Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals

We work with clients across all project phases from framing, planning and helping manage performance to execution and readiness for Operational handover. By breaking down silos and facilitating the joined-up thinking needed, we ensure Capital Projects meet the business needs and market conditions to succeed.

Portfolio and risk management

Creating value from Capital Projects comes from the quality of thinking, framing, risk quantification and decision making at the beginning of project definition. We help clients deliver value by:

• Helping select the right projects based on alignment with their business strategy, market conditions and risk to execution
• Ensuring that the selected projects are optimised based on our deep technical knowledge and commercial understanding of the industry and the wider contracting and supplier environment

Delivery model and project optimisation

To successfully manage a capital project, a choice needs to be made on which model to adopt. Adoption depends on the level of control the business believes it has or can have, the risk appetite it wants and the level of oversight and performance management it needs.

We support the business in setting their projects up for success by:

• Designing the optimum model to deliver the strategy by aligning all moving parts to one goal
• Mapping and building the capability and performance management tools needed for each phase of execution
• Understanding their evolving supply chain; the suppliers, mechanisms and management that align to the business strategy and market conditions
• Putting in place the controls, intelligent information management, visualisation and reporting tools, that create confidence, target risks and drive predictability

Sustainability in capital projects

Ensuring that business sustainability needs - environmental, social and economic - are incorporated into the whole life of costs of Capital Projects requires interdisciplinary engagement at the earliest phases of the project strategy development.

For our clients, we do this by:

• Working to ensure an integrated approach, incorporating opportunities for carbon footprint reduction, social and biodiversity requirements as part of the project framing and requirement setting
• Understanding the market and suppliers which allows us to align sustainability strategies across the entire supply chain
• Designing work breakdown structures and contracting models which allow for the introduction of measurement structures and reporting formats which can capture and track sustainability KPIs through the project execution and into operations

We deliver asset strategies that maximise safe and sustainable value by optimising production, emissions and cost. We enable execution through asset operating model design, optimised asset management, effective planning and performance management, supply chain and contract management and deliver sustainable change alongside digital transformation.

Production and emissions management

Understanding the production capacity and efficiency is essential to be able to set targets for daily production and emissions. Once accurate production and emissions targets have been set, our clients can then look to improve asset efficiencies on a daily basis.

We help our clients by:

• Understanding the limits of the production system components, defining their potential and setting maximum production and minimum emissions potential targets
• Developing a process to measure performance daily and designing a production and emissions management framework to review performance and track improvements
• Optimising resource utilisation through the adoption of digital technologies and collaborative environments
• Installing a defect elimination process to quantify and assign production losses and excess emissions and identify the root cause of any events
• Developing processes to identify and build delivery plans to progress opportunities that enhance production and reduce emissions

Asset management

To maximise the value of an asset, we balance production, emissions, cost and safety whilst delivering the future strategy through opportunity delivery and risk mitigation.

Our industry experts work with client asset teams to achieve the right balance by:

• Ensuring that asset strategies are reflected in the maintenance and integrity approach, as well as individual plant strategies, and the result our clients are trying to achieve is clearly linked to activity
• Verifying the asset priorities are reflected in, and adhered to, the Integrated Activity Planning
• Making sure that the process, and the Operations Management System itself, are well articulated and usable
• Having the right capability in the right place, either inside the organisation or in the suppliers, driving the right behaviours

Asset strategy, operating model design and implementation

Increased industry scrutiny is combining with uncertainty in future market prices, together with the introduction of windfall taxes and increased carbon prices and cost of finance, to threaten the viability and economics of assets. With the prospect of earlier requirement for asset decommissioning, we support our clients in
adapting their business by:

• Assessing their asset portfolios and economics to update asset life plans and decommissioning strategies
• Identifying business capabilities, resources and the critical skills required now and in the future, to deliver on the business and asset strategies
• Developing the business and asset management operating model (production to late life to decommissioning) to ensure long term business resilience and optimise the utilisation of capabilities and resources in the business
• Developing the transition and management of change plans to execute effectively and safely

Planning and performance management

We support our clients in linking strategy to functional targets and objectives, with regular monitoring, measurement and governance to inform decision making and corrective action. We do this by:

• Aligning budget to strategy and articulating a range of outcomes and underlying assumptions
• Linking targets and goals which reflect the asset mix and operating model to the budget, and cascade them throughout the organisation
• Ensuring the underlying data required to measure performance is accurate and available to decision makers
• Actively managing risks and opportunities across multiple time horizons from long-term strategic planning to daily operations
• Embedding ways of working to define targets, manage performance, identify changes and track actions

We help our clients shape, plan and deliver digital and technology transformation. Our expert team is grounded in the industry and across the value chain.

We focus on programmes that embed technology foundations, by leveraging data, analytics and automation technologies to drive business value.

Digital and technology strategy

Digital is a significant enabler for value generation for the Oil and Gas sector. Combining practical industry expertise with the latest digital experience, our team help clients develop compelling and value oriented digital transformation strategies and plans by:

• Supporting CDOs and CIOs to rapidly develop their digital, data and technology strategy, understanding internal challenges and complementing with market insight
• Bringing teams with extensive experience of digital through the Energy and Resources industry

Digital transformation

We help clients transition from strategy to execution by standing up the enabling infrastructure and, drawing on our digital experience, agile transformation and change management expertise, shaping and implementing digital use cases that deliver measurable business value.

We do that by:

• Rapidly defining and implementing use cases ensuring value delivery is mapped and measured
• Putting in place the digital foundations for your business to enable sustainable transformation
• Creating effective teams and embedding an agile culture to support the rapid delivery of digital products
• Upskilling client teams and resources to establish and successfully embed the digital capabilities and solutions needed
• Assessing and implementing the right technologies to underpin the digital transformation
• Implementing data foundations that liberate data trapped in functional and application siloes

Data and insight factory

Data is at the core of a successful digital transformation. And transforming data to insight is crucial to unlocking value. The Agile Data & Insight Factory construct helps our clients accelerate value from data, iteratively delivering impactful data products to the business.

We do that by:

• Embedding a data product approach and establishing data product definitions, standards, and best practices
• Implementing multidisciplinary data delivery teams to develop and delivery data products
• Embedding a robust data product prioritisation process that ensures that data products deliver business value as efficiently as possible
• Rapidly and iteratively developing multifunctional data products that deliver high-quality, ready-to-use data that is easily accessible for different business use cases
• Embedding effective on-going data management and governance processes and tooling

ERP strategy and transformation

For Energy and Oil and Gas companies, the ERP landscape is often complex, requiring sustained investment and strategic decisions over the next decade. Our industry-centred ERP expert team help clients navigate the strategic options, assess workforce capability and guide the change needed through business transformation.

We do that by:

• Bringing an expert team with extensive experience of ERP transformation through the Energy industry
• Analysing strategic solution options and preparing client teams for decision making (including transition to SAP S/4HANA), developing an ERP Strategy and transition roadmap and supporting our clients through the transformation process
• Assessing capability (systems and solutions, processes and workforce) and helping with a forward-looking setup
• Supporting post-transition with the development of ERP roadmaps (post acquisition or divestment)

Digital operations and projects

Digital is a key enabler for optimising performance through the entire asset lifecycle from capital project planning and execution through to operations. We help both operators and service companies to digitise their end-to-end project and operations processes.

We do that by:

• Bringing together a team of experts who have extensive experience of digital through the asset lifecycle
• Keeping a live ‘Digital value library’ capturing the value that clients have realised from implementing digital at the core of their projects and operations processes

Digital emissions measurement and reporting

Effective emissions management is a key part of Energy and Oil and Gas companies’ license to operate and can be challenging due to the complexity of existing data and technology landscapes. We help clients select and implement modern, digitally enabled approaches to measure, monitor and reduce their emissions by:

• Assessing the existing data / technology landscape and developing a solution architecture for emissions measurement and reporting
• Developing a common data model for emissions
• Implementing a robust, efficient and sustainable emissions reporting architecture
• Evaluating and selecting the best emission factors to calculate emissions
• Developing customised visualisations based on specific reporting requirements