The middle-aged anxiety of three barrels of oil: how to move from "old oil fields" to "new universes"?

On February 9, just after the New Year, the PetroChina Network Security and Informatization Conference, which has just signed a large contract with Russia for hundreds of billions of yuan of natural gas, was held, and decided to comprehensively promote digital transformation and intelligent development, reshape future competitive advantages, and the signal it transmitted aroused great concern
in the industry.

The concept of energy digitalization is to use digital technology to guide the orderly flow of energy, build an efficient, clean and economical modern energy system, and improve the safety, productivity, accessibility and sustainability
of the energy system.
According to the estimates, the cost of energy production after digital transformation is expected to be reduced by 10%-20%, and the recoverable reserves will be increased by 5
%.

Energy digitalization can also accurately determine energy demand, provide accurate energy products at the lowest cost, and new energy business models are taking shape
.

From the perspective of top-level design, energy digitalization brings a new perspective, breaks the original time and space constraints, expands the energy boundary, is a leap in the level of intelligence, and boosts the development of
the digital economic system.

1.
The latest information technology has been applied to the domestic petroleum industry 40 years ago

In recent years, international oil companies such as BP and Shell have achieved great results in the practice of digital technologies such as smart oilfields, future oilfields, and IFields, leading the future
energy industry.
The technology startup in which BP invests has developed an Earth Sciences Cloud Platform with artificial intelligence, which brings this information together and then identifies new workflows and connections to create images
of BP's underground assets.
Oil companies can then query the data in the knowledge graph, and artificial intelligence can also use neural networks to simulate and interpret the results
.
This AI-based platform will unlock critical data for petroleum engineers at breakneck speed, allowing them to make faster, more informed decisions and further consolidate upstream businesses
with cutting-edge technology.

Increasing storage and digitization demand in the EU alone could reduce solar PV and wind power from 7% to 1.
6% by 2040 and reduce CO2 emissions
by 30 million tons by 2040.

In the face of reality, China has pushed digital China to a new height with the help of the "14th Five-Year Plan", with the intention of stimulating economic vitality through deep mining of data value, empowering the high-quality development of the national economy, and providing a new world
for the digital development of energy.

Energy digitization is not a new concept, but also involves national strategic resource security
.
In the early stage of reform and opening up, because there was no giant computer, a large number of oil mineral data and materials explored by China had to be sent abroad for three-dimensional processing, which was expensive, and there was no secrecy of the national resources
.

40 years ago, China began to develop giant computers
.
In 1983, China's first Galaxy giant computer with more than 100 million operations per second was successfully developed, filling the gap of domestic giant computers, and China became the third country after the United States and Japan to independently design and manufacture giant computers, marking that China has entered the initial stage of the information age of
digital China.

The birth of the Galaxy computer was first applied to the geological data processing of petroleum geophysical exploration, that is, the scene application
in the field of geological exploration.

30 years ago, China's petroleum industry began to transition from the information age to the digital application of oil and gas fields, and the earliest application in China was the western oilfield
that was sparsely populated and adapted to digital transformation.
At that time, the author inspected the prototype of the country's first digital oilfield under the Tarim Oilfield, and then repeatedly inspected the Karamay Oilfield under the Xinjiang Oilfield, the world's first digital oilfield
.
In the 1980s and 1990s, modern technology that used wellhead sensors to remotely monitor well dynamics subverted the oil and gas field management model
.

At the turn of the new century, Xinjiang Oilfield officially proposed digital oilfield standards and passed the certification
of PetroChina in 2002.
The birth of Xinjiang Oilfield Digital Oilfield marks that informatization has achieved deep integration
with oilfield development.

In 1983, China's first Galaxy giant computer with more than 100 million operations per second was successfully developed, which was first applied to the geological data processing
of petroleum geophysical exploration.

In 2008, Xinjiang Oilfield took the lead in building a digital oilfield, and after reaching the world's advanced level, in 2010, it was sublimated to build an intelligent oilfield, build a smart city, and build a world oil city concept
.
As a pioneer in the construction of systematic digital oilfields in China, Xinjiang Oilfield has become a leader in the development of informatization in the petroleum industry and a model for
the deep integration of informatization and industrialization.

In 2013, PetroChina proposed to comprehensively build a world-class comprehensive international energy company, strive to achieve the deep integration of informatization and industrialization, emphasize that the level of informatization should be greatly improved, and maintain domestic leadership and international standards
.
During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, PetroChina has built and applied a unified information system platform at the group level of 51 companies, and the overall level of informatization has been at the forefront of
central enterprises.

During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, PetroChina implemented the overall plan for information technology, realized a new leap in informatization from centralized construction to integrated application, comprehensively carried out the construction of application integration system with ERP system as the core, accelerated the implementation of Internet of Things system, and built three landmark projects
of data center informatization with cloud computing capabilities.

During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, PetroChina incorporated informatization into the goal system of creating a world-class demonstration enterprise, took digital transformation as a specific action to build a network power and digital China, promoted major strategic measures to modernize the corporate governance system and governance capabilities, vigorously promoted the integration and application of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, etc.
with oil and gas business, and focused on cultivating new growth points, accelerating the formation of new kinetic energy, and driving the company's high-quality development
.

By the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan", PetroChina had basically built "Sharing PetroChina", built and applied 80 centralized and unified digital systems covering production management, operation management, comprehensive management, infrastructure and network security, and realized the two phased leaps
of informatization from decentralization to centralization and from centralization to integration.

In recent years, the informatization construction of the domestic petroleum industry has made rapid progress

From the early years of the "14th Five-Year Plan", PetroChina officially entered the construction of
"Digital China Petroleum".
In PetroChina, it is generally believed that the latest generation of information technology is considered to be digital, these information technologies are summarized as ABCDE, etc.
, A is artificial intelligence, B is blockchain, C is cloud computing, D is data lake, E is edge computing, with the above standard party called digitalization, IT construction belongs to the traditional information category
.

After more than 20 years of centralized and unified information construction, the domestic petroleum industry has realized industrial transformation and transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, entered a new era, officially opened digital transformation to drive the high-quality development of the oil and gas industry, and recreated new energy industries, new formats and new models
.

2.
Digital transformation of energy, and force the new track of digital economy

In the grand narrative, the digital economy is becoming an important support for high-quality economic development and a landmark product
of the transformation of the traditional economy into a modern economy.

The 14th Five-Year Plan and the outline of the 2035 long-term goals require "giving full play to the advantages of massive data and rich application scenarios, promoting the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, empowering the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, giving birth to new industries, new formats and models, and strengthening new engines
of economic development.
" On January 12 this year, the State Council issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Digital Economy", which proposes that by 2025, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy will account for 10% of the gross domestic product, and it is imperative
to comprehensively plan and deepen digital energy.

In PetroChina's digital energy concept, digitalization is a precondition and a necessary condition for intelligence, and the two have a sequence
.
The essence of digitalization is the process of structuring business such as enterprise operation and management, production and operation, and the process of combing the smallest particles of all relevant processes and key elements (people, property, etc.
) to meet business needs, and then reproducing, structuring and operating in the digital world according to certain rules
.

For the production of energy enterprises, the ultimate of digitalization is the digital twin, that is, the production environment (such as a whole refinery) in the computer to reconstruct, synchronous operation, the production environment operation of all the links that need to be paid attention to are displayed in the computer at any time, production scheduling, monitoring and monitoring, maintenance and other instructions can be intuitively operated in the computer, the real environment automatically mapped operations
.
At this time, supplemented by artificial intelligence technology, the computer monitors the data of the refinery operation all the time and automatically makes the necessary operations, which is the real "intelligent refinery" and "intelligent workshop"
.
A high degree of use of artificial intelligence technology, in order to truly be called intelligent
.

The core point of the PetroChina Network Security and Informatization Conference "value-oriented, strategic leadership, innovation-driven, platform support", which is highly concerned by the industry, is the latest expression of the field of energy digitalization, which is a subversive new production format: the comprehensive launch of digital transformation and intelligent development pilots, the achievement of milestone important achievements in core technology research, the continuous deepening of information system applications in various business fields, the continuous strengthening of information infrastructure and network security guarantee capabilities, and the "Digital China Petroleum" Construction has achieved a series of important achievements and achieved a good start in the "14th Five-Year Plan"
.

To this end, PetroChina has put forward specific requirements for comprehensive digital transformation: accurately grasp the development trend and law of the digital economy, anchor the construction goal of "Digital China Petroleum", focus on the three main lines of "business development, management change, and technology empowerment", adhere to the general principle of "value-oriented, strategic leadership, innovation-driven, and platform support", promote the deep integration of digital technology and the oil and gas industry, accelerate the construction of a cloud application ecosystem that supports the division of labor and cooperation between group companies and professional companies, and continue to strengthen new infrastructure.
Network and industrial control security assurance capabilities, comprehensively promote digital transformation and intelligent development, and strive to create new advantages in
the digital economy.

The rapid development of information technology and Internet technology has provided a digital transformation option for energy companies to enhance their competitiveness and plays an important
role in the digital economy.

Under the digital energy strategy, three barrels of oil are scrambling to force the new track of the digital economy, each showing its magic, from top to bottom, empowering digitalization
.
Launch digital training at all levels of management, integrate digital collation, focus on the digitization of key business scenarios of enterprises, highlight digital transformation and intelligent development, and improve the digital ability of
operation and management decisions.

Sinopec, which has implemented digital construction simultaneously with PetroChina, has achieved leaps and bounds in information construction for more than 20 years
.

Over the past 20 years, Sinopec's informatization construction has made various major breakthroughs, which are divided into three stages
.
The first stage is the decentralized construction stage before 2000, and the reorganization and listing integration of the company carries out information construction according to its own needs; The second stage is from 2000 to 2008, the group company unified control of enterprise informatization, centralized integration of the "six unification" stage; The third stage is from 2008 to 2012, the overall promotion stage of the group; After 2012, it entered the digital and intelligent stage
.
At present, the degree of digitalization of Sinopec's operation and management level exceeds 80%, and the degree of digitalization of the main business at the production level exceeds 60%, which is in the forefront
of the first phalanx of central enterprises.

In terms of top-level design, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued GB/T51296-2018 "Digital Delivery Standard for Petrochemical Engineering" in September 2018 to regulate the construction
of digital factories of petrochemical enterprises.
According to its own characteristics and development needs, Sinopec compiled and issued the "Implementation Rules for the Digital Delivery of Petrochemical Projects" (for trial implementation) in October 2019 in accordance with national standards, and began trial implementation
on January 1, 2020.

In the process of digital construction, Sinopec, which is full of high-tech highlights, has successively carried out the construction projects of intelligent oilfields, intelligent factories, intelligent pipelines, intelligent research institutes, intelligent gas service stations, intelligent customer service systems, and intelligent logistics systems, integrating artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, VR/AR, big data, robotics and other technologies into the core production business of petrochemicals, and adopting the combination of production, education and research to create a construction mode of "comprehensive improvement of informatization/digital construction and breakthroughs in key points of intelligent technology"
。

In recent years, CNOOC has strengthened the construction of IT infrastructure and focused on building an "information superhighway"
for CNOOC in the new era.
Build a group-level cloud platform, build a new system to fully go to the cloud, and realize the leap
of CNOOC cloud applications from IaaS cloud to PaaS cloud.
Comprehensively promote the construction of data centers, build a domestic data center system of "four places and five centers", and form the layout
of three overseas IT regional support centers in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and the Americas.
At the same time, we will accelerate the pace of construction of intelligent oilfields and strive to create a "smart brain"
for offshore oil and gas exploration and development.
Actively carry out the pilot transformation of unmanned and less manned offshore platforms, and the platform is expected to save about 15%
of operating costs per year after the transformation.
Strengthen the construction of operation and management information system, and strive to create a "marketing ecosystem"
with the characteristics of CNOOC.
Promote the innovation of sales model, build information systems such as e-commerce, zero management, and logistics, and create an "Internet +" marketing system
covering the entire industrial chain of CNOOC.

CNOOC's digital transformation goal of "one platform, two systems, three clouds, four capabilities, and five major upgrades" has accelerated the company's leap
from traditional management mode to modernization, digitalization and intelligence.
The high standards of the top-level design have laid the foundation
for the comprehensive construction of "Smart Offshore Oil".

Compared with three barrels of oil, non-public energy companies are not willing to show weakness and have joined the ranks
of energy digitalization.
Founded by Ma Yifeng, a former senior engineer of Baker Hughes, and three other senior oil practitioners, Petroleum Link has become a leading digital energy communication and technology consulting platform
in China after more than 7 years of development.
Linking more than 6,000 energy experts at home and abroad, processing 50,000 + standard messages every day, monitoring the global 20,000 oil and gas coordinates and the dynamics of oil and gas companies, creating an innovative digital energy business model
of "digital communication of the energy industry (providing communication services for the world's top 500 enterprises) + energy digital consulting (providing high-end talents, technology introduction and digital training for domestic oil companies).
" After entering the new year, with the support of the local government, the academician digital energy entrepreneurial team introduced by Petroleum Link, which is committed to digital energy upgrading, will be fully launched to dedicate the strength
of non-public enterprises to digital energy.

3, energy digitalization has no ceiling, the metaverse has been on the road

Energy digitalization has no ceiling
.
Data in energy digitization is defined by the state as a key factor of production, and last year introduced a data security law and began to study the establishment of a data trading center
.
The cornerstone of the concept of "digital China" is the emphasis on big data, and the essence of digitalization is the reconstruction of real-world things in the computer world, and the way of existence is data
.
The biggest difficulty of digitalization is whether it can accurately reconstruct real-world things; The second is whether the data that describes things is standardized enough, and no standardization means that no unified identity of the data of things has been formed, which is bound to cause confusion in the use of these data, so it is necessary to establish data standards and standardize
the data.
The concept of "data governance", in the notice of digital transformation of central enterprises issued by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission in 2020, put forward clear requirements for data governance work with large paragraphs, and data governance is a necessary condition
for realizing digitalization.

The history of three barrels of oil has formed a massive production data, vigorously carried out the assumption of data governance platform, data lake and other data infrastructure, and the future global analysis data will be fully integrated into unified management and sharing
.

The interface of energy digitalization expands step by step, which is dazzling
.

Just as domestic energy is striding towards the depths of digitalization and entering the era of data governance platforms, the meta-universe application that can be called the era of digital 3.
0 has
quietly arrived.

A few years ago, a leading energy company took the initiative to contact Oil Link on the impact of the metaverse on the energy field, indicating that the preliminary research of the metaverse and energy is about to enter the strategic planning stage
.

Similar to the application of digitalization in the energy industry, the metaverse is not a new idea, but more like the rebirth of a classic concept, which is the embodiment
of the concept under the expansion of new technologies such as reality XR, blockchain, and cloud computing.
As a platform for the future digital survival of human beings, it is the reshaping and reconstruction of the digital economic system, which is actually an upgraded version
of the current digital survival.

The upgraded meta-universe of future digital survival is the key medium for the development of the energy field, which is related to the strategic continuation of the modern energy industry chain of digital geological exploration, digital oilfield, digital refining, digital gas station, and even digital management, and is a sublimation
of the survival system.

The study of the impact of the metaverse on the energy field is not only a soft science field, but also a technical field, but also a sublimation of the concept, and the immediate intervention of the domestic energy community is a wise one
.

The term metaverse first came from the 1992 science fiction novel Avalanche, in which you put on headphones and eyepieces, find a terminal, and connect to another three-dimensional reality
simulated by a computer.
Everyone can have their own identity in this virtual space parallel to the real world, enabling all-round interactive intervention
.

At present, the metaverse has been widely used in various fields, and the energy field will also have supporting theories and supporting technologies
.

In 2020, under the background of global new crown pneumonia, the social format has undergone tremendous changes, and the meta-universe has risen in recent years, which has been turned into reality in the Western world and first applied to the game field
.
At present, the metaverse has begun to be applied to virtual concerts, virtual education, virtual finance, virtual conferences and other scenarios, and gradually penetrated into
the economic and social system.

In 2021, Facebook said it will transform into a meta-universe company within 5 years; In August 2021, ByteDance spent a huge amount of money to acquire VR startup Pico.
.
.

It is conceivable that the concept of a new way of life meta-universe that changes the living conditions of human beings will soon enter the energy industry and enhance the instantaneous upgrade
of the digital revolution in the energy field.
The early intervention in the field of soft science is a scientific judgment on this new format, while also paying attention to the future support
of related technical aspects.

The study of the influence of the metacosm on the energy field is still a question
of position.

On September 22, 2020, China proposed at the United Nations General Assembly that carbon dioxide should peak by 2030 and
strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
The intervention of the metaverse in the economy under the background of the new crown virus is bound to promote the realization
of the national double carbon target.
In the future, even after the elimination of the new crown virus, the concept of meta-universe can still be used to replace the current non-active digitalization
of the energy field.
Early intervention is of great significance in responding to the national bi-carbon target
.

The impact of the metacosm on the energy field is also of significance
to the energy demand side.

The demand for energy and energy in the metaverse is very large, and the future forms of energy are more diversified and distributed, which is mainly the construction level of the underlying infrastructure of the metaverse, and the future 5G and cloud computing need to be more stable and a large amount of energy demand
.

In the theoretical research on the relationship between the meta-universe and energy with the head energy company, Petroleum Link combined with the actual situation of the domestic energy industry and put forward some ideas:

The first is the recognition of metacosmological theory and applied reality, which requires scientific judgment
.

The second is to determine the short-term and medium-term and long-term plans on the basis of reaching recognition, establish relevant institutions, promote this as a topic of soft science and technology research, and look for pilots
.

Third, new demands are put forward for energy consumption in the meta-universe infrastructure, which will have an impact on
the energy structure and form.

On the issue of expected applications, Petroleum Link believes that with the rapid development of Internet technology at present, the metaverse will enter various fields
at an astonishing speed.
At present, the initial digitization of the energy field is still in the integration period, once the meta-universe theory and technology mature, it is likely to refresh the current energy digitization format
.

According to the preliminary judgment of the international application of the metaverse, in the next 3-5 years, the metaverse will enter the embryonic exploration period, and progressive technological breakthroughs and business model innovations in the fields of VR/AR, NFT, AI, cloud, PUGC game platform, digital people, digital twin cities and other fields will emerge in an endless stream
.
According to international expectations, the metacosmic vision and empirical skills may take 10-20 years to mature, becoming the way
of life for humanity 20 years later.
This period is actually the problem
of upgrading and expanding applications.

The relationship between the metaverse and energy in the future is fascinating in the mass application scenario: at that time, there was no traditional gas station concept, and human traffic behavior entered the driverless interface
.
The public's traffic application big data enters the real interface through the virtual interface of the meta-universe, and the transportation department will optimize the distance and connect your brain according to your needs path.
.
.

Meta-cosmic energy is not just a game, it is a new carrier for human beings to move towards the digital era, and the creation of the overall environment of human energy life online and offline in the future will enable us to live in a more efficient, honest, convenient, free and equal world
.