Fundamental requirements of Digital Twins for production system in Oil and Gas Industry: A systematic literature review

IF 4.3 2区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI:10.1016/j.infsof.2025.107742

Ricardo C. Belo, Marcelo S. Pimenta, Tarciso T. Salvador, Rafael H. Petry, Mara Abel

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Abstract

Context:

The oil and gas industry is adopting Digital Twins as a significant step in a continuous digital transformation. A Digital Twin can provide intelligent support to main activities related directly or indirectly to oil and gas production, like operations monitoring, process optimization, failure prediction, simulation of what-if scenarios, and safety improvement.

Situation:

Specifications of requirements of a Digital Twin (DT) in the oil and gas domain found in the literature are usually presented informally, utilizing natural and often ambiguous language. Most of the requirements need to be extracted from descriptions of DT characteristics and functionality presented in articles.

Objective:

This systematic literature review aims to summarize the existing evidence concerning the requirements of Digital Twins tailored explicitly for oil and gas production systems. By thoroughly analyzing published literature, the study seeks to uncover the requirements, properties, and constraints essential for the successful implementation of Digital Twins in this domain.

Method:

Through a systematic literature review, the study focused on rigorously identifying common functionality, ubiquitous characteristics, and some emerging trends related to Digital Twin requirements in oil and gas production systems.

Results:

From the initial 939 articles, the review selected 94 relevant studies, focusing on described requirements and on application-specific features of Digital Twins. Among the selected papers, 28 were analyzed and reviewed, focusing on specific requirements for Digital Twin for production systems within the industry, shedding light on 17 functional and 7 non-functional requirements common to many DT specifications and implementations.

Conclusion:

Our findings underscore the importance of comprehensively understanding and outlining the essential requirements for Digital Twins within the intricate landscape of production systems in the industry. By elucidating key features and properties of DT, this study contributes significantly to enhancing the efficacy and implementation of new Digital Twins, or the evaluation of existing Digital Twins.

As a result, we have identified some important requirements, specifically in the O&G domain. We analyzed some issues related to the software needs of DTs in the O&G domain, highlighting which are the requirements of a DT usually specified or informally described. This study allows us to identify primary studies in both DT for O&G and Requirements Engineering (RE) fields. Even though the requirements described here have been collected from DT works in the O&G domain, many of these requirements are also applicable to other domains, like many areas of engineering and manufacturing. Finally, it aims to offer a clear understanding of state-of-art industrial DT requirements appliable for many domains, but with more focus and detail dedicated to the O&G domain. Moreover, we aim to identify some gaps and challenges that need to be considered for adopting DTs by the O&G industry.

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石油天然气行业生产系统数字孪生系统的基本要求：系统文献综述

背景：油气行业正在采用数字孪生技术作为持续数字化转型的重要一步。Digital Twin可以为与油气生产直接或间接相关的主要活动提供智能支持，如作业监控、流程优化、故障预测、模拟假设场景以及安全改进。情况：在文献中发现的石油和天然气领域的数字孪生（DT）需求规范通常是非正式的，使用自然且经常含糊不清的语言。大多数需求需要从文章中对DT特征和功能的描述中提取出来。目的：本系统文献综述旨在总结针对油气生产系统量身定制的数字孪生要求的现有证据。通过全面分析已发表的文献，本研究试图揭示在该领域成功实施数字孪生所必需的需求、属性和约束。方法：通过系统的文献综述，研究重点是严格识别油气生产系统中与数字孪生需求相关的通用功能、普遍特征以及一些新兴趋势。结果：从最初的939篇文章中，综述选择了94篇相关研究，重点关注数字双胞胎的描述需求和特定应用特征。在选定的论文中，对28篇进行了分析和审查，重点关注了行业内生产系统对Digital Twin的具体需求，揭示了许多DT规范和实现中常见的17个功能需求和7个非功能需求。结论：我们的研究结果强调了全面理解和概述数字孪生在行业复杂的生产系统环境中的基本要求的重要性。通过阐明数字孪生的关键特征和属性，本研究有助于提高新数字孪生的有效性和实施，或对现有数字孪生的评估。因此，我们确定了一些重要的需求，特别是在O&；G领域。我们分析了与O&；G领域中DT的软件需求相关的一些问题，强调了哪些是通常指定或非正式描述的DT的需求。这项研究使我们能够确定需求工程（RE）领域的DT和需求工程(G)领域的主要研究。尽管这里描述的需求是从O&；G领域的DT工作中收集的，但其中许多需求也适用于其他领域，例如工程和制造的许多领域。最后，它的目的是提供适用于许多领域的最先进的工业DT需求的清晰理解，但更多的重点和细节致力于O&；G领域。此外，我们的目标是确定油气行业在采用dt时需要考虑的一些差距和挑战。

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Information and Software Technology 工程技术-计算机：软件工程

CiteScore

9.10

自引率

7.70%

发文量

164

审稿时长

9.6 weeks

期刊介绍： Information and Software Technology is the international archival journal focusing on research and experience that contributes to the improvement of software development practices. The journal''s scope includes methods and techniques to better engineer software and manage its development. Articles submitted for review should have a clear component of software engineering or address ways to improve the engineering and management of software development. Areas covered by the journal include: • Software management, quality and metrics, • Software processes, • Software architecture, modelling, specification, design and programming • Functional and non-functional software requirements • Software testing and verification & validation • Empirical studies of all aspects of engineering and managing software development Short Communications is a new section dedicated to short papers addressing new ideas, controversial opinions, "Negative" results and much more. Read the Guide for authors for more information. The journal encourages and welcomes submissions of systematic literature studies (reviews and maps) within the scope of the journal. Information and Software Technology is the premiere outlet for systematic literature studies in software engineering.