standardization in documentation and records has led to unstructured data and different digital twins are being created, he points out, which will cause problems when it comes to future interoperability or scalability, he says. “So, how about an open sys- tem where system data from different “INDUSTRY IS ONLY USING 3-5% OF sources can be pulled in and interface with as many standards as possible?

ALL DATA IT HAS AT ITS DISPOSAL.

Time will tell.”

THERE’S ALMOST TOO MUCH DATA AND

There are positive steps. The UK’s

THAT CAUSES LACK OF FOCUS; THEY’RE regulator, the Oil & Gas Authority,

NOT SURE WHERE TO SPEND AND produced a Digital Strategy 2020-

THEIR MONEY ON THE DATA FRONT. 2025, late last year, aiming to embed “digital excellence”. The move was

BECAUSE OF THAT, WE NOT SEEING welcomed by Oil & Gas UK, an in-

SUCCESSFUL TRIALS AT SCALE.” dustry body, which said “effective use of data and digital tools will be critical “Industry is only using 3-5% of all pletely different to anything we face,” to unlocking a safe and competitive data it has at its disposal. There’s al- says Rounce. “They get about 300 oil and gas industry working to realize most too much data and that causes hours of video uploaded every min- its full potential.” lack of focus; they’re not sure where ute.” While there are companies like But, as has been found, with to spend and their money on the data Microsoft, Amazon, and Google that UKOilandGasData, a well and seis- front. Because of that, we not see- provide the infrastructure to load and mic data sharing platform built by Oil ing successful trials at scale. Cultural manage data, it’s still not easy for oil & Gas UK’s CDA (Comon Data Ac- buy-in, the buy-in to really make this and gas. “We have challenges around cess) subsidiary, which provided the change happen is still question mark.” different standards and types of data foundations on which the OGA’s UK

Indeed, speaking at the same event, and a signi? cant volume of unstruc- National Data Repository was built,

Justin Rounce, EVP and CTO at tured data.” the hardest bit is getting operators

TechnipFMC, says, “One of problems There are opportunities, however, to submit data in a common format

I have is the big data challenge. It’s he says. AI and machine learning lend that is also able to be machine read- hard to do.” While someone like You- themselves well to unstructured data. able and therefore digitally accessible.

Tube handles unbelievable amounts Progress is being made in subsurface The OGA’s latest initiative will hope of data, “their data challenge is com- modeling and also in drilling and to change that.

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