Oil IT Journal Volume 28 Number 5

Zero end users

Equinor’s OSDU initiative stutters.

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OPC Foundation for Energy announced

Data exchange standards for the energy transition. OPC UA for CCUS at Northern Lights.

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OSDU – what is it actually for?

Oil IT Journal Neil McNaughton performs some traffic analysis on the OSDU website. With 200 plus member organizations on board, one might expect more from The Open Group/OSDU Forum’s public-face. No newsletters since 2022, a moribund ‘Innovation Marketplace’, unrealized ‘Energy Types’. And what to make of Equinor’s ‘no end users’?

In trying to track what is going on with OSDU*, we regularly visit the public facing home page at The Open Group. Earlier in its existence, OSDU published fairly regular updates in the format of press releases, newsletters and blog posts. The newsletters seem to have stopped in 2022, also the year of the last press. The latest blog is an interview with Patrick Kelly, Chevron, in his role as the newly elected OSDU chair. TOG’s interviews consist mainly of softball questions like, ‘How important is collaboration to you?’, ‘What does the word community mean to you?’ or ‘What is a business philosophy or principle that you follow?’, which do not really offer much insight into OSDU’s activity. A missed opportunity for the newly elected chair?

There is an upcoming OSDU Forum Member Meeting to be held in Houston, on October 30, too late for this issue, so we thought we would do some traffic analysis on the OSDU website to see what’s happening, and what’s not.

The member count currently stands at a staggering 231 corporates. Membership costs between $2,750 and $22,000 with an additional ‘sustainability fee’ in the range of $0 to $40,000 payable to The Open Group. However you do the math, OSDU is not short of cash. Better still for the organization is the fact that much of the work is done for free by its membership. The Open Group just provides the Forum infrastructure and hosts the meetings and website.

Talking of which, it is not just the communications from OSDU that appear to have stalled. Some of the activity announced in recent years is not showing much sign of life. The public-facing OSDU ‘Innovation Marketplace’ has only seen three solicitations of which one, Shell’s request for ‘data management tooling that is built and hosted on the OSDU cloud’ is interesting in that it specifies a format agnostic ‘ideal solution’ solution that covers multiple data domains, combining specialist external data services into a single workflow’. Shell’s ideal solution should also ‘avoid managed service solutions or solutions that require us to use a 3rd party cloud environment’. Good luck with that! The three Shell solicitations are now closed.

Another facet of the OSDU Forum website is the bravely-announced scope creep that is evident from the ‘Energy Types’ tab on the home page. Here we see tantalizing developments in OSDU services for windfarms, for photovoltaic, for geothermal and CCUS. All four of which appear to be stuck with a November 2021 report of an ‘MVP N°1’. BTW, the agenda for the upcoming Houston member meet mentions none of these energy transition OSDU services.

And so to this issue’s lead on Equinor’s talk at ECIM. Actually what struck me even more than the ‘no end users’ reveal was Mortensen’s entreaty-cum-cry-for-help ‘What is the actual intention of the OSDU platform?’ What can one say? Can 230 plus companies and thousands of OSDU hackers be barking up the wrong tree?

* The Open Subsurface Data Universe.

Oil country construction standards – an update

A short history of oil and gas engineering information management. IOGP Equipment Hub. CII Advanced Work Package. USPI NL AWP ‘Safari’. POSC/Caesar back with semantic vengeance! CFIHOS today.

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HxGN LIVE Global 2023

Las Vegas flagship tradeshow hears from Petronas on engineering document management, Lamprell’s digital twin for Aramco; Radix on engineering the SABIC/ExxonMobil GCGV new build; Petronas’ bolted flange joint integrity system; engineering CERN’s Large Hadron Collider; and Hexagon on the future of engineering information management.

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SLB Intersect simulator speed-up

Nvidia Tensor Core GPU trials report speedup over ‘CPU servers’

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Software, hardware short takes

New releases, upgrades from Dataiku, East Daley Analytics, Engineering Director, Exprodat, Getech, Golden Software, Opto22, IOGP, Information Services Group, Ikon Science, Inductive Automation, Kahuna, LuciadLightspeed, NASA, Nanoprecise and Opto22.

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Folks, facts, orgs …

BP. Crusoe Energy Systems. Dataiku. Deep Sky. Equinor Renewables. Equitable Origin. Flowserve. IFS. IOGP. Intelligent Wellhead Systems. Knot Offshore. Open Geospatial Consortium. Infrastructure Networks. Pyxis Advisory Group. Radix Engineering. SAP. Swagelok. Team Trident. Velo3D.

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Done deals

GeologicAI funded. Momenta, Chevron back Aperio. BP invests in Dynamon. Collabera bags Digiterre. Origin backs ControlRooms.ai. Expro acquires PRT Offshore. HxGN CEO buys shares. IFS acquires Falkonry. Parsons bags Sealing Tech. SAP to buy LeanIX. Starlims acquires Labstep. SynMax buys Gas Vista. TotalEnergies sells climate VC arm to Aster.

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AI, ChatGPT in oil, gas, energy and elsewhere

Accenture – ChatGPT a defining tech trend for the next decade. SLB unlocks AI potential for energy. Data Kinetic launches applied AI solutions for oil and gas. IBM Institute for Business Value on the pivot away from STEM skills. Generative AI at Mitsui Chemicals. iGenius Crystal in Microsoft Teams. Dataiku and Databricks publish insights from senior AI professionals. NIST AI Risk Management extended to LLMs. EU Centre for Algorithmic Transparency.

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Git for process control

Copia Automation’s software version control said to bridge IT and OT.

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Gurobi vs. MemComputing

MemComputing investigates shipment of goods and fuels to offshore oil rigs with NP-Hard analytics and ‘SOLGS’. But what’s this about the ‘cryptocalypse’?

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PIDX Digital Transformation Series: focus on blockchain

Topl CTO on blockchain for data escrow. DocStudio’s blockchain hash for document immutability. OASIS on XML and other serializations

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Standards stuff …

IOGP Reports: Well integrity standards, Offshore survey and positioning systems, Key safety indicators. NIST updates Guide to operational technology security. OGC adopts AI markup language TrainingDML-AI. OGC releases environmental data retrieval API. PIDX publishes BOL implementation guidelines and IDX spec. SEG releases SEG-Y 2.1. The Open Group publishes new Trusted technology provider standard. World Geothermal Congress releases geothermal industry standards.

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Sales, partnerships, deployments

Strata implements Optos22 at Apex Energy. Falkonry AI partners with IBA AG. US BLM selects Aecom for Slicom JV. BP, Motive Offshore contract Add Energy. BP signs MoU with Subsea Integration Alliance. Tiered offerings for Versal multi-client data ecosystem. EOT signs with AWS. FPT Software signs MoU with Toho Gas/TOGIS. Daptem Engineering deploys Fluenta technology at Nigeria’s Dangote refinery. Iron-IQ teams with Vital Energy, AWS on ‘field of the future’. Odfjell Technology implements Kahuna Skills Management. Azule Energy (BP/ENI) signs with Palantir Technologies. Petrobras contracts with Radix. SLB signs with INEOS. Cairn contracts SLB/Cognite alliance. SLB, AWS and Shell to ‘accelerate adoption’ of the OSDU data platform. SafetyChain and SiteSync joined Inductive Automation’s partner program. Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Technology acquires Velo3D Sapphire printer. Sedicosa deploys Atvise scada for Pemex. Seeq partners with Databricks. Shearwater GeoServices leverages NVIDIA GPUs. Snowflake joins IA partner program. Southern Cross teams with Satelytics. VAST Data and CoreWeave release AI cloud infrastructure. Galp Energia selects Vontier’s Invenco.

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Sharecat – equipment information in the IBM Cloud

Red Hat Open Shift technology stack offers multi-cloud/multi tenancy options.

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Shell, Accenture, Amex, EWF team on Avelia

Sustainable aviation fuel meets blockchain. Now processing ‘lie’ transactions!