Smart products empower the entire oil and gas storage and transportation industry chain
Worker's Daily
At the International Pipeline Expo held recently, a cute robotic dog ran around, shaking its head and tail, making various cute baby gestures, and frequently inviting visitors: "Come and take a look at our exhibition hall
The reporter involuntarily followed the robot dog to the exhibition hall of China Petroleum Pipeline Communication Company and saw an intelligent robot wearing a shiny black coat with a simple yet technological design. Standing next to it, Li Shuodong, the Beidou technical director of China Petroleum Pipeline Communication Company, happily said to the robot dog, "Thank you for bringing new customers to the world's first mass-produced explosion-proof quadruped robot
On September 7th, the 13th China (Langfang) International Pipeline Expo concluded with the theme of "Safe, Green, Intelligent Innovation". More than 250 participating companies showcased the latest equipment and technologies in the entire oil and gas industry chain, including oil and gas storage and transportation, hydrogen energy transmission pipelines, and refining and chemical industries. At the exhibition site, the reporter's eyes were filled with various intelligent high-tech products, especially the unforgettable robots.
Intelligent Explosion proof Robot: Inspector of Hazardous Areas
Its name is' Xiaotian ', which is the latest intelligent explosion-proof robot we have developed based on the special scenarios of oil and gas production. Li Shuodong pointed to the robot that looks like a small tank and introduced it to reporters.' Xiaotian 'integrates Beidou, Bluetooth, and radar, and can patrol tirelessly in flammable, explosive, and leak prone hazardous environments such as refineries. Once abnormalities or safety hazards are discovered, they can immediately warn and help enterprise employees remotely grasp various special working conditions such as' running, leaking, dripping, and leaking' on the production site
Xiaotian can also move freely in various complex environments such as stairs, mountains, and deserts, providing route navigation, material transportation, and other functions for enterprise operation teams. It is a good helper for energy production and field operations. According to calculations, a single inspection robot can undertake the inspection workload that originally required 2 to 4 employees to complete together. After introducing inspection robots to a single station, labor costs can be reduced by more than 20%.
Some frontline employees who visited praised, "This can reduce the safety risks of our frontline employees frequently going deep into the site, greatly reduce labor intensity, and achieve unmanned and intelligent inspection operations
Artificial intelligence big model: can be called an "industry master"
In 2023, the emergence of the artificial intelligence chat robot ChatGPT will quickly ignite the Internet. The reporter learned that there is also an artificial intelligence product in the oil and gas storage and transportation industry, similar to ChatGPT.
Cheng Qian, Senior Product Manager of CPC Yidu, introduced, "This is our first self-developed artificial intelligence large-scale model for oil and gas storage and transportation in China, WisGPT. It can learn independently and become smarter the more it is used. It is now equivalent to an 'industry master' in the field of oil and gas storage and transportation design, and is a good assistant and teacher for our engineers to continuously learn and grow
This WisGPT has two major functions, one is intelligent question answering, which can intelligently search, proofread and complete, understand semantics and summarize knowledge of massive data in the entire industry through human-computer interaction. The second is intelligent assisted design, which deeply integrates a large amount of high-quality professional knowledge in the field of oil and gas storage and transportation, and can provide auxiliary design functions such as document review, generation of design outline, and content preparation.
Pipeline composite detector: comparable to "CT doctor"
In the industry chain of oil and gas storage and transportation construction, pipeline inspection engineers are commonly referred to as pipeline "doctors". So, how do pipeline "doctors" perform physical examinations on pipelines?
Yang Jinsheng, Deputy Director of the CPC Pipeline Inspection Research and Development Center, led reporters to observe a piece of equipment. He said, "This large equipment is a composite detector with a diameter of 1422mm and ultra high definition magnetic leakage technology. It runs along with the pipeline medium inside the pipeline, like performing a 'CT inspection' on the pipeline, and can accurately detect any small problems in the pipeline." It is reported that this equipment has independent intellectual property rights and is currently the largest and most advanced pipeline composite function detector in China.
For some small-diameter pipelines, there are other advanced methods for inspection. Yang Jinsheng pointed to the 20 inch (508mm) long-distance pipeline self crawling internal detection device and said, "This device is like a small robot shuttling through the pipeline, which can comprehensively record the internal situation of the pipeline
Like doctors issuing reports and prescribing medication based on CT results after a physical examination, these devices undergo testing in the pipeline and are then handed over to a group of experienced industry experts to diagnose the diagnosis through pulse diagnosis.
As one of the organizers of the 13th Langfang International Pipeline Expo in China, Xue Feng, Executive Director and Party Secretary of China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau, stated that currently, the global energy landscape is undergoing profound adjustments, domestic oil and gas incremental production continues to advance, the level of interconnection between oil and gas pipelines continues to improve, new energy businesses are entering the fast lane of development, and energy storage hydrogen energy technology continues to break through. Adhering to the benign interaction between high-quality development and high-level security, accelerating the transformation of the energy system towards intelligence and greenness, has become an inevitable choice for continuously improving the "gold content" and "intelligence content" of the industrial chain.