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.

摘要： 近年国际石油公司数字化投资在科技投入中的占比升高，已成为石油公司与服务商技术合作的首要领域。不同类型公司关注领域不同，独立石油公司关注能够短期见效、直接降低成本的数字化方案，跨国石油公司则偏好能带来整体效率提升的综合平台和一体化方案。研究发现，油气上游数字化转型方案包括油田自动化生产优化、预测性维护、工业物联网、新建海上设备智能调试和海上设备远程控制5种类型。介绍了壳牌公司智能油田运营、澳大利亚天然气HSE数字管理、我国新疆油田数字化应用3个国内外典型案例。针对我国油气行业数字化转型，指出关键是要制定与人力资源战略相结合的数字化转型路径；以老油田为基础，选择适当规模的数字化项目；技术创新是核心，先进的油田数字化转型应该与自动化油藏评价、智慧油藏控制、物联网、机器人等先进技术紧密结合。

关键词: 油气上游, 数字化, 物联网, 大数据, 自动化