Condition-Based vs Reliability-Centered Maintenance
Condition-Based Maintenance and Reliability-Centered Maintenance are both popular and often confused concepts in Asset Integrity Management. Indeed, they share some common goals: minimizing downtime, reducing maintenance costs, and ensuring the reliability of critical assets. However, understanding the distinctions between these two approaches is crucial for any industry looking to optimize maintenance strategies. Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) Condition-Based Maintenance consists of a predictive maintenance approach that analyzes the historical performance data of machines to forecast when one is likely to fail, limit the time it is out of service, and identify the root cause of the problem. The idea here [...]
5 Essentials of Hull Damage Prevention for ships and FPSOs
Hull damages such as cracks and discontinuities can lead to oil leaks, implicating direct emergency costs surpassing USD 50,000,000, according to Brazil's National Petroleum Agency. From oil spills to accidents, the consequences of hull damage on oil and gas operations are far-reaching. Besides that, hulls are the exoskeleton of offshore units, requiring regular, accurate, and efficient maintenance procedures to address the excessive wear and tear, cracks, and anomalies that these structures are exposed to. Ensuring adequate maintenance and repairs demands inspection procedures that often require rope access techniques. Even though it is a common practice, it exposes inspectors to complex [...]
Vidya Technology delivers 4 R&D deep tech projects in partnership with Petrobras
Petrobras is a Brazilian multinational oil and gas corporation, being the largest oil producer in the Western Hemisphere and the 10th largest oil producer in the world. Committed to the development of innovative technologies for the Oil, Gas, and Energy sector they have multiple R&D programs, such as the Petrobras Connections for Innovation. Through this program, they promote a series of initiatives to enhance the integration with the innovation ecosystem. The projects listed below are the result of this collaboration between Petrobras and Vidya for the development of innovative technologies for the O&G sector. Digital Approach for Process Safety [...]
Ocyan Invests in Vidya: A New Chapter in Tech Innovation
Rio de Janeiro, November 21st, 2023. Ocyan, the oil, gas, and new energies service provider announced its first Venture Capital Investment in a startup. The company now has a minority shareholding in Vidya Technology, a deep tech company that develops hardware, software, and artificial intelligence solutions for asset integrity and performance management. Ocyan’s journey with Vidya Technology started in 2020. Since then, Vidya Technology has implemented applications for both the performance management of BOPs (Blowout Subsea Preventer) and the integrity management of FPSOs. In addition, the two companies are jointly developing a hardware for the management of corrosion under insulation [...]
Enhancing Ocyan’s FPSO Fabric Integrity with Artificial Intelligence
September 04th, 2023. Vidya Technology and Ocyan have completed 3 years of partnership since the Digital Fabric Integrity project in the FPSO Cidade de Itajaí. The AI-driven solution combines Digital Twin technology, reality capture, and AI Computer Vision to autonomously locate, map, and identify visual anomalies. With up to 90% AI accuracy and identifying 256% more anomalies than the usual approach, the project was able to transform data, images, and reports into safer and more efficient maintenance actions. Industrial operations face many challenges related to downtime, safety, and productivity. The critical point common to all of these challenges can be [...]
3 Key Takeaways from the IMSS Event
The SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Brazil Section event, Integrity Management System Symposium (IMSS), took place on August 2-4 in Rio de Janeiro. The main objective of IMSS was to foster discussions in the Oil and Gas industry regarding the “New SGSO”, which stands for the New Safety Management Systems. The New SGSO is Brazil's first operational safety regulation, consisting of 17 distinct performance-oriented and risk management practices aimed at enhancing facilities and operations within the Oil and gas sector. During the symposium, 3 main topics were discussed to jointly establish a projection of what is expected for Brazil in [...]
Iron Roughneck: A Critical Component in Oilfield Operations
Efficiency and safety are non-negotiable for oil and gas operations. Advanced machinery takes on the toughest tasks to keep operations running smoothly and reliably—none more crucial than the iron roughneck. Interestingly, the term “iron roughneck” isn’t just about equipment; it’s also how American oil workers proudly refer to themselves, embodying the grit and resilience required in the field. But what exactly is an iron roughneck in oilfield operations? How does it function, and what challenges arise in keeping it operational? This blog will explore its critical role, the maintenance difficulties it presents, the power of predictive analytics in preventing failures, [...]
Podcast: The IoT trend for Industries
Transcription: Iot is one of the most popular technologies from digital transformation. The use of Iot has fallen into mainstream use. Today it is not uncommon to see devices equipped with this kind of sensor in daily lives. Iot is a technology that enables devices to communicate with themselves without human interaction. One of the most popular examples of IoT devices is the smart home and Amazon’ Alexa. Its application is so broad that this technology also plays a fundamental role in the industrial environment. The Industrial internet of things is what it's called. For industries the importance of [...]
Podcast: Industries of the Future
Transcription: The digital transformation has caused a major disruption in industries. Manual activities were automated through technologies and the trend is that this keeps going even further. Digitalization is strongly entering the mainstream. Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Industrial internet of things and digital twins are the main responsible for this revolution in industries. The application of these technologies are creating huge cybersystems in industrial plants. With the years passing by and the constant evolution of these technologies we can say that industries of the future will be based on full data-driven operation. The sharing of information between [...]
Podcast: How are digital twins made?
Transcription: Hello, welcome to Vidyacast the smart doses of industries innovation! On today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the process of creation of a digital twin! The digital twin is a well-known technology, elected by Gartner as top trending technology, attracting this way the attention of many industries. Basically, a digital twin is a digital replica of a physical object, fed with real-time data. Beyond that, digital twins could be implemented with the support of machine learning and analytics. This way the technology turns out to be able not only as a tool for real-time operational overview [...]
