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Day 1 :
- Monday, Sept 23, 2024
- 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Ryan Jarvis: Owner and Chief Technology Officer, RockNRG
- New industry standards for Trusted Data spark greater integration and interoperability in the cloud.
- Real-time data validation enables greater automation minimizing downtime and enhancing productivity
- The Critical Role of Production Data Verification in Production Optimization and Analytics
- 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Dirk Wagemans
: Vice President Commercial Industries, Hexagon
- According to Forbes engineers spend 30% of their time looking for information. Many organizations work in silos and data is not leveraged throughout an organization
- How to win efficiency and limit security and safety risks with digitization
- Is digital twin just a buzz word or is it an opportunity with quick wins
- 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Shuzhen Ye :Citizen Data Scientist & Processing Geophysics, Shell
- Introducing seismic data processing and imaging, the most computation and data-intensive work step in the oil and gas industry
- Data driven or model driven – posting a question on how to make AI tools profitable in seismic processing
- No pain no gain – sharing lessons learned from developing AI solutions to ensure both quality and efficiency
- Speed is key – showing case studies where our AI solutions generate business value
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Thomas Katucki: Sr Research Associate Lux Research
- Robotics for field applications
- Terrestrial GHG emissions monitoring
- Satellite monitoring for field applications and GHG emissions
- The audience will take away insights about leading startups and corporate technology developers and grasp a vision of the future path for automated inspection.
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Meaghan Snethlage :Director of Client Development, Veerum
- Pillars of high value digital twin solutions, industry trends in digitalization, the abundance of data, and common challenges in traditional operations
- Facilitating holistic intelligence for equipment and work processes, redefining decisions on site by leveraging interoperable digital twin architecture
- The importance of progressive implementation for impactful ROI and adoption
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 AM
Eric Macbeth: Managing Director / Owner, Energy Forward Advisors LLC
- Foundation and Design - Large LNG company recently performed a review of the digital and Information management space in their company and developed a gap analysis performed to determine current, and future state
- Challenges and revelations confronting the Company after the gap analysis was performed
- Transformation - How does the Company implement a seamless and intuitive access solution to meet the needs of all departments?
- Sustainable solutions that evolve with the company - Governance and training model implementation before technology and data management rollout
- Where does the company want to be when it grows up?
- What critical factors need to be addressed before going live?
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Nimi Abili: Chief Technology Officer, Greater Offshore
- Expanding Digital Connectivity using Digital Accelerators such as AI, ML, IoT, Data Analytics and APM Enablement to Future-Proof Brownfield Asset Development and Operational Efficiency for Return of Investment.
- Digital Engineering Solutions Employing Embedded Automation and EPC Digital Twin to Drive Prescriptive Maintenance, Boost Reliability and Decarbonize Asset Operations in the Ecosystem
- Adopting Edge Computing Solutions to Enable Capturing, Processing and Analyzing Data where it happens, can Optimize Operational Efficiency, HSE Resilience, and Accelerate Time-To-Value for Increased Productivity
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Jim Brigman: Principal and Managing Director, Ingenero
- Advanced AI/ML in Upstream
- Seamless Digital Integration
- 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Christopher Donaleski:
CEO, AI Advisory
- As AI and technology continue to reshape how organizations approach mergers, acquisitions, and internal integrations, it’s crucial to recognize that success isn’t just about the technology itself but how it’s applied alongside traditional tools and resources.
- Companies can significantly enhance their integration efforts by combining AI with coaching, assessments, and team development initiatives.
- These strategies can provide deeper insights into organizational cultures, identify potential friction points, and foster a smoother change management process.
- 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Alistair Stubbs: Managing Director, Sauve Solutions
- Many existing assets are operating successfully – with the information and data they have – digitalization offers great efficiency, safety and environmental benefits, but how can you achieve these without disruptive change?
- Through continuous improvement and effective supply chain collaboration it is possible to transform how you align silos of data, share effectively through the engineering s upply chain and demonstrate improvement – without a big IT implementation!
Day 2 :
- Tuesday, Sept 24, 2024
- 09:30 AM - 10: 00 AM
Mike Fleming: Senior Content Solution Speacialist, Innovatia
- Digital transformation is occurring in every aspect of our lives – socially, culturally, from government, to big business. Mike’s presentation will provide you a meaningful framework along with guiding principles that will help you be successful in your digital transformation journey.
- Creating a C-Suite Digital Vision, Convening a Task Force
- Building a Roadmap, Developing Use Cases, Conducting Pilots.
- Scaling Pilots, Developing Digital Capabilities & Supporting Ecosystem
- 10:00 AM - 10: 30 AM
Fred Clarke: Consultant, Stepchange Global
- Many operators are challenged with high well counts spread over large geographic areas. How can they scale the business while maintaining OPEX? Globally, operators have developed the capability of a ‘remote operations center’, where they bring real-time data to a central team which can act to prevent a downtime event based on exceptions, alerts, and performance gaps.
- How remote operations provides engineering and operations teams with real-time access to critical operational data to improve situational awareness and enable faster decision-making.
- How transforming the traditional role of operators visiting ‘every well every day’ to optimizing remote worker productivity by directing the field team to the day’s priorities
- Share lessons learned and key elements to deliver a remote operations center which can deliver scalable operational excellence and how a small team can manage,100’s or 1,000’s of wells remotely
- 11: 30 AM - 12:00 AM
Jan Otto Porsmyr: Senior Project Coordinator, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)
- AI and Digital Twins are revolutionizing industries with clear investment benefits. At the HADRON Laboratory, part of the Institute for Energy Technology, we offer innovative solutions for facility lifecycle management, specializing in safety-critical applications like nuclear.
- We integrate AI and Digital Twins with advanced physics models for impact assessment and use robotics for data collection. Our mission is to enhance safety and efficiency through a holistic approach combining AI, data, robotics, and Digital Twins.
- 12: 00 PM - 12:30 PM
James Haughs: Operations, Research and Development Director, Clear Solutions
- Exploring the Challenges of Drilling Fluid Automation: Technical Complexities and Industry Hurdles
- The Role of Multifunctional Fluid Additives in Simplifying Automation and Enhancing Efficiency
- Computational Innovations, and their Revolutionary Potential in Drilling Fluid Automation
- 12:30 PM - 01: 30 PM
Osama Hanna: Sr Industry Digital Strategist, Microsoft
- Explain the Concept of 3-Horizon Planning
- How it can help in building Digital Transformation Strategies for customers
- Real-world examples of how it can be applied.
Day 1 :
- Wednesday, May 03, 2023
- 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Shantanu Bhattacharya : CEO, Siometrix
- State of Cybersecurity in Oil and Gas Industries (Unclear/Lack of Cyber Security Policies and Procedures, Outdated Industrial Control Systems, Inadequate separation of Industrial and IT networks, Too few Network security measures- On- and Offshore, etc.)
- The reason for the current state of cybersecurity (Lack of cybersecurity awareness in staff due to their expertise in entirely different areas, Legacy systems that could handle the operational requirements without being upgraded, leveraging IT network security controls as OT network security controls are minimal due to various reasons, etc.)
- Ways to address the cybersecurity challenges (Training staff, Deploying cost-effective OT security solutions without necessarily revamping the OT network, employing cybersecurity experts, understanding that good cybersecurity practices would entail changing operational workflows, etc.)
- State of the art in cybersecurity technologies that address the above challenges.
- 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
M Ariful Islam: Head Of Data and Analytics, PETRONAS
- State of Cybersecurity in Oil and Gas Industries (Unclear/Lack of Cyber Security Policies and Procedures, Outdated Industrial Control Systems, Inadequate separation of Industrial and IT networks, Too few Network security measures- On- and Offshore, etc.)
- The reason for the current state of cybersecurity (Lack of cybersecurity awareness in staff due to their expertise in entirely different areas, Legacy systems that could handle the operational requirements without being upgraded, leveraging IT network security controls as OT network security controls are minimal due to various reasons, etc.)
- Ways to address the cybersecurity challenges (Training staff, Deploying cost-effective OT security solutions without necessarily revamping the OT network, employing cybersecurity experts, understanding that good cybersecurity practices would entail changing operational workflows, etc.)
- State of the art in cybersecurity technologies that address the above challenges.
- 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Paul Stone: Product Strategist, Flowforma
- Remote access is becoming a necessity for OT and there are countless reasons from professionals running offshore oil rigs other critical facilities needing 24/7 access from anywhere. But providing that access has traditionally been too complex and fraught with security issues as exposing critical infrastructure to the “outside” greatly expands the attack surface for hackers.
- Remote access is becoming a necessity for OT and there are countless reasons from professionals running offshore oil rigs other critical facilities needing 24/7 access from anywhere. But providing that access has traditionally been too complex and fraught with security issues as exposing critical infrastructure to the “outside” greatly expands the attack surface for hackers.
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Bill Moore: CEO and Founder, XONA System<
- Remote access is becoming a necessity for OT and there are countless reasons from professionals running offshore oil rigs other critical facilities needing 24/7 access from anywhere. But providing that access has traditionally been too complex and fraught with security issues as exposing critical infrastructure to the “outside” greatly expands the attack surface for hackers.
- Remote access is becoming a necessity for OT and there are countless reasons from professionals running offshore oil rigs other critical facilities needing 24/7 access from anywhere. But providing that access has traditionally been too complex and fraught with security issues as exposing critical infrastructure to the “outside” greatly expands the attack surface for hackers.
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Susan Nash : Director of Innovation & Emerging Science and Technology, AAPG
- Automated systems based on continuous data collection through sensors
- Automated systems based on periodic earth imaging surveys (drones and satellites)
- Predictive models for pipeline maintenance and leaks in areas of sparse data
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Joel Berntsen Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships, Vutility
- Automated systems based on continuous data collection through sensors
- Automated systems based on periodic earth imaging surveys (drones and satellites)
- Predictive models for pipeline maintenance and leaks in areas of sparse data
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Lukas Bimmerle Portfolio Owner Digitalization Measurement, Siemens
- Role of Process Analyzers and instruments in O&G process optimization
- Significance of achieving higher reliability for improved process outcomes.
- Latest innovations in data science and digitalization applied to measurement, exemplified across diverse applications
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Ian Verhappen Senior Solutions Architect, Willowglen Systems Inc.
- Cybersecurity is increasingly required through regulation for critical infrastructure
- Variety of Cyberthreat Intelligence (CTI) services available for potential threat vector warnings.
- Integrating CTI data into SCADA systems for proactive protection of critical infrastructure.
- Evolving threats necessitate continuous patching support without restarting controllers
- 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Denis Drolet: Senior Operations Engineer – Real Time Operations, Vermilion Energy
- The significance of operating by exception in an automated age, especially with a shrinking workforce.
- A comprehensive exploration of deploying exception-based operating procedures at well sites.
- Analyzing E&P strategies that embrace automation and exception-based operating procedures.
- 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Allan Fogwill: COO, Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada
- This upcoming session will explore how digital technologies, especially AI, are disrupting the energy industry by detecting, quantifying, reporting, and predicting methane emissions. Detecting these emissions is critical because methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to climate change. Effectively detecting these emissions can help the energy sector move towards sustainability and responsibility.
- With these new technologies, the energy industry can efficiently and accurately monitor and analyze methane emissions, allowing them to pinpoint the sources of these emissions and devise targeted strategies to reduce them. By doing so, they can address a huge problem in oil and gas production where methane leaks can cause environmental and economic losses.
- This discussion will also address the challenges and opportunities associated with digitalization in the energy sector, such as issues related to data quality and availability, ethical considerations, regulatory frameworks, skills development, and stakeholder engagement
- 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Peter Kowalchuk: Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
- This upcoming session will explore how digital technologies, especially AI, are disrupting the energy industry by detecting, quantifying, reporting, and predicting methane emissions. Detecting these emissions is critical because methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to climate change. Effectively detecting these emissions can help the energy sector move towards sustainability and responsibility.
- With these new technologies, the energy industry can efficiently and accurately monitor and analyze methane emissions, allowing them to pinpoint the sources of these emissions and devise targeted strategies to reduce them. By doing so, they can address a huge problem in oil and gas production where methane leaks can cause environmental and economic losses.
- This discussion will also address the challenges and opportunities associated with digitalization in the energy sector, such as issues related to data quality and availability, ethical considerations, regulatory frameworks, skills development, and stakeholder engagement
Day 2 :
- Thursday, May 04, 2023
- 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Slawomir Kukla Consultant | OT/ICS Security Associate Manager, Accenture
- What king of challenges regarding Cybersecurity exist between vendors and end-users of DCS systems?
- How the cybersecurity related requirements included in RFQ may impact the price of the system’s
- Cases studies describing how specific requirements may influence vendor’s responses to an RFQ.
- 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Anupam Acharya: Sr. BD Manager, Technip Energies
- Digitalization vs Success Digital Transformation – Why some digital transformations fail?
- Need for a Digital Twin and How to Think about it Holistically.
- Digital Transformation Avenues
- Benefits of Digital transformations
- Future of Digital Twin
- 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Ueli Rothen:Senior Marketing Manager, Distran Ltd
- The digital transformation programme, deemed as IndianOil’s Digital Readiness and IT Vision Enablement (iDRIVE), has pioneered digital transformation at enterprise-level achieving significant traction across 150+ initiatives spanning 10 business themes covering customers, operations, supply chain projects, employees, and vendors
- The project is driving value by leveraging advanced analytics powered by AI/ML for core operations as well as customer facing businesses, democratizing emerging technology platforms devised across technologies such as robotic process automation, augmented reality and virtual reality and deploying custom-off-the-shelf tools to revamp technology stack across departments
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Faraz Osmany: Senior Manager, Indian Oil Corp Limited
- The digital transformation programme, deemed as IndianOil’s Digital Readiness and IT Vision Enablement (iDRIVE), has pioneered digital transformation at enterprise-level achieving significant traction across 150+ initiatives spanning 10 business themes covering customers, operations, supply chain projects, employees, and vendors
- The project is driving value by leveraging advanced analytics powered by AI/ML for core operations as well as customer facing businesses, democratizing emerging technology platforms devised across technologies such as robotic process automation, augmented reality and virtual reality and deploying custom-off-the-shelf tools to revamp technology stack across departments
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Fawaz AlSahan: Engineering Consultant, Saudi Aramco
- Many years ago, we had a vision; to deliver condition monitoring analysis services to remote oil & gas facilities around the world via the Internet.
- 20 years on, digitalisation is no longer an option but a necessity, requiring the development of pioneering tools and processes.
- We recount our journey with insights into leveraging advances in technology, understanding the user experience, obstacles of Internet connectivity and facilitating digital integration.
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Matthew Moore: Global Subject Matter Expert – Conditon Monitoring, Petrofac
- Many years ago, we had a vision; to deliver condition monitoring analysis services to remote oil & gas facilities around the world via the Internet.
- 20 years on, digitalisation is no longer an option but a necessity, requiring the development of pioneering tools and processes.
- We recount our journey with insights into leveraging advances in technology, understanding the user experience, obstacles of Internet connectivity and facilitating digital integration.
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Chuck Drobny: Chief Executive Officer, GlobaLogix
- In oil & gas, almost all SCADA installations occur on new pads, interconnects and pipelines
- Customers don't usually know what they want until after they get it
- Employ project management in any SCADA project
- State your overall business objective up front
- Survey the site on the ground before setting design parameters
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Thomas Grand: COO, Samp
- Samp helps oil & gas companies connect their outdated process engineering drawings with their up-todate 3D reality capture to:
- The main value is to de-risk, accelerate and reduce the costs of
Day 1 :
- Monday, November 14, 2022
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Dr. Mohsen Khorasany: Head of research and innovation, TYMLEZ
- The path to decarbonization and role of green fuels
- Role of technology in guaranteeing the origin of green fuels
- Use case: Blockchain-based fuel assurance platform
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Ismail Oyewole :Application Team Lead, Prudent Energy
- Definition of terms & components of Digital-first Culture & mindset
- How to build a Digital-First Culture & mindset
- Why is it Important/Benefits
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Thomas Delquie: CTO, Terega
- Feedback from Terega digital transformation
- Securing our industrial sites while using public cloud capabilities
- Deliver faster with an agile OT/IT infrastructure
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Uwe Scherf: Global Senior Advisor IIoT, WIKA
- By now everybody does see the sheer unlimited value and optimization opportunities IoT & IIoT has to offer.
- Even though the digitalization is already taking place, we are only scratching the survace. A gigantic growth of IoT connections is forecasted and still to come!
- Hence in the near future Billions of devices will send data in parallel…..!
- We are ready for it…BUT is our IoT infrastructure ready for it?
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Steve Aitken: Founder, Intelligent Plant
- Making Digitalisation deliver - Can digitalisation can reduce cost and improve income, or is it a just a new cost centre
- Requirements of an Energy Mix - Physical and digital
- Intellectual property - how it helps and hinders progress.
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Keith Holdaway: Advisory Industry Consultant, SAS
- Discover Keith Holdaway's expert strategies for Monitoring Asset Health with Kt-Charts and SVDD in the oil and gas industry. Learn how cutting-edge technology, real-time data from sensors, and advanced data analytics techniques are revolutionizing asset performance analytics
- What are the sensor considerations for typical oil & gas rotating equipment and is MEMS technology fit for purpose?
- What are the challenges and potential drawbacks compared with traditional approaches
- 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Viren Parikh: Director of Business Development , Ericsson
- What are the perceived benefits of automating vibration data collection and diagnostics?
- What are the sensor considerations for typical oil & gas rotating equipment and is MEMS technology fit for purpose?
- What are the challenges and potential drawbacks compared with traditional approaches
- 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Jason Gislason: Chief Digital Officer, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
- What are the perceived benefits of automating vibration data collection and diagnostics?
- What are the sensor considerations for typical oil & gas rotating equipment and is MEMS technology fit for purpose?
- What are the challenges and potential drawbacks compared with traditional approaches
- 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Matthew Moore: Global Subject Matter Expert-Conditon Monitoring, Petrofac
- What are the perceived benefits of automating vibration data collection and diagnostics?
- What are the sensor considerations for typical oil & gas rotating equipment and is MEMS technology fit for purpose?
- What are the challenges and potential drawbacks compared with traditional approaches
- 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Raj Rapaka: Upstream Digital Transformation Advisor, Exxon Mobil
- Causes of Organizational Intertia
- Strategies to overcome it
- Lessons learned from Pilots
- Getting to scale
Day 2 :
- Tuesday, 15 November 2022
- 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Cristina Luna:>Business Development Director, Rivada Space Networks
- Hydrocarbons have pipelines, what does data have? Digitalization and automation challenges based on today’s communication solutions.
- Global Private Network in the sky, fit for remote real-time operations (35x closer than GEO, 30% faster than fiber) to improve digitalization strategies.
- Why does it matter? Some examples of applications
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Bill Moore :CEO and Founder, XONA
- Digital Transformation is unlocking business value but is also putting once “air gapped” critical OT assets at risk
- Complexity of IT in Oil and Gas companies makes OT systems vulnerable for increased cyber attacks, and proses challenges for secure remote access and third-party vendor management
- How to implement a Zero Trust framework to enable more security, efficiency, and scalability in Oil and Gas OT environments
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Fawaz AlSahan: Engineering Consultant, Saudi Arabian
- Introduction - Digital Transformation in Hydrocarbon Industry
- Digital Technologies Deployment - The easy and the challenging
- Case Studies - Features and Results
- Trends in Automation?
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Barry McGinn: Sales Director, Cyberhawk
- Unlocking the true power of drone captured data
- Remote construction monitoring for a Post-COVID, Net-Zero industry
- Collaborative project delivery through the reduction of data silos
- Data Democratisation – empowering the project team
- 11:30 PM - 12:00 PM
Esben Thorup: CEO, Horizon56
- Digitalizing the information flow between the Oil Companies well plan information and the drilling contractor operating offshore rig brings significant value. Digital real-time drilling program information benefits to all the involved parties in a drilling operations, including Drilling Contractor, Operator, and Service Companies, both, at the drilling site and remote-control center, by directly connecting front-line operation teams with the required instructions to drive efficient drilling operations.
- Digitalizing of the information flow significantly improves situational awareness, coordination, preparedness, communication, and transparency and thereby providing more efficient and consistent drilling operations.
- Presentation will be based on several case studies of offshore operations with Maersk Drilling, Aker BP and Equinor.
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Billy Archbold: Data Scientist, Wood Group PLC
- Analytics Maturity model (where we are, where we want to get to i.e. greatly improve our predictive analytics capabilities, and how we are going about getting there)
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Alberto Iniesta Serrano: Senior Advisor and SME , Worley
- Value along the Asset Lifecycle
- Leveraging new ways of working
- Support to the energy transition
- 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Robello Samuel: Chief Technical Advisor and Halliburton Fellow (Drilling Engineering) , Halliburton
- Data and digital technologies, will provide additional evidence to refute the theory and improve the models, converting the process from mechanization to automation
- The talk explains how the advancement of digitalization has brought these two systems together and has sped up the transition from device-centric drilling to digitally guided well centric operations.
- Integration of digital and artificial intelligence, drilling operations have also been advanced into the IR 4.0. The discussion also covers the answer and the roadmap with illustrations.
- 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Noman Rasool: Lead Business Process Automation, Shell
- Data collection from assets
- Transportation of data to cloud or on-prem
- Apply ML/AI on this data using data-driven models and validate value proposition
- Scale it to all asset class, equipment class and system class and that’s how you can modernize and optimize your pipeline or any other system
Day 3 :
- Wednesday, 16 November 2022
- 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Tom Ralston:Digital Process Engineering Business Development, Samp
- Oil & gas production expansion opportunities from existing assets have never been more imperative
- A case study is presented, based on a mid-scale production facility. The key steps in providing a digital twin of suitable fidelity are set out
- Optimization of the process is shown to depend on modelling the potential for retro-fit upgrade of separation equipment
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Jeffery Anderson :Digital Architect, XONA
- How to Assess Digitalization Maturity
- Common Challenges and Important Considerations
- Unlocking New Workflows and Solutions through Digitalization
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Liane Ghosh: Vice President, Global Content Solutions and CEO for India, Innovatia
- Race to the finish: how to extract knowledge and know what you don’t know
- How to use technology to capture tribal knowledge and create a knowledge store
- Orchestration and optimization of people, process, technology, and knowledge for operational excellence, to gain efficiencies and to truly digitize knowledge
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Thomas Grand : COO & Head of Sales, Samp
- From the moment it is built, an industrial facility starts drifting away from engineering data.
- Samp's AI connects 3D reality capture with your systems of record on a continuous basis
- The real state of facilities can be directly compared to technical data and exposed to all.
- 11:30 PM - 12:00 PM
Philippe Mege : Head of Digital Application, Axens
- Data quality: Key factor for data-driven business decision
- Digital Twin: Process improvement and equipment integrity
- Machine Learning: an ideal tool to build hydrid model
- Connect’In® : Reinforcement of client-licensor confidence with SaaS
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Michał Paulski: Senior Manager, Accenture
- Drive towards sustainability, geopolitical context and stakeholder expectations for business outcomes continue to catalyse the move of industrial assets form one operator to another
- How to avoid buying a cat in the sack w.r.t. cybersecurity risks or selling an asset that may come back to haunt you?
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Rob Southon: Chief Technology Officer , VEERUM
- Leverage AI/ML models to connect enterprise information management systems to a virtual model of their plant, enabling predictive asset integrity and object class detection
- Improves productivity by up to 33% due to less travel and simple, unrestricted data access
- Improves business continuity efforts while reducing site exposure hours
- Provides digital emission monitoring in real-time
- 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Nikhil Chauhan: Chief Strategy Officer , Lummus Digital
- Digital Technologies Dynamics: Digital technologies maturity is essential to understand the successful applications of digitalization and digital twin. Though, there are some challenges in digitalization, we bring the capability and differentiators to overcome those challenges.
- Digital Twin as Stack of Layers: Digital Twin is a stack of layers including a Data Lake, 3D Visualization, Hybrid Models (AI + First Principle models), and Digital Applications. The interesting thing is that all layers are built on a scalable AI Platform so that everything is integrated and modular.
- Applications and Value Proposition of Digital Twin: The Digital Twin consists of one or multiple applications depending on the operator’s needs. These applications can be remote performance monitoring, real-time optimization, process or asset performance prediction, and AR/ VR for maintenance and turnaround planning, safety, training, etc.
- 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Osama Hanna: Senior Industry Digital Startegist, Microsoft
- Metaverse in the O&G industry represents vast opportunities and improved collaboration while reducing the need for travel and in person communication
- A third horizon technology that is gaining fast interest
- How will this new wave of technological edge affect the industry.
- 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Nathaniel Bradley
: Chief Executive Officer &
Founder, Data Vault Holdings Inc.
- Tokenizing assets under the ground without the need to mine
- Valuating data based on operations
- Logistics databases on import/export information from site
Day 1 :
- THURDSAY, 18 FEBRUARY 2021
- 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Robello Samuel : HALLIBURTON
- Intelligent Automation When Paired with Richer Well Construction 4.0 provides seamless workflow
- Edge computing is found to be the key driver for Well Construction 4.0 acceleration
- Holistic Artificial engineering intelligence coupled with MI are the underpinning options for the Cyber Physical System
- The new open architecture stack provides the option to plug play by any user
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Shane McArdle : Kongsberg Digital
- Definition of terms & components of Digital-first Culture & mindset
- How to build a Digital-First Culture & mindset
- Why is it Important/Benefits
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Norman Thorlakson : Xage SecurityXage
- Feedback from Terega digital transformation
- Securing our industrial sites while using public cloud capabilities
- Deliver faster with an agile OT/IT infrastructure
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Carlos Calad : Tachyus
- Why data alone is not enough and physics is required
- Data Physics - an innovative solution combining data and physics
- Case examples: increasing production by redistribution of injection; reducing injection and maintaining production.
- 11:30 PM - 12:00 PM
Shaji John : Pioneer Natural Resources Company
- Digitize operation workflows through low code PaaS platform
- Low cost, high impact and faster turnaround
- Reduce unplanned downtime and optimize maintenance processes
- Connect IoT, analytics and ML to field operation
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Steven Johnson : Petrofac
- Describe the journey that Petrofac has been on adopting a range of digital solutions to transform its operations and engineering delivery
- Provide examples of solutions being utilised covering automation, connected working and predictive analytics
- Describe the value being generated and how this is transforming our approach
- 01:.30 PM - 02:00 PM
Dr. Eva-Marie Muller-Stuler : IBM
- Fundamental pillars for successful AI and Data Science in Oil and Gas
- The importance of a strategy and vision
- Technical requirements
- How to deploy: AIOps and MLOps
- 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Arnold “Marty” M. : Air Liquide
- Applying data analysis for predictive maintenance
- Utilising technology to organize data and empower decision makers
- Gaining competitive advantage by lowering maintenance costs and minimizing downtime
- 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Rebecca Bedell : DRAGER
- Connected gas detection devices (wired and wireless) produce amounts of unused data today. This presentation will give an overview of the usage of gas detection data to safe lives, improve asset maintenance and streamline e.g. confined space procedures.
- Furthermore these developments and data can be used to monitor and predict gas
- 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Wade Bitaraf : Plug and Play Tech Center
- Startup ecosystem
- Early stage investment
- Corporate innovation in oil and gas
- 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
ELIAS GHANTOUS : SLB
- Mapping the digital value chain for Oil & Gas Operators
- Architecting fit-for-purpose projects with Vendors, while ensuring knowledge is built in-house
- Developing in-house data science and machine learning capabilitie
- 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Preston T. Johnson : Cutsforth Inc
- Asset modeling technique to determine what data is important
- Online monitoring tactics to collect needed data
- Levels of analytics to determine health and performance indicators
- Levels of analytics to predict future maintenance and operational need
- System or organizational metrics and KPI
Day 2 :
- FRIDAY, 19 FEBRAURY 2021
- 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Tony Downes: Honeywell
- Safety-Critical Interlocks are widely used in our industry to manage risk to people and equipment
- It's critical to test these systems to ensure they will work when needed :Leaving a huge expense
- Digitization for Safety is now easy: the maintenance requirements are always up to date and the data from tests can come back from mobile devices instead of paper in filing cabinets.
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Rafiq Khurshid: Saudi Aramco
- “AntiLeaks” is a solution to extend Data Loss Prevention (DLP) system
- Expedite investigation process and reduce the risk of data leakages.
- DLP capabilities in a Decentralized Management of Security Operation for large enterprises
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Fawaz AlSahan: Engineering Consultant, Saudi Arabian
- Introduction - Digital Transformation in Hydrocarbon Industry
- Digital Technologies Deployment - The easy and the challenging
- Case Studies - Features and Results
- Trends in Automation?
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 PM
José de Sá: Bain & Company
- The impact of COVID-19 on company strategies – the need to accelerate initiatives related to Operational Excellence, most of which are technology-enabled
- Common pitfalls in addressing these types of programs
- Case Study – Real Example of a Successful Broad-Based Digital Program
- Conclusion – Lessons Learned
- 11:30 PM - 12:00 PM
Georges EL MIR: Schneider Electric
- Explore cost saving in design phase of the electrical network and power gen using power and process digital simulation
- Explore expense saving in operation for electrical power using power and process digital simulation
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Lucy Plant : Geoteric
- Case studies to illustrate how 3D AI deep learning networks can be used for the identification of faults in 3D seismic data
- Applications at a range of scales from basin wide screening in order to prospect new acreage and build regional structural understanding
- Well scale for pre and post well analysis improved asset management
- 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Philippe Herve: Spark Cognition
- Predictive maintenance on offshore platforms and refineries
- How to successfully scale up an AI project
- 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Alexis Ocampo, PhD: Ecopetrol
- How to cope with the current situation in order to survive and even more important sustain and project a feasible future.
- Implementing a digital foundation based on an evolutionary architecture that promotes principles such as: information openness, everything as a service and the ubiquous workplace (anytime, anyplace, anywhere).
- 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Mike Gill : Premier oil PLC
- Building the Digital Twin to service the business needs
- Structuring benefit realisation into the Digital Twin change initiative
- Case study and demonstration of a Digital Twin
- 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Subrata Bhowmik : McDermott International, Ltd
- Role of digitalization for energy transition
- Relation between Sustainability and Digitalization
- Case study on Carbon Capture and utilization Storage (CCUS)
- 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Elias Panasuik : Schneider Electric
- Leveraging digital asset strategies for a sustainable future
- Operational disruption due to the pandemic has forced E&P companies to fundamentally reshape operational strategy
- Digitization initiatives enabling the future of remote work, resiliency in the face of unplanned events, and sustainable operations in an integrated, secure fashion
Day 1 :
- Wednesday , 22 September 2021
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Shaji John : Pioneer Natural Resources
- Unified technology solution for scheduling and dispatching
- Reduce unplanned downtime and optimize maintenance processes through efficient dispatching
- Optimize resource utilization
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Ammar Sabbagh : Ericsson
- How private networks provide the capacity and flexibility to cope with evolved network services.
- Why remote monitoring of tanks and industrial equipment in the midstream and downstream sectors comprise the most common uses for wireless solutions in the oil and gas industry.
- How to capitalize on the insights you already have to dramatically improve efficiency
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Yingchao Zhang : Singularity Systems & Bryce Bjornvick | Midstream Process Solutions
- Innovation has traditionally been focused on developing resources but in the current environment there is a greater focus on operating more efficiently
- There are many rudimentary document-based processes that have gone unchanged in decades and are ripe for optimization
- Significant breakthroughs in deep neural network architecture make it possible to extract information from documents and refine data for consumption by downstream systems, making it possible to automate paperbased processes
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Anna Moffat : KCA Deutag Drilling
- A Machine Learning Model that facilitates the identification of systemic drilling operational issues and opportunities to reduce invisible lost time
- Digital technology at the rig floor to facilitate procedural compliance and equipment inspections
- Real-time measurement of CO2 emissions on drilling rigs
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Brian Anderson : Expeto & Kyle Kelin | Avanade
- Understand the added benefits of a HYBRID Private Mobile Network (PMN)
- Expeto and Avanade will outline what the difference between a private mobile network and a Hybrid PMN and how this more future-proof and scalable approach can create opportunities utilizing any G connectivity to boost profitability
- The advantages of implementing a hybrid private mobile network for mission critical applications that maximize efficiencies in Oil and Gas Production, such as field service and communications that ensure reliability, security, and worker safety
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Giuseppe Felice : Resco
- How MHI Vestas was able to deliver a mobile project in just 2 weeks
- What to look for when choosing a mobile field solution
- The top innovations that will make the life of your field workers easier
- How to use mobile filed solutions for risk based inspections, asset maintenance, work orders, incident reports and more!
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Jerome Farquharson : Burns & McDonnell
- Ongoing threats that exist in the supply chain and how to manage the ongoing threat landscape through the use of detective and preventative tools
- Risk assessment around people, processes and technology and what risk factors should prioritize
- 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Michał Paulski : Accenture
- Avoiding pitfalls of the past in cybersecurity, when buying and implementing your new OT/IoT system. Lessons from large scale implementation
- Case study of main OT system replacement project and how cybersecurity was “moved to the left” on the systems lifecycle to avoid higher costs in the future
- 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Girish Nair : SAP
- Loss control issues when handling hydrocarbon inventories and their logistics.
- Avenues for digitization that companies could adopt in their journey of automation.
- Latest offerings from SAP technology that address these concerns
- 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Keith Holdaway : SAS
- Maintenance Maturity Roadmap
- Logical asset performance management Foundation
- Business value propositions
- Machine Learning Algorithms
- Digital Twins
- APA Case Study
- 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Ignasi Vilajosana : Worldsensing
- Challenge: traditional SCADA systems can't provide the granular visibility needed for comprehensive monitoring of hundreds or thousands of kilometers long pipelines
- Using long range (LoRa) IoT technology can positively impact operations, safety and sustainability.
- Working with ultra long range and star network topology empowers operators to gather data from geographically dispersed measuring points while reducing the time and technology needed for monitoring
- Rugged IoT devices make for a flexible, scalable monitoring solution which integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure and can be deployed quickly even in harsh, hard-to-access environments
- There is an opportunity for the Oil & Gas industry to fast-track the adoption of LoRa IoT technology to reap the benefits adjacent industries such as mining and construction have already been enjoying
- 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Osama Hanna : Microsoft
- ESG has been gaining momentum with a parallel growing interest in Sustainability.
- Methane Emissions from the O&G represents a key area to look after. Methane is 84 times more potent than CO2 and so much harder to remove.
- The best approach to handle Methane emissions is to curb them. This can be achieved using satellite imaging along with other IOT devices
- IEA (International Environmental Agency) is aware of the dangers posed by the Methane Emissions but lacks the means to measure them. On average 3 of 4 emissions go unaccounted for! O&G companies have a responsibility towards society in curbing Methane Emissions in every possible way.
- 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Jess Kozman : Katalyst Data Management
- Operator experience with large volume seismic data sets
- Lessons learned from digitalization of legacy media and formats
- Comparisons of search and discovery workflows using open-source code
Day 2 :
- Thursday , 23 September 2021
- 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Brian Romansky: Owl Cyber Defense
- Cloud connectivity offers a wealth of benefits for oil and gas operators and other critical infrastructure organizations. New connections, however, can introduce new risks. Inadequately secured connections create
- Opportunities for unauthorized parties to access critical systems, and some security “solutions” have the potential to be hijacked and used to launch attacks by sophisticated threat actors
- This session will identify the challenges associated with current approaches to cloud connectivity, and describe new strategies and technologies that enable secure OT-to-cloud connections while minimizing risks to critical assets
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Nick Mayhew: Axora
- The findings from our recent survey of 150 oil and gas industry leaders on digital trends and key priorities
- Our participants told us they are ready to invest, but what were the priority areas and key themes?
- DLP capabilities in a Decentralized Management of Security Operation for large enterprises
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Dipak Patki: Shell
- Real life applications & how technology can change legacy ways of working
- Technology cost vs benefit scenarios and fit for purpose ways to implement
- Impact on current teams competence and how current staff can help in digital deployments
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Rafiq Khurshid: Saudi Aramco
- Cloud security challenges faced by organizations
- Identify challenges faced by organizations with the adaption of cloud services and applications
- Recommending a solution that has become a critical element of enterprise cloud security strategies
- 11:30 PM - 12:00 PM
Georges EL MIR: Schneider Electric
- What does data-driven operations look like?
- Digital twins can accelerate the pace of digital transformation at scale
- The green shift - How to improve operational efficiencies and reduce overall emissions
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Lucy Plant : Geoteric
- Key Components to consider while developing Digitalization Programs – - Clarity of purpose - Selection of approach – Hybrid Modeling, tech stack
- Clarity on objective or purpose of implementing technology applications is the first step towards achieving effective digitalization. Fitting technology stack to purpose/objectives and not go searching for a purpose based on tech stack will allow faster & effective value realization from the Digitalization program
- Hybrid models incorporating the best of what is known from deterministic first principles and combining it with AI/ML real-time models, along with Data Engineering and Decision Engineering, should form the basis of all digitalization programs esp the ones targeting process manufacturing, sustainability.
- Ingenero’s digitalization program (I-SSPDE) incorporates both these aspects to provide Augmented Intelligence to operations managers, engineers and operators in the Oil & Gas Industry (Upstream, Midstream & Downstream), that would otherwise have taken years of operational experience.
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Philippe Herve: Spark Cognition
- Quantifying trust in the data and risk score modeling in pipeline risk assessment
- ML-based Heuristic approach to optimize power consumption and operational cost reduction
- Threat detection and terminal optimization using ML image object classification
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Julian Zec: Maersk Drilling
- Digitalization of asset management focuses to improve on three business cases for drilling contractor: Avoidance of major equipment breakdowns and significant downtime during operations, optimization of preventive maintenance and simplification of recertification. All three are approached, but require significant combination of domain knowledge, regulatory understanding and level of data/information integration
- Implementing a digital foundation based on an evolutionary architecture that promotes principles such as: information openness, everything as a service and the ubiquous workplace (anytime, anyplace, anywhere).
- How it can be leverage for your successful transformation
- Tying automation to on rig execution processes, systems and subjects is an absolute necessity. Work orders generated by systems and humans are streamlined trough maintenance management system in prescriptive form, included in existing maintenance process and executed as required
- 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Vitor do Valle : Petrobras
- Understanding VR and AR/XR using Digital Learning
- Dealing with integration constraints when digital represent your process
- Key aspects of UX when in the field
- 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Raj Rapaka : Exxon Mobil
- Blockchain 101
- Blockchain for Energy (B4) - A consortium of Oil & Gas companies focused on blockchain applications
- Blockchain applications in the oil & gas industry
- 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Steve Shah : Automation Anywhere
- Low hanging fruit for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream Oil & Gas workflows
- How to ensure your RPA Programs are built for scale from the start
- Real-world examples of automation results and how to measure yours
- 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Steve Aitken : Intelligent Plant
- Hear of situations that have happened in the past, from the founder of Intelligent Plant, the developers of the Industrial App Store, things to attempt to repeat, and to avoid
- Real life examples and experience
- Audience interaction throughout
- 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Satyam Priyadarshy : Halliburton
- The challenges and opportunities in taming the DEEP compounded disruptions
- Quantifying the capital waste to focus on 'projects' for digital transformation
- Measuring the success in 'financial terms' the outcome of digital transformation of workflows
- Key ingredients for a successful path for increasing automation
- 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Jason Olbekson : Salesforce
- The transition from the traditional field worker to the digital fieldworker
- Optimized maintenance scheduling and asset monitoring
- Guided workflows with self-services field technician experiences
- Advanced analytics best practices for maintenance
Day 3 :
- Friday , 24 September 2021
- 09:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Petter Mathisen : DNV
- Aquifer and well evaluation based on primary existing data
- Develop CCS Data standard built on alignment with ISO/International standards on CO2 storage
- Digital presentation methods, showing the overall well CO2 storage performance feasibility
- 10:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Nimantha Baranasuriya : Ackcio
- Oil and Gas assets and projects spread across vast land areas and even in remote locations, including offshore rigs
- Reliable and real-time monitoring of various sensors used in such projects are essential to improve safety, manage risks, and improve productivity.
- However, deploying manual and legacy monitoring solutions can be costly and ineffective, and would not help stakeholders obtain the sensor data they require for their decision making processes.
- Existing LoRa and other star-based wireless monitoring systems have severe disadvantages that limit their applicability in the oil and gas sector
- In contrast, long-range wireless mesh-based monitoring systems provide more advantages. They can be deployed seamlessly to monitor sensors, even in challenging settings
- With this groundbreaking new technology, the oil and gas sector can significantly improve its monitoring process, providing safer and productive outcomes.
- 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Philip Black : Wood Group
- The industry is focusing on automated operations, AI, and other technology to transition our energy mix
- Applying new technology to the same business processes is simply digitalization of the status quo
- Strategic planning tools are still operating inside poorly connected silos and must be transformed as well
- 11:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Uwe Scherf : WIKA
- The Yin & Yang Philosophy could be transmitted to reverse and forward digitalization concepts.
- Use existing/proven technical solutions and make them smart/IIoT capable
- Save the CAPEX/Invest you have spent! Reverse digitalization concepts can provide solutions to these desires
- IIoT insiders and early IIoT solution adaptors are demanding digital innovations / forward digitalization involving edge computing, artificial intelligence and sensor to cloud communications
- 11:30 PM - 12:00PM
Espen Krogh : Prediktor AS
- There is a convergence in approach and conclusions on digitization approaches from standardization organizations such as NAMUR, IIC, Industrie 4.0 and OPC Foundation. The session focuses on the key strategies and essence of this convergence, and includes the separation of topics like architectures. protocols, information models, dictionaries and “purpose of use”
- Early adopters of these digitization approaches, now eye the benefits and are confident to be on the right path. Examples from big multinational operators are provided
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Arthi Vasudevan : Baker Hughes
- How security is building block to enable digital transformation
- A risk based approach to Industrial cybersecurity to focus investment, resources and training
- Learn how to quickly measure your current cybersecurity status and move from a reactive approach, to a proactive and holistic one
- Strategic long term roadmap to bridge the gap to future state
- Security data enrichment and digital transformation for advanced analytics and predictive maintenance
- Digital Twins for cyber security and the Power of ML/AI
- 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Daniel Cahalarn : Asset55
- Changing the way the completions phase of projects is approached to shorten schedules and improve project outcomes
- Learn how to plan with the end in mind through the application of the completions enablement process
- Understand critical data requirements to leverage completions planning
- How technology creates greater visibility and predictability of project outcomes
- 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Arnel Santos : mCloud Technologies
- The urgency and relevance of digitalization in the industry’s pathway to net zero
- Specific examples showcasing how we are helping customers embrace digitalization and drive results at mCloud
- Thoughts on what businesses can do today to more urgently adopt digitalization
- How technology creates greater visibility and predictability of project outcomes
- 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Hussain Kassem Wasly : Jubail Energy Services Company
- What is disruption?
- Causes of disruption and transformation
- Thoughts on what businesses can do today to more urgently adopt digitalization
- How technology creates greater visibility and predictability of project outcomes
- 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Bill Lawrence : SecurityGate
- Lessons learned from Ukraine 2015/2016
- Observations from Colonial Pipeline
- Information sharing and risk assessments as defense in depth
- 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Srikanth Muralidhara : Flutura
- The topic would cover the digital infrastructure and tools that would be needed to support Net Zero outcomes
- Implementation Journey & Critical Success Factors
- Real Life case study
- 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Andrew Marshall : Flyscan
- Automate damage prevention, better plan digs and enable detection of invisible slow leaks in liquid pipelines
- Automate high-res photo-documentation of your right-of-ways with geo-referenced integration in your GIS
- Detect encroachment, geo-hazards and anomalies in vegetation
- 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Erima Goyal : Data Science Leader
- Predictive models to enhance retail operations
- Computer Vision to build better business and customer understanding
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