Digital Transformation in the Energy Industry
Digitalisation is transforming the energy sector by improving efficiency, safety as well as enabling the offering of low-carbon energy solutions to customers.
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Digitalisation and the energy transition are two fundamental transformations that are changing the world and the energy industry
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Shell Works with NVIDIA to Advance Energy with AI
For more than a decade, Shell has been driving innovation with NVIDIA鈥攗sing tech to accelerate engineering, advance safety and create better energy modeling. Here鈥檚 a look at Shell鈥檚 latest work with NVIDIA, pioneering the future of energy through technology.
The Digital Transformation of Shell
Shell has been a pioneer in the development and deployment of digital technologies for decades. We have over 100 AI applications in various stages of development and deployment across our businesses; a data lake with trillions of rows of data and are monitoring thousands of pieces of equipment using machine learning across our assets.
Anyone can develop a small-scale proof of concept with a machine learning model that meets a specific local requirement. But, to make an impact and maintain it at scale solutions are needed which can be deployed globally at a rapid pace. To do this we are standardising approaches and aligning on common data structures, platforms, tools, and ways of working across businesses.
Digitalisation enables process improvements, cost reductions, production increases and increased customer margins across our businesses. In Shell, digital technology is making our operations more effective and efficient.
Shell is also using digitalisation and AI to reduce the footprint of our operations. For example, we use AI to improve inventory demand planning, reduce wastage of products and raw materials, and decrease idle time of heavy machinery, and uses AR, robotics and digital twin technologies to reduce the need for travel. AI is also helping Shell offer low-carbon energy solutions to our customers, from AI solutions that reduce the fuel consumption of ships; to smart charging of electric vehicles that optimises renewable energy use on the grid; to virtual power plants that connect decentralised energy units, from solar to bio-energy to hydropower.
At Shell, we use advanced infrastructure and partner with some of the world鈥檚 best tech and cloud providers to accelerate and scale digitalisation across our businesses.
Digital technology: The backbone of a net-zero emissions future
Read this report to by MIT Technology Review and Shell to understand why digital technologies will be key to the net-zero transition, and to explore the readiness of industry sectors to decarbonise through digitalisation.
