Overview

Big data analytics has been advocated as bringing new benefits to business. Getting there requires some effort and this is what I will share to help you get started.

1. Introduction to my work background; which is obviously the oil & gas industry and instrumentation & controls
2. And how the above influences my search of improving operational efficiencies (personal background on gas compressors in Exxon and Talisman)– maybe data analytics is the answer
3. Brief/intro/background of data analytics – my perspective
4. Data analytics – data analytics engineer’s perspective
5. What are the prerequisites to data analytics?
6. Data historian – what are these, are they in place in the O&G?? others
7. Will data analytics work? – yes and no, constraints
8. My personal journey in convincing O&G players to see the benefits of analytics
9. Why SEEQ
10. What have we achieved so far
11. What are we looking at in the near future

Speaker

Ir. Mohd Sabri Zakaria

Ir. Mohd Sabri Zakaria is currently the MD and Principal of AZ Sepakat Sdn Bhd. AZ Sepakat Sdn Bhd provides functional safety engineering consulting services specifically in 3D Fire & Gas Mapping, SIL Lifecycle Studies and Alarm Management and HAZOP. It is a primary partner for Seeq Corporation, a software company that provides software with advanced analytics capabilities.

Ir Sabri has 35 years experience in the Oil & Gas Industry. He graduated with a BSEE from Purdue University in 1983 and has worked for EPMI (Esso Prod Malaysia Inc.), Schlumberger, PETRONAS Carigali and Talisman. His speciality is in process instrumentation and control as well as data analytics.

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Palm Oil Processing Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.