Black & Veatch launches AI platform for remote LNG operations

Black & Veatch introduces BVInfraIQ, an AI-enabled platform that enhances asset performance across critical infrastructure sectors, starting with remote LNG assets, by transforming operational data into actionable intelligence.

Key Highlights

  • Black & Veatch’s BVInfraIQ platform utilizes AI and engineering principles to optimize performance and reliability of critical infrastructure assets.
  • An initial focus on remote LNG assets leverages Black & Veatch’s experience with floating LNG facilities.

Black & Veatch launched BVInfraIQ, an AI-enabled digital infrastructure intelligence platform that optimizes asset performance across the entire end-to-end human critical infrastructure value chain.

The platform’s initial application will focus on optimizing remote liquefied natural gas (LNG) assets utilizing Black & Veatch proprietary technologies deployed on more than half of the world's floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities in operation or under construction.

BVInfraIQ transforms vast amounts of operational data into intelligence on how entire systems work together, delivering prioritized, engineering-grounded recommendations to improve performance, reliability, uptime and cost efficiency across integrated assets. It is powered by a unified digital platform designed to accelerate digital product deployment and deliver scalable outcomes for clients. The platform includes several core components:

  • Physics-based recommendations grounded in first-principles engineering and economic and system-level modeling;
  • Proprietary industry expertise drawn from a century of operations and process design knowledge incorporated directly into the platform’s models;
  • Role-based, real-time operational intelligence with multi-level dashboards delivers prognostic visibility to support decision making across organizations for operators, managers and enterprise leaders;
  • Continuous improvement enabled through AI-powered feedback loops generates smarter, more valuable outcomes over time.
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