Siemens and Aker Solutions have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to further develop digital offerings across engineering, operations and services

The collaboration focuses on creating software applications and joint service offerings, including the development of industrial digital twins that will drive efficiency throughout the plant lifecycle. In addition, the companies will develop specific offerings for the oil and gas sector based on Siemens' Comos engineering platform. These solutions will help customers reduce engineering and operating costs and enable better decision-making.

The agreement builds on a successful and enduring relationship between the two companies, combining individual strengths and promoting joint offerings.

Aker Solutions will bring its domain expertise and industry-specific digital offerings in field development, asset performance and integrity, while Siemens will provide a broad range of digital offerings for the process industries – from automation equipment to engineering applications. and simulation.

“We are excited to strengthen our existing relationship with Siemens,” said Dean Watson, COO of Aker Solutions. “By working together to develop and deploy advanced digital solutions, we will enable our customers to unlock data and solve important engineering challenges. Within the energy sector – and beyond – digital twin solutions are delivering greater insight which in turn enables better performance, maintenance and We look forward to working with a trusted partner like Siemens to further enhance these offerings.”

Eckard Eberle, CEO of Process Automation Business Unit at Siemens added: “With this collaboration, we are combining Aker Solutions' strong expertise in oil and gas exploration projects, as well as its domain-specific digitization offerings with the broad Siemens expertise in the field of electrification”, automation and digitalization.

Customers from a wide range of industries, including the oil and gas industry, will benefit from an enhanced joint offering that will increase their productivity, efficiency and flexibility."