Huawei hosts ‘Global Energy Summit 2016’

Huawei held its Global Energy Summit 2016 on 6th November 2016 in Abu Dhabi, a day ahead of the opening of the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) 2016.

Over 300 customers, partners, senior experts, and industry analysts of the oil and gas sector from around the world attended the Summit. The participants engaged in discussions around the theme of “Leading New ICT, Empowering Smarter Energy,” with a focus on how to accelerate the development of smart technologies for the energy industry so as to reduce investment costs and optimise production.

At ADIPEC 2016, Huawei and its partners, such as Honeywell, Richfit, RFD, Evinsys, and Bandweaver, are jointly showcasing a wide array of solutions that cover the entire industry chain of the oil and gas sector, including high-performance computing (HPC), digital production management, asset management, intelligent tanker management, oil and gas pipeline intrusion detection, and data center.

Huawei and Partners Team Up to Provide Smart Energy Solutions for Countries along the Belt and Road
Yuan Qian, President of the Marketing & Solution Sales Dept of Huawei Enterprise Business Group, delivered a welcome speech at the Summit, stating that “the Middle East is the most important area for the global energy market. In line with the digital transformation trend, Huawei has developed a series of smart energy solutions to meet the unique and specific needs of customers in the energy industry through joint innovations with leading partners such as Honeywell, ABB, Halliburton, and SAP. Huawei has served 14 of the world’s top 20 oil companies, and worked on more than 38,000 km of pipelines for oil and gas companies in 45 countries and regions, contributing to the realisation of smarter energy.”

Huawei and Honeywell partnered to deliver the natural gas pipeline project in Uzbekistan for Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Company, which is an important part of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative and Central Asia’s energy artery that transports natural gas to China.

Liu Rui, senior manager of Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Company, said, “Digital transformation is a development direction of the oil and gas industry. The construction of large projects benefits many parties, and therefore, achieving enhanced operational safety and efficiency is always a major concern. To address this, Huawei and Honeywell have jointly developed and delivered an efficient and visualized command system, which integrates real-time monitoring, communications and warning. By integrating smart safety management throughout all the processes, the solution has significantly improved both operational efficiency and system safety.”

Elastic IT Architectures and Secure and Reliable Networks Are Major Concerns of the Oil and Gas Industry
At Huawei Global Energy Summit 2016, the Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO), a major producer of oil and gas from the offshore areas of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, jointly announced with Huawei that its Cloud Ready Data Center is now fully operational. The Cloud Ready Data Center is expected to help ADMA-OPCO address the needs of long-distance transmission and processing of a massive volume of data during offshore oil exploration and production. The Cloud Ready Data Center will also enhance the security of critical business data and applications for ADMA-OPCO.

Ayman Al Issa, Chief Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton MENA, reinforced the importance of network security for the oil and gas industry. “The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has increased the vulnerability of organisations to cyber threats. The oil and gas sector must ensure that it uses this technology to its advantage and also recognise the importance of network security design throughout the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) project life cycle to reduce the risks of network attacks against infrastructure,” he said.

In his keynote speech at the Summit, Jerry Ji, President of the Energy Sector of Huawei Enterprise Business Group, said, “Huawei is committed to helping oil and gas companies address challenges and build competitiveness in the global market in today’s digital age. Through joint innovations with partners across the industry chain, we are striving to provide cloud computing, IoT, big data, mobility and other new ICT solutions that are designed to help customers in the sector reduce cost, improve operational efficiency and enhance production safety.”