search button LANGUAGE BUTTON /content/statoil/en/what-we-do /content/statoil/en/where-we-are /content/statoil/en/how-and-why /content/statoil/en/careers /content/statoil/en/magazine /content/statoil/en/media-centre /content/statoil/en/investors /content/statoil/en/supply-chain /content/statoil/en/about-us i We use cookies to provide the best possible experience for you. By closing this message you agree to our use of cookies. You can learn more about cookies on our privacy and settings page. ACCEPT & CLOSE Digitalisation in our DNA Shaping the future of energy—digitally CONNECTIVITY 20bn + DEVICES WILL BE CONNECTED ONLINE BY 2020 DATA 40 x INCREASE IN GLOBAL DATA VOLUME EXPECTED BY 2025 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE $35 bn GLOBAL INVESTMENTS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Digitalisation is on everyone’s lips these days—but at Statoil, it’s already part of our DNA. Our story is one of innovation and technological development. Now we’re putting our industrial strength behind digitalisation, investing 1–2 billion NOK by 2020—on top of existing investments in IT. At Statoil, we’re investing to secure a global leadership position within digitalisation. Not because digitalisation and innovation are goals in themselves, but because digitalisation is a key enabler for our strategy. We will produce oil and gas more effectively with lower greenhouse gas emissions, be a leader within carbon capture and storage, and invest substantially in renewable energy. For almost 50 years we’ve been developing technology to extract resources from some of the most challenging environments in the world—and it has given us the mind-set, experience and enthusiasm for implementing innovative technologies. Statoil has already embarked on our digital journey. Our digital roadmap and our Digital Centre of Excellence will help us exploit the opportunities of the future. Here are six of the coolest offshore robots What are the benefits of digitalisation? What is digitalisation in practice? And what opportunities does it provide for Statoil? We’re embracing digitalisation first and foremost because it enables us to work smarter and more efficiently. It will make it possible to provide a safer workplace for our employees, continue to create value for society, and find new solutions to address climate change. WE WILL DO THIS BY: Utilising sensor technologies, cloud solutions and large volumes of data Using digital technologies to improve the efficiency of our work processes Analysing our data using machine learning to make better exploration decisions Digitalisation will enable improvements in safety, security, sustainability, productivity and cost efficiency. REAL-LIFE EXAMPLES OF INNOVATIONS TAKING PLACE IN STATOIL TODAY ARE: Automated drilling control Batwind, our innovative battery storage solution for Hywind Scotland Data analytics to optimise our drilling operations The remotely-operated Valemon platform controlled from Bergen Our integrated operations centres for onshore and offshore operations, in the US and on the NCS This digital shift will change our industry forever—and we are positioned to seize the opportunities it presents. INTEGRATED OPERATIONS New fields will integrated gradually over time, to allow us to learn and adapt to new work processes. We will gain superior situational awareness, thanks to data from all our installations. And with predictive analytics, we can make sure that we run our assets and wells in an optimal way. It all sounds quite technical, but it can improve safety, increase production, reduce costs, and reduce CO2-emissions. Our ambition is that our integrated operations centre for the NCS alone will be able to deliver increased production and production efficiency worth in the order of 10 billion kroner before tax every year in a decade’s time. That is real money, real value creation. For Statoil, for our partners, and for society as a whole. Related news NOVEMBER 9, 2017 Norway’s first platform to be remotely-operated from land On Thursday 9 November, the opening of the Valemon control room was celebrated at Sandsli in Bergen. Valemon will be the first platform in Statoil’s portfolio to be remote-controlled from land. READ MORE MAY 22, 2017 Digitalisation driving value creation Statoil is establishing a digital centre of excellence and launching a roadmap with seven specific programmes for digitalisation in the company towards 2020. READ MORE MARCH 21, 2016 Statoil launches Batwind: Battery storage for offshore wind A new battery storage solution for offshore wind energy will be piloted in the world’s first floating wind farm, READ MORE Our Centre of Digital Excellence We have established a Digital Centre of Excellence that will coordinate and manage our digitalisation efforts across the company. Digitalisation is not just about new technologies, but also about radically changing the way we work. And that’s because our most important resource isn’t oil, gas, or even renewables—it’s people. And in Statoil, we’re already well prepared with competent employees. No matter how advanced artificial intelligence gets, it will always be the people who define our success. To succeed, we must attract world-class talent, invest in competence building internally, and be open to collaboration and learning from others. The Centre of Excellence will collaborate with external specialist communities, have dedicated units for data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and leaders for digital programmes. Statoil will recruit candidates for the centre of excellence internally and externally, and the leader of the Centre reports to Statoil’s chief operating officer (COO). Excited about digitalisation and innovation? See job opportunities in Statoil here. CAREERS Digitalisation is the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities. Our digital roadmap Our digital roadmap includes six specific programmes: We will focus on: Digital safety, security and sustainability Using data to reduce safety risks, improve learning from historical incidents, strengthen security, and reduce the carbon footprint of our operations. Subsurface analytics Improving data accessibility and analytical tools for subsurface data, enabling better decision-making. Next generation well delivery Enhancing utilisation of well and subsurface data for planning, real-time analytics and increased automation. Field of the future Smart design and concept selection by maximising the use of available data, and integrating digital technologies in future fields. Data-driven operations Using data to maximise asset value through production optimisation and maintenance improvements. Process digitalisation and insight Streamlining of work processes and reduction of manual input across the value chain. Improving analytical tools and data accessibility within our commercial areas to enable better decision-making. Christian Djupvik Brandt-Hansen Control room operator Joakim Tesdal in conversation with Norwegian minister of petroleum and energy, Terje Søviknes. Tesdal is one of 14 operators who, divided on seven shifts, will man Valemon’s onshore control room. Since launching our digital roadmap, we have used software robots — hired our first digital employees, if you like — and automated more than 30 processes, making our workday more efficient. Enablers of digital opportunity Process digitalisation Reduced process lead time and manual human input for non-physical processes Advanced analytics Improved understanding of large, complex and diverse data to enable more informed decision-making Robotics and remote control Improved reliability, reduced cost and increased safety by limiting human intervention in physically intensive activities To fully exploit the opportunities latent in this digital future, there are three technological enablers we see as key to Statoil’s development: Digitalisation of work processes Within many of our areas there are manually repetitive tasks. Digital solutions enable us to reduce time spent on non-value creating tasks such as looking for data or moving information from one system to another. Advanced analytics The oil and gas industry generates large volumes of data. And in August 2017, our data centres were storing 28 PB—50 times the volume of the American DNA database. By utilising data analytics and machine learning, we can improve our insights from complex data sets. Robotics and remote control We apply robotics and remotely-controlled solutions to our physical and mechanical processes. Automated drilling, use of drones for inspection, and unmanned fields are just some of the examples of how we apply digital solutions that help keep our employees safe, creates value, and reduces our carbon footprint. Jose Vega-Lozano Drone technology is already well established in Statoil, seen here carrying out inspections of turbine blades at Sheringham Shoal wind farm in the UK HOW WILL STATOIL UTILISE ALL THIS DATA? Of course, digital technology is nothing new to Statoil. Technology has been used for several decades in our industry, automating and simplifying processes. Sophisticated sensors on drilling equipment and fibre optic cables for information sharing are already standard tools. Sensor technology has developed quickly at the same time as costs have declined. This enables us to collect more data, which in turn can be used for new purposes, for example helping to predict the need for maintenance on our equipment. Data can be made much more accessible through cloud solutions, allowing us to share data more efficiently internally in Statoil and externally with our partners. There is an exponential increase in processing capacity and artificial intelligence development. This is driving accelerated development within machine learning and artificial intelligence area. 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