i-Tech Services, Leidos sign subsea digitalisation deal

i-Tech Services, a Subsea 7 company, and Leidos announced a five-year digitalisation partnership agreement.

The partnership will increase efficiencies in i-Tech Services’ Life of Field capabilities by providing clients with greater insights into operations through the field lifecycle. This relationship will leverage Leidos’s multi-sector expertise in digitalisation and enable i-Tech Services to significantly automate manual processes, reduce operating costs and utilise innovative technologies and capabilities to further differentiate i-Tech Services’ offerings.

Steve Wisely, senior vice president, i-Tech Services said: “This is an exciting partnership that will allow us to uncover the many future benefits of digitalisation throughout the life of the field. We look  forward to collaborating with Leidos to deliver a technology development plan that utilises big data, digitalisation and artificial intelligence to allow clients to harvest greater insight for early decision making ensuring focussed and cost effective management of the field by reducing OPEX.”

“The partnership has already identified and initiated the first two development phases, which will see a focus on data acquisition, processing, analytical insight and data visualisation of i-Tech Services’ integrity, inspection and survey services.” 

Neil Walton, VP & managing director, Civil, Defence and Health, Leidos UK said: “The Oil & Gas sector is under significant pressure to optimise production and deliver services as efficiently as possible and this is a clear example of how Leidos can help transform performance by releasing the value held in data to deliver improved insight for i-Tech Services.”