Digital Rig - now a Reality
Saurabh Aggarwal
Delivering Consolidated Engineering solutions for Offshore, Oil & Gas, Drilling, Well Completion, Well Intervention, Pressure control, Rig Maintenance and Carbon Capture projects
GE and Noble have unveiled the world’s first digital drilling vessel that intends to reduce operational expenditure by 20 percent as it produces alerts to inform potential failures up to two months before they would occur.
Digital Rig solution combines data models from a digital replica of physical assets, known as a digital twin, along with advanced analytics to detect off-standard behavior, providing an early warning to operators to mitigate a problem before it strikes.
Digital Rig solution, powered by GE’s Predix platform, deployed on the Noble Globetrotter I drilling vessel has been successfully connected to all targeted control systems, including the drilling control network, the power management system and the dynamic positioning system. Data is collected through individual sensors and control systems, harmonized and centralized on the vessel before transmitting in near real-time to GE’s Industrial Performance & Reliability Center for predictive analytics.
Through the learning curve, the digital twin will continue to enhance its predictive capability of machine behaviors and ultimately enable predictive maintenance.