FEATURE: OIL AND GAS
IT-OT CONVERGENCE IS THE BRIDGE TO SEAMLESS, PROACTIVE, AND RESILIENT OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS.
By maximising a mix of more modern IT systems intertwined with legacy OT systems, and capturing important information, oil and gas companies can derive insight for enhancing operational efficiencies, increasing performance and improving decision-making.
To enable such strategic aims around the necessary digitisation to link IT and OT systems, Vertiv’ s digital infrastructure solutions are designed to assist with power supplies and distribution, as well as thermal management solutions, as follows:
• Thermal management solutions, including Vertiv air handling and chillers for climate control of large electronic systems located outside the data room; cooling solutions for data centres, IT rooms, laboratories and other critical applications; as well as small thermal systems, incorporating room and row / rack cooling
• Vertiv Integrated Solutions, including prefabricated rack, row, aisle and modular data centres, featuring built-in flexible designs based on proven configurations
• Monitoring and management options, such as Vertiv Avocent DSView solution, a family of IT management devices and software that provides solutions in edge, enterprise and engineering lab environments
There is a well-known saying which notes that‘ knowledge is power’, and in any industry, information is vital for understanding that sector’ s own outlook through the harnessing of facts, statistics and trends. With the oil and gas industry in Nigeria poised for robust growth that will be driven by strategic investments and technological advancements, the importance of being able to access information digitally is critical.
• Critical power products, such as efficient, reliable uninterruptible power supplies( UPS); scalable, flexible hybrid DC power products; power distribution systems; switchgear; and Vertiv’ s battery energy storage system( BESS), which delivers scalable, high-capacity battery energy storage systems for data centres and critical infrastructure
The strategically placed implementation of robust yet high-performance data centres will work to form the backbone for this critical data and support the necessary IT-OT convergence of individual oil and gas companies, while at the same time also supporting the overall aims of the Petroleum Industry Act of 2021 at a national level. p
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