Towards digital twinning for single sensor streamer platforms

Abstract

Summary In modern product development, assessment and maintenance the use of digital twins is gaining momentum. In its simplest form a digital twin is a virtual model replicating a potential or actual physical product, system, process and/or service in part or in its entirety. In this abstract we show how we created a digital twin for a towed streamer platform by mapping significant parts of the streamer platform elements from a physical platform onto a digital replica. We demonstrate how we integrated simulators for navigation, aimpoints, spread health and seismic data into the digital twin such that we can generate simulations representative of data streams without live streaming all the data from a physical twin. The digital twin facilitates the derivation of maintenance prediction models, compute resource models and acquisition scenario boundaries. We show an example of how the digital twin can give us options for safely reallocating computational resources in scenarios of increasingly challenging sea states or to improve productivity by acquiring a survey faster.