Description

This issue of Oil and Gas Technology Opportunity Engine (TOE) features information on the use of IoT solution to enable real-time oil & gas infrastructure monitoring and the use of data analytics to enhance asset investment returns in the oil & gas industry. The TOE also features information on new models, which can effectively optimize the downstream oil & gas supply chain with new pipeline planning. The TOE focuses on innovations associated with the development of high efficiency catalysts for refining processes and also provides insights on the use of machine learning for optimizing the functionality of the oil & gas infrastructure. The TOE additionally provides insights on the latest developments in the use of porous zeolites as high efficient catalysts, use of sodium-based nano-fluids for heavy oil recovery, and the use of tandem catalysts for effective electro-reduction of carbon dioxide into methane.

The Oil and Gas TOE provides intelligence on innovations pertaining to technologies, products, and processes, along with strategic insights, in the upstream and downstream processes in the oil and gas industry.

The Energy and Utilities cluster provides global insights and intelligence on a wide variety of disruptive emerging technologies and platforms ranging from energy storage, advanced batteries, solar and wind energy, to unconventional oil, bioenergy, geothermal energy, and energy transmission.

Keywords: Industrial Internet of Things, lead time analysis, Big Data analytics, linear programming model, downstream processing, pipeline route planning, bullwhip effect, artificial neural networks, hydro-treatment catalysts, rotating packed beds, gas absorption, smart leak detection