Neuron 5 Transforming the Industry Autonomous Operations, Asset Reliability and Asset Integrity

Abstract This paper outlines an innovative project being deployed in ADNOC. Neuron 5 Project empowers ADNOC in making faster and more effective decisions, leading to safer, more efficient, and profitable operations. It tackles the challenge of monitoring the health of thousands of pieces of critical equipment essential for production. Neuron 5 leverages on digital technologies and artificial intelligence to generate value through End-to-End performance prediction and aggregation of data into proactive autonomous actions. This Project is transforming the industry by delivering a centralized corporate solution enabling autonomous operations and enhanced asset reliability and integrity. The use of artificial intelligence and deep machine learning, combined with first principal models disrupts the nature of operations to achieve optimal production throughput. It autonomously predicts deterioration in critical equipment and reacts upon it. Neuron 5 also predicts anomalies and initiates proactive actions to prevent unexpected failures or shutdowns. It ensures equipment integrity and safety by leveraging anomaly detection, diagnostics and forecasting, performance monitoring as well as production, energy and emission optimization. The deployment of Neuron 5 is phased out with a planned total deployment in 2027 aiming to cover 50,000 assets. However, from the deployment in ADNOC Onshore and ADNOC Gas, which covered 1,200 assets under Phase 1, various tangible results were observed. Neuron 5 enabled autonomous production optimization which resulted in elimination of unplanned shutdowns by 50%, controlled energy and power efficiency, controlled emissions along with Assets Digital Twins. The deployment led to anomaly detection, enhanced performance of equipment with an increase in efficiency and value creation. The project provides diagnostics analysis and forecasting plans in addition to the benefits below: Performance monitoringProduction, Energy and Emission OptimizationStandardized Asset HierarchyContextualized Visualization PlatformAction Management & Knowledge Repository Neuron 5 is a transformative project that is creating disruptive change in the industry. It resulted in many tangible benefits and reduced the shutdown time by 50%. It delivers a centralized corporate solution enabling autonomous operations and enhanced asset reliability and integrity. Neuron 5 leveraging artificial intelligence and deep machine learning to empower facilities with artificial consciousness in order to autonomously aggregate data into proactive actions.