Microsoft companions with the vitality {industry} within the world transition to a safer, equitable, and sustainable future. To help this transformative journey, we’re happy to announce the common availability of Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power. Designed to assist vitality firms speed up digital innovation, Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power is an open, fully-managed OSDU™ Knowledge Platform service powered by the Microsoft Cloud. The providing integrates with nearly any dataset and supply, allows administration of compute-intensive workloads at world scale, and shortly ingests knowledge for analytics and decision-making. Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power is developed in alignment with the necessities of the OSDU Technical Commonplace for open-source innovation.
With vitality demand anticipated to extend by practically 50 % over the following 30 years, firms are accelerating innovation to satisfy the necessity for protected, dependable, and sustainable vitality.1 Till extra various, cost-effective options can be found for vitality operations, manufacturing and different industrial processes, firms will proceed to search for methods to offset carbon emissions with initiatives akin to carbon seize and storage (CSS).
Whereas tackling these complicated points, vitality corporations should additionally meet enterprise targets. Meaning enabling progress and modernizing infrastructure by leveraging knowledge to achieve insights and create efficiencies. To steadiness priorities, vitality organizations worldwide are utilizing Microsoft’s cloud, knowledge, and AI applied sciences to create a digital basis for a extra sustainable future.
Powering digital transformation with Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power
Constructed to satisfy the wants of our world vitality clients, Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power is accessible in a number of Azure areas and increasing shortly to full, world availability.
We’re additionally excited to supply two tiers—an ordinary tier to run high-scale, performance-driven manufacturing workloads, and a developer tier designed for companions and finish customers in search of extra flexibility and pace in constructing new purposes. Companions and clients can begin with the developer tier to guage and plan implementation, speed up software growth, and take a look at OSDU Knowledge Platform purposes. When prepared to rework their operational atmosphere, vitality operators can use the usual tier to make the most of enterprise grade, service stage settlement (SLA)-backed efficiency for optimizing seismic, wellbore, and reservoir workflows. Study extra within the announcement of the Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power developer tier.
Eliminating knowledge silos with straightforward interoperability throughout an intensive world companion ecosystem
Our world companion ecosystem is prime to accelerating innovation throughout the vitality sector. With Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power, clients can pace towards targets by profiting from straightforward interoperability throughout an extensible software ecosystem. They will combine just about any dataset, software, or cloud service whereas leveraging the subsurface instruments they already work with from SLB, Halliburton, and plenty of others. To deploy OSDU Knowledge Platform purposes sooner with fewer assets, vitality firms can even work with their alternative of methods integrators to assist put together and ingest knowledge into Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power.
We’re happy to be working with many main vitality companions on Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power and proceed including others to our in depth companion ecosystem, together with:
| Accenture | Earth Science Analytics | Petrosys | Interica |
| AspenTech | Epam | Publicis Sapient |
| Avanade | EY | RoQC |
| Baker Hughes | Halliburton | SLB |
| Bluware | Infosys | Sopra Steria |
| Cegal | INT | Wipro |
| Cognite | Katalyst | |
| Cognizant | Noble.ai |
Enabling carbon seize and storage
Collaboration will even allow and speed up the transition to a net-zero economic system. In-built partnership with SLB, a worldwide expertise firm driving vitality innovation, Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power combines in depth area experience from SLB with Microsoft improvements in cloud applied sciences and AI.
Out-of-the-box compatibility with industry-leading SLB applied sciences for subsurface reservoir and CO2 storage evaluation will speed up time-to-market. With the identical instruments that vitality firms use for subsurface interpretation and modeling, clients can run workflows for CO2 storage web site evaluation and monitoring.
SLB CO2 subsurface workflows work with Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power to allow CO2 storage capability evaluation and long-term storage integrity analysis. Capabilities embody:
- Fast web site choice: Rapidly and confidently analyze geological and environmental knowledge to determine and display screen appropriate storage websites and assess storage capability.
- Mannequin and simulate CO2 storage eventualities: Enhance decision-making and threat mitigation methods by simulating a number of CO2 injection and migration eventualities. Assess storage integrity, containment threat and injection efficiency for long run, protected CO2 storage.
- Cut back capital and operational prices: Determine potential inefficiencies within the design section to optimize operational security and allow steady operations. Construct an economical monitoring plan based mostly on detailed technical assessments of storage web site efficiency.
With these capabilities, builders, knowledge managers, and technical specialists, together with geoscientists, can shortly innovate to drive the vitality transition.
Scaling efficiencies and operational insights with an enterprise-grade cloud platform
Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power gives clients new instruments to assist pace implementation, integration, and innovation with organizations already utilizing the platform for transformative options.
For instance, the simple integration helped Norwegian vitality firm Aker BP pace time-to-market by integrating Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power with SLB and Halliburton purposes to remove knowledge siloes and time-consuming handbook processes. Aker BP is empowered throughout the group with strategic insights to make higher selections on the operational, engineering, and govt ranges, with higher predictability that helps lower your expenses and enhance productiveness. Working with extra precision allows Aker BP to not solely decrease operational prices, but in addition enhance plant up-time whereas lowering CO2 emissions.
TotalEnergies is one other early adopter of Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power. The corporate reviews ease-of-deployment that completes in two hours with only a single click on. And since Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power is a totally managed cloud service, TotalEnergies can innovate with confidence backed by the answer’s scalability, seamless upgrades, and catastrophe restoration capabilities.
Balancing world demand with sustainable operations
By modernizing their knowledge property, vitality firms can steadiness rising vitality demand with the necessity to work towards sustainable operations. Norway’s Equinor is an {industry} chief on the forefront of the transition to a low-carbon future, with a dedication to realize web zero by 2050. The corporate wanted an environment friendly option to implement the {industry}’s knowledge platform requirements to assist manage, handle, and analyze huge portions of data. To remove knowledge silos and equip staff with info to make efficient selections, Equinor determined to goal knowledge effectivity and a low-carbon future with Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power.
Equinor believed that the problems confronted by the {industry} had been too vital to attend. By changing into an early adopter of Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power, the agency was in a position to combine beforehand siloed knowledge and get actionable insights akin to finding splendid places for carbon seize and storage. Now, an almost limitless quantity of data could be saved within the cloud, the place it’s safe, quality-controlled, and simply accessible. With an built-in answer based mostly on Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power, Equinor expects to scale back emissions and enhance the effectivity of its hydrocarbon extraction, whereas optimizing the success of latest sustainable vitality ventures.
“The scalability, elasticity, and adaptability of Microsoft Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power offers us with a super basis for implementing the OSDU Knowledge Platform in a means we wouldn’t have been in a position to do on-premises.”
–Øivind Berggraf, Advisor Rising Info Expertise–Subsurface
Be a part of us in Houston for the Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power launch occasion
Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Power is accessible at this time to assist the vitality firms of tomorrow modernize knowledge and digitally rework to offer safe, dependable, and sustainable vitality for generations to come back. We additionally invite you to hitch the Microsoft Power and Assets Staff, our companions, and clients, for a launch occasion the place you’ll be able to be taught firsthand how our newest providing can allow your knowledge to do extra within the cloud and speed up your journey to vitality knowledge modernization and digital transformation. Area is proscribed, so safe your spot by registering right here. We hope to see you on the Houston Ion on August 30, 2023.
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