Oil & gas, energy, and mining

Smart digital monitoring with Digital Twin

A live digital duplicate of an asset, designed for remote safety monitoring, operation, maintenance planning, and design improvement.

Overview

In the oil and gas industry, it is an enormous financial load on companies and governments to manage and maintain their assets, which are worth billions of dollars and must be maintained to a supremely high standard of safety and operation. These assets can include:

Offshore or onshore platforms
Subsea installations
Petroleum plants
Gas plants
Floating plants
Power plants
Refineries
Gas pipelines
Remote power transmission lines
Remote mining installation
Heavy conveyors
Port loading installation

It is a core operation of these facilities to monitor equipment, processes, and production, not only for the profitability of the plant, but also to maintain a desirable level of safety for people and platforms. In-person monitoring can be upgraded to digital monitoring through sensors that transfer information into a live Digital Twin of these facilities and their equipment. Remote access for operation and maintenance is a unique solution that is feasible through digitisation of these assets. A digital set up would not only monitor elements like pressure, temperature, and vibration, but in time can be programmed to remotely access the full status of all equipment and processes in a whole plant.

A live Digital Twin provides smart digital monitoring and can optimise assets by allowing distance monitoring, maintenance prediction, and safety improvements. Digital Twin is a ground-breaking technology and solution with a potential to save vast amounts of money in operation and maintenance costs, while enabling advanced training and predictive analysis.

Capabilities

Key capabilities available within the University of Melbourne and our industrial partners include, but are not limited to:

Asset 3D modelling, web-based visualisation of massive 3D datasets
Maintenance process evaluation, fault probability and severity map development
HAZARD study, mapping, and management
Maintenance planning and prediction
Sensor network data integration, visualisation, and analysis
Real-time data visualisation, fluid process, dynamic equipment, speed, pressure, temperature, vibration, and noise
Equipment and process monitoring solution and variables control solution
Human safety improvement through distance operations and targeted intervention
Distance operation
Life expectancy and reliability improvement