Baker Hughes and KBC Partner to Provide Integrated Process and Operational Software Solutions to the Oil and Gas Industry

Baker Hughes, a GE company and KBC a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, announce a preferred partnership that will provide a combination of process simulation, asset performance management and operational software solutions to the oil and gas industry.

Leveraging GE’s Predix, the platform for the industrial internet, to deliver one unified view, this partnership extends KBC’s Petro-SIM process simulation modeling further into the fullstream oil and gas value chain, and provides connectivity between operations, assets, people and business processes for end-to-end optimisation.

Integrating KBC technology with BHGE’s suite of digital solutions will allow customers to reduce bottlenecks in facilities, processes and equipment to achieve optimal production and lower risk. By integrating data analytics connected by seamless workflows between facilities and operations, the time spent to analyse operations will be significantly reduced and the insight gained will increase production, reduce energy usage and improve product quality consistency.