Cancelled – Operational Digital Twins: Real Experience in Delivering Virtual Worlds

Society of Petroleum Engineers Western Australia is pleased to announce the September Facilities Group Technical Event lead by Greg Sevel and Andy Jones

About the Presentation

Just defining a Digital Twin can be a complex ordeal. So, it should not be surprising that actually creating a useful Digital Twin of an Oil and Gas asset is a challenging and non-linear journey. Worley Digital and Sentient Computing have spent the better part of the last decade approaching this challenge from opposite sides, often partnering to provide a more holistic solution to our customers. Operating on the bleeding edge, we have had our share of failures, learnings, and successes in our journey.

In this presentation, we openly discuss our experiences: what worked and what did not, the challenges that we continue to face, the rationale behind each of our approaches and the future that we see for the Digital Twin sector.

About the Speakers

Greg Sevel

Greg is a Product Manager at Sentient Computing, an Australian technology company provider that specialises in solving industrial-scale visualisation challenges. He is responsible for InDI, a Digital Interface web application with a 3D viewport that connects an organisation’s digital assets to all of their data layers. His team is focused on building a lightweight, sustainable product that evolves with innovations in the technology and resource sectors and enables organisations to work more efficiently. Over the past 12 months, he has overseen the successful roll out of InDI to three Tier-1 resource companies in the past 12 months.

Prior to joining Sentient, Greg spent 10 years in the Oil and Gas sector at Baker Hughes working across APAC in various technical and managerial functions.

Greg graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2009 with a BSc in Computer Science (Computation) and a BSc (Hons) in Engineering (Oil and Gas).

Andy Jones

Andy Jones is currently the Digital Twin Subject Matter Expert (SME) for WorleyDigital, and is a process engineer and data scientist with 26 years’ experience in the oil and gas, mining, chemical and nuclear sectors, in varying locations worldwide. He spent 21 years of his career in dynamic process simulation modelling and digital technology-based solutions.

He has been developing digital twin applications for the past 15 years, a long time before the term digital twin was in popular use. Lately he has been combining the greatest strengths of traditional first principles engineering and simulation-based applications with best of the data science approach including machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is also pioneering augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) customer solutions.

He graduated from the University of Nottingham, UK in 1994 with an BSc (Hons) in Chemical Engineering and also has a graduate certificate in data science from Deakin University, Melbourne.

About the Event

Price:             SPE Member $10
Price:             Non-Member $15
Price:             Bring a friend for free, but it must be in the same registration.
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Date:              Tuesday, 21st of September 2021

Location:      Riff Spacecubed – 45 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA

Time:              4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Registration & Networking
Time:              5:00 pm – 5:05 pm  SPE WA Opening
Time:              5:05 pm – 5:45 pm Presentation
Time:              5:45 pm – 6:00 pm Q&A
Time:              6:00 pm  – 7:00 pm Networking Drinks & Nibbles