The Next Frontier for Digital Technologies in Oil & Gas
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The Next Frontier for Digital Technologies in Oil & Gas
- 66. Innovation connections Western Australia – Last 4 years
Editor's Notes
- Who am I and what do I do
- Some context background Thought leadership
- Actual leadership Woodside has done 2 things to become more productive Set out a technology roadmap Set out an intent to collaborate We don’t know everything We know what we are good at but we also understand where we want to be good at exploiting other peoples expertise in our business
- Before we look at the the 5 tech Woodside has done 2 things to become more productive Set out a technology roadmap Set out an intent to collaborate
- Digital technologies help with design and validation
- Left-hand turns are generally considered unsafe and wasteful on right-hand driving roads, such as those in the US. "Left-turning traffic typically has to turn against a flow of oncoming vehicles," "This can not only be dangerous, but makes traffic build up, unless you install a dedicated left-turn 'phase,' which is fine but basically adds 30 or 45 seconds to everyone else's single time," he said. A study on crash factors in intersection-related accidents from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Association shows that turning left is one of the leading "critical pre-crash events" (an event that made a collision inevitable), occurring in 22.2 percent of crashes, as opposed to 1.2 percent for right turns. About 61 percent of crashes that occur while turning or crossing an intersection involve left turns, as opposed to just 3.1 percent involving right turns. Left turns are also three times more likely to kill pedestrians than right ones, according to data collected by New York City's transportation planners.
- UPS started avoiding left turns in the 1970s, when it came up with a method called "loop dispatch," plotting deliveries in a right-turning loop and starting with one side of the street first In 2008, it launched a routing software to calculate the best possible route for each truck while favoring right-hand turns, called Orion: "It took 10 years to get it right. The hardest part was making it think more like a driver and less like a computer," said Levis. UPS, which makes 18 million deliveries a day in the US, says that Orion analyzes 250 million address points a day and performs 30,000 route optimizations per minute. This saves the company $300 to $400 million annually in fuel, wages and vehicle running costs: "Our basic routines were already good, and allowed us to save about 85 million miles a year. When we put Orion on top of those, it shaved off an extra 100 million miles, and the savings got up to 185 million miles a year."
- A global aluminium refinery had suffered chronic premature filter clogging, resulting in costly and frequent plant shutdowns The plant process has numerous interdependent processing areas and complicated chemical reactions – making it particularly complex For 20 filters, 12 months worth of data with 77,000 sensors and data (structured and unstructured) aggregated from 3 different source systems, VROC processed 44.4 billion data points within hours VROC provided the engineers and operators with the combination of dominant factors that were causing the fault, allowing them to implement a long-term fix
- VROC calculated the confidence level of being able to predict future faults before they occur, allowing appropriate action to be taken in order to avoid the fault manifesting $1,000,000 per month expected benefits in reduction of maintenance costs and downtime for this particular fault Based on this initial project, the aluminium refinery giant has recommended VROC to assist a joint venture company in the middle east to identify the root cause of their equipment failures
- Performing data analytics for business improvement Remember people and process in IOT
- Complex geometrical parts
- Resolution0.100 mm (0.0039 in.)0.050 mm (0.0020 in.) Part size range (recommended)0.1 – 4 m (0.3 – 13 ft)
- Since 2008, Coogee has been working in partnership with CSIRO in Melbourne to develop a two-step continuous process for the manufacture of titanium metal in powder form. The TiROTM process produces high quality, commercially pure titanium powder on a continuous basis. The advantage of TiROTM powder is that it can be consolidated directly without having to be remelted and without very expensive and wasteful machining steps. The technology has now been proven at pilot scale, generating 2.5kg per hour of titanium. The next step is to scale-up to a 200 tonnes per annum plant. This will allow further testing and development before potentially scaling further to a full commercial plant capable of producing in the order of 2,000 tonnes per annum. The future is exciting for titanium of this quality, manufactured cost effectively, energy efficiently and with low CO2 emissions. A new potential application for TiROTM powder is in 3D printing of specialist high-end components.
- The full potential of 3D printing will be evident only when companies can download a 3D file that contains all of the data required to create a spare part, including the CAD file, process parameters, and material composition. How to manage the intellectual property (IP) that is bound up in these components is not yet a major concern among either suppliers or customers — but it should be. Only 25 percent of the spare parts suppliers that responded to our survey say that they have decided whether to sell the data files for their spare parts independently of the physical part. On the other hand, just 11 percent of the companies that purchase spare parts say they fully understand whether or not the designs of the parts they buy are protected by copyright; 37 percent say they broadly understand it, 26 percent understand it to some extent, and another 26 percent say they don’t understand it at all (see Exhibit 13). This uncertainty regarding IP among both suppliers and customers needs to be addressed before companies are willing to sell spare parts design data as well as the physical part.
- To move to this next stage of manufacturing they need to know that their IP is safe. One likely outcome will be the rise of “platforms” for the sale of 3D printing files, similar to music streaming platforms — a shift that could totally transform the spare parts business, just as it has the music industry.
- Woodside has done 2 things to become more productive Set out a technology roadmap Set out an intent to collaborate We don’t know everything We know what we are good at but we also understand where we want to be good at exploiting other peoples expertise in our business