ABB has begun a pilot project with Equinor in Norway, at the Gina Krog platform in the North Sea.
The project will enable a digital transformation of monitoring of critical electrical systems on the platform, accelerating Equinor’s condition monitoring capabilities with a focus on improving safety, reducing operational costs, and increasing production efficiency.
Adopting a collaborative maintenance model helps Equinor to start the journey from today’s planned maintenance programme towards prescriptive maintenance.
Data will be transferred from the platform’s power management system and electrical condition monitoring system to Equinor’s OMNIA Microsoft Azure cloud platform, using an onsite ABB EdgeInsight™ data pump.
From here live data will be securely streamed to ABB’s own Microsoft Azure cloud where a dedicated team will utilise the data to continuously improve condition monitoring technology and tools to be used by ABB’s Reliability Service team.
By streaming data directly to ABB, Equinor is securely transporting high-level information from assets that will deliver transparency on performance, better predictability and process optimisation.
As the pilot progresses, ABB will take over day-to-day condition monitoring operations for the critical electrical equipment, to be managed offsite by ABB’s Reliability Service team.
This will be done in close co-operation with Gina Krog personnel and Equinor’s Integrated Operations Center (IOC). ABB engineers will work inside Equinor’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, helping with generation of notifications.
Once onboard, ABB and Equinor will jointly investigate the opportunity to apply the same approach for other relevant equipment.
For more information please visit ABB’s website.