How ADNOC Uses ETAP Digital Twin and Operator Training Simulator to Enhance Power System Efficiency

The flexible virtual training using ETAP OTS platform allows to reproduce realistic plant behaviors with identical power system operational environments. It improves the operator competency, confidence and knowledge for better plant operation.
by Mr. Sohail Ahmed, ADNOC Assembly Maintenance and Overhaul Supervisor

This case study discusses the using of Operator Training System by ADNOC company. In early 2020, the electrical department of this major company identified the need for significant advancements in managing their electrical systems located on the DAS Island. To improve the quality and security of their electrical services, they decided to invest in digital modeling and training simulations. They chose the solutions offered by ETAP Company.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Arabic: شركة بترول أبو ظبي الوطنية), known by its acronym ADNOC, is the state-owned oil company of the United Arab Emirates. This is the largest drilling company in the Middle East by rig fleet size. It operates on a series of islands in the Persian Gulf of the Abu Dhabi coast, which are isolated physically and electrically from the mainland.

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Year: 2025

Real-time Operator Training Simulator for electrical operators

Challenges

  • Provide training of functional principles of the electrical network, turbines, and generators in the real operational environment integrated and reliable with facilities. 
  • Improving electrical operators and supervisor's competency on operating system, to achieve repetitive decisions and behaviors in the real, and various typical cases and emergencies.
  • Analyzing of cases and optimization of operations, enhancing HMI, alarm handling, trending and reporting with good understanding of processes. Real-time simulated training should optimize maintenance and centralize energy service.
  • The training platform should be integrated with real data from the area in real time, to help in understanding the processes, and to simulate the work and desision-making under real conditions.

Which solutions do they choose?

Selected applications

They chose ETAP OTS (Operator Training Simulator), working with ETAP Digital Twin platform, which represents virtual model of the real-world power system.

The ETAP online cloud solution was chosen, offering modeling, integration, and simulation. 

Why do they use Etap?

Main Customer Benefits

  • Provides different levels of training in using OTS to different users: new electrical engineer, new operator, advanced user.
  • Reflect the operation of the facility by including response from load system, generation system, energy production, protection system and machine behavior with complete list of simulations.
  • Automatically evaluate information about the network with easy accessibility, and visualization.
  • Sends operating conditions to operators/trainees.

What do they think about ETAP?

Opinions

The scope of work for the electrical OTS requirement in a brief are creation of a simulation system that provides realistic response to the operator action and reproduce the state and behavior of a live operational plant.
by Mr. Sohail Ahmed, ADNOC Assembly Maintenance and Overhaul Supervisor

This helps prepare the operators to respond to any malfunction and emergency and keep them ready for real time operation.
by Mr. Sohail Ahmed, ADNOC Assembly Maintenance and Overhaul Supervisor



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