David Smith (Baker Hughes) reported recently on a planned extension to the OSDU Forum’s scope, a new Operations Windfarm Service (OWS) running on the OSDU platform. OSDU’s planned new energy projects include wind, solar, hydrogen and other emerging energy solutions. The OSDU data models that support oil and gas assets, like wellbores, are to be extended to support wind turbines and photovoltaics.
First out of the starting blocks is wind power where OSDU’s work with real-time data streams, OPC-UA and other workstreams including drilling and wells interoperability offers potential synergies.
Smith argues that an early start to addressing the challenges of wind power data is needed as this is ‘problematically siloed’ due to cost and technology challenges and OEM secrecy. The OWS will provide visibility of operations and equipment health, KPIs for tracking productivity and costs and data for forecasting weather events and equipment issues.
During OWS due diligence, OSDU champion Johan Krebbers interviewed wind players including Siemens, Schneider Electric and Emerson for observations on data standards. Intel, Baker Hughes’ Bentley Nevada, Vestas, Equinor and Wipro also provided feedback. The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) politely pointed the group in the direction of prior art in the form of Open-OA and the open wind data standards of the ENTR Alliance. Another ‘major finding’ of the discovery phase was the widespread use of IEC standards for electrical systems.
All of which was unlikely to derail the OSDU team’s headlong scope creep. As is often said in the standards world. Standards are like toothbrushes, everyone has their own and nobody wants to use anyone else’s. Other partners in the OWS crime include BP, Equinor and TotalEnergies. An initial POC is under development by EnergyVue and Prediktor with an MVP1 to follow real soon now. The project is to be presented at the upcoming ECIM conference in Haugesund, Norway.
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