Announcing normal availability of Azure Data Manager for Energy  

Microsoft companions with the vitality {industry} within the world transition to a safer, equitable, and sustainable future. To help this transformative journey, we’re happy to announce the normal availability of Azure Data Manager for Energy. Designed to assist vitality firms speed up digital innovation, Azure Data Manager for Energy is an open, fully-managed OSDU™ Data Platform service powered by the Microsoft Cloud. The providing integrates with virtually any dataset and supply, permits administration of compute-intensive workloads at world scale, and shortly ingests information for analytics and decision-making. Azure Data Manager for Energy is developed in alignment with the necessities of the OSDU Technical Standard for open-source innovation.

With vitality demand anticipated to extend by practically 50 p.c over the subsequent 30 years, firms are accelerating innovation to fulfill the necessity for protected, dependable, and sustainable vitality.¹ Until extra various, cost-effective options can be found for vitality operations, manufacturing and different industrial processes, firms will proceed to search for methods to offset carbon emissions with initiatives similar to carbon seize and storage (CSS).

While tackling these advanced points, vitality companies should additionally meet enterprise objectives. That means enabling development and modernizing infrastructure by leveraging information to achieve insights and create efficiencies. To steadiness priorities, vitality organizations worldwide are utilizing Microsoft’s cloud, information, and AI applied sciences to create a digital basis for a extra sustainable future.

Powering digital transformation with Azure Data Manager for Energy

Built to fulfill the wants of our world vitality prospects, Azure Data Manager for Energy is offered in a number of Azure areas and increasing shortly to full, world availability.

We’re additionally excited to supply two tiers—a normal tier to run high-scale, performance-driven manufacturing workloads, and a developer tier designed for companions and finish customers in search of extra flexibility and pace in constructing new purposes. Partners and prospects can begin with the developer tier to judge and plan implementation, speed up utility improvement, and check OSDU Data Platform purposes. When prepared to remodel their operational surroundings, vitality operators can use the usual tier to make the most of enterprise grade, service stage settlement (SLA)-backed efficiency for optimizing seismic, wellbore, and reservoir workflows. Learn extra within the announcement of the Azure Data Manager for Energy developer tier.

Eliminating information silos with straightforward interoperability throughout an in depth world companion ecosystem

Our world companion ecosystem is prime to accelerating innovation throughout the vitality sector. With Azure Data Manager for Energy, prospects can pace towards objectives by profiting from straightforward interoperability throughout an extensible utility ecosystem. They can combine just about any dataset, utility, or cloud service whereas leveraging the subsurface instruments they already work with from SLB, Halliburton, and plenty of others. To deploy OSDU Data Platform purposes quicker with fewer assets, vitality firms may work with their alternative of techniques integrators to assist put together and ingest information into Azure Data Manager for Energy. 

We are happy to be working with many main vitality companions on Azure Data Manager for Energy and proceed including others to our intensive companion ecosystem, together with: 

Enabling carbon seize and storage

Collaboration may even allow and speed up the transition to a net-zero financial system. Built in partnership with SLB, a worldwide expertise firm driving vitality innovation, Azure Data Manager for Energy combines intensive area experience from SLB with Microsoft improvements in cloud applied sciences and AI.

Out-of-the-box compatibility with industry-leading SLB applied sciences for subsurface reservoir and CO2 storage evaluation will speed up time-to-market. With the identical instruments that vitality firms use for subsurface interpretation and modeling, prospects can run workflows for CO2 storage web site evaluation and monitoring.

SLB CO2 subsurface workflows work with Azure Data Manager for Energy to allow CO2 storage capability evaluation and long-term storage integrity analysis. Capabilities embody:

• Rapid web site choice: Quickly and confidently analyze geological and environmental information to determine and display screen appropriate storage websites and assess storage capability.
• Model and simulate CO2 storage eventualities: Improve decision-making and danger mitigation methods by simulating a number of CO2 injection and migration eventualities. Assess storage integrity, containment danger and injection efficiency for long run, protected CO2 storage.
• Reduce capital and operational prices: Identify potential inefficiencies within the design section to optimize operational security and allow steady operations. Build a cheap monitoring plan primarily based on detailed technical assessments of storage web site efficiency.

With these capabilities, builders, information managers, and technical specialists, together with geoscientists, can shortly innovate to drive the vitality transition. 

Scaling efficiencies and operational insights with an enterprise-grade cloud platform

Azure Data Manager for Energy provides prospects new instruments to assist pace implementation, integration, and innovation with organizations already utilizing the platform for transformative options.

For instance, the straightforward integration helped Norwegian vitality firm Aker BP pace time-to-market by integrating Azure Data Manager for Energy with SLB and Halliburton purposes to eradicate information siloes and time-consuming handbook processes. Aker BP is empowered throughout the group with strategic insights to make higher choices on the operational, engineering, and government ranges, with higher predictability that helps get monetary savings and improve productiveness. Operating with extra precision permits Aker BP to not solely decrease operational prices, but in addition improve plant up-time whereas lowering CO2 emissions.

TotalEnergies is one other early adopter of Azure Data Manager for Energy. The firm stories ease-of-deployment that completes in two hours with only a single click on. And as a result of Azure Data Manager for Energy is a completely managed cloud service, TotalEnergies can innovate with confidence backed by the answer’s scalability, seamless upgrades, and catastrophe restoration capabilities.

Balancing world demand with sustainable operations

By modernizing their information property, vitality firms can steadiness rising vitality demand with the necessity to work towards sustainable operations. Norway’s Equinor is an {industry} chief on the forefront of the transition to a low-carbon future, with a dedication to realize internet zero by 2050. The firm wanted an environment friendly solution to implement the {industry}’s information platform requirements to assist set up, handle, and analyze huge portions of data. To eradicate information silos and equip staff with data to make efficient choices, Equinor determined to goal information effectivity and a low-carbon future with Azure Data Manager for Energy.

Equinor believed that the problems confronted by the {industry} have been too necessary to attend. By turning into an early adopter of Azure Data Manager for Energy, the agency was in a position to combine beforehand siloed information and get actionable insights similar to finding ideally suited areas for carbon seize and storage. Now, a virtually limitless quantity of data will be saved within the cloud, the place it’s safe, quality-controlled, and simply accessible. With an built-in answer primarily based on Azure Data Manager for Energy, Equinor expects to scale back emissions and enhance the effectivity of its hydrocarbon extraction, whereas optimizing the success of recent sustainable vitality ventures.

“The scalability, elasticity, and flexibility of Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Energy provides us with an ideal foundation for implementing the OSDU Data Platform in a way we wouldn’t have been able to do on-premises.”

–Øivind Berggraf, Advisor Emerging Information Technology–Subsurface

Join us in Houston for the Azure Data Manager for Energy launch occasion

Azure Data Manager for Energy is offered immediately to assist the vitality firms of tomorrow modernize information and digitally remodel to offer safe, dependable, and sustainable vitality for generations to come back. We additionally invite you to hitch the Microsoft Energy and Resources Team, our companions, and prospects, for a launch occasion the place you may study firsthand how our newest providing can allow your information to do extra within the cloud and speed up your journey to vitality information modernization and digital transformation. Space is restricted, so safe your spot by registering right here. We hope to see you on the Houston Ion on August 30, 2023.

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¹EIA initiatives practically 50% improve in world vitality utilization by 2050, led by development in Asia, U.S. Energy Information Administration.