What led you to decide in favour of participating in ADIPEC 2016?
We have been an active participant at ADIPEC for several years now, and it has enabled us to further strengthen our relationships with our partners.
ADIPEC also serves as a platform to identify and nurture local talent through our workshops, and through our earlier initiatives to support the Young ADIPEC Program. We have leveraged the platform to present our Customer Training Learning Management System.
What are the main products that you will showcase at ADIPEC?
The focus of our participation is to highlight our digital industrial solutions. The digital industrial transformation is an opportunity for every market, and we see strong prospects across the region. In a low price oil environment, it is increasingly important for customers to embrace Industrial Internet technologies to increase uptime and maximise production.
Some of the solutions on display include the LM6000-PF+ – with enhanced efficiency, reliability and fuel flexibility in both power generation and mechanical-drive applications, whether installed onshore or offshore.
The highlight will be our Industrial Internet solutions that are powered by Predix, a cloud-based operating system built exclusively for the industry, including:
Unified Operations – connecting asset intelligence and operational data.
Field Vantage – keeping customers connected to their field data, allowing them to reduce downtime.
Intelligent pipelines – an Industrial Internet solution for pipeline management.
What are your objectives for ADIPEC this year?
We see great potential to grow in the oil & gas sector due to the increasing need for technical intensity to complete the complex projects being undertaken to serve growing demand for energy.
Our offer is full-stream, from wellhead to refinery and beyond, helping customers to constantly assess and upgrade their operations through the industrial internet.
How successful do you think ADIPEC will be, bearing in mind the current circumstances caused by low oil prices?
While oil prices have fallen, it is important to understand that simplifying in many parts of the oil and gas industry is happening and the cost out taking place now sets our industry up well for the next industrial era. This is a challenging environment, but not one that you can’t execute in. We believe opportunity like this can be answered with technology, so we are focussed on this.
How has business for your company been in 2016? What are your plans and goals for next year?
We are able to take the experience GE has in the aviation, power and water business and apply it to oil and gas. Through harnessing commercial and technological innovations such as the Industrial Internet, we lower costs, make things faster, simpler or more productive for our partners. This will continue to drive our growth.
