Director of Huawei Nigeria Enterprise Business, Li Wei, has said that the technology firm is fully committed in bringing digital to every person, home, and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.
Speaking at a press conference with the theme Drive Data to Barrel, Embrace Intelligence to Grow at the on going 2022 NIES 2022 in Abuja, Wei said with drive by oil companies to increase crude oil production, digital transformation has become the consensus in the industry.
“As we know, the global economy and oil market are recovering after a historic slump caused by the pandemic in 2020. In addition, the trend of carbon neutrality will trigger structural reform and promote transformation in oil & gas industry.
Facing various challenges, Oil companies choose to increase oil & gas production capacity at lower costs and improve enterprise operational efficiency by leveraging technologies including cloud computing, big data, IoT, and AI, etc.
Therefore Digital transformation has become the consensus in the industry”, he stated
“Based on Nigeria Oil & Gas industry situation and pain points, Huawei released three scenario-based ICT solutions: Digital Oilfield IoT for Upstream production: using Huawei’s leading eLTE technology to realize broadband network coverage in oilfield areas, helping operator obtain wellhead production data in real time, improving O&M efficiency and increasing single-well yield.
E&P (exploration and production) storage for Upstream Exploration: The unified high-performance exploration cloud and storage platform shortens the exploration data processing time, to find out oil quicker and more precisely”.
On Intelligent Pipe monitoring for midstream: “Huawei-developed fiber vibration intrusion warning system uses AI to identify intrusion scenarios accurately. With high identification precision, accurate positioning, and quick response, helping to ensure pipeline safety and reduce theft and vandalism.
“In addition to providing high-quality ICT solutions and services, Huawei actively supports the Nigerian government in building a talent ecosystem. Till now, we have signed ICT academy agreement with over 110 Universities and schools, trained more than 1,000 government civil servants and 40,000 young students in Nigeria. We hopes to build a strong talent base camp to promote Nigeria’s digital economy development”
