海合会麾下所属炼厂重视数字化技术发展

据油气新闻网站3月2日消息 海湾下游协会（GDA）与波士顿咨询集团（BCG）合作进行的一项调查显示，海湾合作委员会（GCC）的炼油企业正将注意力转向数字应用在数字时代进步的变革性好处和日益增长的必要性。

尽管只有少数海湾合作委员会地区的石油公司在数字技术领域进行大规模投资，但88%的受访海湾合作委员会炼油企业承认，非投资带来的风险包括缺乏提高利润率和降低竞争优势的能力。

GDA秘书长奥达·艾哈迈迪表示：“研究强调，67%的海湾合作委员会炼油厂希望数字技术能够解决他们面临的两大挑战：可靠性和产品优化。”

“此外，19%的受访者认为数字化可以提高知识的保留率，网络安全（10%）和安全（4%）是炼油企业对数字化解决挑战的期望。”

尽管全行业都意识到炼油行业的数字化转型，但缺乏整合的数字化战略，以及对未知事物的恐惧，是阻碍数字化应用的两大关键障碍。其中，对当前数字应用的投资被视为一项挑战。50%的受访者表示，缺乏经验证的技术是投资面临的最大挑战，其次是难以预先估计一个稳健的商业案例（25%），以及缺乏短期效益（25%）。

BCG董事总经理兼合伙人米尔科鲁比斯说：“解锁数字技术需要确定应用数字技术的最重要领域，这些领域包括维护、运营和生产计划。尽管20%的受访者表示对10多个数字应用的认识，但从意识到数字使用和试验数字应用到工业化的转变在维护和运营方面进展缓慢。在生产计划和经济方面，只有12%知道有超过10种应用程序可以增强其业务的这一方面。”

王磊 摘译自 油气新闻

原文如下：

GCC refiners value digital technology’s ability

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) refiners are turning their attention to the transformative benefits and growing necessity of digital applications to advance in the digital age, according to a survey conducted by Gulf Downstream Association (GDA) in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Despite>“The study highlighted that 67 per cent of GCC refiners hope that digital technologies will solve their top two challenges: reliability and product optimisation,” said Audah Al-Ahmadi, Secretary General - GDA.

“Additionally, 19 per cent of respondents believe digital can improve knowledge retention, with cybersecurity (10 per cent) and safety (4 per cent) rounding out refiners’ expectations of digital to solve challenges.”

Despite industry-wide awareness of digital transformation in the refining sector, the lack of integrated digitalisation strategies, and a fear of the unknown are the two key barriers preventing digital adoption. Of these, investment in current digital applications is perceived as a challenge; with 50 per cent of those surveyed stating a lack of proven technology is the largest challenge to investment, followed by difficulties in estimating a robust business case upfront (25 per cent), and a lack of short term benefit (25 per cent).

“Unlocking digital requires pinpointing the most important areas to apply digital technologies, and these are maintenance, operations, and production planning,” said Mirko Rubeis, Managing Director and Partner at BCG. “The shift from being aware of digital use and piloting digital applications to industrialisation is slow in maintenance and operations, despite 20 per cent of respondents expressing awareness of more than ten digital applications. In production planning and economics, only 12 per cent are aware of more than ten applications that could enhance this aspect of their business.”