A Data Hack at OGTC in Aberdeen on 2 December 2019
We had 16 participants, who were data scientists, developers, engineers, and oil and gas people, plus four staff from Intelligent Plant, and one from BP as our resident domain experts. You can also find Intelligent Plant on GitHub too.
This hack day provided participants with three data sources via the Intelligent Plant's App store: data from a Tesla car, a range of data from a home heating system, and data from a live production environment provided by BP. All of the data exploration happened through the app store, which meant there were no issues around data being taken away. BP and IP used the event to eplore different uses of the Intelligent Plant App Store.
The Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) saw this as an opportunity for the to try different ways to foster innovation in the sector.
Attendees went through a process of ideation - addressing challenges and opportunities. Ideas were selected to work on and teams were formed to tackle these. We had a round up of progress prior to lunch, a short mid-afternoon one, and then longer ones showing working prototypes at the end. We also did a short retrospective of the event at the end to find out which parts we should keep, and what we should consider trying next time we facilitate a similar event.
An exploration of Tesla car data with the goal to improve car efficiency and performance.
A look at how home heating systems might be better used to improve efficiency in order to reduce running costs.
A look at optimising the use of Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) in oil production.