By adopting advanced automation technologies and new processes, unique oil and gas operators could relocate from average to top-quartile efficiency, recording up to $7 billion in profits every year, according to a current research * performed by Emerson and industry benchmarking companies of onshore producers in the reduced 48.

In a "lower-for-longer" oil price environment, numerous business are turning to Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies and the promise of digital transformation to assist install proficiency in work procedures, enhance production and start the path to operational excellence. Emerson's Functional Assurance program helps oil and gas operators with confidence deploy a digital transformation approach in a targeted, scalable and measurable fashion. Emerson approximates an average driver that takes on a detailed improvement program can see profitability enhance by as much as 10 percent.

The evaluation reveals higher production rates, lower lease operating costs (LOE) and a reduction in safety threats have the greatest influence on overall functional improvements. Improvement in these areas matters most to liquids-weighted unconventional oil and gas operators and aids them achieve top quartile performance. Top Quartile is defined as achieving operations and capital performance in the top 25 percent of peer firms and requires changing historic work procedures throughout multiple functions.

For unconventional oil and gas operators, Emerson identified key innovations to rapidly boost procedures in a scalable method:

- Optimizing production with automated production surveillance, modelling and analytics and implementing produced fluids management techniques to reduce lost and unaccounted-for production
- Improving equipment reliability by leveraging analytics and automation diagnostics to lower LOE, providing greater visibility of costs per well
- Using prescriptive instead of reactive maintenance to improve health, safety, security and environmental compliance (HSSE) and reduce personnel exposure

By harnessing of the power of the IIoT and other transformation technologies, advanced automation systems can enhance operations with real-time information from a pervasive picking up layer and firmly feed that information to robust typical analytics applications. With this data, professionals-- anywhere in the world-- have better understanding to react swiftly and with confidence to altering conditions. This gives oil and gas operators the diagnostic abilities and data insights to anticipate as opposed to react to concerns, make better choices and reduce risks.

" There's wide knowledge among operators regarding improving production, yet comprehending the best ways to regularly achieve actual, lasting savings is not as clear," claimed Chris Amstutz, vice president, oil and gas industry programs, Emerson Automation Solutions. "For example, we have the software program now to help production fulfill targets by leveraging the most up to date tank design data that reveals just what's taking place in the field to stay clear of drilling the wrong wells."

The digital transformation of exploration and production indicates greater production prices, lower LOE and reduced safety and security threats, to name a few benefits. Emerson's Functional Assurance Consulting Group suggests drivers to start their digital transformation by creating a sensible plan that leads to greater production with more actionable and prompt insight into the efficiency of the field, minimizing HSSE threat by allowing the labor force with remote area intelligence, and decreasing LOE by enhancing work procedures and logistics.