🧠 TL;DR#
The Energy Transition needs more than good intentions:
👉 Data, 👉 Digital Twins, 👉 Proactive modeling, 👉 Organizational culture.
The technology already exists. The real challenge is how and for what we use it to build operators that are safer, more efficient and sustainable on the road to Net Zero.
Future Energy Transition | December 6#
🚀 Key technology to build the Decarbonized Operator of the Future#
🧩 Digital Twin (DT): much more than a pretty model#
A data-driven Digital Twin enables:
- 🔍 Continuous monitoring of assets and emissions
- 🚨 Detection of events and outliers before they become incidents
- 🔧 Predictive maintenance, not reactive
- 📉 Reduction of operational losses and unwanted emissions
- 🛡️ Higher operational safety
👉 It doesn’t replace specialists: it empowers them.
📊 Data: not perfect, but useful#
- ⚙️ In industrial assets there is no infinite “big data”: there are sensors and machines
- ✅ The best data is the data you already have
- ⛔ Waiting for perfect data delays value
- 🧩 Splitting the problem into mini-digital twins accelerates results
Perfect is the enemy of the important.
🧠 Real-time Modeling and Analytics#
- 📈 Better production and operations forecasting
- 💰 Better financial planning
- 🔧 Shift maintenance from reactive → predictive
- 🤖 Models that combine:
- Expert rules
- ML models
- Operational condition
👉 Digitizing human knowledge is as important as training models.
🏗️ Open Twin Platforms#
- 🌐 Integration of multiple data sources
- 🔓 Avoid closed solutions
- ♻️ Capture emissions across the value chain
- 📑 Facilitate ESG reporting, traceability and verification
🧪 New enabling technologies#
- 🧾 Digital Twins from P&IDs and engineering drawings
- 📸 Converting 2D photos into 3D scenes (NeRFs, generative AI)
- 🔄 Better integration with existing operations
- ⚖️ Realistic cost–benefit balance
🧭 Sustainability roadmap: how to start well#
- 🎯 Define what success means (not only scale, but impact)
- 🪜 Move step by step, with quick wins
- 👥 Align decision-makers and teams
- 💡 Focus on business value, not just technology
- 🔄 Manage change fatigue
Technology + Culture = Success
🌱 Carbon Tracking, ESG and the journey (not the final slide)#
- 📍 Define the starting point
- 🧠 Start with the core of the business
- 🔢 Prioritize
- 🗣️ Communicate with transparency
- 🚫 Don’t overpromise digital impact on ESG
📘 Short explanation#
A Digital Twin is a digital representation of a real asset (a plant, a well, a machine) that uses real data to understand what’s happening now and predict what will happen next. This enables better operations, fewer failures, lower pollution, and decision-making based on data rather than intuition.
It’s not about “having AI”, but about using data and human knowledge to operate smarter and more sustainably.
🌍 The energy transition is not just technological.
It is strategic, cultural and human.
