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Huawei’s LTE Technology Takes Centre Stage in
Global Oilfield Operation By Ndubuisi Micheal Obineme
LTE integrates technology, information, people,
process, and organisation, enabling real-time
video, voice, and data across production
departments.
Huawei 4G LTE, a revolutionary solution,
enables transmission that features wider
coverage and higher bandwidth.
Now, the physical world is integrated and
connected to the LTE network for real-time
monitoring, control, and analysis.
The oil and gas industry is facing
great changes and challenges.
Innovative ICT plays a vital role in
digital transformation in the oil and gas
industry.
Huawei is committed to becoming the best
partner and one-stop ICT solutions
provider for digital transformation for the
oil and gas industry.
In the energy industry, Huawei is serving
the first 14 top global oil and gas
companies. Huawei works on projects in 45
countries and participates in constructing
digital pipelines of over 38,000 km.
In central Asia, Huawei is the only industry
digital solution pipeline provider with
c o m m u n i c a t i o n a n d S C A DA E P C
capabilities.
Huawei delivered the Kazakhstan - China
natural gas pipeline project with a total
length of over 13,000 kilometers. The
Kazakhstan - China natural gas pipeline is
one of the longest natural gas transmission
pipeline in the world.
In Norway, Huawei's offshore platform LTE
wireless coverage solution enables voice
communication, production data backhaul
in wireless services covering 37 kilometers
sea area around the offshore platform.
In Saudi Arabia, Huawei utilizes the espace
UC system to help Saudi Aramco to
smoothly evolve from the TDM system to
the all - IP multimedia communication
system.
In China, Huawei customises three data
centers in two cities core network
solutions for CNPC, deploys a total of 322
data centre core switches
CE 12800 and constructs the largest enterprise
cloud data center in Asia pacific.
Jaquin Reyes, Vallejo, Ompania Espanola de
Petroleos S.A.U, CIO said: "Huawei was able to
deliver immediately all the infrastructure we
were needing and to cope with all difficulties in
this project.
"Apart from that of course, Technical excellence
and being able to support high solidification for
SAP was an important issue”
Huawei becomes the top IT product provider for
Sinopec. The company's high-end storage
devices and servers are bulk applied in multiple
Sinopec core systems such as X86 cloud, ERP,
MES, and mail systems.
Secure and clean energy has always been the
appeal of human civilisation optimized
production resources configuration and
efficient energy supply will be the direction we
need to concentrate our efforts.
Huawei Digital Oilfield IOT Solution
The world heavily relies on oil and gas. Oil
companies will continue to explore more oil and
gas for more years. Oil companies worldwide
are continously expanding oil wells for more
yields.
Yet production, operations and management
are challenging in desert oil fields. The priority is
to improve remote connectivitity, which also
helps reduce costs with more efficient
operations.
Long Term Evolution (LTE), an emerging wireless
technology, that helps oil fields enhance safety,
efficiency, and collaboration. SCADA, security
monitoring, leak and hazardous gas detection,
and other key services are centrally carried on
LTE.
Huawei LTE solution best suits multiple
scenarios and helps manage oil field production
systems in the control center, which provides
survelliance, remote control, and optimisation.
Once the camera detects suspicious activities in
the restricted area, appropriate actions will be
taken promptly. If there is an Hydrogen leak in a
well during routine inspection, both the
installed and portable hazardous gas detectors
detect H2S concentration. The portable
detector vibrates with an audible alert.
Simultaneously, monitors the remote control
centre, display abnormal production
parameters and locations of the intrusion
including leak and inspection workers.
Then, the supervisor will ask the inspection
worker to leave immediately. The inspection
worker replies and leaves quickly.
Meanwhile, security and asset managers
coordinate nearby personnel to investigate the
leak and intrusion and perform maintenance
and troubleshooting accordingly.
Real time information about production
parameters and intruder's location are
displayed. The security personnel take actions
immediately to stop the intruder. In the control
center, the supervisor keeps tracking progress
and coordinating resources to make better
decisions. The maintenance personnel fix the
leak which is recorded in real time.
The recorded video is transmitted back to the
control center for obtaining efficient support
and therefore reducing the downtime.
Huawei LTE helps oil companies step into a new
era. The whole oil fields assets are managed,
coordinated and streamlined in new ways
based on LTE.
Huawei helps drive production by minimizing
losses and maximizing production in a more
efficient and secure way all possible on an
integrated LTE network platform.
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