Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Driven by rising costs in exploration and production, increasing competitive intensity and regulatory pressures, oil and gas companies are looking for new ways to increase production capacity and improve operational efficiencies. This has led to the rapid adoption of digital technologies implemented across operations, creating what is now called the ‘digital oilfield’. Oil companies can realise vast gains as data is integrated and analysed in real-time, reducing operational costs, improving efficiency and production, and helping to comply with regulations. Considering a single oil rig can produce in excess of a terabyte of data every day, maintaining a digital oilfield requires tight integration of internet protocol (IP) communication technologies. Extending high availability communication networks into the field enables the seamless mobilisation of this information to realise new production efficiencies and safety benefits. The digital oilfield fuses two different technologies together using open IT protocols: operational technology (OT) with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and back office enterprise IT systems. SCADA provides the controls for complex oil and gas production and centralised monitoring and control of hundreds of thousands of geographically dispersed meters and sensors that enable advances in operations through horizontal drilling and multilateral wells, and allow for superior surveillance of pipelines. […]
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