Huawei Joins Hands with Rashpetco for Digital Transformation of the Oil and Gas Industry with Intelligent Networks

Rashid Petroleum Company (Rashpetco), headquartered in New Maadi, Cairo, Egypt, is a key local oil and gas exploration and production enterprise in the energy industry. Anchored by its core project in the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) region, the company has long contributed approximately 35% to 40% of Egypt's total natural gas output, playing a vital role in safeguarding national energy security. Rashpetco also leads in safety management and technological innovation. For example, in 2024, the company achieved over 21 million safe working hours with zero injuries, and pioneered the adoption of 4D seismic exploration technology to promote deepwater resource development. With its strengths in output, responsibility, and innovation, Rashpetco has become a major player in the energy field in Egypt and even the whole region.

Rashpetco's office campus network not only supports daily operations and production management, but also ensures efficient collaboration with domestic and international partners, which includes cross-regional HD video conferencing and critical business communications. This provides robust digital support for deepwater gas field development and operations. However, the campus network faces three major challenges. First, it must provide high bandwidth for exploration data and video conferencing to ensure real-time remote collaboration. Next, it must ensure stable transmission of production commands and R&D data to prevent business interruptions caused by network fluctuations. Last but not least, it must support proactive O&M to achieve fast fault locating and enable efficient operations in complex business scenarios. To address these, Huawei has launched the Xinghe Intelligent High-Quality Network Solution tailored for oil and gas company HQ campuses, which has many highlights:

CloudEngine S12700E-4 core switch: As the core engine of the network, it ensures smooth and uninterrupted core services with ultra-high bandwidth and ultra-low latency forwarding. Its hardware-level high reliability design (redundant MPUs, power modules, and fan modules) and fast protection switching mechanism ensure always-on key services.

iMaster NCE-Campus (an intelligent management and control platform): As the intelligent network hub, it enables unified management and status visualization of network-wide devices. Moreover, leveraging AI-powered fault diagnosis, it slashes the network fault locating time by 70%, significantly improving O&M efficiency.

In the resource development scenario in the WDDM region, Rashpetco's offshore drilling and production facilities are equipped with various industrial sensors to collect production parameters in real time and ensure safe operations. As development scales up, the number of platforms and devices continues to grow, and production data increases exponentially. This places higher demands on the stability and processing capacity of the data center network, thereby introducing new challenges to the O&M system. To handle the massive data with high complexity and uncertainty, Rashpetco urgently needs to build an intelligent O&M system to ensure efficient and reliable system support. This is where Huawei Xinghe Intelligent Ultra-Resilient Fabric Solution comes in, and its highlights are as follows:

Spine-leaf architecture: The network-wide redundancy design and equal-cost multi-path (ECMP) technology support microsecond-level protection switching (< 50 μs), ensuring zero interruption of core services.

iMaster NCE-Fabric: With AI-driven proactive O&M at its core, iMaster NCE-Fabric uses visualized network monitoring and big data analytics to achieve proactive warning of 85% potential fault scenarios. This slashes the average fault detection time to less than 1 minute, boosting O&M efficiency several-fold.

Rashpetco and Huawei have successfully built a future-oriented intelligent digital network foundation. For example, the high-quality campus network ensures smooth collaboration in exploration, video conferencing, and production command delivery, while the resilient data center network overrides the challenges brought by massive production data and provides solid support for the stable running of core services. As the partnership deepens, Huawei will continue to assist Rashpetco in leveraging AI-driven intelligent O&M to further explore and innovate in the oil and gas industry. This robust digital cooperation will drive the sustainable growth in Egypt's energy industry and inject powerful momentum into the stable development of Egypt's economy.