Oil India will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to the rising incidence of rampant oil thefts from its pipelines. Oil India is seeking AI solutions to stop the pilferage in Assam and beyond.

Oil India invited Expression of Interest on May 27 from companies that can supply and install sensors on well-heads to transmit real-time data to oil and gas collecting stations for detailed analysis using AI.

The lastdate for submission of bids is June 21.

In order totest out the real-time monitoring or digital oilfield technology, a pilotproject will be introduced at the Hebeda oil field as well as in Makum andHapjan fields, near to Oil headquarter at Duliajan.

According toan official of Oil India, monitoring from Hebeda is possible because it has aGas Collecting Station (GCS) which would help the installation manager keep upreal-time monitoring (with production). Once it is monitored any disruption canbe spotted immediately.

The officialfurther stated that oil theft is a huge problem in Upper Assam where gangspuncture pipelines in the middle of the night to siphon away oil. He furthersaid that manual monitoring will help them to enable the best use of productiondata while making decisions for overall reservoir management and forexploration and production.