Presentation: SIRIUS: Collaboration across the Digital Divides in the Oil and Gas Supply Chain

This paper describes how we have succeeded in setting up industry-university collaboration in SIRIUS, a centre for research-based innovation on digitalisation in the oil and gas industry. Funded through the Norwegian Research Council's programmes for centres of excellence, SIRIUS consists of researchers from two of Norway's largest universities and the University of Oxford. The industry partners represent the ecosystem of companies in the oil and gas industry, with one major operator, a major oil service company, and a set of vendor companies who specialize in different aspects of digitalisation. OSISoft is one of these companies. We will present the challenges and opportunities offered by such centres for three-way collaborative research between end-users, vendors and academia. We will use examples from current projects that explore the next generation of data science and asset framework innovations.