The 2022 Oil & Gas Session at the Huawei Connect Dubai event heard from Li Yangming who announced two ‘scenario-based’ oil and gas solutions: an integrated oil and gas field network and a smart gas station. The network blends edge computing, AI, ‘native hard pipe’ optical comms and IPv6+ in a centrally-managed, secure network architecture that supports multiple technologies including industrial PON, Wi-Fi 6, and 5G. Hard pipe technologies further leverag Flex-E and NHP for enhanced security and network isolation. On the smart gas station front, Huawei has integrated its full-stack technical capabilities and worked with partners to build the smart gas station solution (see below). An integrated and converged edge platform based on FusionCube adds an AI capability to existing service station infrastructure.
Yangming also lifted the veil (a little) on the Pangu Supermodel that Huawei has co-developed for CNPC. Pangu, named after the Chinese creator of the universe, proposes to add AI functionality to a cross domain upstream data model. The supermodel ‘has OSDU inside’. AI smarts are delivered from Huawei MindSpore, an open Al framework (tuned to its Ascend processors) and ModelArts, a one-stop AI platform for citizen data scientists.
Souvatra Mukherjee from partner 3W Networks (a unit of Egypt-headquartered Eleswedy Electric) presented work for Adnoc to deliver a ‘high bandwidth, data centric, trustworthy network’ for diverse applications. Robert Kwong presented Singapore-based WeCar Technology’s approach to the digital transformation of gas stations. For Kwong, technology transition for retail is already a done deal (otherwise, ‘you are no longer in business’). The next frontier is the customer, ‘how are we going to delight our customers?*’. The answer is in knowing your customer and tuning the offer to his or her preferences, while respecting data privacy (of course!).
* Delighting the gas station customer through digital is not all that new. Back in 2001 we reported on Hess’ use of VoiceXML technology to satisfy hungry motorists with a pre-ordered ‘Blimpie’ sandwich.
Visit the Huawei oil and gas home page here and watch the recording of the Huawei Connect oil and gas track here. But a word of warning and a suggestion for an improvement. Some of Huawei’s Chinese speakers’ English is quite hard to follow. Maybe some of that Pangu AI could be applied to providing some close captioned subtitles. Or even better a transcript of the proceedings!
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