DUTCH floating production specialist SBM Offshore began to ramp up digital technology applications several years ago to improve the performance of its floating production, storage and offloading fleet, writes Russell McCulley. "We started with deployment of a historian on board that allowed us to collect data on a much larger scale and in a more a structured way," explains Erica Cecchi, director of the company's Digital FPSO project, using the term for a database that can collect "time-series" data for analysis.
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