Many industrial customers in Africa do not know where to start and this comes down to key aspects of production management and process improvement that can be shown to drive sustainable operations. Companies are recognising they must amend the way they do things and one of the realisations is you cannot do it alone and will need to collaborate. AVEVA has this concept of radical collaboration, which says you cannot solve the problem by yourself, explains Sue Quense.
The oil and gas industry, or the energy industry, has an obligation to continue to provide energy to the world while they are trying to decarbonise. They are all working hard to figure out how to move; some are going faster, and some are going slower and are working around challenges.
The industry is looking at their existing operations, and while they are planning, they are working to optimise and minimise emissions from their operations. They are also working on the technologies of the future and being able to move to newer and cleaner technology.
Drivers and inhibitors
There are a couple of things that contribute to adoption and inhibition. One of which is you cannot change what you do not measure. You need to have good information which requires a good information infrastructure to be in place, otherwise you do not know what you are doing and cannot show the progress made so far.
AVEVA solutions help customers engineer facilities that are more sustainable and use resources more efficiently. Companies like ADNOC Sour Gas are using AVEVA tools, since they need to follow strict UAE government emissions requirements and can prove that they are reducing their emissions. First, they can use them to see what their emissions are, then they are able to go into operations, improve and keep track through measurements.
The pace of sustainability is different around the world, and different industries are facing different challenges. For example, manufacturing consumers are putting so much pressure on manufacturers to be green and clean. For the energy industry, a lot of public sentiment and governmental regulations are driving it.
AVEVA has seen a lot of progress and everybody, as a citizen of the planet, recognises that they must do something regardless of what they work with.
A lot of customers in every industry, including energy and power generation, are working towards figuring out how to decarbonise responsibly and everybody is moving at different rates. Many of AVEVA customers have been using products for a long time to solve their sustainability problems.
Partners and partnerships
30% of AVEVA business in the Middle East and Africa goes through channel partners. AVEVA has several existing partners and implementation partners that are key to customers. For example, big global ones like Microsoft, Capgemini and Accenture help with large and comprehensive customer projects.
AVEVA also has local partners that assist customers as well, such as Advanced Business Computing and Construction Development Company. AVEVA enables collaboration between government and regulators, owner operators and users’ suppliers, because a lot of customers want to decarbonise their supply chain. To do so they need to visualise it, know what is coming in, and go out.
The AVEVA CONNECT platform was developed keeping this in mind, which is the ability to bring information from all these different parties together in context and allow it to be shared.
Making progress
A lot of customers do not know where to start and so this comes down to the key aspects of production management and process improvement that can be shown to drive sustainable operations. AVEVA has customers who are managing what is going on right now and innovating for the future. They are looking to do different things to manage for the future and must have a business case.
Companies are recognising that they must amend the way they do things. Every time AVEVA talks to customers, they talk about sustainability, and one of the things that AVEVA has told them is that you cannot do it alone and will need to collaborate. AVEVA has this concept of radical collaboration, which says you cannot solve the problem by yourself.
