Customer Background
Our customer is a global leader in the energy and materials industry, operating in over 60 countries. Headquartered in Scotland, this consulting and engineering firm employs 35,000 experts who excel in delivering high-quality solutions for sectors such as oil and gas, refining, power generation, chemicals, and energy. Trusted by clients worldwide, they excel in solving complex challenges and maximising value across the asset life cycle.
Customer Need
The customer sought to modernise their real-time monitoring platform for crucial upstream assets, such as wells, fans, pipelines, pressure vessels, and valves. Their goals included improving Asset Performance Management, optimising field operations, enhancing user experience, and strengthening performance surveillance. Softdel’s expertise in the oil and gas domain, UI/UX excellence, and exceptional product engineering services with a proven track record of successfully delivering large application modernisation exercises in the past made us the ideal partner to deliver a comprehensive application development and modernisation solution.
Softdel’s Solution
- Softdel diligently studied the customer's modernisation objectives and crucial features of their existing digital twin platform to develop an improved user interface.
- By carefully evaluating different solutions and designs, Softdel created a virtual APM platform that seamlessly integrates various systems, from virtual flow metering to artificial gas lift operations. The platform effectively captures real-time operational data for both onshore and offshore facilities.
- Softdel enhanced the platform's usability by implementing new functionalities and features, including:
- Asset performance monitoring and control, encompassing operating pressure and temperature boundaries, leak detection, flow restriction/blockage identification, slugging and liquid hold-up, and more.
- Production process flow management and analytics, enabling accurate forecasting and optimisation of startup, ramp-up, and shutdown operations.
- An engineering simulator for developing operating procedures, studying control philosophy, planning future expansions, and conducting training.
- A scenario development simulator mode facilitating cause-and-effect exploration, enabling operational changes to be simulated and evaluated effectively.
Standards and Technology
Framework: WPF
Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure
Programming Language: C#, VB.Net
Benefits
- Enhances user experience: The new user interface and features makes interaction with the digital twin platform more intuitive and efficient, resulting in a better user experience.
- Optimises field operation applications: The enhanced platform maximises the efficiency and effectiveness of field operations, resulting in a marginal reduction of operational costs by around 20%.
- Enables faster commissioning at sites: The capability of the upgraded platform to monitor crucial upstream assets helps expedite the commissioning activities at sites, leading to significant time savings, shortened project timelines, improvement of employee productivity by 25%.
