Business Problem

A late life gas producing asset needs to be decommissioned in the next 10 years, involving 15 offshore platforms and interconnecting pipelines.

There is an opportunity to maintain some revenue by meeting the (declining) gas demand.

The remaining production potential, operating expenses and asset integrity status vary from platform to platform.

Value drivers: an ideal decommissioning plan meets the remaining demand while minimising OPEX and safety risks.

Goal

Use Game AI approach to build an optimized decommissioning sequence for these competing value drivers.

Game AI

We translated the asset’s decommissioning planning into a reverse resource allocation game, and taught an AI agent to play this game.

Through self-play, the AI learns to master the game mechanics and to develop strategies that outperform human planning capability.

Using our AI as a planning assistant, we can now develop decommissioning planning strategies much more efficiently than before, and translate stakeholder views immediately into alternative plans to improve decision making.