Agenda – The Oil and Gas IoT Summit

This is a draft agenda and is subject to change.

DAY ONE - THURSDAY 26th MAY

08.00

REGISTRATION and COFFEE

08.40

Chair’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

08.50 OPENING KEYNOTE

The adoption of IoT technology to address climate change

How adoption of IoT and digital technology can make an impact to enable decarbonisation of operations and all things fossil fuel-dependent
A close look at IoT technologies and the application of digital twins via IoT solutions.
Future solutions to move to the end goal

Elena Cinquegrana, Senior Principal Regions, Cities & Solutions, BP

09.20 PANEL DISCUSSION: REDUCING CARBON FOOTPRINT

What mitigation practices can the industry use with IoT to reduce carbon footprint?

How oil and gas stakeholders are demanding a higher degree of accountability on the measurement, mitigation and reporting of the carbon production process.
Some examples of how IoT devices and applications can be used as a tool to reduce carbon footprint and their impact on the environment.
A look to the future

Maan Iskander, Technical Services Department Manager, Aramco Europe

Giacomo Silvestri, Group Head of Digital, Eni

PRE-SCHEDULED 1-2-1 MEETINGS

10.15 PRE-SCHEDULED 1-2-1 MEETINGS

10.35 HOSTED ROUND TABLE

11.25 PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE CASE STUDY

Implementation of IoT solution on drilling equipment

Predictive maintenance systems – identifying anomalies in equipment’s behaviour and forecasting whether it needs repairs within a certain time.
How even a slight technological defect can reduce efficiency of equipment and lead to huge financial losses due to the scale and complexity of this equipment
A look to future applications

Julian Zec, Senior Digital Programme Manager, Maersk Drilling

11.50 PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS SESSION

More coming soon!

Nadir Azam, Global Business Development Manager Offshore Structure

12.15 LEGACY SYSTEMS CASE STUDY

Using IoT to get more from ageing assets

How can you get more out of older assets with limited CAPEX investment? What do you need to consider when building new assets?
What are the ways IoT provides value in older assets?
How do you combine data out of legacy IT and OT systems with IoT data to generate new insights?
What role can market partners play in bringing IoT to older assets?

Marijn Bezuijen, Asset Artificial Intelligence Business Opportunity Manager, Shell

12.40 NETWORKING LUNCH

13.50 THOUGHT LEADERSHIP PRESENTATION

Self Service Analytics and Citizen Development

Mining full data warehouse value using self-service analytics
Project setup, structure and approach (Technical & People parts)
Changing role of IT in the business

Jaco Fok, Chief Innovation & Digitalization, OMV Petrom

14.15 TOMORROW’S WORKFORCE CASE STUDY

Preparing our People for Tomorrow - Digital transformation, new ways of working and change management

What type of competence or skill-sets will we be needing in the years to come?
The O&G industry is changing. How with digitalization and increasing focus on low-carbon & low-cost the industry will need a new type of competence in addition to the technical know-how.
A look at what Aker BP have done so far in competence development, ‘new ways of working’, change management and what the company plans to do

Prashant Soni, Digital Strategist – Concept development & Technology, Aker BP

14.40 DIGITAL TWIN CASE STUDY

Asset Digital Twin. A Systems of Systems Engineering Approach

How Digital Twin technology is increasingly capturing the attention of the academic and industrial communities; a backbone within the digital transformation.
The growing interest of system of systems (SoS) as new generation of complex, emerging and heterogenous systems to realize a common goal,
How it has become the focus of various applications; military, security, aerospace, manufacturing, service industry, health care and energy industry among many others.
A look at SoS Engineering approach to Digital Twin for supporting industrial assets thorough the entire lifecycle, as well as the industrial experience and outlook along the Digital Twin journey.

Dr. Edmary Altamiranda, Lead Technology Engineer – Concept Development & Technology, Aker BP

PRE-SCHEDULED 1-2-1 MEETINGS

15.05 PRE-SCHEDULED 1-2-1 MEETINGS

16.15 INTEROPERABILITY ADVISORY SESSION

OPC UA: One technology from Industrial and Process Automation into the cloud

Update on OPC UA in the world
MDIS and OPC Foundation a strong collaboration for IoT in Oil and Gas
OPC UA in process automation
OPC UA in and for the cloud
OPC UA and MQTT perfect combination for cloud connectivity

Alexander Allmendinger, OPC Europe Rep, OPC Foundation

16.45 DIGITALIZATION SESSION

Data sharing and the need to both cooperate and compete

A look at the role of Artificial Intelligence as a dominant area of the term “digitalization” in the future in all disciplines and work processes.
How the need for data is radical compared to present and drive the need to share more data between companies.
High value potential vs numerous but achievable obstacles
Key to success: the belief in the participants that their ability to create value out of a dataset greater than their own is larger than the downside by giving some of their data away

Roy Rusa, Chief Digital Officer, Petoro

17:15

FIRESIDE CHAT

A 360 degree view of IoT and digitalisation

Content coming soon!

Ramy Eid, Head of E&P Digital, Repsol

Prashant Soni, Digital Strategist – Concept development & Technology, Aker BP

18.00 END OF DAY ONE | DRINKS RECEPTION

DAY TWO - FRIDAY 27th MAY

08.00

REGISTRATION and COFFEE

09.00

Chair’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

09.05 DIGITAL TWIN PRESENTATION

Digital Twin for Assets: Digital replicas of physical assets to improve maintenance operations

Maintaining the digital twin developed during asset construction to improve asset management and performance.
Predicting potential maintenance issues and optimising operating
parameters to elongate asset life and reduce downtime.
Resolving problems quickly via the digital twin

Dr. Subrata Bhowmik, Principal Engineer –Subsea Digital & Automation, McDermott International

09.25 WEARABLES CASE STUDY

The future of wearables in Oil and Gas

How wearable tech is still in its infancy in the industrial space, and much of the developments today are largely catering to the consumer markets.
Why oil and gas companies have started evaluating the possibilities of deploying wearable devices in day-to-day operations.
Examples of wearable technology across the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors. How might this develop further?

Gabriel Guerra, VP Digital Ventures, Global Exploration, Shell

10.00 AI Solutions Session

Creating AI tools for the oil and gas industry of tomorrow

Unlocking efficiencies across the value chain via AI and other technologies
Key AI projects within oil and gas: drilling performance, reservoir modelling, corrosion detection, and product quality.
Future possibilities for AI within the oil and gas sector

Speaker confirmed soon!

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK // 1-2-1 MEETINGS

10.25 PRE-SCHEDULED 1-2-1 MEETINGS

11.35 THOUGHT LEADER PRESENTATION

How the industry is preparing its workforce for tomorrow

The problem of attracting talent – young, digitally-skilled graduates haven’t seen energy as an exciting sector to go into; how the image must change
What are the skills needed to install and work with IoT technology?
How companies that do not sufficiently value the human skills that their workers bring to the table will be outpaced by those that do.

Abul Fahimuddin, Product Manager, Enterprise Machine Learning Platforms, Equinor ASA

11.55 CONNECTIVITY SESSION

Connectivity: The unsung hero of IoT technologies

The importance of getting IoT connectivity right; the risk of project failure if you have an inability to tame the rapidly growing data deluge.
How careful attention needs to be paid to the right choice of connectivity to gain full control over your smart data streams.
4G and 5G in remote and offshore locations
LorRaWAN – low-power, wide-area networking protocol – benefits of use within the Oil and Gas industry
LNET- use cases and benefits

Speaker confirmed soon!

12.15 CYBER SECURITY PRESENTATION

Accelerating matured cybersecurity culture at the workplace

Statistics show that 38% of the cyber-security threat comes from Inadvertent Insiders where Erratic Behaviour can be part of it.
Need aggressive education, training, visual mgmt., audit & courage to give feedback to our staff on PCS Cyber-Security malpractices
Foster understanding that “we can be out of business” if we remained inaction/uneducated in Cyber Security risk management so that we can get our staff’s full conviction
PETRONAS Use Case

Sharul Rashid, Group Technical Authority, Instrumentation and Control, Petronas

12.35 NETWORKING LUNCH

13:40

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP PRESENTATION

The Industrial IoT and the Purdue reference model

How the Purdue reference model has been widely in use in the oil and gas industry for decades.
With the emergence of the IoT, there are different ways of achieving the same outcome.
A look at how the emerging IIoT trends may influence and be influenced by the Purdue reference model on topics such as:
– Cybersecurity/IACS security
– Analytics/Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence
– Sensors and sensor capabilities
– And more

Harald Wesenberg, Specialist IT, Equinor

14.05 IoT AND DIGITAL STRATEGY INTERVIEW

Integration - putting it all together for a strong IoT and digital strategy

How to embed digital and ensure we keep it consistent with an overall corporate strategy
Standing back – combining efforts across different parts of the business
When NOT to deploy/develop digital/IoT solutions

Lee Hodder, Head of Strategy & Sustainability, Galp

14:30

PANEL DISCUSSION: INCREASING ADOPTION OF IoT

Bringing all parties to the table

How adoption of IoT and other technologies is still nascent: is an overly fixed mindset to blame?
The dichotomy between the operator in the plant and the decision-maker at the top wanting to optimise processes.
The importance of involving the operator who’s actually seeing the pain point; how getting everyone on the same page within a business is important to move forward

Panellists confirmed soon!