SLB and SBM Offshore introduced, in a latest joint assertion, an settlement “to enter into an unique digital alliance to optimize the efficiency of offshore manufacturing techniques”.
The businesses famous within the assertion that the alliance “brings collectively SLB’s digital and area experience in subsurface, subsea, floor manufacturing and restoration with SBM Offshore’s digital and full FPSO lifecycle capabilities”. SLB and SBM added within the assertion that they “will leverage their respective digital capabilities to create an AI-powered digital ecosystem that enhances FPSO digital asset administration – bettering uptime efficiency and lowering complete price of possession for offshore operators”.
The digital ecosystem will combine SBM Offshore’s operational workflows, information, and lifecycle experience with SLB’s digital applied sciences, together with its OptiSite options that are enabled by Cognite Knowledge Fusion as a part of SLB’s Lumi information and AI platform, the businesses mentioned within the assertion, including that, “as soon as absolutely realized, the digital ecosystem will empower offshore asset operators – throughout operations, upkeep, and engineering – to proactively determine and resolve rising challenges earlier than they escalate”.
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This might be achieved by means of real-time, contextualized insights drawn from the complete asset infrastructure, together with subsea wells, risers, flowlines and topside techniques workflows, in line with the assertion, which famous that, “by integrating intelligence throughout domains, the ecosystem will allow extra environment friendly and agile decision-making all through the lifecycle of offshore manufacturing”.
Within the assertion, Rakesh Jaggi, President, Digital & Integration, SLB, mentioned, “this unique alliance with SBM Offshore marks a pivotal second in offshore property manufacturing and restoration”.
“By integrating many years of operational information and area experience by means of SLB’s scalable digital platform, we’re not solely unlocking actionable insights – we’re optimizing the FPSO worth chain to reinforce asset efficiency,” Jaggi added.
“Collectively, we’re dedicated to delivering measurable worth and operational excellence to our prospects,” Jaggi continued.
Olivier Icyk, Chief Enterprise Officer, SBM Offshore, mentioned within the assertion, “this strategic alliance with SLB is a pure evolution of our digital technique and mirrors our ambition to digitalize the FPSO operations”.
“Along with SLB, we mix complementary industry-leading experience, expertise, information pushed work processes and confirmed providers and applied sciences which is able to improve additional full discipline optimization, due to this distinctive vertical integration from reservoir to FPSO,” Icyk added.
Rigzone requested the businesses if the settlement will result in job losses or the creation of recent jobs at SLB and SBM. The businesses haven’t responded to Rigzone on the time of writing.
Additionally this month, SBM introduced on its web site a partnership with Cognite “to speed up AI and information collaboration to optimize floating manufacturing operations”.
“This new initiative deploys the Cognite industrial AI and information platform throughout SBM Offshore’s complete Brazilian fleet, leveraging unified AI and information to considerably improve operational effectivity and gas additional innovation in floating manufacturing techniques,” this SBM assertion mentioned.
“Over the previous 18 months, SBM Offshore has labored with Cognite to ascertain a sturdy, AI-ready information basis utilizing Cognite Knowledge Fusion,” it added.
“Now, SBM will scale the platform to unify and standardize fragmented datasets from throughout the complete asset lifecycle. From engineering to operations, it supplies groups with on the spot entry to actionable insights, eliminating guide information consolidation and making a constant, shared understanding throughout the fleet,” it continued.
Again in August, SBM introduced a joint initiative with Ambipar “to develop ground-breaking robotic resolution for tank cleansing on oil platforms”.
“The brand new strategy, ensuing from collaboration between the 2 firms, will implement expertise to make use of remotely operated robots to hold out the method in a protected manner, dramatically lowering confined area dangers and potential casualties,” that SBM assertion famous.
In an announcement posted on its web site again in August, SLB introduced that it and AIQ “will carefully collaborate to advance AIQ’s continued improvement and deployment of its ENERGY agentic AI resolution throughout ADNOC’s subsurface operations”.
“Our collaborations with AIQ have already delivered modern options, and now we’re supporting the constructing of the inspiration for the following period of clever power operations along with AIQ’s ENERGY,” Jaggi mentioned on this assertion.
“This agentic AI resolution is about to drive long-term worth and operational resilience throughout ADNOC’s power worth chain,” Jaggi added.
Additionally in August, SLB introduced in an announcement posted on its web site that it had acquired Stimline Digital AS, which it described as “a number one cloud-based software program firm for the power sector specializing in nicely intervention”.
“Stimline Digital’s IDEX platform supplies operators with a strong visualization canvas and collaborative atmosphere to optimize the planning and execution of nicely intervention operations,” SLB mentioned on this assertion.
“Powered by AI, the applying allows operators to effectively standardize digital workflows by means of all phases of interventions, from planning by means of to real-time execution and post-job evaluation,” it added.
SLB describes itself on its web site as a worldwide expertise firm driving power innovation for a balanced planet. SBM describes itself on its web site as a pacesetter in Floating Manufacturing Storage & Offloading techniques, “exploring new frontiers like floating wind and carbon-cutting tech with professional capabilities and a novel, full-lifecycle worth proposition”.
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