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Dropping oil prices, expanding supply and growing
regulations are bringing significant changes to
the oil and gas industry. To stay competitive,
the petroleum sector is undertaking a digital
transformation and turning to Big Data, industrial IoT
and advanced analytics to unlock business value.
For over two decades, Royal Dutch Shell has harnessed the power 7.5 M
of digital transformation to optimize its operations and drive data streams from
enterprise-wide performance. What began with a single digital oilfield industrial sensors
has spread to the whole globe. Today, Shell gathers operational data from
over 7.5 million devices across its enterprise, from the Gulf of Mexico to 100,000
Australia’s Browse Basin. Every piece of industrial equipment, from Shell’s real-time calculations
every minute
drill bits miles beneath the ocean floor to the flares of its refineries, is
monitored by OSIsoft’s PI System™. Shell’s PI System, one of the largest
in the world, is helping to digitize the enterprise and monitor all of Shell’s
40,000
operational data
production and manufacturing across the world. displays
This is a story about how one of the largest energy companies went
from reactive to predictive operations, empowered its engineers with
30,000
reports powered by
data-driven insights, and recognized early on that data is vital to achieve the PI System
its enterprise-wide objectives. Reporting critical business value from
real-time technology , Shell extended its existing Enterprise Agreement 15,000+
(EA) with OSIsoft to encompass even more areas within its operations. users and counting
Today, the Enterprise Agreement helps Shell to expand its data-driven
culture and accelerate its digital transformation. 2007
signed an Enterprise
Agreement (EA) with OSIsoft
rchitectural guidance,
A
best practices, 24/7 support
For Shell the journey to industrial is now moving into the hands of
“This is all about
analytics began a few years ago everyone — managers, engineers
when the company decided to and operators — while data is empowerment.
maximize the value of its data
through predictive analysis. Today,
becoming business intelligence.
It’s about changing
Shell relies on a global team of data
Today, a large group of Shell
employees gather two or three times
an organization.
scientists who are focused on solving
complex operational problems using
a month to discuss the commercial It’s about
potential of advanced analytics
advanced technologies like MATLAB,
and share new technologies.
digitalization.”
Alteryx, R and Python for algorithm
Gaining commercial advantage
development. Leveraging — Dan Jeavons,
from advanced analytics and new
advanced mathematics, statistics Shell’s General Manager
technologies is a cooperative
and machine learning, the team of Advanced Analytics
effort which Shell relies on to gain
collects
continuous insights. The company’s
real-time data from Smart Solutions
Data Science Workbench makes it
and converts it into algorithm-based
easy for engineers new to analytics
insights that are deployed back into
to experience these solutions.
global operations.
By democratizing sensor-based
Shell’s data scientists work very data across the enterprise, Shell
closely with the company’s PI CoE is empowering its employees with
team throughout the process. smart analytical applications as
“Magic happens in the blends of it advances towards the future
discipline,” said Peter van den of prescriptive analytics and
Heuvel, Manager of Shell’s industrial AI.
PI CoE. Advanced technology
Before Shell’s BOP Reliability Team Today, the BOP Reliability Team uses and maximize insights. A month
began to deploy the PI System to the PI System to collect real-time after deploying the new system, the
monitor its assets, crews gathered data from all BOPs in the field. The team found an issue in the hydraulic
performance indicators through digital BOP initiative uses available system of one of BOPs, which was
manual daily reports that provided data — valve positions, wellbore being pressured too frequently.
a piecemeal view of equipment pressure and temperature, alarm The detection meant preventing an
health and usage. To detect failure, data, and much more — to improve unplanned stack pull and saving
engineers had to wait for its BOP performance and reliability. over $5-7 million.
early symptoms — a costly, Shell relies on custom dashboards
reactive approach. and PI Vision to visualize the data
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