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ABU DHABI, UAE – ADNOC’s Thamama Center of Excellence has generated $1.1 billion in value since opening in 2017, the NOC revealed at its Innovation Week virtual event.
Thamama, named after Abu Dhabi’s most dominant reservoir formation, is based at the company’s headquarters, bringing together ADNOC’s subsurface specialists to further the search for hydrocarbons, optimize development costs, and improve yield from the company’s producing offshore and onshore reservoirs.
Yaser Saeed Al Mazrouei, ADNOC Upstream executive director, said: “Thamama is also helping us to nurture the UAE’s next generation of engineers and data scientists, as well as serving as a hub to harness AI solutions together with the recently established joint venture between ADNOC and G42, AIQ.”
Technology initiatives at the center include what ADNOC described as one of the world’s largest co-development of oil rim and gas cap reservoirs, designed to monetize several trillion cubic feet of gas and associated condensate while maximizing the oil value.
Another thrust is optimizing field development costs by designing wells with customized completions, deployed at scale. Thamama is executing what is claimed to be the world’s largest 3D seismic survey, providing 100 petabytes of high-resolution subsurface images across Abu Dhabi for conversion to drilling prospects with potential for oil and gas production.
ADNOC is using the center to integrate AI, advanced analytics and cloud computing into its reservoir management and subsurface workflows in order to enhance oil recovery and improve its production efficiency by more than 10%.
Its integrated capacity model creates a digital twin of the company’s full hydrocarbon value chain. ADNOC is working on over 15 new digitalization projects in Thamama with potential to deliver around $500 million annually in additional value when fully deployed over the coming years.
Aside from Thamama, the company’s Panorama Digital Command Center is said to have delivered over $1 billion in value since its formation.
The company is also applying AI-enabled technologies for value chain optimization, predictive maintenance, and blockchain-based hydrocarbon accounting. And it has realized cost savings over the past five years of $2 billion through applying advanced technologies and digitalization to optimize its drilling operations.
02/22/2021
