Microsoft companions with the vitality {industry} within the world transition to a safer, equitable, and sustainable future. To assist this transformative journey, we’re happy to announce the common availability of Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality. Designed to assist vitality corporations speed up digital innovation, Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality is an open, fully-managed OSDU™ Knowledge Platform service powered by the Microsoft Cloud. The providing integrates with virtually any dataset and supply, permits administration of compute-intensive workloads at world scale, and shortly ingests knowledge for analytics and decision-making. Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality is developed in alignment with the necessities of the OSDU Technical Normal for open-source innovation.

With vitality demand anticipated to extend by almost 50 p.c over the following 30 years, corporations are accelerating innovation to fulfill the necessity for secure, dependable, and sustainable vitality.¹ Till extra different, cost-effective options can be found for vitality operations, manufacturing and different industrial processes, corporations will proceed to search for methods to offset carbon emissions with initiatives comparable to carbon seize and storage (CSS).

Whereas tackling these complicated points, vitality companies should additionally meet enterprise objectives. Which means enabling development and modernizing infrastructure by leveraging knowledge to realize 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 Vitality

Constructed to fulfill the wants of our world vitality prospects, Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality is obtainable in a number of Azure areas and increasing shortly to full, world availability.

We’re additionally excited to supply two tiers—a typical tier to run high-scale, performance-driven manufacturing workloads, and a developer tier designed for companions and finish customers searching for extra flexibility and velocity in constructing new purposes. Companions and prospects can begin with the developer tier to guage and plan implementation, speed up utility improvement, and take a look at OSDU Knowledge Platform purposes. When prepared to remodel their operational setting, vitality operators can use the usual tier to reap the benefits 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 Vitality developer tier.

Eliminating knowledge silos with simple interoperability throughout an in depth world accomplice ecosystem

Our world accomplice ecosystem is key to accelerating innovation throughout the vitality sector. With Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality, prospects can velocity towards objectives by profiting from simple interoperability throughout an extensible utility ecosystem. They will combine just about any dataset, utility, or cloud service whereas leveraging the subsurface instruments they already work with from SLB, Halliburton, and lots of others. To deploy OSDU Knowledge Platform purposes sooner with fewer assets, vitality corporations can even work with their selection of techniques integrators to assist put together and ingest knowledge into Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality. 

We’re happy to be working with many main vitality companions on Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality and proceed including others to our intensive accomplice ecosystem, together with: 

Enabling carbon seize and storage

Collaboration can even allow and speed up the transition to a net-zero financial system. In-built partnership with SLB, a worldwide expertise firm driving vitality innovation, Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality combines intensive 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 corporations use for subsurface interpretation and modeling, prospects can run workflows for CO2 storage web site evaluation and monitoring.

SLB CO2 subsurface workflows work with Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality to allow CO2 storage capability evaluation and long-term storage integrity analysis. Capabilities embody:

• Fast web site choice: Shortly and confidently analyze geological and environmental knowledge to establish and display appropriate storage websites and assess storage capability.
• Mannequin and simulate CO2 storage eventualities: Enhance decision-making and danger mitigation methods by simulating a number of CO2 injection and migration eventualities. Assess storage integrity, containment danger and injection efficiency for long run, secure CO2 storage.
• Cut back capital and operational prices: Determine potential inefficiencies within the design part to optimize operational security and allow steady operations. Construct a cheap 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 Vitality provides prospects new instruments to assist velocity implementation, integration, and innovation with organizations already utilizing the platform for transformative options.

For instance, the simple integration helped Norwegian vitality firm Aker BP velocity time-to-market by integrating Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality with SLB and Halliburton purposes to get rid of knowledge siloes and time-consuming guide processes. Aker BP is empowered throughout the group with strategic insights to make higher choices on the operational, engineering, and government ranges, with higher predictability that helps get monetary savings and enhance productiveness. Working with extra precision permits Aker BP to not solely decrease operational prices, but additionally enhance plant up-time whereas lowering CO2 emissions.

TotalEnergies is one other early adopter of Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality. The corporate studies ease-of-deployment that completes in two hours with only a single click on. And since Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality 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 corporations 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 technique to implement the {industry}’s knowledge platform requirements to assist set up, handle, and analyze huge portions of knowledge. To get rid of knowledge silos and equip workers with data to make efficient choices, Equinor determined to goal knowledge effectivity and a low-carbon future with Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality.

Equinor believed that the problems confronted by the {industry} have been too essential to attend. By changing into an early adopter of Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality, the agency was in a position to combine beforehand siloed knowledge and get actionable insights comparable to finding ideally suited places for carbon seize and storage. Now, a virtually limitless quantity of knowledge might be saved within the cloud, the place it’s safe, quality-controlled, and simply accessible. With an built-in resolution based mostly on Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality, Equinor expects to cut back emissions and enhance the effectivity of its hydrocarbon extraction, whereas optimizing the success of recent sustainable vitality ventures.

“The scalability, elasticity, and adaptability of Microsoft Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality gives us with an excellent 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 part of us in Houston for the Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality launch occasion

Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality is obtainable right this moment to assist the vitality corporations of tomorrow modernize knowledge and digitally rework to supply safe, dependable, and sustainable vitality for generations to return. We additionally invite you to hitch the Microsoft Vitality and Sources Workforce, our companions, and prospects, for a launch occasion the place you may study 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. House is proscribed, so safe your spot by registering right here. We hope to see you on the Houston Ion on August 30, 2023.

Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality

Speed up your journey to vitality knowledge modernization and digital transformation.

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¹EIA tasks almost 50% enhance in world vitality utilization by 2050, led by development in Asia, U.S. Vitality Info Administration.