Case Study: Leading Oil and Pipeline Company achieves optimized efficiency and safety with GE Digital's Intelligent Pipeline solution

Leading oil company and leading pipeline operator leverage Design Thinking to develop next generation pipeline technology

The Leading Oil and Pipeline Company faced mounting pressure to modernize aging infrastructure, meet stricter regulations, and handle rising demand across a sector that invests roughly $40 billion per year in network expansion and asset maintenance. To address this, the company partnered with GE Digital to apply Design Thinking and co‑design methods to develop a next‑generation, intelligent pipeline prototype and end‑to‑end data management approach.

GE Digital led co‑creation sessions that ingested real customer data and iteratively refined the prototype user interface, producing an intelligent pipeline solution that unifies pipeline and equipment monitoring data into a single operational view. The launched solution enabled users to optimize process efficiency and safety and eliminate resource inefficiencies, turning the co‑designed prototype into a deployable system for improved operational decision‑making.