4th Industrial Revolution Workshops

25 - 26 January 2022

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 IR 4.0 Session Outline

11 Investments Opportunities

Each will Provide:

Anticipated Market Size

Focus Areas
Connectivity/ Infrastructure Support
Hardware Hosting/System Platforms & Services
Integration Software

Value Chain Mapping

3 Investment opportunities will be covered in this presentation which are Robotics, Artificial
Intelligence & Big Data Analytics.
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 iktva Program Overview

The IN-KINGDOM TOTAL VALUE ADD (iktva) Program

• Drives domestic value creation by

working with suppliers for mutual
benefits

• Envisions to improve investment, and

maximize long term economic
growth and diversification

• Focuses on delivering quality jobs,

70% THOUSANDS INCREASE advancing innovation and enhancing
LOCAL CONTENT OF JOBS EXPORTS global competitiveness

iktva is designed to reward Saudi Aramco’s suppliers for the use and development of local labor and
sub-suppliers
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Robotics & Unmanned Aerial

Vehicle
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 Drivers

Environment Gas detection | Wild life

Resolve
Robotics Challenges &
Safety & Security Emergency Responses | Surveillance
Solutions Create
Opportunities

Operational Efficiency Cost Avoidance| Agility| Automation

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 Focus Areas

Robotics

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 Saudi Aramco Robotics Program

Procedure &
Technology Governance
UAV
&
Robotics

Workforce
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 UAV & Robotics Forecast

KSA Projected Spend in Robotics & UAV

USD Millions

1400
(% per year)
• Smart city initiatives, such as
NEOM, will drive the growth of

1100
robotics at 30% CAGR, compared to
20% globally.
• Robotics are expected to increase

800
in spend, especially with
advancements in AI.
600

• Healthcare has been a leader in

500

adopting robotics in KSA, from

surgical to physiotherapy
applications. Manufacturing is
expected to drive growth to enable
digital workforce.

2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

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 Offshore Robots for Assets Integrity Assessment

Key Benefits
Description
• Cost reduction
• Enhances Safety Health and Environment
• Utilizing robotic technologies to enhance • Saves time
and automate offshore inspections

• The large and increasing number offshore Key Users

assets requires periodic inspection

• Conventional methods require extended

offshore vessels hours Project Management Team Maintenance Organization Marine Operations

Key Technologies

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 Robots for Repair, Maintenance and Fabrication

Key Benefits
Description
• Enhance assets integrity
• Enhance safety of fabricators
• Reduce time
• Leverage robotic technologies to
automate the repair and maintenance
activities. Key Users

• Opportunities for applications in

welding, cutting , grinding, blasting
and coating
Project Management Team Fabrication Shops

Key Technologies

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 Inline Inspection (ILI) Robots

Key Benefits
Description
• Optimize T&I Activities
• Enhance Operation Efficiency
• Improve Environmental Protection
• LIL is a non-destructive testing (NDT)
method used to assess pipes using
robotic crawlers (Pigs) Key Users

• Utilizing robots for non-intrusive an

inspections.
NDT Coordinator Plant Inspector
• Implementation in scrapable and non-
scrapable pipes. Key Technologies

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 Value Chain Mapping Analysis

Connectivity/ Software/
Hardware Support Services
System Integration Platform

• Establish a world- • Drone and Robotics

class Robotics • Fleet Management services
manufacturing facility • System integration platforms
in-Kingdom, serving for customized • Training and
Saudi Aramco as well robotic solution • Inspection Data certifications
as other domestic and Management Software
regional industries • Repair & maintenance

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AI & Big Data Analytics

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 AI & Analytics

Descriptive Visualization,
What
Performance Reports Expert Systems, &
Basic Statistics Happened?
Analytics KPIs

Diagnostic Correlations &

Simulation Models Why it
Alarms
Happened?
Feedback
Advanced
Analytics

Big Data Predictive Optimization &

What Will
Monitoring Machine Learning
Happen?
Fault Prediction

Prescriptive
Scheduling What To Do?
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 AI Techniques

AI Technique

Solutions

Prediction Analytics Optimization Computer Vision Natural Language Processing

Uses machine learning to The process of setting Enables computers to derive The ability of a computer
predict outcomes using decision variable to find meaningful information from program to understand
historical data the optimal solution while digital images, videos and human language as it is
satisfying the constraints. other visual inputs spoken and written

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 AI Pipeline

AI Implementation Lifecyle

Use Case Data AI & ML Solution

Scoping Engineering Modeling Deployment

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 AI Focus Areas

AI AI AI AI AI
for Compliance for For Energy for Supply Chain for Operational
and HS&E Sustainability Transition Efficiency &
Excellence

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 AI and Bid Data Analytics are Forecasted to be
the Main Driver of IR 4.0 Tech Spend

KSA Projected Spend in AI, Big Data Analytics & Modeling

USD Millions

3000
(% per year)

• Artificial Intelligence and Advanced

2200
Analytics is set to become the
technology domain in Aramco with
the second highest spend by 2025.

1700
• AI will also boost growth across all
1300

IR4.0 technologies with the increase

1000

in AI adoption growing spend on

cloud, IoT, robotics, etc.

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 Corrosion Risk Classification Solution

Key Benefits
Description
• Proactively identify high-risk flowlines prone to corrosion
• Minimize production losses
• Empower engineers to unlock valuable
• Reduce maintenance / inspection costs
operational insights on different factors that
can potentially lead to the corrosion build-up
on gas flowlines.
Key Users
• The insights include susceptibility, the risk
profile, and several operating condition
observations.

Engineer Operator

Key Technologies

Analytics Intel. Sensing AI

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 Community Services Maintenance Solutions

Key Benefits
Description
• Reduce maintenance time
• Improve maintenance planning
• Identifies trending maintenance topics by
analyzing and classifying the text description
of maintenance tickets.

Key Users
• Provides a list of top trends per craft.

Engineer Planner Operator

Key Technologies

Analytics AI

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 Well Completion Advisory Solution

Key Benefits
Description
• Reduce cost and time of well completion activities
• Reduce risk when performing well completion activities
• Ingests and analyzes well completion
historical records of challenges, mitigation
actions, and lessons learned

Key Users
• Provides recommendations for planned well
completion jobs.

Engineer Operator

Key Technologies

Analytics Intel. Sensing AI

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 Energy Demand Forecasting: Deploy advanced
analytics and modeling approach to Forecast
Corporate Energy Targets
Key Benefits
Description
• Enhance planning and demand forecasting for fuel gas resulting in cost
savings
• Improve operational efficiency by optimal process operations
• Energy demand forecasting is an AI-driven
solution based on advanced analytics (& models) • Higher profitability through accurate predictions of fuel gas target and
to predict fuel demand optimum operations

• The state of the art solution generates a Key Users

forecasted plan for the fuel gas demand at
corporate level – it is based on mathematical
models incorporating process & operational
factors (e.g. historical process data, etc.)

• The solution will help in reduction of GHG Engineer Operator

Emissions through optimized process operations
and fuel gas
Key Technologies
• Improved process safety by real time process
monitoring for plant operators

Analytics Intel. Sensing Modeling

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 Real-Time Optimization: Automates the production
planning process to generate plant-specific
production plans in real-time
Key Benefits
Description
• Increase Plant Profitability
• A solution that maximizes economic • Improve Operations Performance and Product Yields
performance on a real time basis.

• Automates the refinery production planning

process considering process constraints. Key Users

• Capitalizes on digital twin to optimize

operations and timely adjust process
parameters.
Engineer Operator
• In case of an unplanned event (e.g.
unplanned plant shutdown), the solution Key Technologies
automatically updates the production plans
accordingly.

Analytics Intel. Sensing Modeling

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 Flare Image Analytics: Predict Flaring Volumes
Through Machine Vision
Key Benefits
Description
• Environmental compliance
• Reduce flaring volumes
• A machine vision based solution using • Revalidation of conventional instrumentation readings
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to
analyze flare video footage in real-time.

• Analyzes flare properties such as flare

Key Users
height, and smoke to estimate flared
volume.

• Based on edge computing to enable real-time

decision making deployed on mobiles. Engineer Operator

Key Technologies

Analytics AI

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 HSE Risks Analytics: Leverages Text Analytics to
Classify Incidents and Severity Risks

Key Benefits
Description
• Improve safety Compliance
• Reduce safety incidents
• Uses Text Analytics and Deep Learning
models to cleanse database for HSE Risks
Management.

• Classify incidents by adding hazard type and

Key Users
reclassify severity risks

• Automate the process by making the task less

intensive and eliminate manual input via text
analytics. Engineer Operator

Key Technologies

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 Localization Potential of AI and Big Data

Connectivity/ Software/
Hardware Support Services
System Integration Platform

• Servers • System integration • Advanced Analytics • Development and

and AI Software and deployment of
• Storage units • System connectivity and Platforms. advanced data
networks analytics solutions
• Sensors • Computer Vision
Solutions. • Upskilling/Training
• High Performance
Computing (HPC) • Edge AI • Data Labeling
• Support &
• Graphics Processing
Maintenance
Units (GPU)

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Support/Maintenance/Training Services

• Provide on-site support to ensure

solutions/applications/systems integrity and health

• Provide needed maintenance and fine-tuning

services to models, solutions, and systems

• Provide standard and customized training

• Develop user capabilities to utilize the solutions

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 Please direct all inquiries to:
In case you are interested in discussing these opportunities further,
please contact:

Hiba A. AlAjeeb Fares B. AlOtaibi Fatima E. Momen

Local Business Development Local Business Development Local Business Development
Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco
hiba.alajeeb.1@aramco.com fares.alotaibi.4@aramco.com fatima.momen@aramco.com

For more business development and market

information, please visit:
Website: www.iktva.sa/opportunities
Email: local-content@Aramco.com
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