EXPLORATION • DRILLING • FIELD SERVICES
ACCELERATING DIGITALISATION
Nate Bridges explains why ineff ective tech is damaging innovation and details how the oil & gas sector can successfully roll out digital solutions for a more effi cient future
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il and gas companies are perpetually innovating to enhance safety, increase accuracy, save time,
and reduce costs. This is achieved not only by redefi ning production capabilities and advancing clean energy technologies, but also through introducing transformative
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technologies and eff iciency-boosting practices in their operations. However, there is immense potential
for future innovation, as many companies in the industry are still utilising traditional methods and older technologies. This presents a signifi cant opportunity to usher in a new era of technology advancement
and modern methodologies that could revolutionise the entire industry. For example, current methods of
physically searching and manually documenting a site – still a common practice in the sector – are time- consuming, expensive and introduce unnecessary safety risks. A lot of process drawings are schematic, so it can be labour-intensive to simply locate a specifi c area. However, when producing a digital alternative, it can still take organisations more than a year to capture a site if they rely on the more traditional static scanning technologies. This means data from the beginning of the project can already be outdated before the project is over. For scanning technologies to be truly eff ective, they need to be fast and easy to update and rescan. Capture also needs to be scalable, so that it can be done across multiple sites, enabling organisations to conform to more
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