Moving Forward on Carbon – Lessons Learned So Far: A Three Part Series (All Here)

Part 3 of a 3-Part Sponsored Article Series brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Powerland. 

 If you are interested in reading Part 1 of the Article Series, please click here: Carbon is Now a Commodity Too Valuable to Overlook – Here’s Why

If you are interested in reading Part 2 of the Article Series, please click here: Coming To Grips With Carbon Data – Here’s Why It’s Problematic

by Geoffrey Cann

The oil and gas industry has learned from the pandemic the imperative to have its work processes enabled for ‘work on anything, at any time, from anywhere’.  Many processes have improved but a large number remain unexplored from a digital perspective. Oil fields still feature ample analogue processes, paper-based data capture, manual workflows, and Excel-based analytics. 

Realized gains from applying combinations of digital (internet of things, AI, machine learning, automation) to operations continue to follow the 20-20 rule — twenty percent cost reduction across most process areas, and twenty percent productivity gains for all working assets (wells, facilities, tanks, pipelines, equipment, and people). The reduction in carbon emissions is even greater, typically in the 70-80% range from optimized movements, transfers, and operations. 

Executives in oil and gas who are keen to future-proof the business, mitigate the costs and capture the opportunities presented by the global shifts in carbon are seeking fresh solutions that move the industry forward and are in tune with the constraints facing the sector.

The GreenLake Advantage

HPEs’ GreenLake solution is ideally suited to help the industry break free from its carbon constraints and capitalize on the carbon opportunity. GreenLake is a reference to ‘green’, or carbon sensitive technology, and ‘lake’ from data lake, a technology that stores huge quantities of data for analysis. 

GreenLake is a data storage and analytics powerhouse that presents as a cloud solution but resides inside the oil and gas premises. As such, it provides all the benefits of a cloud environment, with the added advantage that sensitive company data (geologic data sets, carbon measurements, safety incidents) is not stored on publicly available cloud environments. These strategically important data sources face a lower risk of falling into public hands.

The GreenLake hardware is maintained in an evergreen state as a service, guaranteeing the latest processing capability is available, and freeing up internal technology teams from devoting time and energy to hardware maintenance and upgrades. Staff are beneficially allocated to higher value activities, such as delivering that mobile app for safety incident monitoring that the business wants urgently. 

Solutions provisioned on GreenLake are on a pay-as-you-use model. This approach is far better suited to the capital constrained oil and gas industry who are allocating capital more judiciously than in the past, and value the cost certainty that comes from an incremental service model.

Adding capacity is as simple as a change order on the contract. GreenLake removes the IT and capital burden of standing up and maintaining compute infrastructure.

Delivery of solutions on GreenLake technology speeds up the industry response to the carbon challenge. A new camera solution is developed that detects methane plumes at a lower cost of ownership but imposes a new data storage requirement? No problem, and no waiting for months for new hardware. The digital twin of a newly acquired gas plant won’t fit on your existing data center technology? Provision it with GreenLake with an extension to your existing contract. 

Beyond carbon, the most important productivity gains that the industry is attempting to capture are within reach in this setting. 

• Predictive analytics are improving to allow incoming data to be automatically examined and to predict future outcomes. This allows operators to be more proactive in optimizing equipment performance and anticipating failures. 
• Analytics allow the industry to detect anomalies, such as employees in unsafe conditions, or PPE incidents. 
• Diagnostics improve so that employees can more quickly understand why equipment is failing. 
• Process optimization can help unlock latent capacity, such as tank farm and blending utilization.  
• Advanced process control at the edge of the business (such as working equipment or producing wells) enables lights-out process automation at a level beyond simple engineering principles.
• Sensor technology is increasingly embedded in equipment and generating a torrent of data to be stored and analysed, and leading to better decision making and eventually full automation. 
• Better line of sight to the business reduces unnecessary travel, improves collaboration with suppliers and services companies, and reduces NPT (non productive time). 
• Integrated businesses gain from the optimization of business units with each other, a common challenge in oil sands mining. 

GreenLake Provisioning

The provisioning agent for GreenLake solutions in oil and gas is Powerland, one of Canada’s fastest growing IT solutions provider. Powerland hails from Canada’s heartland, Manitoba, and has operations across Western Canada. Powerland specializes in IT solutions integration, cloud access, cloud security, and cloud deployment. Powerland has partner relationships with some of the most highly respected brands in the technology industry, including HPE, Cisco and VM Ware.

The carbon opportunity

Carbon is now a viable commodity. By adopting new tools the industry can capture the upside from carbon and mitigate the downside. 

About HPE GreenLake

The HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform brings the cloud experience—self-serve, pay-per-use, scale up and down and managed for you—to apps and data everywhere, in edges, co-locations, and data centers. It enables you to free up capital, boost operational and financial flexibility, and free up talent to accelerate what’s next for you

 Learn More about HPE GreenLake and Powerland

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The Resourcing & Digitization of the Energy Industry (in Canada)

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About HPE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions as a service.  With offerings spanning Cloud Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.

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About Powerland

For over 35 years, Powerland has been one of Canada’s leading and fastest growing IT infrastructure and solutions providers. We plan, deploy, support and manage technology solutions for people-driven organizations. We help our clients transform their business, empower their workforce, and provide a better experience for our customers. 

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