Oil and gas (O&G) companies are under pressure to respond to market volatility, changing business conditions and tougher environmental regulations by working more efficiently, responsibly and sustainably. To succeed — and even expand into the renewable energy market — they need to digitalize, automate and optimize their operations.
Digital transformation and automation can deliver significant rewards for companies across the O&G value chain. Advances in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), artificial intelligence, machine learning and augmented and virtual reality make it possible to improve decision making, drive autonomous operations, track assets and monitor processes to ensure safe conditions. Nokia critical communications solutions enable O&G companies to digitalize and automate their operations and prepare for the future. Our solutions accelerate their Industry 4.0 journey and help them transform their businesses.
Power your critical communications with a service-aware network
Legacy networks were not designed to support the high volumes of real-time data generated by IoT systems with a high quality of service (QoS). Much of the equipment in these networks is nearing or past end-of-life. It’s time to bring digital technologies to O&G fields and refineries.
Our converged critical communications and field automation network (FAN) solution provides the foundation for your digital transformation with:
- Robust and predictable 4.9G and 5G private wireless communication to support a broad range of use cases at various operation sites and across the entire value chain – offshore and onshore, upstream, midstream and downstream
- Multiservice capability to provide converged communications for real-time data, voice, video and IoT applications
- Robust, cost-effective, everywhere broadband wireless connectivity
- Deterministic QoS capability and traffic prioritization (also known as ‘service-awareness’) and end-to-end redundancy protection to assure delivery of traffic for critical applications such as automation
- High scalability and flexible service capability to optimize sensor networks and IIoT applications
- Simplified end-to-end network management
- Full interoperability with legacy networks, applications and devices, including SCADA, TETRA and P25
Explore E&P use cases enabled by Nokia critical communications
Our critical communications solutions provide a robust, flexible and predictable network infrastructure that can support a variety of exploration and production (E&P) applications.
- Search and prospection: Set up a portable LTE configuration in minutes to provide high-bandwidth mobile connectivity for sensors, field workers and drones in even the most remote locales.
- Drilling and extraction: Supplement automation by enabling personnel to monitor automated processes and operate machinery at a distance using virtual telepresence and equipment such as oil skimming machines.
- Inspecting facilities: Use robots and drones to remotely inspect offshore sites, pipelines, storage tanks, platform parts, areas subject to corrosion, and complex or hazardous access points.
- Situational awareness and worker safety: Improve safety, sustainability and security with smart personal protective equipment (PPE), environmental sensors, video monitoring and geo-fencing services.
- Mission-critical voice and video communications: Keep workers safe and connected using advanced push-to-talk (PTT) and push-to-video (PTV) services with features such as a panic button.
- Predictive maintenance using IoT and analytics: Leverage pervasive wireless coverage to collect data from IoT sensors to feed asset management and advanced data analytics applications.
- Digital twins and AR/VR: Maintain an up-to-date digital model of the physical environment using data from sensors, cameras, drones and location-aware mobile devices. AR/VR systems and applications can then use this model to provide staff with real-time information, scenario simulations and instructions.
Digitalizing the Oil & Gas value chain with Nokia critical communications solutions
Bring automation to refineries and processing plants
The midstream sector can use digital transformation to optimize processes and squeeze more productivity from existing assets. Wireless connectivity is essential for digital use cases such as process and workflow automation, discovering and mitigating the impact of abnormal events, real-time supply and production chain optimization, improving asset utilization and reliability, reducing energy consumption, and reducing exposure to personnel safety and chemical hazards.
Cellular wireless networks overcome the connectivity challenges presented by refineries and processing plants that feature distributed and heterogeneous site landscapes, and obstructions such as metal piping and storage tanks. They make it easy for you to cover obstructed areas, deal with Fresnel zones and mitigate signal reflection.
Use one wireless network for all your
Industry 4.0 applications
4G/LTE cellular networks have all the features and characteristics that the vast majority of business- and mission-critical O&G applications require. And 5G is just around the corner. With our Industrial-grade Private Wireless solution, you can meet the needs of all your Industry 4.0 applications with one infrastructure that enables fast, reliable and secure data, low-latency remote control, mission-critical PTT and PTV communications, real-time video transmission and IoT applications.
Our private LTE solution is so close to 5G that we call it 4.9G/LTE. More than 90 percent of industrial use cases can run on 4.9G – and the upgrade to 5G is straightforward.
Customers from different industries have deployed Nokia private wireless solutions.
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