Nov-Dec 2025   Dec 2025

TECHNICAL OPERATIONS

• Using AI in offshore operations at SLB, Wood and Perenco - multi agent AI for production surveillance, subsea inspection video, maintenance planning and well log data analysis
• BP, Oxy using AI on wells - to detect sustained high pressure in casing, to detect if a well is shut in, and to reduce safety incidents.
• How AI risks can be better managed - DNV has a model
• The world’s first gas chromatograph with “built in cybersecurity,” from ABB - built-in firewall, and no ports are open by default. ABB’s David Lincoln explained
• Aramco making multiphase Coriolis meters more accurate for multiphase flow - using three separate vibration drivers and improved electronics

HONEYWELL USERS GROUP MEETING - THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS

• Jim Masso, CEO of Honeywell Process Automation - perspectives on how process automation is increasingly driven by software, leading to more use of AI, and how it works together with domain expertise
• The new Honeywell automation systems are designed to augment human decision making, not replace it - it calls this “digital cognition”. CTO Jason Urso explains
• How E&P company ONE-Dyas uses Honeywell asset performance management software to manage an unmanned offshore platform - Gerlof Visser explained how it was set up
• How AkerBP implements condition based maintenance - gradually implementing on its offshore assets over the past 10 years
• How Flowserve and provides CBM to its customers - after trying it in-house, it decided to work with Honeywell
• How Honeywell deploys AI in its software tools - to help operators make better decisions, and to support cybersecurity
• Honeywell’s tools for cybersecurity management - the “Cyber Watch” cybersecurity tool to help companies monitor threats on their operations technology
• Honeywell's Aptica containerised, modular software - useful in industrial processes which involve multiple steps, which are not in themselves complex, but need joining up, like pharmaceuticals
• Honeywell and technologies for future energy systems - including to operate plant with unreliable power, green hydrogen, battery storage, biofuels, SAF, and emissions management

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July-October issue   Sep 2025

OFFSHORE EUROPE EVENT REPORT

• North Sea petroleum politics and industry - The UK North Sea energy industry is not happy to have become a pawn in a political battle between the governing Labour, opposition Conservative, and populist Reform Parties
• The future of the North Sea - How it would best maintain its skills base and how UK policy needs to change, with speakers from Equinor, Shell, Wood, Scottish Renewables and members of parliament from opposite parties
• The vision for the North Sea - Stuart Payne, chief executive of the UK’s North Sea regulator, and Bob Keiller, former CEO of Wood Group, shared ideas on the future of the UK North Sea energy industry
• Maintaining the UK North Sea supply chain - UK would like to maintain or build its base of UK suppliers during the energy transition. A panel with Great British Energy, Subsea7 and Ithaca debated
• Re-purposing the UK regulator’s data - North Sea Transition Authority is keen to support people to re-purpose some of the data it has gathered from oil and gas operations, to use for CO2 storage, hydrogen storage and geothermal projects

OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY

• Energy industry confidence in transition is declining - a DNV survey found for its 2025 Energy Insight Report. Political risk is a growing barrier
• Using GenAI to do more for asset performance management in control systems - such as by telling you the wider implication of any problem. But you need integrated data sources to do it. ABB explains
• Using AI to better manage tanker loading - Diamond Key International (DKI) of Australia helped tanker terminals to run their operations more efficiently, they explained at a PIDX webinar
• LLMs and supply chain data - LLMs can convert unstructured supply chain data into structured data. The richer structured data can then be used, together with language models, to drive decisions. Wonderbotz explained in a PIDX webinar
• Groundup.ai templates to build equipment health models faster - templates of commonly used rotating equipment, which can be used to build equipment health models faster, to identify trends leading to failure modes
• How Emerson uses local AI models in managing industrial processes - including designing plant, planning control system upgrades, developing decarbonisation strategy
• Managing cybersecurity on offshore unoccupied assets - extremely difficult, particularly if you are legally required to allow people to board them when in distress. The answer is a system with multiple layers. ABB experts explained
• Using 5G in energy operations - they also offer benefits over wi-fi for a private network such as for an offshore oil and gas installation. Ericsson explained
• How ABB manages internal training - under the name “ABB University,” it covers technical developments and soft skills, and includes e-learning, webinars and classroom training
• Making a subsea digital twin from camera images together with image processing - It is possible to develop sophisticated “digital twin” 3D images of subsea equipment. This can help plan operations and understand problems. HPR explained
• Automated tools to manage machine identity - many companies do not know exactly what devices they have on their network. This makes cybersecurity much harder. Device Authority has automated tools to map them
• Improving OSV performance with an “efficiency loop” - Opsealog has a process to help operators of Offshore Supply Vessels (OSV) improve fuel consumption / emissions and utilisation

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May June 2025   Jun 2025

EXPLORATION

• How large language models (LLMs) can help in geoscience - by assisting us with search and synthesis for literature reviews, extracting data and answering questions from our own information and the Internet, Paul Cleverley explained
• AWS / TGS / OSDU: search for then interpret seismic - for years, seismic interpreters have had a challenge of finding and accessing seismic data before they can load it into their interpretation systems. AWS and TGS have developed a way to link them with OSDU
• Passive surface geochemistry for exploration and CO2 monitoring - collecting and analysing ground samples can be very useful for oil and gas exploration, and understanding CO2 in storage. Amplified Geochemical Imaging of Houston explained more

CO2 STORAGE

• Can we quantify the risk of CO2 storage? - CO2 storage risks are usually assessed “qualitatively” by making lists of adverse events that could imperil these projects and ranking them. If we could “quantify” the risk with a numerical framework, that would help. Rose Subsurface Assessment has developed such a framework.

OPERATIONS

• Salus: AI can help improve process safety and also bring in new risks - Salus Technical presented a framework for getting the most out of it
• ABB: Using genAI to make it easier to work with measurement devices uch as gas analysers, if it can automatically summarise reports
• Mapping digital skills in oil and gas - OEUK, NDA and the UK Centre for People Led Digitalisation studied the need for digital skills in different industrial sectors, how the oil and gas industry compares to other sectors, and how much more it pays for people that have them
• Offshore vessel technology developments from Norway - the first offshore supply vessel running on ammonia fuel, developments with remote operations software, the first remotely operated subsea operations vessel

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Mar-Apr 2025   Apr 2025

If industrial facilities want to “operationalise” pursuit of their high level KPIs... it is essential to have a structured data management system for sensor data. AVEVA explained, and showed how TotalEnergies does it

BAKER HUGHES ANNUAL MEETING IN FLORENCE

• Reducing geothermal costs with digital workflow tools - The key may be to have a more effective digital workflow for the tasks of modelling, reservoirs, well plans, surface equipment plans, and then improving the plan
• Services to reduce flaring and operational emissions - Baker Hughes has a range of services including its flare.IQ software and hardware tool, and services to recover and utilise the gas
• Time for “progress at scale” says Baker Hughes CEO - time to take what we have learned over the past few years and apply it at scale, said Lorenzo Simonelli
• Former US Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, NET Power, Hydrogen Council and Wabtec shared perspectives on how industry is making progress to reduce emissions- speaking at a panel session in the Baker Hughes Annual Meeting in Florence
• Constellation Energy, C3, Ode, Microsoft, Accenture shared perspectives on how to scale “digital innovation and AI” - in a panel session at the Baker Hughes Annual Meeting
• ExxonMobil, ENI, Aramco, Shell, and HIF Global shared perspectives on how industry is decarbonising - at Baker Hughes’ Annual Meeting in Florence
• How LanzaTech, ADNOC and AWS find sustainable solutions - LanzaTech uses bacteria to ferment carbon rich waste gases into ethanol; ADNOC has sent 14,000 employees on an AI course
• Software engineering company EPAM is the systems integrator for Baker Hughes’ Leucipa field production software - It has 20 per cent annual growth. CEO and founder Arkadiy Dobkin told the story

OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY

• The riskiest operational technology exposures - those with devices with known exploited vulnerabilities where ransomware has been seen, connected to the internet insecurely. We should start with those, says Claroty
• UK’s “data portals” for offshore energy - including the oil and gas national data repository, wind and wave survey data, and seabed data. Are there better ways to use them?
• Shell, BP, AIQ, AWS perspectives on AI in energy- in a webinar organised by Globuc. Having people who understand the domain remains important
• Making port calls more efficient with a data hub - finding ways to improve vessel scheduling and dock operations. By Robert Kessler, Product Manager, Marine Terminal Operations, with MIS Marine

DECARBONISATION

• Better ways to do CO2 storage monitoring - 4D seismic is expensive and not technically suitable for all projects. Gravity, 2D and spot seismic, fibre optics / DAS and microseismic may be better. A UK study looked into it
• Australian mining giant Fortescue wants to convert its bulk carriers to green ammonia power, while also becoming a major green ammonia supplier - To demonstrate, it converted a service vessel to run on ammonia

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Jan-Feb 2025   Feb 2025

AspenTech’s principles of using AI in its industrial operations software - it must be explainable, it never trains on customer data with a product for another customer, and a person makes the decision

CYBERSECURITY

DNV Cyber's advice on focus areas for industrial cyber - a survey of energy industry professionals on their perspective on cybersecurity. The company identifies specific challenges companies should address

DNV on how cyber risks are changing - how cybersecurity is getting more important, the need for more learning, and the sort of hacking attempts ships typically see

AI, simplified set-ups, spending - Speakers from SecurityGate, Palo Alto and DuckDuckGoose discussed whether AI can help with cybersecurity and the risks of AI based hacks, how to simplify your set-up, and the risks of low expenditures

Dangerous executives, people and maps in cybersecurity - Patric Veersteg of Viterra explained why cost cutting executives are highly dangerous in cybersecurity, the importance of culture and skills

INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE

AVEVA is updating its information management software - adding new data connectors, improving 3D visualisation, introducing AI

PIDX: AI to connect product descriptions in procurement - when companies send out requests for quotes with multiple items, the supplier has to connect the part description in the RFQ with part description in their own database. Can AI help?

How Baker Hughes’ Leucipa field production solution uses multiple models – physics-based simulation, machine learning data models, text based LLMs, and models of expert advice

CO2 STORAGE

JIP to develop guidance on CO2 specifications - Every CO2 storage project needs CO2 specifications. Set them too stringent and you raise costs for emitters; set them too low and you risk damage to equipment. A JIP led by Wood produced guidance

ABB monitoring CCS operations as they happen - to avoid situations which could lead to non-availability resulting from integrity breaches or corrosion

New CO2 storage play types - we normally think of only the aquifer and depleted oil and gas field. But a better understanding of how CO2 flow can be restricted in the subsurface leads to two more play types, said Dr. Alexander P. Bump

CO2 storage “Common Risk Segment” mapping approach to finding the best locations - Catherine Horseman-Wilson of Wood Mackenzie presented a study

Update on CO2 storage plans with Endurance, Northern Lights, Morecambe, Azuli - from the GESGB CCS 4 Geoscientists event in London

ExxonMobil’s CO2 storage research - to better understand the behaviour of CO2 stored in the subsurface, at scales from pore scale to reservoir scale. It is also building better digital reservoir models. Jenny Joyce explained more Subscribers only