Asserting normal availability of Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality  

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 normal availability of Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality. Designed to assist vitality firms 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 rapidly 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 % 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 development 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 Vitality

Constructed to satisfy the wants of our world vitality clients, Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality is out there in a number of Azure areas and increasing rapidly to full, world availability.

We’re additionally excited to supply two tiers—a regular 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 functions. Companions and clients can begin with the developer tier to guage and plan implementation, speed up utility improvement, and take a look at OSDU Knowledge Platform functions. When prepared to rework their operational setting, vitality operators can use the usual tier to benefit from 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 intensive world companion ecosystem

Our world companion ecosystem is key to accelerating innovation throughout the vitality sector. With Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality, clients can velocity towards targets by benefiting 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 functions quicker with fewer assets, vitality firms can even work with their selection of programs 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 in depth companion ecosystem, together with: 

Enabling carbon seize and storage

Collaboration may also allow and speed up the transition to a net-zero financial system. Inbuilt partnership with SLB, a world expertise firm driving vitality innovation, Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality 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 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, 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 a cheap monitoring plan primarily based on detailed technical assessments of storage web site efficiency.

With these capabilities, builders, knowledge managers, and technical specialists, together with geoscientists, can rapidly innovate to drive the vitality transition. 

Scaling efficiencies and operational insights with an enterprise-grade cloud platform

Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality provides clients 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 functions to eradicate knowledge siloes and time-consuming guide 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 improve productiveness. Working with extra precision permits Aker BP to not solely decrease operational prices, but in addition improve plant up-time whereas lowering CO2 emissions.

TotalEnergies is one other early adopter of Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality. The corporate stories 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 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 attain web zero by 2050. The corporate wanted an environment friendly strategy to implement the {industry}’s knowledge platform requirements to assist set up, handle, and analyze huge portions of knowledge. To eradicate knowledge silos and equip workers with data to make efficient selections, 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} had been too essential to attend. By turning 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 akin to finding perfect places for carbon seize and storage. Now, a virtually limitless quantity of knowledge could be saved within the cloud, the place it’s safe, quality-controlled, and simply accessible. With an built-in answer primarily based 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 supplies us with an excellent basis for implementing the OSDU Knowledge Platform in a method we wouldn’t have been in a position to do on-premises.”

–Øivind Berggraf, Advisor Rising Data Expertise–Subsurface

Be a part of us in Houston for the Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality launch occasion

Azure Knowledge Supervisor for Vitality is out there right this moment 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 affix the Microsoft Vitality and Assets Staff, our companions, and clients, 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 restricted, 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

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¹EIA initiatives almost 50% improve in world vitality utilization by 2050, led by development in Asia, U.S. Vitality Data Administration.