From left: Sy Malek Faisal Sy Mohamad, Gentari Head of Renewables for Malaysia and SEA; Aadrin Azly, PETRONAS Group Technology and Commercialisation Vice President; Albern Murty, CelcomDigi’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer; Mohd Yusri Mohamed Yusof, PETRONAS Project Delivery and Technology Senior Vice President; Shah Yang Razalli, Gentari Deputy Chief Executive Officer; Afizulazha Abdullah, CelcomDigi’s Chief Enterprise Business Officer, at the MoU signing ceremony.
KUALA LUMPUR: Petroliam Nasional Bhd (PETRONAS) and CelcomDigi Bhd exploring ways to leverage 5G to accelerate digital transformation and sustainability efforts for the energy industry.
In a statement, the parties said the strategic collaboration will see the exploration of potential techno-digital industrial efforts using 5G technology to enable continuous improvements across PETRONAS’ operations.
Additionally, the collaboration will also look into opportunities to integrate clean energy solutions into CelcomDigi’s enterprise offerings to drive adoption among Malaysian businesses.
PETRONAS vice-president group technology and commercialisation Aadrin Azly said: “This partnership offers us a great opportunity to expand the power of 5G for our enterprise and the wider community.
"We envision building a robust network infrastructure that’s able to cater to the growing demand for reliable access to high-speed internet within the oil and gas sector.”
CelcomDigi deputy CEO Albern Murty added that the memorandum of understanding represents an opportunity to accelerate the modernisation of oil and gas operations powered by 5G connectivity.
"In the last five years, we have worked closely with PETRONAS to implement private 4G LTE networks on offshore platforms and test digital use cases.
"Together, we have realised practical digital applications for rig operations; for example, what used to be an edge test case of ‘connected rig workers’ is now a must-have to keep rig workers productive and safe,"
