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Event reunited industry eminent members and discussed the digital transformation at the oil and gas industry

Criado em : June 12, 2018 | Atualizado em : June 29, 2018
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The truly and fully digital transformation at the subsea sector. This was the main topic of the Subsea Forum 2018, hosted by The Brazilian Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Institute (IBP), at Rio de Janeiro. The event, that happened between June 5 and 7, reunited international and national specialists of the main industry players – from operators and suppliers and consultants – to show the digital tools and the benefits to the sector that links systems and subsea equipments.

“The creation of the Subsea 4.0 concept is more than apply technologies, is the way we work, the means. The digital transformation is fundamental to keep the breakeven price competitive and to make a smooth transition to a low carbon economy”, said Orlando Ribeiro, from Petrobras, at the opening session.

Nowadays, the oil and gas industry competes not only with American shale oil, but also with renewable energy. However, according to specialists, the fossil fuel shall remain relevant to the global energy matrix in the long term, having its demand peak expected to 2030 and 2040. According to Marco Biseli, from Boston Consulting Group, the global energy demand will be of 17.600 Mtoe. From this total, oil will be the main energy source (27%), followed by natural gas (25%).

“Brazil has an impressive potential to supply this demand, but how to assure competitiveness? I would say the central aspects are technology, digital and analytics. The digital transformation is capable to turn deepwater even more competitive and, especially in Brazil, lead to a bright future”, affirmed Biseli. “In the last years, I have been working on many projects of digital transformation, but none of them related to the oil and gas industry. Is really good to see the industry awakening to this demand”, added.

The challenges, though, are still meaningful. As reported by Marcio Affonso, from BHGE, 97% of companies did not develop yet the ability to convert collected data to insights, to intelligence. To Brian Skeels, from TechnipFMC, the key word is risk. “If a company invest 1 million or 1,5 million in a project, it is not able to speculate and lose its investments – and the new technologies mean risk, doesn’t have all capacity certified. If we reduce the costs of subsea projects, the companies will be more encouraging to run the risk”, declared.

The Subsea Forum 2018 was sponsored by Petrobras, Aker Solutions, Subsea Integration Alliance, Total, Tracero and 4Subsea.