Rockwell Automation, Sensia, SLB and Cognite announced a collaboration that will help to better optimize asset performance and accelerate the evolution of the offshore industry’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facilities. Digital capabilities developed by
the four-company coalition will help to improve the reliability, availability, safety, and efficiency of these critical assets while lowering the carbon footprint of their offshore operations.
The coalition integrates the data life cycle with targeted automation, analytics, simulation and visualization capabilities to help enhance efficiencies in FPSO performance. This can result in better optimized equipment utilization and energy consumption, improved safety, reduced risks of equipment failure and unplanned downtime, plus better-informed strategic decision making.
SLB has been awarded a contract to develop and implement a control system and dynamic process simulation solution for Petrobras. This strategic multipurpose dynamic simulation (MPDS) solution is being developed in partnership with Inprocess Technology and Consulting Group, a provider of MPDS solutions, and Sensia, a control system and automation specialist in oil and gas.
As a global OEM module automation supplier, Rockwell Automation brings to the coalition its expertise in control and safety systems for FPSOs, as well as expertise in power systems. Rockwell Automation will be complementing the advanced digital solution portfolio of the coalition, as well as bringing network and cybersecurity capabilities to the team.
The MPDS solution will leverage SLB’s expertise as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and in offshore construction and operations to provide an immersive digital twin environment to dynamically simulate operational processes and their control and automation systems, train personnel, and help to strengthen safety elements at five new FPSO units to be installed in Búzios Field in the Santos Basin.