EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY: On the Way to the Digital Field

Digitalization is one of the most popular trends in the oil & gas sector. The wider the practice of digital twins becomes, the more questions arise about their implementation and use. The experts discussed these and other issues at the recent online conference "Digital Transformation of the Oil and Gas Sector" organized by Smartgopro. Summing up the event, Extractive Industry – a leading industry magazine on subsoil use, asked the market experts how they see the digital future of oil & gas companies and what steps have already been taken. Speakers from ER-Telecom Holding, ITPS, ABBYY, Gazprom Neft, Tatneft, and other companies participated in the review.

"The main goal of digitalization of an asset is not to get a certain effect but to properly build a production control centre that is engaged in generating business effects on an ongoing basis. The cases are adding up and bringing more and more tangible benefits. As an IT partner of the leading players in the oil and gas market, we participate in creating and developing such centres. We offer tools and technology that help the production control centre work with fewer errors and find options for building plans and technological regimes faster and lower costs. This allows companies to use their intellectual, digital and technological potential very effectively and move to up-to-date models of asset management based on calculations and forecasting," emphasized Leonid Tikhomirov, CEO of the ITPS Group of Companies.