Systems and methods for facilitating the management of energy production or processing facilities

A method for facilitating the management of one or more energy production or processing facilities, comprising:

• (a) receiving by an application executing on a computer system an alert pertaining to a process equipment of the one or more energy production or processing facilities, the alert corresponding to an operational anomaly in the operation of the process equipment;
• (b) interrogating by the data handler a data structure linking together and organizing a plurality of distinct data sources;
• (c) selecting a subset of data sources from the plurality of distinct data sources identified by the data handler as associated with a potential cause of the alert based on the interrogation of the data structure;
• (d) statistically analyzing by the data handler data sourced from the selected subset of data sources;
• (e) identifying by the data handler the potential cause of the alert based on the statistical analysis performed at (d);
• and
• (f) recommending by the data handler a corrective action to resolve the identified potential cause of the alert using the plurality of distinct data sources;
• wherein and the data structure comprises a knowledge graph including a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of edges, and wherein at least one of the plurality of nodes comprises an equipment identifier node representing the process equipment.

A system for facilitating the management of one or more energy production or processing facilities, comprising:

• a processor;
• a non-transitory memory;
• and
• an application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor:
• receives an alert pertaining to a process equipment of the one or more energy production or processing facilities, the alert corresponding to an operational anomaly in the operation of the process equipment;
• interrogates by a data handler of the application a data structure linking together and organizing a plurality of distinct data sources, the plurality of distinct data sources having a sensor data class associated with sensor data sources of the process equipment, and a contextual data class associated with contextual data sources excluding the sensor data sources of the sensor data class;
• selects a subset of data sources from the plurality of distinct data sources, including both contextual data sources and sensor data sources, identified by the data handler as associated with a potential cause of the alert based on the interrogation of the data structure;
• statistically analyzes by the data handler data sourced from the selected subset of data sources;
• identifies by the data handler the potential cause of the alert based on the contextual data sources within the subsea of data sources and the performed statistical analysis;
• and
• recommends by the data handler a corrective action to resolve the identified potential cause of the alert using the plurality of distinct data sources.