This short article provides a quick read introduction to digital twins applied to the oil & gas industry.

With the advent of Industry 4.0, there has been an increasing trend toward interconnectedness. Within this trend, the recommendations in this article position digital twins as a critical, connecting force.

A research paper specifically focused on the railway point (also called a switch or turnout) – the asset utilised for switching and locking rails, “slipping a track into two or more different tracks”.

The City of Seoul implemented S-Map (soil mapping) technology to create a digital twin to solve various urban problems through simulation, combining information such as administration and environment.

Report on a digital twin developed to understand the structural health of a 47-year-old pumped storage station (first operational in 1974), and determine if the asset could continue to operate safely into the future.

This article outlines how making use of advanced connectivity to optimize oil & gas drilling and production throughput and improve maintenance and field operations could add up to $250 billion of value to the industry’s upstream operations by 2030.

An article from 2019 that examined the maturing of digital twins in the North Sea focused on Total, Aker BP, and Shell who had each developed and deployed twins.

An article heralding the launch of a scaled oil & gas digital twin involving up to 300 workers processing up to 250,000 B/D of oil

A case study from Xylem with quantified ROI from the implementation of Xylem smart wastewater technology for the City of South Bend, Indiana.