Best Practices for Oil & Gas

Murphy Oil Corporation’s U.S. onshore business wanted to deploy a new “operate by exception” strategy. This would enable both an increased oil well count and activity levels while reducing operating expenses. It developed a remote operations center to execute its new operating model and turned to Incture Technologies to help it build an integrated operations platform using SAP Cloud Platform.

Challenges and opportunities before the project began included:

Integrated view of data from disparate systems
Lost opportunities in optimizing oil production
Drive to reduce operating expenses

Key Business Benefits:

Integrated view of 15-plus applications to detect anomalies and patterns as well as improve workflows
Enhanced overall operational performance by 15%
Increase in baseline oil production

Murphy Oil, a petroleum and natural gas exploration company, recognized that in an industry constantly facing changing trends, there was an opportunity within its value chain to drive cost savings, improve vendor efficiency, and identify potential areas for automation within its procurement processes. To gain full transparency, identify the root cause of inefficiencies, and empower the organization to create change, Murphy Oil leverages process mining to better understand and gain insight into how the business truly operates. You will gain deeper understand of how Adam and Dave are driving change in their procurement process by utilizing the data-driven insights gained from process mining. Hear how they deployed process mining across SAP Ariba and SAP ECC to identify and prioritize the highest value drivers to streamline procurement processes. They will walk you through their decision-making process, the deployment and organizational strategy to roll out process mining, initiatives identified, and potential costs savings created from a full understanding of how the procurement process truly operates.

Key Business Benefits:

Gain full transparency, identify the root cause of inefficiencies, and empower the organization to create change.
Utilize data-driven insights to drive change within an organization.
Identify and prioritize the highest value drivers to streamline procurement processes.

With an ever-increasing amount of data being made available, keeping track of turnarounds and understanding their impact on supply are becoming more and more difficult. In addition, real-time, human-provided information such as IM and tweets only serves to further cloud the picture. In order to solve this, we integrated data from both Genscape and Internet Routing Registry (IRR) in real time, along with human intelligence, in an easy-to-use form factor that could adjust to the device the user was on. This allows our traders to quickly see upcoming outages along with their impact on supply. In addition, they can see outages that have ended prior to their start date or have gone on longer than their planned date. Finally, all of this can be manually overridden should new information be made available.

Key Business Benefits:

Gain a high-level overview of all outages, planned and current.
Ability to sort outages by PADD, refinery owner, capacity, and unit type allow for trader-specific insights to be developed.
Real-time integration with reporting services reduces manual entry and decreases the delay in information being loaded.

In this session you will learn how SAP supports our customers’ success within a networked hydrocarbon supply chain. We will present the recent innovations on SAP S/4HANA and the perspectives on the future direction of the SAP on-premise and private cloud solutions for downstream oil and gas.

Key Business Benefits:

Support our customers’ success towards the intelligent enterprise
Transfer knowledge about most recent business innovations in SAP S/4HANA for downstream oil and gas
Give a perspective on the on-premise and cloud road map for downstream oil and gas

Come learn SAP’s strategic direction for SAP S/4HANA in upstream oil and gas. We will discuss recent innovations, planned innovations, and future direction in upstream oil and gas and how we are working with you, our customers. Preview the key innovations coming with the next SAP S/4HANA release.

Attendees of this session will take away key lessons on:

What is new in SAP S/4HANA
Key business innovations in SAP S/4HANA for upstream oil and gas
SAP S/4HANA road map preview into scope of new SAP S/4HANA release
Insights into resources to help with your next move with SAP S/4HANA

Key Business Benefits:

Learn what’s new in SAP S/4HANA
Key business innovations in SAP S/4HANA for upstream oil and gas
Insights into resources to help with your next move with SAP S/4HANA

Oil field equipment and services (OFES) is a complex business with a mix of products and services bundles reflecting the different phases of oil field exploration, drilling, and production. Our customers operate in a wide variety of environments and climates, demanding unique bundling of products and services. Operations planning for this bundle can be challenging to say the least. Schlumberger has selected SAP Integrated Business Planning as the platform to unify planning and drive strategic improvement in operations and supply chain planning, culminating in strategic and financial planning.

Defining and executing SAP Integrated Business Planning implementation projects across our product lines and geographies also reflects the complexity of the business. We needed a “playbook” for Agile and DevOps for IBP to drive predictable results and allow the business to achieve goals of process and asset efficiency. Thanks to our Agile and DevOps methods and tools playbook, we’ve industrialized our delivery capability and accelerated our SAP Integrated Business Planning strategy.

Key Business Benefits:

Project predictability and quality in repeatable three-month releases
Reduced issues and disruptions (30%) by applying Agile and DevOps to our complex data infrastructure supporting SAP Integrated Business Planning
Faster time to value for the business by 3.3% through measurable working capital, asset, and processing efficiency

Have you considered more fully utilizing SAP Process Control for assessment or compliance areas other than Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance (SOX)? Have you considered implementing multiple regulations within SAP Process Control to achieve this? In this session, learn how Valero has done just that, helping to ensure it is getting the most out of its investment. Learn how Valero has implemented a second regulation in SAP Process Control to facilitate assessments of Valero’s cyber framework. Attend to explore:

How to design and load a second regulation (cyber) via the SAP GRC master data upload generator (MDUG) tool
Thinking outside of the box on how to make existing workflows like “surveys” work for your assessment needs
How SAP Process Control reporting can be used to provide a snapshot of both SOX and cyber regulations (from one source system)

Key Business Benefits:

SAP GRC process control value
Cyber assessment value
One tool for compliance

Join a group of panelists who are actively using robotic process automation (RPA) for back-office functions and also some who are utilizing it for operations. Topics covered in this discussion session will include training, centralized versus decentralized organizations, centers of excellence, controls, internal audits, time savings, and other common issues. Bring your experience and questions to this interactive discussion.

Key Business Benefits:

Save time.
Streamline processes.
Increase productivity.

Freeport LNG is a private company. A significant portion of internal and external reporting are cash basis. Before the implementation of SAP Cash Management and liquidity forecast, many cash-relevant transactions were recorded in SAP via manual journal entry, and cash actuals were converted from GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles)-based accounting. Process efficiency and productivity were challenged due to massive manual operations on spreadsheets. The newly implemented cash functionality introduces straight-through processing and transforms the treasury management system, using SAP S/4HANA as a side-car workstation. Finance professionals are redeployed from manual tasks to value-added analysis. The system is now able to generate cash-basis reports with consistent and reliable system data and allows the company to share information in a more secure and effective manner.

Key Business Benefits:

Significant time and cost reduction associated with manual operations
Support real-time reporting with reliable and consistent system data
Improved security and controls including fraud risk reduction

F. Dufresne Group, an innovative enterprise in the operation of service stations and convenience stores, presents how it has completely redesigned, enhanced, and simplified a loyalty program. This was made possible with SAP CRM’s loyalty management capabilities, which optimizes customer satisfaction and retention. The new program was ranked the third best loyalty program in Canada behind two global leaders (Starbucks and Sephora). By leveraging multiple automation mechanisms in SAP CRM’s marketing function to generate birthday gifts, time–sensitive rewards, precisely targeted promotions, and many more unique features, Group F. Dufresne created lot of gamification for its loyalty program users.