Shell scales enterprise AI across 100+ applications with C3 AI
ShellC3 AI PlatformShell has over 100 AI applications in various stages of development and deployment across its upstream, downstream, manufacturing and integrated gas businesses using the C3 AI Platform, including predictive maintenance scaled to 10,000 pieces of equipment. Shell's Real Time Production Optimization solution uses sensor data on pressure, temperature and flow rates to calculate optimum settings, squeezing out an additional 1-2% of LNG production and, at one LNG facility, cutting CO2 emissions by about 355 tonnes a day at full capacity (up to 130 kilotons per year). Shell renewed its strategic C3 AI partnership for five years in June 2021, and in 2021 Shell, C3 AI, Baker Hughes and Microsoft launched the Open AI Energy Initiative, an interoperable ecosystem of AI solutions for the energy industry.
Overview
Shell has over 100 AI applications in various stages of development and deployment across its upstream, downstream, manufacturing and integrated gas businesses using the C3 AI Platform, including predictive maintenance scaled to 10,000 pieces of equipment. Shell's Real Time Production Optimization solution uses sensor data on pressure, temperature and flow rates to calculate optimum settings, squeezing out an additional 1-2% of LNG production and, at one LNG facility, cutting CO2 emissions by about 355 tonnes a day at full capacity (up to 130 kilotons per year). Shell renewed its strategic C3 AI partnership for five years in June 2021, and in 2021 Shell, C3 AI, Baker Hughes and Microsoft launched the Open AI Energy Initiative, an interoperable ecosystem of AI solutions for the energy industry.
The challenge
Shell has over 100 AI applications in various stages of development and deployment across its upstream, downstream, manufacturing and integrated gas businesses, and needed to replicate and scale solutions for industrial reliability, asset optimization and integrity management while safely maximizing efficiency under changing operating conditions and reducing emissions.
The solution
Shell built predictive maintenance solutions on the C3 AI Platform, scaling to monitoring of thousands of pieces of industrial equipment, and deployed Real Time Production Optimization, which uses sensor data on pressure, temperature and flow rates to calculate optimum settings while handling operational, economic and engineering constraints. Shell renewed its strategic C3 AI partnership for five years in June 2021, and joined C3 AI, Baker Hughes and Microsoft in launching the Open AI Energy Initiative (OAI), an interoperable ecosystem of AI-based solutions for the energy and associated process industries.
Reported business value
Shell's predictive maintenance solutions have realized value through increased reliability and reduction in cost. Real Time Production Optimization lets Shell squeeze out an additional 1-2% of LNG production; at one LNG facility the technology delivered a CO2 emissions reduction of about 355 tonnes a day when operating at full capacity, which can add up to 130 kilotons per year — equivalent to taking 28,000 average US vehicles off the road.
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