Carbon neutrality signals both new challenges and opportunities for the global energy industry. During the Global Oil & Gas Summit 2021 recently held in Abu Dhabi, Robin (Yongping) Lu, Executive Vice President of Global Energy Business Unit of Huawei Enterprise BG, highlighted the importance of integrating energy and digital transformation to achieve carbon neutrality.
To do so, energy and technology industries need to collaborate, reinforcing each other’s strengths and exploring various industry scenarios.
“The oil and gas industry is facing fierce competition and severe challenges in the face of global energy demand growth. Oil and gas companies need to leverage ICT technologies and management processes to increase reserves and production, and reduce operating costs while improving security,” said Lu.
As a leading global provider of ICT infrastructure and smart devices, Huawei provides solutions to help oil and gas companies build agile and reliable networks and data centres, amongst other projects. In the future, Huawei will continue to focus on the oil and gas industry, consolidate partners’ capabilities, further develop scenario-based solutions, and work with customers to create new value together.
“In the digital economy era, the key to sustainable development is how to better utilise data and maximise data value to deliver green, secure, efficient, and innovative services. Due to the complexity of service scenarios, the oil and gas industry needs to implement intelligence by cloud, edge, and devices in a hierarchical and layered way,” confirms Lu.
Intelligent Oil & Gas Fields solution
To that end, Huawei launched a new solution – Intelligent Oil & Gas Fields – designed to help oil and gas enterprises to go digital. The solution covers several aspects of digitalisation, including campus security, production inspection and predictive maintenance. Using data and intelligence technologies, Huawei is furthering digital transformation and intelligent development across the industry.
Presented at the summit by Robin (Yongping) Lu and Christen Bear, Managing Director, Regional Head GCC at G2K Group, the architecture of the solution consists of four layers: industrial terminal, IoT network, digital platform, and intelligent application. The solution aims to help oil and gas companies cope with the risks and costs, address data silos, as well as quickly respond to emergencies and build robust information security systems.
Based on the solution architecture, Huawei will continuously enhance digital platforms and production service applications, implement data interconnection through the IoT, and drive flattened management transformation. Huawei is also focusing on security and efficiency requirements, helping increase reserve and production, improve efficiency, reduce costs and carbon emissions, and ensure operational safety.
All-scenario solutions focus on collaboration
At the Global Oil & Gas Summit, Huawei also demonstrated its all-scenario solutions and technical capabilities in upstream exploration, development and production, midstream pipeline asset management, and downstream refining and chemical sales.
The widespread adoption of such technologies as cloud computing, big data, AI, and 5G makes it easier to discover potential data value, improving the E2E efficiency of oil companies in oil exploration, development, production, storage, transportation, refining, and sales.
Wu Shuhong, Secretary of CNPC AI Research Centre, and Deng Xili, Principle Lead, G&G (RCM), CNPC RIPED, shared how Huawei’s intelligent E&P solution uses cloud, AI, and big data to quickly and accurately process seismic data, identify oil and gas reservoirs, and diagnose working conditions of pumping wells.
At the same time, migrating mission-critical services to the cloud helps resolve common pain points, such as slow response, high cost, and low efficiency of oil and gas field infrastructure.
Zhang Tiegang, Former Deputy Chief Engineer of the Exploration and Development Research Institute of Daqing Oilfield, explained the advantages of the Intelligent Oil & Gas Fields solution in real-life scenarios. Using Huawei’s cloud computing capabilities, for example, Daqing Oilfield processed over 22,000 square kilometers of seismic data in 2020, which is more than twice the original data processing capability.
Open ecosystems create more value
Believing that collaboration is key for extending Huawei’s solutions, the company has upgraded its partner system and collaborated with different types of partners.
David (Zhengyu) Shi, President of Enterprise Business Group in Huawei Middle East, noted the importance of shared efforts by customers, partners, and Huawei to promote innovation. To this end, Huawei has built a partnership service system to support E2E digital transformation and develop innovative solutions.
To date, Huawei has cooperated with more than 190 electric power companies worldwide and provided digital services to 17 of the world’s 20 leading oil and gas companies in addition to the same number of the world’s 20 leading mining companies.
“In short, Huawei uses digital technologies to support all aspects of energy supply and consumption, enabling the energy transformation, digital transformation and net-zero transformation of the energy industry,” said Lu.
