关键词: 油气上游, 数字化, 物联网, 大数据, 自动化

Abstract: International oil companies have increase the proportion of digitalization to technological investment in recent years. Digitalization has become an important area in technological cooperation between oil companies and service companies. The companies of different types focus on the different areas. Independent oil companies are concerned with the digitalization scheme that can take effect in a short term and reduce the cost directly. Multinational oil companies are in favor of the integrated platform and scheme that can improve overall efficiency. The study indicates that the digital transformation scheme for the oil and gas upstream sector includes five categories -- automatic production optimization, predictive maintenance, industrial IOT, intelligent commissioning of new offshore facilities, and offshore equipment remote-control. This paper makes introduction of three typical cases both inside and outside China -- intelligent oilfield operated by Shell, natural gas HSE digital management in Australia, and application of digitalization at China’s Xinjiang Oilfield. In the highlight of China’s oil industrial digital transformation, it also points out that it is of vital importance to identify the digital transformation path that is in line with the human resources strategy. The digitalization project at an appropriate scale can be selected on the basis of old oilfields. Centering technological innovation, the advanced oilfield digital transformation should be closely linked to the sophisticated technologies, such as automatic oil reservoir estimation, intelligent reservoir control, IOT and robot.