Research and practice on digital transformation of the oil and gas industry

Currently, the oil and gas industry is facing a series of challenges such as fluctuations in prices, the growth of natural gas and renewable energy resources driven by de-carbonization of the economy regulations, and the increasingly complex exploration environment leading to rising mining costs. Actively applying big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, building a cloud application system, and promoting digital transformation can continuously improve the level of business intelligence and the influence of industry ecology of oil and gas companies. As a large global oil and gas company, China National Petroleum Corporation has continuously innovated the cloud technology architecture and integrated solutions for its oil and gas business in recent years. Furhter, it has actively created the dream cloud for hydrocarbon exploration and development, built the petroleum industry internet composed of eight aspects of equipment and facility, edge computing, IT facility, data lake, basic platform, service platform, business application, unified entrance, and the network security system and standard and norm system incorporating these eight aspects, so as to form a dream cloud alliance for hydrocarbon exploration and development, and construct a digital ecosphere. It has strongly promoted the digital transformation and intelligent development of oil and gas business. © 2021, Editorial Office of ACTA PETROLEI SINICA. All right reserved.