Dana Energy Presents Smart Field Platform at NIOC Innovative Summit 2025

On the second day of the Tehran International Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical Exhibition, a key event titled NIOC INNOVATIVE SUMMIT 2025, focused on “Digital Transformation in the Oil Industry,” was held. The summit brought together senior executives, policymakers, and thought leaders in upstream oil and gas to examine current trends, challenges, and the digitalization outlook in the sector.

In the second panel, titled “Prerequisites and Requirements for Developing Digital Oil Fields: Opportunities and Challenges,” Mr. Mahmoud Mohaddes, President of Exploration and Production at Dana Energy, joined as a core panelist to share the company’s insights and practical experiences in implementing intelligent solutions.

For the first time during this session, he presented Dana Energy’s Smart Field Management Platform, highlighting its capabilities and offering operational solutions to drive digital transformation in the upstream sector. Developed from field experience, real-time data analysis, and AI-driven algorithms, the platform is already being implemented in key projects across Dana Energy.

Key features of the platform include:

• Simultaneous modeling of wells, reservoirs, and surface facilities to ensure technical, economic, and operational alignment;
• Integration of technical and economic data into final modeling, providing a foundation for rapid, strategic analysis and agile decision-making;
• Optimization of decision-making across three core phases of E&P projects: pre-contract, execution, and monitoring;
• ESP performance forecasting through field data analysis (drawing from the experience of over 70 pumps in the Aban and Paydar Gharb projects);
• An intelligent project knowledge management system for analyzing lessons learned and preventing the recurrence of operational errors.

The strategic advantage of this platform lies in the fact that its decision-making process is not solely based on the integration of technical models. By employing artificial intelligence algorithms and considering factors such as project profitability, timely resource availability, cost reduction, and contractual obligations, it delivers realistic, flexible, and implementable solutions.

Key issues addressed during the panel included:

• Structural challenges in upstream project decision-making;
• The necessity of real-time integration between technical and economic decision-making;
• The lack of an effective framework for capturing and transferring knowledge across similar projects;
• The potential of local intelligent infrastructure to enhance efficiency and facilitate technology transfer.

Dana Energy’s active participation in this expert panel reflects its deep commitment to advancing technology-driven and knowledge-based solutions in the upstream oil sector, reinforcing its position as a true pioneer of digital transformation in Iran’s E&P landscape.