Capex-Free Production Facilities Optimization Opportunities by Exploiting Installed Automation Infrastructure and Unused Functionalities

Operational Excellence and Automation Excellence go hand in hand when it comes to enabling process optimization and cost-reduction opportunities in Upstream Oil & Gas Operations. As part of our Digital Journey in the Upstream Business, multiple streams and workflows have been created to successfully identify and explore the use of new technologies to foster collaboration, achieve higher levels of efficiency, lower operating costs, maximize production and asset integrity, improve decision making, and lower the carbon footprint of all of our exploration and production activities. While our Digital Journey has been highly successful in identifying, assessing and implementing new technologies and novel solutions, it has also made very clear, during the development of business-cases’, that a rather big number of existing and older facilities were not going to be good cost-effective candidates for the deployment of many of the identified solutions and technologies. As an established and rooted operator with a large number of aging facilities, these presented an additional challenge to dig deeper and look further for solutions to cover all of these remaining assets, no matter how old or small they could be.