Energy Production
Digital Solutions For Energy Production And Generation Infrastructure
Energy infrastructure is evolving with global investments to support decarbonization, electrification, and energy security. For almost 40 years, Bentley’s solutions drive innovation, optimization, and collaboration for large-scale energy production toward a net-zero future.
FEATURED SOLUTIONS
Enhance dam safety with digital twin technology for timely risk assessment, remote monitoring, and efficient data analysis.
Enhance energy production delivery with digital twins, reliable data, and streamlined workflows.
Accelerating the Energy Transition with Infrastructure Intelligence
Improve Efficiency, Reduce Costs, Lower Risk , Increase Profit
Owners
Optimize Energy Project Delivery and Asset Performance
Bentley helps energy projects and infrastructure owners with flexible cloud-based setups, efficient management, and integrated services to streamline supply chain activities. We support data-driven strategies for lifecycle management while meeting industry standards.
Engineering Firms
Design, Simulate, and Collaborate Effectively
Bentley offers a complete range of tools for energy projects, from analyzing subsurface geoscience to managing design and construction. We have a wide selection of applications that work together seamlessly, ideal for challenging infrastructure projects. We also provide flexible agreements and licenses for engineering firms and contractors to efficiently handle their project pipeline.
Partners
Innovate with High-Value iTwin Solutions and Services
Digital twin services are revolutionizing energy production infrastructure. Domain expert partners leverage the open iTwin Platform, along with venture funding, sponsorship, and strategic partner mechanisms to accelerate time-to-market with access to a global ecosystem of owners, engineering firms, and strategic partners.
Sectors in Energy Production
Hydrocarbons
During this period of energy transition, hydrocarbons will continue to play a major role in ensuring energy security. Leveraging the best innovation solutions, digital twin technology, and asset performance applications, we can help you digitally transform your hydrocarbon portfolio from well to field to plant, delivering a complete line of sight for your operation across the asset lifecycle.
Power Generation
In the ongoing energy transition, meeting rising demand requires timely and budget-conscious project completion. Whether in solar, nuclear, wave, or wind energy, we’re equipped to aid you in planning, designing, analyzing, constructing, and operating your infrastructure assets with reliability, security, and collaborative efficiency.
Low Carbon
With the increasing focus on net-zero targets and sustainability, the digital shift to minimize carbon emissions is gaining traction. We empower you to drive transformation in sectors like geothermal, distributed energy resources (DER), carbon capture, and hydrogen. Our innovative solutions cater to both new greenfield projects and the retrofitting of existing brownfield operations, enabling progress towards environmentally responsible goals.
- Design
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Designing Energy Infrastructure
For climate and net-zero objectives in a dynamic energy landscape, precise design is crucial for both onshore and offshore operations. Your design should be adaptable, transparent, dependable, adaptable to changes, data-focused, and accessible to all stakeholders. Bentley offers smart software to enhance new or existing operations, minimizing the timeline from concept to full production capacity.
Create Digital Context for Digital Twins Automatically
Use photographs and/or point clouds to cost effectively produce 3D models of the most challenging existing site conditions, onshore or offshore, for your energy production or generation project.
Image courtesy of Shell
Intelligent Engineering and Design
Enhance projects using integrated, cloud-ready, scalable, and adaptable design applications. Intelligent design prevents expensive problems later on, reducing design duration and project costs.
Improved Collaboration
Rely on comprehensive records of design and engineering activities across all disciplines. Boost project efficiency, delivery, and handover for complex projects, and streamline management of large joint ventures involving multiple stakeholders.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley’s integrated planning and design solutions help energy producers and operators to reduce engineering cycles and deliver critical capital projects on time, safely, and within budget, while adhering to industry standards with cloud-based, scalable, and innovative technology.
Reality Modeling
Effortlessly create intricate 3D reality meshes from basic photos or point clouds for your projects. Efficiently handle and enhance imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data from diverse origins, extending them into virtual, augmented, or mixed reality environments.
Intelligent Plant Design
Generate smart 3D plant models from an intelligent object database. This model serves as a foundation for creating, connecting, and maintaining consistency across 2D drawings, electrical schematics, and reports. Enhance project collaboration, coordination, and accuracy by utilizing interconnected 3D layouts and electrical drawings, which minimize errors and rework.
Digital Twins
Combine disparate engineering data created by diverse design applications into a federated environment with no disruption to your current applications or processes. Use digital twins across the whole lifecycle of the operation by incorporating reality, geospatial, Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other operational data for a single view of the truth.
- Analysis
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Analysis of Energy Infrastructure
Integrated analysis and simulation applications can help you make data-driven decisions that support surface, subsurface, wave, wind, soil, and other environmental challenges to better support future production and energy generation.
Prepare for Every Scenario
Enhance structure integrity through a range of simulated scenarios and tests against different elements like waves, water, wind, soil, and geology. This assessment evaluates long-term durability and stress. Guarantee reliability, mitigate safety worries, and optimize financial investments.
Image courtesy of TPC Changhua Offshore Wind Farm Phase 2 Project
Multidiscipline Design
Boost efficiency in your cross-disciplinary teams for designing and engineering offshore structures—whether they are aboveground, belowground, or above/below water.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Make informed choices through current information, combined analysis, and design, all within collaborative cross-disciplinary setups. Align projects with up-to-date codes and regulations, simplify electrical system design with contemporary engineering guidelines, and integrate with ERP for optimal engineering design and cost-effectiveness.
Offshore Wind Analysis
Investigate design options, forecast performance, and achieve secure, budget-friendly offshore wind farm projects for both stationary and floating structures. Conduct thorough structural analysis on support systems, factoring in load interactions from waves, wind turbines, and mooring lines.
Geothermal and District Energy Analysis
Connect the built world aboveground with the hidden world below it. Integrate with geology, geophysics, and model management solutions for smooth, connected workflows. Conquer the most common and complex geotechnical challenges with confidence, such as analyzing slope stability, groundwater flow, and heat and mass transfer in soil and rock.
Structural Analysis
An all-inclusive structural modeling, analysis, and simulation platform empowers you to craft offshore structures capable of withstanding wave, wind, current, and seismic loads. Guarantee safety and longevity throughout the lifespan of your upcoming offshore endeavor.
- Construction
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Construction of Energy Infrastructure
Seamlessly bridge field-to-office operations, enhancing visibility, predictability, and productivity in your construction projects. This approach ensures successful project delivery across design, pre-bid, execution, and handover stages.
Courtesy of MCC Capital Engineering and Research
Improve Construction Planning
Build and review the asset virtually to identify potential constraints or issues. Resolve plant construction issues before they cost you time and money in the field. Compare planned schedules versus the actual schedule, reduce on-site visits, and monitor and track progress.
Enable Collaboration for Better Results
Advance coordination with the supply chain and stakeholders to keep the project on schedule. Improve safety and enable first-time-right construction. Close communication gaps between the field and office with shared access to site reports, issues, and safety observations to speed decisions.
Centralize Construction Management
Simplify and cost-effectively oversee personnel, materials, and equipment. Visualize real-time construction data in 2D, 3D, and 4D to closely monitor project progress and facilitate swift data-informed choices.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley provides a comprehensive construction management solution encompassing project planning, scheduling, resources, contracts, budgets, and execution. This solution empowers construction companies to enhance project data utilization for optimized decision-making, resource allocation, and project profitability across the entire lifecycle.
Construction Software
Get all your infrastructure construction management in one place, so that you can plan and better manage people, materials, and equipment easily and affordably.
- Operations
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Energy Production Operations & Maintenance
Guarantee dependability by proactively managing the entire lifecycle of your operation’s assets. Whether your assets are new or aging, implement efficient strategies in asset performance management, analytics, and information handling to ensure safety, profitability, and risk reduction, while extending their operational lifespan.
Image courtesy of OQ Upstream
Improve Asset Performance
Comprehend equipment performance within your asset portfolio. Develop insightful inspection and maintenance strategies, continuously assess and enhance their effectiveness using a risk-based approach, and ultimately extend asset life through careful planning and execution.
Image courtesy of Vedanta Cairn
Discover Operational Insights
Use data from across your organization and perform analytics with machine learning and artificial intelligence to discover hidden insights and opportunities. Enhance decision-making to maximize efficiency, recognize opportunity, drive profitability, and minimize business risks.
Ensure Accurate Information
Manage and control all tags, equipment, documents, and other information connected to your portfolio of assets throughout the lifecycle, with capabilities including asset naming, attribution, change history, information on relationships between assets, location tracking, and how assets are connected.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley’s asset performance software provides a suite of applications for optimizing energy assets and maximizing uptime. These solutions cater to maintenance engineers, inspectors, and asset managers, our solutions leverage the data owned by organizations to mitigate risk, increase operational efficiency, improve performance, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Software for Asset Performance
Ensure predictability with reliability strategy and risk-based analysis, data management, and decision support. Optimize maintenance strategies for safety and compliance.
Software for Monitoring and Inspection
Simplify access to data on hard-to-inspect or remote operations. By utilizing technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics, you can build a digital twin that automatically detects issues.
Software for Business Intelligence
Visualize data from multiple third-party systems including point cloud data, imagery, texture 3D mesh, and traditional GIS and engineering data to develop a comprehensive view for analysis and action.
Designing Energy Infrastructure
For climate and net-zero objectives in a dynamic energy landscape, precise design is crucial for both onshore and offshore operations. Your design should be adaptable, transparent, dependable, adaptable to changes, data-focused, and accessible to all stakeholders. Bentley offers smart software to enhance new or existing operations, minimizing the timeline from concept to full production capacity.
Create Digital Context for Digital Twins Automatically
Use photographs and/or point clouds to cost effectively produce 3D models of the most challenging existing site conditions, onshore or offshore, for your energy production or generation project.
Image courtesy of Shell
Intelligent Engineering and Design
Enhance projects using integrated, cloud-ready, scalable, and adaptable design applications. Intelligent design prevents expensive problems later on, reducing design duration and project costs.
Improved Collaboration
Rely on comprehensive records of design and engineering activities across all disciplines. Boost project efficiency, delivery, and handover for complex projects, and streamline management of large joint ventures involving multiple stakeholders.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley’s integrated planning and design solutions help energy producers and operators to reduce engineering cycles and deliver critical capital projects on time, safely, and within budget, while adhering to industry standards with cloud-based, scalable, and innovative technology.
Reality Modeling
Effortlessly create intricate 3D reality meshes from basic photos or point clouds for your projects. Efficiently handle and enhance imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data from diverse origins, extending them into virtual, augmented, or mixed reality environments.
Intelligent Plant Design
Generate smart 3D plant models from an intelligent object database. This model serves as a foundation for creating, connecting, and maintaining consistency across 2D drawings, electrical schematics, and reports. Enhance project collaboration, coordination, and accuracy by utilizing interconnected 3D layouts and electrical drawings, which minimize errors and rework.
Digital Twins
Combine disparate engineering data created by diverse design applications into a federated environment with no disruption to your current applications or processes. Use digital twins across the whole lifecycle of the operation by incorporating reality, geospatial, Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other operational data for a single view of the truth.
Analysis of Energy Infrastructure
Integrated analysis and simulation applications can help you make data-driven decisions that support surface, subsurface, wave, wind, soil, and other environmental challenges to better support future production and energy generation.
Prepare for Every Scenario
Enhance structure integrity through a range of simulated scenarios and tests against different elements like waves, water, wind, soil, and geology. This assessment evaluates long-term durability and stress. Guarantee reliability, mitigate safety worries, and optimize financial investments.
Image courtesy of TPC Changhua Offshore Wind Farm Phase 2 Project
Multidiscipline Design
Boost efficiency in your cross-disciplinary teams for designing and engineering offshore structures—whether they are aboveground, belowground, or above/below water.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Make informed choices through current information, combined analysis, and design, all within collaborative cross-disciplinary setups. Align projects with up-to-date codes and regulations, simplify electrical system design with contemporary engineering guidelines, and integrate with ERP for optimal engineering design and cost-effectiveness.
Offshore Wind Analysis
Investigate design options, forecast performance, and achieve secure, budget-friendly offshore wind farm projects for both stationary and floating structures. Conduct thorough structural analysis on support systems, factoring in load interactions from waves, wind turbines, and mooring lines.
Geothermal and District Energy Analysis
Connect the built world aboveground with the hidden world below it. Integrate with geology, geophysics, and model management solutions for smooth, connected workflows. Conquer the most common and complex geotechnical challenges with confidence, such as analyzing slope stability, groundwater flow, and heat and mass transfer in soil and rock.
Structural Analysis
An all-inclusive structural modeling, analysis, and simulation platform empowers you to craft offshore structures capable of withstanding wave, wind, current, and seismic loads. Guarantee safety and longevity throughout the lifespan of your upcoming offshore endeavor.
Construction of Energy Infrastructure
Seamlessly bridge field-to-office operations, enhancing visibility, predictability, and productivity in your construction projects. This approach ensures successful project delivery across design, pre-bid, execution, and handover stages.
Courtesy of MCC Capital Engineering and Research
Improve Construction Planning
Build and review the asset virtually to identify potential constraints or issues. Resolve plant construction issues before they cost you time and money in the field. Compare planned schedules versus the actual schedule, reduce on-site visits, and monitor and track progress.
Enable Collaboration for Better Results
Advance coordination with the supply chain and stakeholders to keep the project on schedule. Improve safety and enable first-time-right construction. Close communication gaps between the field and office with shared access to site reports, issues, and safety observations to speed decisions.
Centralize Construction Management
Simplify and cost-effectively oversee personnel, materials, and equipment. Visualize real-time construction data in 2D, 3D, and 4D to closely monitor project progress and facilitate swift data-informed choices.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley provides a comprehensive construction management solution encompassing project planning, scheduling, resources, contracts, budgets, and execution. This solution empowers construction companies to enhance project data utilization for optimized decision-making, resource allocation, and project profitability across the entire lifecycle.
Construction Software
Get all your infrastructure construction management in one place, so that you can plan and better manage people, materials, and equipment easily and affordably.
Energy Production Operations & Maintenance
Guarantee dependability by proactively managing the entire lifecycle of your operation’s assets. Whether your assets are new or aging, implement efficient strategies in asset performance management, analytics, and information handling to ensure safety, profitability, and risk reduction, while extending their operational lifespan.
Image courtesy of OQ Upstream
Improve Asset Performance
Comprehend equipment performance within your asset portfolio. Develop insightful inspection and maintenance strategies, continuously assess and enhance their effectiveness using a risk-based approach, and ultimately extend asset life through careful planning and execution.
Image courtesy of Vedanta Cairn
Discover Operational Insights
Use data from across your organization and perform analytics with machine learning and artificial intelligence to discover hidden insights and opportunities. Enhance decision-making to maximize efficiency, recognize opportunity, drive profitability, and minimize business risks.
Ensure Accurate Information
Manage and control all tags, equipment, documents, and other information connected to your portfolio of assets throughout the lifecycle, with capabilities including asset naming, attribution, change history, information on relationships between assets, location tracking, and how assets are connected.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley’s asset performance software provides a suite of applications for optimizing energy assets and maximizing uptime. These solutions cater to maintenance engineers, inspectors, and asset managers, our solutions leverage the data owned by organizations to mitigate risk, increase operational efficiency, improve performance, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Software for Asset Performance
Ensure predictability with reliability strategy and risk-based analysis, data management, and decision support. Optimize maintenance strategies for safety and compliance.
Software for Monitoring and Inspection
Simplify access to data on hard-to-inspect or remote operations. By utilizing technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics, you can build a digital twin that automatically detects issues.
Software for Business Intelligence
Visualize data from multiple third-party systems including point cloud data, imagery, texture 3D mesh, and traditional GIS and engineering data to develop a comprehensive view for analysis and action.
Hear From Our Users
bp
Information Management And Asset Integrity
bp selected AssetWise as standard for asset information management.
SHELL
Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Group
Shell reduced time to find data by 50% with AssetWise and iTwin Experience.
KEYSTONE ENGINEERING INC.
Block Island Offshore Wind Farm
The team shortened the design cycle by 50% and saved the client 20% in installation costs.
POWERCHINA Hubei Electric Engineering
Digital Twins to Build Solar Plant
With Bentley software, they were able to establish renewable energy to the area while saving time and cost.
Vedanta Cairn
Smart Well Integrity and Flow Assurance
AssetWise Provides a Connected Data Environment to Streamline Asset Monitoring and Data Analysis.
Golder Associates
Strengthens One of the World’s Largest Subsea TBM Tunnels
Modeling with Bentley’s geotechnical applications ensured quality, safety, and a service life of 120 years.
Hatch
Randy McMeekin, Global Managing Director
“We reduced ramp up time from 6 months to 1 week at a refinery… and the digital twin shaved 20 days off a shutdown schedule.”
SIDRI
3D Construction Modeling
Shanghai Investigation, Design, & Research Institute saved big with 3D modeling for the first anti-ice cones.
OQ Upstream
Digitalized Reliability and Integrity Program
By using AssetWise Asset Reliability, the OQ team increased asset reliability by 25.7% and reduced environmental flaring by 82.6%.
Resilient Foundation
Wind Turbine Resists Typhoons
PLAXIS and SACS provided a unified environment to simultaneously create models and test soil interactions.
