Aveva’s acquisition of OSIsoft has caused market ‘turmoil’. ‘Folks are looking at other options!’
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Quantum computing update
TNO on quantum annealing for seismic static corrections. Aramco extends deal with D-Wave and deploys Pasqal quantum computer in Dharan. D-Wave stock in doldrums.
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EAGE Digital Paris
Editor Neil McNaughton introduces two special editions of Oil IT Journal. In this issue we report on the main tracks from the show with a focus on OSDU, the open subsurface data universe. In our next issue we will have more on the AI/LLM tracks. This issue ventures deep into the depths of what is really happening in the OSDU world, beyond the ‘party line’. If you want the puffery, go to LinkedIn - it’s free. If you want to what is really going on, subscribe to Oil IT Journal - it’s not!
In this special issue of Oil IT Journal we report from the excellent 4th EAGE Digitalization Conference and Exhibition
that took place in Paris earlier this year. Two overarching themes
emerge from the show. A belief in the future importance of artificial
intelligence and a belief in the future of OSDU, previously, and still
for most, the ‘open subsurface data universe’. A related issue that
came across loud and clear is the tendency, for some major oil
companies, to repatriate software development in-house.
Both AI and OSDU are potential disruptors. Many see AI as having the
potential to disrupt ‘regular’ science and scientists. OSDU is
similarly presented as changing companies’ relationships with software
vendors as more stuff moves in-house, including, notionally, in-house
developed, OSDU-compliant versions of ‘commercial’ applications. Both
disruptors pose an interesting challenge to the vendor community: go
along with the majors and provide ‘compliant’ software and services or
push back with helpful warnings on how hard it is to develop
industry-strength, scalable software.
Currently the AI folks appear to be working on point solutions to
specific problems where data can be accessed from available sources. To
go further with AI, more comprehensive sets of clean, well organize
data is needed. OSDU is sometimes cited in this context although as we
show in this issue, populating OSDU is proving hard and requires
funding. While OSDU development is collaborative, companies are on
their own when it comes to the huge task of loading their legacy data.
Our meta-analysis of presentations made at the EAGE event suggests that
for now, AI activity revolves around fairly low-value activities (scan,
OCR, pattern recognition). The exception to this is the huge interest
shown for large language models (LLMs) with some interesting geoscience
applications – notably GeoRAG* from CGG (now Viridien), AskEarth (AIQ)
and ENI’s work with Avvale). On the
AI downside, there is resistance from geoscientists and others to the
roll-out of the data scientists ‘minimum viable products’. On the OSDU
downside there is … well where do we start?
In fact we start here in this issue with Part 1 of our EAGE report
dealing with some of OSDU’s trials and tribulations. All the stuff that
you will not hear on LinkedIn in fact. Part 2 (in our next issue) will
cover the AI/GenAI side of the show. Speaking in the Innovation
Leadership session, Eric Ewig (PGS) opined that we spend to much time
talking about ‘the solution’ and encouraged us to ‘fall in love with
the problem not the solution*’. He was referring generally to the AI
side of the business where there are a multitude of problems that are
worth ‘falling in love with’. But how do you apply this very good
advice to OSDU? What problem is OSDU addressing that anyone could ‘fall
in love with’? Ideas on a postcard please.
Digital and the energy transition. Total OneTech and the Digital Factory. Promise and pain-points of digital energy. GeoRAG - ChatGPT for oil and gas. Panel – challenges for enterprise AI. Digital twin and the next gen integration platform. Human barriers to adoption. Round table on change management. AI and the energy transition.
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OSDU AT EAGE DIGITAL 2025
Oil IT Journal Editor Neil McNaughton reports from the various OSDU-related tracks and presentations made at the 2024 Paris EAGE Digital conference. Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies remain enthusiastic. While progress is slow, ‘there is no plan B’. The cloud service providers are also keen on OSDU which they see as a future revenue stream. Some of the lucky software vendors which have paid contracts for OSDU developments are on-board. But others are wondering how to make money from ‘open source’ software. Meanwhile, Halliburton warns of the hidden cost and time that it takes to build and scale industrial strength software.
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D-WIS standard comes out of stealth mode
IADC presentation heralds interop demo later this year for ISA-88 based drilling and wells data standard.
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Software, hardware short takes
‘Un-jammable’ quantum navigation technology. ArcGIS 11.3 ‘Knowledge Studio’ web app. Bluware’s InteractivAI V 5.0. CGG/Viridien’s ‘AI Cloud’. RAB Microfluidics autonomous oil monitoring. ATEX-compliant housing for Raspberry PI. Siemens replies to Oil IT Journal’s query on Senseye predictive maintenance.
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AI potpourri
Altair – Data science the new superhero? NIST on safe and trustworthy AI. Saudi Aramco’s Metabrain large language model.
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Folks, facts, orgs …
This edition’s movers & shakers hail from AAPG, Aspen Technology, CGI, Energy Safety Canada, Ipieca, Open Geospatial Consortium, RenewableUK, OEUK, S&P Global, SAP and Hexagon.
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Cyber security round-up
Acronis Cyberthreats report. Binarly’s Transparency Platform. Cloud Security Alliance’s AI Safety Initiative. Copia on the threat of shadow IT in operations. CybeReady’s CISO data privacy toolkit. DNV backs EU NIS2 cyber regulations. SEI on the pros and cons of LLMs in cybersecurity. New CERT tools for insider risk assessment. CCEO investigates cyber risk in manufacturing. NIST report on manipulation of AI systems. SEI leverages Neo4J graph tech in DevSecOps pipleline. Open Source Security Foundation delivers supply chain software framework. Sygnia teams with Nvidia on AI-powered edge security.
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Standards stuff
Open Footprint Forum releases model ‘snapshot’. CFIHOS Version 2.0. SEC ‘pause’ on climate disclosures. Siemens, Microsoft leverage W3C ‘Thing Description Standard’. Graph query language now ISO standard. OPC UA Cloud Initiative. ISO accredits Software Carbon Intensity spec. New HDF5 research data toolbox. IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Taxonomy. OGC Geospatial AI workgroup, new Validator test suites.
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Sales, partnerships, deployments
Optime Subsea to Aker BP. American Aerospace to Chevron. Cognite, Saudi Aramco announce ‘CNTXT’ JV. Gecko Robotics, Al Masaood Energy sign with ADNOC Gas. Wintershall Dea deploys Landmark UEM. SLB, OneSubsea, Subsea7 sign with Equinor. FluxSys, SwissAI collaborate. FLIR, UE Systems team.
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MaintNormt
Normalized taxonomy of user-generated short text messages underpins diagnostics and predictive maintenance.
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