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Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has announced that its Thamama Centre of Excellence (Thamama) has generated $1.1bn in business value since the digitalisation unit was introduced into the company’s upstream operations in 2017.

The announcement was made at Adnoc’s Innovation Week, which is taking place virtually from 21-25 February.

Named after the reservoir formation most dominant in Abu Dhabi, the Thamama facility is a key part of Adnoc’s ongoing strategic investments in advanced technology, digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI). These investments are aimed at driving greater efficiencies and allowing the firm to quickly respond to market dynamics. 

Adnoc is working on more than 15 new digitalisation projects at the centre. The schemes offer the potential to deliver some $500m in additional value each year once fully deployed over the coming years.

Located in Adnoc’s headquarters, the digital hub brings together Adnoc’s subsurface experts and leverages big data, digitalisation and smart analytics to help access hydrocarbon resources and unlock greater value from existing reservoirs.

Thamama also drives innovation across Adnoc’s upstream projects, optimises development costs and enhances value from all producing onshore and offshore fields in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.

Technology initiatives include one of the world’s largest co-development of oil rim and gas cap reservoirs. This concept will enable Adnoc to competitively monetise several trillion cubic feet of gas and associated condensate while maximising the oil value.

Thamama is also engaged in optimising field development costs by designing wells with custom-fit completions and deploying them at scale.

Through Thamama, Adnoc is reducing exploration costs by hundreds of millions of dollars as it executes the world’s largest three-dimensional (3D) seismic survey, which is providing 100 petabytes of high-resolution images of the subsurface across Abu Dhabi.

The images are then turned into prospects by Adnoc’s experts, ultimately enabling drilling and potential for oil and gas production.

Thamama is also enabling Adnoc to integrate AI, advanced analytics and cloud computing into its reservoir management and subsurface workflows to enhance oil recovery and improve production efficiency by more than 10 per cent.

Its integrated capacity model creates a digital twin of Adnoc's entire hydrocarbon value chain, potentially unlocking hundreds of millions of dollars in value every year.

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Adnoc digitalisation drive

Thamama is just one of many digital transformation initiatives by Adnoc. Another example, its Panorama Digital Command Centre, has generated more than $1bn in value since inception.

Adnoc is also applying AI-enabled technologies for value chain optimisation, predictive maintenance and blockchain-based hydrocarbon accounting.

In addition, Adnoc has achieved cost savings of $2bn over the past five years by leveraging advanced technologies and digitalisation to optimise drilling operations.