Gazprom Neft to create pilot domestic industrial digital production platform
Gazprom Neft and AI-solutions company Zyfra have concluded a Cooperation Agreement on implementing a new digital initiative, “Digital Plant” (signed by Anatoly Cherner, Deputy CEO for Logistics, Processing and Sales, Gazprom Neft and Igor Bogachev, CEO,
The “Digital Plant” initiative forms part of a Gazprom Neft project to create Russia’s first holistic digital platform for the production, distribution
The Digital Plant pilot project will be established within the company’s Gazpromneft Bitumen Materials subsidiary: the objective of transformation here being to introduce digital monitoring systems for production and quality control.
The core IT framework is expected to be in place by the end of 2018, as well as AI systems monitoring the movements of raw and other materials, together with advanced software packages to optimize economic and material accounting for the enterprise’s balance sheet. Once digitized process data is in place the project will move on to its second phase — developing a system of “digital twins” of production infrastructure facilities, monitoring reliability and process parameters in operating equipment.
(Gazprom Neft and AI-solutions company Zyfra have concluded a Cooperation Agreement on implementing a new digital initiative, “Digital Plant” (signed by Anatoly Cherner, Deputy CEO for Logistics, Processing and Sales, Gazprom Neft and Igor Bogachev, CEO,
This digital platform will integrate, store and process data, providing Gazprom Neft specialists with visualizations of changes in key production parameters. The system will be integrated into the company’s wider IT architecture for logistics, processing
The implementation of the agreement will be driven by the Gazprom Neft Digital Innovations Centre, established by the company to identify and implement technological solutions in Big Data, predictive management, and creating “digital twins” in production infrastructure.
Anatoly Cherner, Deputy CEO for Logistics, Processing and Sales, Gazprom Neft, commented: “Gazprom Neft continues to strengthen its market leadership in operational efficiency, with recent years having seen us implement dozens of digital projects. Developing an IT platform to manage industrial production is a further step forward in our company’s development. Partnering with Zyfra in creating practical industrial solutions and developing AI technologies opens up new opportunities for improving our business efficiency.”
Igor Bogachev, CEO, Zyfra, added: “We see the development of applied functional solutions — a library of ‘artificial intelligence’ in enterprise management — as both extremely promising and important, and something which could, in future, be available commercially to other companies in the oil and gas industry, and others.”
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