SAFETY
New Safety Standards Needed for Field Automation By Phillip DeBauche, Energy Workforce & Technology Council
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lobal oil and gas demand is predicted to increase by more than one third by 2025.
With this surge in energy demand, the oil and gas industry is being challenged to improve production efficiencies and maintain a growth trajectory in its crude oil and natural gas resources. However, the safety of the men and women in the oilfield workforce must be paramount to any other aspect of a planned job.
and automation bubble in the oilfield centers around the “what” and the “how” – the specific technology available to be deployed and the task it is designed to perform. Companies are keying in on “what” parts of the traditional job are being changed and outdated, and “how” emerging technologies such as advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine-learning algorithms and remote monitoring are driving this shift in the energy sector.
Increasingly, producers and operators are turning to intelligent automation technology to increase production in a cost-effective manner.
While the “what” and “how” may dominate the conversation, companies should not overlook the most critical element in the digital revolution — the “who”.
Most of the current dialogue around this innovation
In every case out of a hundred, process automation
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