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Neptune Energy today announced an agreement to create new "digital twins" of two offshore platforms in the Dutch North Sea, expanding its portfolio of digitized assets to 14. The twins enable engineers to carry out traditional offshore work from an onshore location, accelerating work schedules and reducing costs.
Leading UK-based 3D technology specialist, Eserv, will digitize the Neptune-operated D15-A and K12-C platforms, having previously created digital versions of 12 platforms in the Dutch and UK sectors.
Instead of flying to the offshore platforms to perform routine inspection and planning activities, Neptune teams can visit the assets virtually. Thousands of hours of work have been completed from office-based locations in this way since the twins were introduced.
Neptune Energy's Director of Operations in the Netherlands, Stephane Lacote, said: "The use of 3D technologies such as digital twins has provided significant benefits including reducing operational costs by enabling traditional offshore activities to be completed quickly and efficiently, without travelling offshore.
"Our engineering teams can now virtually visit platforms to support the safe running of operations from anywhere on the planet."
Digitising operational assets to improve safety and productivity and to reduce environmental impacts supports Neptune Energy's aims to enhance asset integrity and to provide employees with technologies that support collaboration with colleagues globally.
Ithaca Energy (UK) Limited
Ithaca Energy is a leading independent oil and gas operator in the North Sea with a strong track record of material value creation. Founded in 2004, Ithaca Energy has been on a rapid growth trajectory in the last five years, following a series of transformational M&A transactions and the Group's recent Business Combination with Eni UK (completed October 2024), creating a dynamic growth player with operations of significant scale and longevity. Today, Ithaca Energy is the largest oil and gas operator in the UKCS by resources and ranks as the second largest independent operator in the UKCS by production. With stakes in six of the ten largest fields in the UK North Sea and two of largest developments, Rosebank and Cambo, we play a pivotal role in meeting the current and future energy needs of the UK. We do not take this responsibility lightly, recognising that oil and gas will continue to play an important part of the long-term energy mix as we navigate the energy transition. We serve today’s needs for domestic energy through operating sustainably. We achieve this by harnessing our deep operational expertise and innovative minds to collectively challenge the norm, continually seeking better ways to meet evolving demands. Our commitment to delivering attractive and sustainable returns is supported by a well-defined emissions-reduction strategy with a target of achieving net zero ahead of targets set out in the North Sea Transition Deal.
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