Business challengesOil and gas is a global market with
challenges in economics, scale and safety, and directly reactive to
supply and demand. A challenge for companies is to service growth,
increasing productivity, with the capability to accelerate
production and reduce downtime, without comprising safety and
corporate social responsibility.
Operational excellence lies at the heart of Chevron’s overall
business strategy. It constantly reviews and evaluates the business
processes that connect
people, assets and information. Recent analysis indicated that
the current processes for data capture and reporting were
potentially hindering
employee productivity, resulting in a duplication of effort and
preventing effective management of information.
How we helpedInformation, which can provide a valuable insight
into operational
performance, is created and stored across a variety of remote
devices
and systems.
The aim of Project Seer was to develop an integrated
architecture with
business processes that would make this data accessible across
the
organisation; to achieve operational excellence, improve safety
and
regulatory compliance and gain greater efficiency through
accelerated
production and reduced downtime, replacing the disparate
systems
and parts currently used.
Capula has been involved in the project since its inception in
2005.
Working as one of the strategic delivery partners, it is
responsible for the
realtime component, which is at the heart of the project
architecture.
Products from OSIsoft’s PI System infrastructure form the
integration
engine and are a core part of the Seer data warehouse. This is
closely
integrated with a Microsoft SQL server to provide a unified view
of
time series and relational information.
Chevron Upstream EuropeProject Seer
Business benefits delivered
The Programme delivered real-time operational information and
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) into the hands of senior
management and all other CUE staff, to enable them to optimise
their business operations and performance.
Initially it was implemented in the Captain Field in the North
Sea, with a plan to roll it out to other assets in CUE and sharing
components with other strategic business units.
Business benefits delivered to demonstrate to the organisation
as a whole the true value of Seer include:
> Access to timely and accurate information to support the
management of critical business and safety issues
> Enabling the drive towards zero incidents. The Lost Time
Injury Rate (LTIR) and the Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR) have
been falling and Project Seer is supporting this trend
> Improvement of the visibility and maintenance management of
CUE asset
> Enabling immediate and accurate KPI analysis
To achieve this operational excellence an innovative framework
called Service Orientation and
Business Intelligence (SoBI) was used, where systems,
applications and data are used as services
with a platform consisting of data warehousing and time series
data feeds.
As an OSIsoft partner, Capula is responsible for implementing
the real-time platform that underpins
the delivery of the operational data including:
> Integration of the core PI Server and applications from
OSIsoft
> Interfaces to the diverse data sources
> Manipulation of the real-time data events
> Integration to real-time data consumers
> Development of a unique web presentation layer - using PI
WebParts from the OSIsoft PI System
infrastructure
To support its delivery of real-time solutions into the project,
Capula also provided bespoke
software development, testing, installation and project
management services.
Why CapulaCapula shared Chevron’s core vision for a visible
platform where business systems interact
seamlessly with operational systems in order to enhance
efficiency and productivity. Capula was
chosen because of our reputation of being able to deliver even
the most complex and demanding
projects to business critical deadlines. Furthermore, Capula was
able to bring expertise and ideas
in applying real-time solutions for business improvement.
Chevron Upstream Europe
Chevron Upstream Europe (CUE) is
a subsidiary of Chevron; based in
Aberdeen, it is responsible for the
exploration and extraction of oil in
the North Sea.
Chevron is one of the world’s leading
energy companies with over 62,000
employees and business activities
in 180 countries. It produces and
transports crude oil and natural gas,
and refines, markets and distributes
fuels and other energy products.
Chevron is a key player in the UK’s
energy market, with interests in
several oil and gas fields in the North
Sea. It also owns the Pembroke
refinery in Southwest Wales, one of
a portfolio of core global refineries.
Operations in the market are divided
between upstream - exploration and
extraction and downstream - refining
and distribution.
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