Best Practices for Oil & Gas

A rapid-fire demo format, these sessions will cover topics of interest to the oil and gas industry and are presented by solution providers. Stop by during the networking breaks to hear more. Sessions will be 15 minutes long and we’ll provide headphones for you to listen in.

Industries across the globe are reaping huge benefits from workflow automation and plant maintenance is no exception. Doing Mobile The Right Way is critical to cut costs, reduce errors, increase productivity and build ROI. Mobile is more than just data capture – it paves the path of the digital highway that your entire workflow will run through.

In this session, we will cover why doing mobile the right way is critical to business operations and how it can help move you closer to the perfect plant and predictive maintenance. A high level list of topics that will be covered include:

Benefits of mobility done right
Results that can happen from selecting the wrong solution
Components of doing mobile right
How to choose the right device
Native vs Hybrid
Driving ROI and company success stories

Key Business Benefits Companies are Achieving:

Reduce time to send work orders to technicians (80%+)
Increase technicians’ productivity (15%+)
Reduce MTTR (70%+)
Increase MTBF (10%+)
Eliminate Paper (8M+/year)

Digital transformation within oil and gas has significant potential to improve performance in health, environment, and safety as well as to create value and capture efficiencies across all value chains and facets of operations. To achieve these benefits, organizations must realign their mindsets to accept a new pace of change, be open to trying new and different ways of working, adopting new technologies, and make user experience a priority. The oil and gas industry is experiencing its third major iteration of workflow and technology reinvention in as many decades as well as onboarding a new engineering workforce. For those who naturally thrive in this changing landscape, the purpose, motivations, and leadership opportunities are clear. In this keynote address, Jim will share his leadership insights as his organization partners with others in Chevron to bring digital transformation to reality.

One constant affecting the energy industry is change, with highly volatile price cycles, mergers and divestments, natural disaster disruptions, and geopolitical shifts. Melody Meyer will share her perspectives on two critical leadership attributes: to focus on relentless value creation and to create advantage from change. The combination of these leadership attributes are differentiators for successful companies to not only be resilient through change, but also achieve differentiated results during and after the change.

Starting in 2014, the Oil and Gas industry experienced a major commodities downturn which reinforced the boom and bust cycle which continues to plague the industry. “Lower for longer” became an often recited phrase to prepare investors and companies alike for a new era in the industry. To survive this downturn, energy companies took drastic steps to recalibrate capital expenditures, return higher multiples on investments, and invest in new technology. Companies that survived the downturn are now thriving with more focused project portfolios, leaner staffing on projects, and leveraged technologies to make better data driven decisions. The greatest impact of these changes has been the investment in new technology, and specifically Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This session will cover industry best practices for how to get started with RPA for oil and gas companies.

Procurement excellence is a focal area of all oil and gas companies. Managing contractors for complex maintenance work, reducing operational procurement costs, and continuously monitoring the quality of supplied goods and services are essential to increase profitability and assure safety and compliance. Introducing new solutions and enhanced functionality, SAP helps our oil and gas customers to achieve lower procurement costs while increasing transparency and flexibility. SAP Field Service Management is a next step to support the field engineers and third-party workers in planning, scheduling, and executing the jobs in remote locations. SAP´s new architecture of service procurement provides a new and simplified user experience and empowers the worker along an integrated end-to-end process.

The roundtable will give customers the opportunity to experience the latest solutions, interact with the experts, and exchange ideas and feedback. SAP experts will demonstrate the processes and answer questions regarding usability, solution capabilities, and technology to support customers’ decision-making processes.

Key Business Benefits:

Execute procurement strategy.
Experience the latest procurement solution.
Discuss ideas and best practices.

The future of energy panel will discuss the changing energy landscape and the implications for the energy industry and related industries. This will include the future of oil and gas and the larger transition to a lower carbon energy world

The pace of change is ever increasing, and your business needs to continuously reinvent itself, create new business models, and ensure agility to respond to today’s economy. Peter Maier will share how industries are responding to the new world of continuous change and providing new experiences for their customers. He will share with how they are leveraging the SAP Intelligent Enterprise and experience data to create operational agility and new experiences. Hear how industries are leveraging their data to determine new revenue opportunities, find new business models, and improve operations.

The trending topics for the energy sector are: M&A, health, safety, social license to operate, brand awareness, asset efficiency and optimization, and analytics. SAP has solutions today that can assist or complement these areas that will scale to any platform, allowing companies to realize value immediately while positioning them for their future state.

Join us as we kick off the 2019 Best Practices for Oil & Gas conference with a look at how disruptive technologies are changing the energy industries’ landscape and what the next 10 years might bring. As the former chair of the Future of Oil and Gas at the World Economic Forum (Davos), Amy will share her unique industry perspective on the future of energy, including transformational trends specific to oil and gas.

Join us as we kick off the second full day of the ninth annual Best Practices for Oil & Gas conference and explore some of the trends and topics of interest for the industry.