CONFERENCE SESSIONS
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Hundreds of conference sessions were presented each day at the Oil and Gas Digital Transformation Conference. As we work on developing the 2025 agenda, filter the sessions to find those that align with your role and interests.
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.
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 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
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
- 02:30 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
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Dr. Mohsen Khorasany:
Head of research and innovation, TYMLEZ
- 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
- 10:30 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
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
- 02:30 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