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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Shell Global Solutions Nederland BV have signed a multi-year three-way collaboration agreement to deliver digital end-to-end workflows for Shell, using Schlumberger NV (SLB) subsurface solutions on AWS cloud infrastructure.
The digital workflows will use the OSDU Data Platform standards to improve the positive customer experience of business users, producing better insights for Shell and the energy industry, SLB said in a news release Tuesday. The collaboration builds on the existing strategic collaboration agreement between SLB and AWS and accelerates the availability of SLB’s industry-leading software, including Petrel subsurface solutions and Techlog wellbore solutions, on AWS, the release said.
The OSDU Forum, an open group that governs the legal framework and community work for the OSDU Data Platform, said its mission is to deliver “an open-source, standards-based, technology-agnostic data platform for the energy industry”, according to the group’s website.
The three companies share a long-term commitment to the OSDU Data Platform, which represents community standardization, open source, open marketplace, the ability to liberate industry data and to maximize the technology footprint available to the industry. The expansion of SLB’s multi-platform strategy to include AWS demonstrates the potential of the platform’s openness “without the requirement for costly and inefficient adaptation of applications”, SLB said.
“Cloud-based computer power and reliable, available OSDU Technical Standard-compliant data, will be a foundation for efficient subsurface workflows and help bring data to our engineers’ fingertips”, Shell EVP for Development and Subsurface Edwin Verdonk said. “Shell is committed to ongoing support and contributions to the OSDU Forum Community, as well as to accelerating the availability of commercial solutions. Through this MOU [memorandum of understanding] with SLB and AWS we aim to accelerate the arrival of cloud solutions and enabling OSDU Data Platform access”.
“SLB, Shell, and AWS are aligned on the importance and further deployment of the OSDU Data Platform”, SLB President for Digital and Integration Rakesh Jaggi said. “Our long commitment to openness enables us to deploy SLB solutions with AWS. This expands customers’ choice of cloud provider, giving them access to AWS’ significant service offering and cloud computing power for wider collaboration and increased efficiency”.
“This collaboration with Shell and SLB will set a new standard for application and data interoperability, to provide the best user experience at the lowest cost of operation”. AWS Gefen General Manager for Energy and Utilities Howard Gefen said. “The combined capabilities across Shell, SLB, and AWS will not only ensure the delivery of value at scale, but will unlock areas of innovation where the collaboration will develop new approaches and solutions to the challenges faced in subsurface workflows seen across the energy industry”.
Earlier in the month, SLB launched its carbon storage screening and ranking solution, which it said “increases confidence in site selection decisions based on scientific analysis of the long-term integrity and economic potential of an asset”, according to a separate news release.
The screening and ranking solution uses both technical and nontechnical data to provide a detailed assessment of the capacity and economic viability of storage sites while identifying potential risks. A benchmark comparison, pulling from successful storage projects globally, is created to provide a relative basis for ranking each site, the release said.
“CCUS [carbon capture, storage, and utilization] is one of the most immediate opportunities to reduce emissions, but it must scale up by 100 to 200 times in less than three decades to have the expected impact on global net zero ambitions”, SLB Senior Vice President of Carbon Solutions Frederik Majkut said. “Ensuring that a storage site is both safer and economical is crucial for the speed, scale, and investment needed to meaningfully drive CCUS growth for a low carbon energy ecosystem”.
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