Saudi Aramco and Aveva to partner to drive sustainability through digitalisation

Saudi Aramco and Aveva to partner to drive sustainability through digitalisation

Saudi Aramco and Aveva have announced plans to form a strategic collaboration. The partnership, which is focused on achieving regional sustainability via digital transformation, will help enable Aveva to establish their digital hub, with an R&D capability, in the Middle East, headquartered in Saudi Arabia. This collaboration is designed to foster a working relationship between the two organisations in implementing various digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Data Management. Aveva and Aramco aim to work together to unlock the benefits of these technologies following the kingdom’s transition to industrial sustainability. One of the partnership’s primary goals would be to use digital technologies to develop and deploy blue hydrogen and decarbonisation facilities in Saudi Arabia. Another area in which the companies intend to work together is implementing predictive analytics technology across Aramco’s operating facilities. Aveva’s digital twin technology, which combines asset design and predictive analytics to create a fully integrated, real-time data visualisation centre that reveals functional insights, unlocks efficiencies, and identifies new pathways to optimise performance, is intended to be a key offering for customers in the region through this new hub. Commenting on the initiative, Ahmad Al-Sa’adi, senior vice president of technical services, Aramco,