Shell awards Kongsberg contract to digitalise global assets

Shell Global Solutions International B.V. has entered a five-year agreement with Kongsberg Digital to digitalise its global assets through digital twin technology.

The contract, signed with the software and digital solutions provider in December 2022, is an amendment to the framework agreement signed in 2020, with a committed multiple-asset deployment plan and further applications to enhance Shell’s industrial work surface and user experiences.

Kongsberg’s digital twin technology aims to provide actionable insight and automated workflows for optimised operations and facility management. This enables better decision-making, based on actionable data to ensure safer, more cost-efficient, and sustainable operations.

Shane McArdle, CEO at Kongsberg Digital commented on the agreement: “Since we began working together two years ago, Shell and Kongsberg Digital have developed a strong collaboration, enabling the digitalisation of operations on a large scale – one which has enabled new and more sustainable ways of operating heavy assets for Shell’s global workforce.

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“I am delighted that Shell and Kongsberg have agreed a deal to extend our collaboration. This agreement enables us to continue to strengthen our digital twin capability and expand deployment to more assets globally,” added Owen O’Connell, senior vice president & CIO – upstream and projects & technology at Shell.

“Wider digital twin adoption across our assets enables Shell to continue to accelerate our digital innovation journey driving efficiency improvements.”

The agreement builds on an already-established relationship between Shell and Kongsberg Digital, who have collaborated over the last four years on digitalising assets in the energy sector.

It also comes as the second of digitalisation agreements secured by Kongsberg this month. A week before announcing the extension with Shell, a contract was announced between Kongsberg and petroleum company Chevron.

Signed in January 2023, their contract represents expansions of work performed on contracts signed in 2021, with a multiple-asset deployment plan to aid Chevron in work planning and project execution.