
The Challenge
Oil and gas automation has the ability to lift performance across the entire industry value chain but a truly optimized system requires players in the oil and gas industry to capitalize on the potential of connectivity. Autonomous drilling, inspecting, and maintenance on drilling operations and production sites requires remote management and heavy data sharing. Making the most of oil and gas automation depends on the computing capacity to obtain more information from more sensors, processing rapidly. This kind of data transfer is a high bandwidth job where bottlenecks and reliability issues are unacceptable.
Needing to enhance connectivity among teams, sites, and assets in the office and the field, as well as deploy new high performance real-time drilling and production applications is a tall order. Energy leaders need a communication solution that could reliably transport a number of different applications across hundreds of miles, without fail, and one which would require minimal IT training and support.
Without the right connectivity oil and gas automation is not an option, as the benefits of automation vary significantly depending on the underlying network support. One of the greatest challenges oil and gas companies face is establishing communications in the most remote areas of the world, as reliable communication infrastructure is not readily available and building one can be complicated. On the other hand, a smart infrastructure upgrade can dramatically transform a worksite’s data management abilities, enabling game-changing integrated automated solutions.