Applied Digitalisation for Oil & Gas

What are the Goals?

By the end of this training course, participants will learn to:

• Appreciate the cyber representation of physical assets and its implications
• Effectively evaluate modern information flow and control models
• Hone digital engineering and fourth industrial revolution (4IR) skills
• Prepare the workplace for the coming generation of digital natives
• Deal with the convergence of operational technology and information technology
• Become familiar with digital connectivity and its exponential growth

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Operations supervisors
• Production engineers & Reservoir engineers
• Instrumentation and control engineers
• Compliance and safety officers
• Drilling and completion engineers
• Well services and field operators
• Data scientists & Digitalisation contractors
• Cybersecurity analysts & Computer security analysts
• Geologists and geophysicists
• Planning and business analysts
• IT specialists and managers

Daily Agenda

Day One: Overview of the Digital Industry

• Digital oilfield components
• Monitor and control networks
• Automation systems
• Lessons learnt from digitalisation ventures
• Value of legacy-based data
• Informed decisions for intelligent operations

Day Two: Digitalisation in Action

• Oil & gas industry as a system
• Digitalisation value
• Digitalisation for HSSE
• Organisation and behavioural aspects
• Machine learning techniques
• Artificial intelligence

Day Three: Integrated Cybersecurity

• Understanding the threat and its implications
• Oilfield as a critical infrastructure
• Cybersecurity vs. physical security
• Integrated solutions
• Digital policies
• Cybersecurity for contractors and subcontractors

Day Four: Applied Petroleum Informatics

• Secure network architecture
• Function-specific design
• Digital twin concept
• Digital twin vs Traditional simulation
• Virtual reality
• Collaborative online environments

Day Five: Modern Information and Data Flow

• Big data for big opportunities
• Data and information flow
• Control networks deployment patterns
• Logical operations control centers
• Project assignment
• Project design and optimization