Dai Houliang And Ren Zhengfei Meet! Changes in Huawei’s Oil And Gas Business Layout

The news that Dai Houliang, chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation, met with Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei in Shenzhen has attracted attention! According to the report, Dai Houliang visited Huawei's Computing Innovation Laboratory, and the two parties also conducted extensive exchanges on improving corporate governance, digital transformation, intelligent development, and technological innovation.

As a technology-intensive industry, the industrial chain structure of the oil and gas industry is complex, with many links and long chains. In recent years, Huawei has continued to cooperate with oil and gas companies such as "Three Barrel Oil". Under the wave of accelerating the cultivation of new productivity in the oil and gas industry, Huawei, which has a leading advantage in "building the Internet of Everything", has become a key player in the technological revolution and industrial upgrading of the oil and gas industry. important participants.

The oil circle has reviewed the hot topics at Huawei's Global Oil and Gas Summit in recent years and found that Huawei's business layout in the oil and gas industry is also undergoing important changes.

01. Downstream to upstream! Picture of Huawei laying out the entire oil and gas industry chain

From the initial scattered edge services to today's comprehensive oil and gas services, Huawei has opened up a new world in the oil and gas field. In 2021, Ren Zhengfei clarified Huawei's strategic tone in the energy field - "Seize the window of opportunity for the great development of digital energy, pounce on it, and tear it apart." This is very consistent with Huawei's positioning as an "industrial ecosystem enabler."

Affected by factors such as the nature of the downstream business in the oil and gas industry and the scale of the C-end market, the outside world once believed that Huawei had greater advantages in green energy tracks, smart gas stations, and smart park management and services. In fact, Huawei has greater advantages in the upstream oil and gas business. The layout deserves more attention.

The oil circle combed through the keywords of Huawei's Global Oil and Gas Summit and Ecological Partner Conference from 2017 to 2023 and found that high-frequency topics ranged from smart refining, smart gas stations, parks, and management to exploration, development, production, oil fields, smart engines, etc. Upstream business offset.

In 2021, the Huawei Global Oil and Gas Summit was held in Abu Dhabi. At the meeting, Huawei released the "Huawei Smart Oil and Gas Field Solution", which uses data as a production factor and intelligence as a technology driver. For the first time, it mentioned "improving the production capacity and production capacity of the oil and gas industry." production efficiency, helping the oil and gas industry reduce its dependence on labor" and so on, and accurately grasp the pulse of the action of "improving quality and efficiency, increasing reserves and production". This solution covering the entire oil and gas field business scenario has accelerated Huawei's advancement into the field of oil and gas exploration, development and production. pace of.

Currently, Huawei's oil and gas business segment has formed five major business scenarios: "exploration and development, oil and gas field production, pipeline network storage and transportation, smart refining, and smart gas stations", clarifying its business layout covering the entire upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas industry chain.

02. Exploration and development! Use massive data to feel the pulse of the earth

In view of the "Three Barrels of Oil" campaign that has been implemented continuously in recent years to increase reserves and increase production, the advantages of Huawei's oil and gas business in the exploration and development process have become increasingly obvious.

Recently, Sinopec has successfully built a high-performance HPC platform using Huawei's OceanStor mass storage, which can more efficiently discover oil reservoir information in massive data, ushering in a new era of data-based oil discovery.

This HPC platform uses the large bandwidth and low latency storage capabilities of OceanStor mass storage to significantly reduce IO waiting time, improve the parallel processing efficiency of the computing cluster CPU, stabilize the CPU utilization rate at more than 60%, and ultimately shorten the data analysis time by 16%. above. In addition, the N+M elastic EC data protection mode adopted by OceanStor mass storage allows M storage nodes to fail at the same time and can be automatically shrunk, which greatly enhances the reliability of data and provides continuity for long-term processing of exploration earthquakes. Assure.

PetroChina is also working with Huawei to build PetroChina's first artificial intelligence project, the E8 cognitive computing platform. This is a general open and scalable artificial intelligence computing platform. It is designed according to the four key factors of data, algorithm, computing power and scenario. It provides one-stop AI development from data processing, machine learning, to model release and inference application. environment.

Currently, the E8 cognitive computing platform has outstanding performance in identifying oil and gas layers in well logging and diagnosing pumping unit well conditions. For example, in the Daqing Oilfield, machine learning methods were used to conduct crude oil production and water cut prediction studies on old wells, new wells and treatment wells. The accuracy of the prediction model reached 90.74%, and the prediction efficiency was 10 times higher than that of traditional methods. Currently, E8 has become A standing tool for development deployment and dynamic analysis in Daqing Research Institute and oil production plants.

03. Oil and gas production! Picture of the first oil and gas field "one network" solution

Oil and gas production operations have put forward higher requirements for automation and intelligence. Strict environmental regulations and changing external environment have prompted the industry to accelerate the pace of transformation.

Faced with complex oil and gas production scenarios and businesses, Huawei created the industry's first "one network" solution for oil and gas fields through effective integration of full-stack network technologies such as wired and wireless. Through one network, we can carry oil and gas field production, video, office, community and other services to achieve the business goals of unified architecture, unified operation and maintenance, one network for multiple uses, and integrated security.

At present, CNOOC has built my country's first offshore smart oil field - Qinhuangdao 32-6 Oilfield, which has achieved deep integration of application scenarios and digital technology, providing core development and production services such as oilfield reservoir injection and production, safety and environmental protection, equipment and facilities, and process flows. Effectively empowered to form a full-stack offshore smart oilfield solution based on "data, network, platform, and application", and explore a new offshore oil and gas production operation model that is "intelligent, safe, green, and efficient", Huawei provides CNOOC Smart Oilfield The construction contributed demonstration value.

PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gas Field has also jointly built a computing center with Huawei and others to centralize and unify various basic resources such as high-performance computing, graphics computing, general computing and storage to form unified computing resources and achieve centralized sharing and unified operation and maintenance.

04. Picture of Pangu large model accelerating application in oil and gas industry

On July 7, 2023, Huawei released the new Pangu model 3.0. Different from ChatGPT, Huawei Pangu Large Model is more inclined to serve government and enterprise customers. These B-end customers can create their own models based on Pangu Large Model and Huawei Al development kit. Huawei's Pangu large model combines robots with AI large models, allowing robots to complete more intelligent tasks. This makes Pangu large models have high application potential in future smart manufacturing and smart production lines.

In the oil and gas industry, Pangu's large model will also flex its muscles.

On September 20, 2023, at the "Huawei Global Oil and Gas Summit", Zhou Jun, chief expert of China Petroleum Logging Co., Ltd., mentioned the application of Huawei's Pangu large model on the logging side for the first time. He pointed out that based on Huawei's Pangu large model, Based on the massive logging data of China Petroleum Logging, a large logging model is created.

On March 18, 2024, CCTV's pioneer interview column "China Shenqi Bureau" broadcast a special program for the two sessions. Zhou Jun described the significance of large models for "artificial intelligence +" from an industrial perspective. He pointed out that CNPC logging is based on Huawei Pangu The large model integrates massive logging data, combined with production needs and oil and gas knowledge, to create a large logging model that can identify geological layers, storage divisions, parameter calculations and complete oil and gas identification. The smart application scenarios built on the large model can be Mature oil fields are copied to new oil fields, which means that the threshold for intelligent well logging is significantly lowered.

At present, Huawei's entry into the oil and gas exploration, development and production field continues to accelerate, and it will also inject new momentum into the digital and intelligent transformation of oil and gas.