Statoil is planning to set up a new onshore integrated operations centre (IOC) in an attempt to increase safety and reduce emissions from its installations on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).

The integrated operations centre (IOC), which is part of the company’s digital roadmap, will enable increased production efficiency and production potential on the NCS.

Over a period of ten years, the company intends to achieve a total annual value creation of around Nkr10bn ($1.22bn) before tax through increase in production from its operated fields.

Statoil CEO Eldar Sætre said: “The establishment of the centre contributes strongly to our ambition of being a global digital leader.

“It will enable us to optimise production and better predict support needs, ensuring optimally efficient and safe operations from our operated fields. The centre will be essential to progressing the good improvement work on the NCS, and capturing additional value for Statoil, our partners and society.”

“The establishment of the centre contributes strongly to our ambition of being a global digital leader.”

The facility is expected to integrate the company’s existing production support centres and condition monitoring centres in Norway.

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Statoil NCS operations technology senior vice-president Kjetil Hove said: “The integrated operations centre will take a more proactive approach by gathering inter-disciplinary resources that may utilise extended data integration, visualisation, analysis and new technology, supporting our installations on the NCS to an even greater extent than now.”

Once the centre becomes operational, the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea and Grane and Gina Krog in the North Sea will receive support.

Inter-disciplinary teams at the centre will help achieve production efficiency by means of specialist support within production optimisation and preventive maintenance.

One of the main objectives of the IOC is to identify and prevent operational disruptions.