The market challenges of operating a new class of deepwater platform are significant. This world-class oil and gas organization recognized early in the design phase that by enabling the platform to be ‘Digital Ready’ from day one, they could dramatically improve future operating performance using advanced analytics. The key to achieving their goal was to build an asset data model by aggregating and contextualizing production data with maintenance data and operating constraints in a way that was both sustainable and met project timeframe and costs.
With Element, they completed Asset Twin of their platform ahead of schedule, complementing their existing OSIsoft PI System infrastructure and taking advantage of capabilities within Microsoft Azure. Using Element, the work was completed in 3 days, down from the anticipated 3 months resulting in an efficiency increase of 30X. In addition, Element Unify Data Integrity Report Cards also revealed areas from improvement around instrumentation coverage gaps, data quality, and units of measure mismatches.