Norske Shell implements digital twin to support Ormen Lange gas field operations
Offshore staff
OSLO, Norway – Norske Shell is using Kongsberg Digital’s Kognitwin Energy solution to create a virtual representation of the deepwater Ormen Lange gas field in the Norwegian Sea.
The two companies plan to combine this with the onshore digital twin developed at the receiving Nyhamna gas processing facility to form what Kongsberg claims will be the first fully integrated reservoir-to-market digital twin.
They started collaborating on October 2019 to develop an ‘asset of the future.’ The Nyhamna dynamic digital twin became operational soon afterwards and has been operating since January 2020. It is evolving continuously through monthly product releases, with a focus on safe and integrated work processes and optimization of production and energy use.
The first version of the Ormen Lange digital twin that followed, issued last month, mainly comprises data integrations and visualization of subsea 3D models, including production and MEG pipelines, well surface locations and wellbore paths, seabed bathymetry data around the production templates, documentation and drawings, and real-time DCS data.
For the subsea maintenance, wells, flow assurance, production technology, reservoir engineering, process engineering and operations, the twin provides unified data for everyone to access. Norske Shell aims to broaden development to specific use cases to provide its user groups, disciplines, and teams with new ways of working, Kongsberg Digital added.
07/07/2021
