OIL AND
GAS

From Abu Dhabi to outback Queensland, 48% of Clarita's service delivery team have experience in the Oil & Gas industry.

Today’s oil and gas companies are on a quest for operational excellence to improve safety, reliability and compliance while controlling costs and making better operational decisions. Success depends on a number of factors, which include how well they manage physical assets and human capital, how well they use operational intelligence, and how they make use of available data and information.

In addition to grappling with managing the unique attributes of linear assets, operators are increasingly challenged to:

Improve asset analysis
Respond to complex supply chain demand
Plan shutdowns effectively
Facilitate compliance
Coordinate continuous improvement

They’re responding quickly by enhancing their core work processes with new technologies that help them reduce costs, improve operations, and become safer and more secure. These include analytics, mobility and IoT capabilities that connect processes, people and assets in new ways.

Clarita has been working to help asset-intensive organisations develop asset management capabilities while optimising systems and processes for over ten years. These capabilities range from enabling processes that record and store organisational knowledge to providing a consolidated and trusted platform for managing assets .

We are one of the few IBM Business Partners in Australia who can bring asset management know-how together with geospatial expertise to deliver integrated, compliant and reliable asset management and maintenance operations for oil and gas operators managing complex linear assets.

In partnership with Clarita, one regional refinery is tackling the challenge of inspecting 60,000 electrical assets located in hazardous areas. Previously, one week in four was dedicated to entering data collected through paper-based forms. Extending asset and work management systems with mobile inspection forms has streamlined data management and significantly improved the quality of data available for business analysis and insight.

Clarita's asset information ecosystem approach brings traditionally separate business functions together into an integrated environment. This reduces the number of applications and redundant data stores, which helps reduce costs while creating a single point of truth for use and reference.

Optimisation of the asset information ecosystem can help oil and gas companies:

improve safety and reliability while controlling costs
standardise and simplify work practices to help achieve operational excellence and boost operational intelligence
capture and leverage organisational knowledge that is populated through operations and maintenance experiences
develop an accurate digital representation of physical assets
leverage IoT technologies to compare real-time condition monitoring data with maintenance history to enable predictive and reliability centered maintenance

FEATURED CONTENT

Explained: What is an ‘Asset Information Ecosystem’?

The ecosystem model denotes a collaborative integrated data environment where information is able to flow freely between systems.

Kuwait Oil Company: An IBM Customer Story

An oil company improves its production targets through improved efficiency when it deploys an IBM Maximo for Oil and Gas solution

Best Practice
Supports oil and gas best practices to enhance the productivity and efficiency.
Standardisation
Support standardisation, convergence and collaboration to boost operational intelligence and achieve operational excellence.

Safety
Help improve safety and reliability while controlling costs
Knowledge Management
Enables the capture, distribution and institutionalisation of organisational knowledge.