Improving Value in Oil Business with Integrated Operations

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Cláudio Benevenuto de Campos Lima ◽  
Gilson Brito Alves Lima ◽  
José Francisco Tebaldi de Castro
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Production Unit ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Collaborative Environments ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Integrated Operations ◽  
Oil Company

Over the last decade, the oil industry has aimed to improve the efficiency of work processes by redesigning them, in order to provide data and information within the required time, with proper systems and engineering tools demanded to get faster and better decisions, taken by multidisciplinary teams, working in collaborative environments, called by Integrated Operations. Such strategy has been adopted by all oil operators and several service companies worldwide. This article studies a specific oil company in Brazil that is implementing this sort of initiative, with deep impacts on the oil production. As a methodological approach, a study of multiple cases of exploratory and descriptive character was performed at a production unit of this oil corporation. The results revealed that it was possible to apply the Integrated Operations method, allowing the study of intangibles, case analysis and the diagnosis of gaps.

scholarly journals Drilling Centers Maturity Model Evaluation Based on Integrated Operation Key Elements: A Case Study from Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 313-323
Author(s):  
Claudio Benevenuto De Campos Lima ◽  
Vladimir Steffen Pinto ◽  
Luis Gustavo Sobreira ◽  
Rodrigo Nunes Ferreira ◽  
Danilo Garbazza Vieira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Operating Time ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Process Technology ◽  
Study Results ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Integrated Operations

The current economic situation is pushing the oil industry toward higher efficiency and safety, demanding different ways of work. Optimization is an increasingly important issue, which involves technology, sharing of real-time information, collaboration, and the application of multiple expertise across disciplines, organizations, and geographical locations. In this way, companies are introducing Integrated Operations to redesign and optimize many work processes. To address this challenging scenario, Petrobras, the Brazilian oil operator, decided to optimize the collaborative environments of its drilling centers which are critical for well construction, to introduce integration and improve efficiency. This article presents a methodological approach that is applicable across the oil industry, including a survey of drilling centers to document perceptions concerning the key Integrated Operations components: people, process, technology and organization. This approach applied an intensive assessment. The applicability and scalability of this methodology are reinforced by inclusion of statistical analysis of questionnaire responses. The study results were used to implement a unique collaborative environment that has decreased operating time and facilitated future operational improvements. The research pointed to positive impacts on both, the safety and performance aspects. The preliminary results are promising. For an example, it was observed a 7.25% decrease in time required for a casing run.

scholarly journals Ergonomics Applied on Drilling Centers in the Brazilian Oil Industry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Ferreira ◽  
Claudio Lima ◽  
Gilson Lima ◽  
Luís Zotes ◽  
Danilo Vieira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Collaborative Environments ◽  
Considerable Potential ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact

Drilling centers are collaborative environments dedicated to facilitate decision-making in the well construction, where multidisciplinary teams work to support operations. The oil operators usually have drilling centers with different types of ergonomic features with considerable potential of integration, creating the opportunity to an Ergonomic Workplace Analysis. This paper aims to present the analysis of infrastructure requirements of one specific company in Brazil. The method was based on a survey with employees, which, coped with a statistical analysis, enabled understanding the impact of the layout requirements. The result is an approach to design collaborative environments, standardizing and defining models for the industry.

Scientific-methodological approach to the substantiation of the rational seasonal scenario of using combine harvesters by large-scale agricultural producers

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-217
Author(s):  
V. Skibchyk ◽  
V. Dnes ◽  
R. Kudrynetskyi ◽  
O. Krypuch
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Production Unit ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Rational Use ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Combine Harvesters

Аnnotation Purpose. To increase the efficiency of technological processes of grain harvesting by large-scale agricultural producers due to the rational use of combine harvesters available on the farm. Methods. In the course of the research the methods of system analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, system-factor and system-event approaches, graphic method were used. Results. Characteristic events that occur during the harvesting of grain crops, both within a single production unit and the entire agricultural producer are identified. A method for predicting time intervals of use and downtime of combine harvesters of production units has been developed. The roadmap of substantiation the rational seasonal scenario of the use of grain harvesters of large-scale agricultural producers is developed, which allows estimating the efficiency of each of the scenarios of multivariate placement of grain harvesters on fields taking into account influence of natural production and agrometeorological factors on the efficiency of technological cultures. Conclusions 1. Known scientific and methodological approaches to optimization of machine used in agriculture do not take into account the risks of losses of crops due to late harvesting, as well as seasonal natural and agrometeorological conditions of each production unit of the farmer, which requires a new approach to the rational use of rational seasonal combines of large agricultural producers. 2. The developed new approach to the substantiation of the rational seasonal scenario of the use of combined harvesters of large-scale agricultural producers allows taking into account the costs of harvesting of grain and the cost of the lost crop because of the lateness of harvesting at optimum variants of attraction of additional free combine harvesters. provides more profit. 3. The practical application of the developed road map will allow large-scale agricultural producers to use combine harvesters more efficiently and reduce harvesting costs. Keywords: combine harvesters, use, production divisions, risk, seasonal scenario, large-scale agricultural producers.

scholarly journals Waiting for a deus ex machina: ‘Sustainable extractives’ in a 2°C world

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-489
Author(s):  
Dinah Rajak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Suspension Of Disbelief ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
Growth Forecasts

In recent years the oil industry has shifted from climate change denialism to advocacy of the Paris Agreement, championing sustainability in an apparent assertion (rather than rejection) of corporate responsibility. Meanwhile growth forecasts continue unabated to finance the industry’s enthusiasm for upstream ventures in uncharted territories. How do extractive companies, and those who work in them, square this contradiction? Fieldwork among oil company executives points to a new wave of techno-optimism: a deus ex machina that will descend from the labs of corporate research and development (R&D) labs to reconcile these irreconcilable imperatives. Rather than denial, the projection of win-win synergies between growth and sustainability involves a suspension of disbelief; an instrumental faith in the miraculous power of technology that tenders salvation without forsaking fossil fuels, or restructuring markets.

Subsea Well Intervention Readiness in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Augustinis Purificação ◽  
Julia Vieira dos Santos ◽  
Matheus Marins Gonzaga
Keyword(s):  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Base Case ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Market Opening ◽  
Equipment Availability ◽  
Local Supply ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
Unconscious Desire

Abstract The purpose of this study is to assess the subsea well intervention capabilities in Brazil from an operator point of view and how it compares to other regions in the world, in terms of equipment availability, technology and readiness. The object of this assessment will be restricted to the well access systems, given the numerous scenarios that can drive a subsea well intervention. The intent is to identify the main challenges an International Oil Company (IOC) and/or Local Oil Company (LOC) operating in Brazil must overcome in order to keep a robust and realistic contingency plan in case of any well integrity issue. Also, similar challenges are experienced whenever production restoration is needed and/or even opportunities for production enhancement are economically assessed to viable, or not. Last but not least, well access during the last phase of a well lifecycle (plug and abandonment) is also a key element. This will be discussed further in. Until the late 90's, the subsea oil industry in Brazil was restricted to the state-run operator and the supply chain to the business had developed itself around the mindset to maidenly supply a single state-run operator demand. After the market opening and consolidation of the IOC's and LOC's in the subsea market, a lack of local supply of several goods and services started to present itself. Since well access systems are expensive and the base case is that you won't use it unless you have a problem, there's a strong unconscious desire not to worry about it until you really need it. Sharing the same view, service companies tend to enforce the sale of these kits to the operator, rather than focus on a rental solution. Moreover, when service companies provide rental solutions, they are not kept in country and mobilization fees and lead time become a showstopper on many cases. In view of the scenario described above and ways of operation of the Brazilian market IOC's and LOC's a solution will be proposed to mitigate the risk of unavailability and reduce costs based on the sharing economy principles.

The Terms of Interaction and Concurrent Learning in the Definition of Integrated Operations

2013 ◽  
pp. 328-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trygve J. Steiro ◽  
Glenn- Egil Torgersen
Keyword(s):  
Oil Industry ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Concurrent Learning ◽  
Complex Organization ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Integrated Operations ◽  
Robust Integration ◽  
The Way

This chapter introduces a new definition of Integrated Operations (IO) adapted to the oil industry. This definition focuses on interaction. Such an approach is necessary to emphasize learning processes in the organization’s various echelons. It is an important assumption for the success of IO as a flexible and complex organization. The term “Interaction” is elaborated with special emphasis on “Concurrent Learning.” Such an approach ensure reflection during the process leading up - the way forward - to the target and the development of a more fundamental organizational philosophy rather than just focusing on the result. It will create a more robust “integration” between technology, people, and organizations so that a higher capability in integrated operations can be achieved.

Contradiction of space, centralization of capital, and the hybrid state oil company: The case of Russia

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mazen Labban
Keyword(s):  
Oil Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
State Control ◽  
Hybrid State ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
National Oil Companies ◽  
Russian State ◽  
And Control ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
A New Species

A new species of capital has emerged from the development of inter-capitalist competition in the oil industry. Oil-producing states have fused with financial and productive/extractive capital, foreign and domestic, into hybrid state oil companies. These are centralized monopolies that transcend the historical geographical opposition between private transnational oil companies and national oil companies. As partially nationalized state monopolies, they allow oil-producing states access to global capital markets, while retaining the control of the state over the flow of foreign capital into the domestic oil industry. They thus mediate the contradiction between the integration of capital at the transnational level and its territorial fragmentation at the national scale, only to internalize it in the process. I examine this process in the case of the ongoing consolidation of the Russian oil industry under state control, focusing on two inter-related contradictions: an attempt by the Russian state to liberalize the oil industry, yet shield it against the expansion and control of foreign oil companies; and the dependence of the state on foreign financial capital in the very process of consolidating control over the oil industry.

scholarly journals Application of methods of the theory of multiphase queueing systems to the problems of optimizing the resources of service companies in the field of housing sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 196 ◽  
pp. 04040
Author(s):  
Rustam Khayrullin ◽  
Alexey Myasnikov
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Queuing Theory ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Queueing Systems ◽  
Housing Sector ◽  
Fair Price ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Multiphase Queueing Systems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
To Receive

The scientific - methodological approach to calculation of duration and estimation of complexity of the expertise of technical and operational documentation for measuring equipment and technical devices used in the field of construction and housing sector is suggested. The approach is based on both the theory of queueing systems and probabilistic and statistical methods. The developed approach is implemented in the form of package of applied programs. The software based on complex using the principle of decomposition of object into constituent parts, the queuing theory and the method of expert estimations. The software allows on the basis of the results of statistical data processing for the past periods of work to receive both estimates of the average time of the expertise as a whole, and the estimates of the individual expertise stages. The algorithm for calculating the required number of employees for quality customer service is developed, taking into account the restriction on the waiting time of the request in the queue. The obtained results make it possible to make optimal use of working personnel at various work sites, taking into account their qualifications and training. The developed approach can be used to form a “fair price list” for private clients and enterprises - customers of expertise.

Integrated operations program with Statoil

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 682
Author(s):  
David Haake
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Active Member ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Business Organisation ◽  
Industry Standards ◽  
Offshore Industry ◽  
Integrated Operations

Several years ago, IBM established its Smarter Planet vision: to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works—to how every person, business, organisation, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts. Mr Haake will present a case study from our collaboration with Statoil on integrated operations. Statoil defines integrated operations (IO) as: collaboration across disciplines, companies, organisational and geographical boundaries—made possible by real-time data and new work processes—to reach safer and better decisions faster. To help identify the methods, technologies and work processes necessary to integrate its operations, Statoil appointed a research and development consortium consisting of ABB, IBM, SKF and Aker Kvaerner. The Statoil TAIL IO project was aimed at improving operations at fields approaching the end of their life-spans—the stage where production rate is declining, the facilities are aging, and the cost of operation is high. The result is a set of integrated operations solutions based on industry standards that offer great promise. “Our efforts to bring more integration and collaboration to our production processes are critical to the future of the offshore industry. IBM has shown a strong commitment to helping us achieve this goal.”—Adolfo Henriquez, head of Integrated Operations, Statoil. IBM Research, is the world’s largest private research institution. The IBM annual research and development budget is nearly $6 Billion. IBM is also an active member and participant in the development and leadership of multiple petroleum industry standards bodies: Mimosa and Open Operations & Maintenance Integrated Operations of the High North (IOHN) Energistics, coordinating WITSML and PRODML.

QUEENSLAND PETROLEUM ACT REVIEW AND REFORM

1989 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
D.J. Gately
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
Administrative Practices ◽  
Oil Company

On 12 May 1988 amendments to the Queensland Petroleum Act of 1923 came into force. These empower the Governor- in- Council to appoint a Pipelines Tribunal to inquire into the operations of any existing or proposed pipeline. The Act now affirms the existence of the Secretary of Mines as a Corporation which can undertake all the aspects of an oil company from exploration to distribution of refined products. In particular, this corporation now has the sole right to construct and operate any pipeline in Queensland which extends beyond the boundaries of a lease. There was little or no dialogue with industry prior to the proclamation of these amendments.In comparison with the Petroleum Acts of South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, the Queensland Petroleum Act contains many areas subject to ministerial discretion or which are no longer relevant to present- day administrative practices. The Queensland Government's proposal to issue a green paper discussing amendments to the Act, based on submissions from interested parties, is welcomed since it is in the interests of management of the exploratory oil industry to strive for uniformity of administration in each state.

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