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(Yicai Global) Oct. 15 -- Developed by China National Offshore Oil Corporation, China’s first smart offshore oilfield began operations today.
The extensive use of smart tech is expected to increase productivity of the 20-year-old oilfield by 30 percent while reducing maintenance costs by 5 percent to 10 percent and labor costs by 20 percent, China News Service reported.
The first phase of the Qinhuangdao 32-6 smart oilfield project has installed around 400 smart cameras and more than 26,000 automatic data collection points at production platform, which is roughly the size as two football fields.
They offer 24-hour real-time access to production data, and collection of 100,000-plus items of data per second, and the generation of 6 terabytes of data a year, allowing the oilfield to achieve smart management, including early warning diagnosis, active optimization and auxiliary decision-making.
Qinhuangdao 32-6, located in the Bohai Sea, is a large heavy oilfield with proven reserves of more than 100 million tons. It started production in 2001. As of last month, it had pumped a total of 40 million cubic meters of crude oil, according to public information.
The smart oilfield project uses a series of new technologies, including cloud computing, Internet of Things, Big Data, artificial intelligence, fifth-generation wireless communications, and China’s Beidou navigation system.
The newly built management platform realizes intelligent operation and remote control management of oilfield equipment, such as maritime cargo delivery by drones, inspection robots, which provide technical support for production with less or even without human intervention, as well as scientific decision-making on output.
CNOOC plans to build on the results of the oilfield’s smart transformation, investing CNY2.4 billion (USD373.4 million) to initially complete work on intelligent oilfields within the group by 2025, said Chen Su, deputy general manager of the Beijing-based firm’s science and technology information department.
The extensive use of smart tech is expected to increase productivity of the 20-year-old oilfield by 30 percent while reducing maintenance costs by 5 percent to 10 percent and labor costs by 20 percent, China News Service reported.
The first phase of the Qinhuangdao 32-6 smart oilfield project has installed around 400 smart cameras and more than 26,000 automatic data collection points at production platform, which is roughly the size as two football fields.
They offer 24-hour real-time access to production data, and collection of 100,000-plus items of data per second, and the generation of 6 terabytes of data a year, allowing the oilfield to achieve smart management, including early warning diagnosis, active optimization and auxiliary decision-making.
Qinhuangdao 32-6, located in the Bohai Sea, is a large heavy oilfield with proven reserves of more than 100 million tons. It started production in 2001. As of last month, it had pumped a total of 40 million cubic meters of crude oil, according to public information.
The smart oilfield project uses a series of new technologies, including cloud computing, Internet of Things, Big Data, artificial intelligence, fifth-generation wireless communications, and China’s Beidou navigation system.
The newly built management platform realizes intelligent operation and remote control management of oilfield equipment, such as maritime cargo delivery by drones, inspection robots, which provide technical support for production with less or even without human intervention, as well as scientific decision-making on output.
CNOOC plans to build on the results of the oilfield’s smart transformation, investing CNY2.4 billion (USD373.4 million) to initially complete work on intelligent oilfields within the group by 2025, said Chen Su, deputy general manager of the Beijing-based firm’s science and technology information department.
