Duperron Marangon Ribeiro, CEO of PhDsoft, talks to The Oil & Gas Year (TOGY) about the benefits of the company’s technology and the Brazilian market’s growing interest in digital solutions. PhDsoft’s risk management and asset integrity technology has been used in the Brazilian oil and gas industry by Petrobras and Transpetro, among others.
• On going a step further: “Some CAD software can tell you how to make your pipe or structure design to avoid interference between different lines of pipes, for instance. These products are focused on the design stage of the lifecycle of the asset. Sometimes they go to the manufacturing stage, but nobody actually goes to the stage after delivery to the client. That’s what PhDsoft is doing, and that’s why we have to have a four-dimensional model, or true digital twin.” • On new tech: “We are going in the direction of using drones instead of inspection companies in the near future. The drones do close visual inspection with photos, and then we engage the technicians. Using artificial intelligence, you can automatically detect any damage or anomalies such as cracks or buckling.” Most TOGY interviews are published exclusively on our business intelligence platform, TOGYiN, but you can find the full interview with Duperron Marangon Ribeiro below.
Source: TOGYiN (click here to read the original version)
